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  • Learning Whiteness
    Arathi Sriprakash / Jessica Gerrard / Sophie Rudolph
    Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors ...
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    148,23 €

  • A New Scotland, A
    Gregor Gall
    Inequality and unfairness still stalk Scotland after more than twenty years of devolution. Having done little to shield against austerity, Brexit and an increasingly right-wing Westminster agenda, calls for further constitutional reform to solve pressing political, economic and social problems grow ever louder. The debate over further devolution or independence continues to spl...
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    126,04 €

  • Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
    Jon Nixon
    Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes of his life’s work, relates that work to his own life history, and explains his enduring relevance within the field of literary and cultural theory. ...
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    241,33 €

  • History and Myth
    This anthology, ’History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions’, seeks to interrogate and dismantle the colonially structured symmetrical interpretations of the histories and mythological narratives of the former European colonies through depolarization, pluriversality, and border thinking. Here, the concepts of history and myth have been addressed from different perspectives and s...
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    46,07 €

  • Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature
    Jay Rajiva
    This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. ...
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    73,68 €

  • Mobility and Displacement
    Orhon Myadar
    This book explores and contests both outsiders’ projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads. It speaks to the experiences of societies and cultures that are routinely treated as exotic, primitive or otherwise Other in Euro-American imaginaries. ...
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    73,79 €

  • Corn, Crown, and Conflagration
    J.A.M. Kinsella
    Epochs ago, a tribe prophesized that foreigners would plunder and dominate their land. The prophecy also warned that if the foreign aggressors did not atone for their sins of cruelty, theft, and murder, they would suffer from great fire and destruction. After five centuries of brutal occupation, a relentless virus with mysterious origins challenges the rulers. Will the repercus...
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    13,66 €

  • Deprovincializing Habermas
    Tom Bailey
    This book provides a rich and systematic engagement with Jürgen Habermas’ political theory from critical perspectives outside its Western locus. The chapters added to the second edition explore Habermas’ own recent response to the charge of ’provincialism’. ...
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    240,77 €

  • Ocean as Method
    Dilip M Menon / Nishat Zaidi / Simi Malhotra
    Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences.  It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. ...
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    67,01 €

  • Ocean as Method
    Dilip M Menon / Nishat Zaidi / Simi Malhotra
    Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences.  It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. ...
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    241,51 €

  • The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
    Bruce Fleming
    Drawing on Elias’ thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs. ...
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    66,94 €

  • The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
    Bruce Fleming
    Drawing on Elias’ thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs. ...
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    241,45 €

  • The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
    Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
    The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of ’the political’ in western societies. But the crisis must be seen as global, rather than focusing on the west alone. Pakistan is experiencing rapid financialization and rapacious capture ...
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    127,25 €

  • Imperial Atrocities
    Michael Arnold
    Imperial Atrocities: Skeletons in Colonial Closets does not expose the total colonial story, but this eye-opening book does present a selection of some of the worst excesses perpetrated by Colonials throughout the world.In two cases, those of Ireland and India, native populations were allowed to starve. Their Colonial masters did nothing to either assist or provide food that wa...
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    26,16 €

  • A History of Rhodesia 1890-1900
    Howard Hensman
    The very first history of the British colonisation of the land which later became famous as Rhodesia, and is now called Zimbabwe.This book, first published in 1900, was specifically commissioned by famous British Imperialist Cecil John Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC) with the intention of countering some of the negative publicity which the BSAC had encountere...
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    19,35 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    57,15 €

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism
    David Roche / Hervé Mayer
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent e...
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    128,79 €

  • Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation
    Robert Hudson / Shannon Woodcock
    Self-determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum. ...
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    88,71 €

  • Beyond Coloniality
    Aaron Kamugisha
    Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence s...
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    42,72 €

  • The Critique of Coloniality
    Rita Segato / Ramsey McGlazer
    This translation of Rita Segato’s seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as formulated by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano. ...
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    66,51 €

  • (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran
    Rachel Gregory Fox
    This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Creating the Opium War
    Hao Gao
    This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840. ...
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    44,44 €

  • Rewriting Indian History
    P.V. Laxmiprasad
    Basavaraj Naikar’s The Queen of Kittur delineates the history of Pre-Independent India during the East India Company. The colonial encounter that it significantly deals with was fought between the Queen of Kittur - (Rani Chennamma) and the authorities of the East India Company around 1824 for land and political power. Although the Queen put up a heroic fight with the East India...
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    200,22 €

  • Imperialism and Colonialism
    Alan MacFarlane
    This is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on three foremost imperial and global historians, Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton. ...
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    241,24 €

  • Rival Caesars
    Arthur Desmond / Will H. Dilg
    RIVAL CAESARS - A Romance of Ambition, Love and War.Being the tale of a Vice-President, a Major-General and three brilliant and beautiful women.For the initiated 'a recruiting tool for revolutionary dreams.'By Desmond DilgThe author says in an introductory note; 'From original documents preserved from utter destruction in a very remarkable manner this book has been written. The...
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    44,55 €

  • Vernacular English
    Akshya Saxena
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and me...
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    50,28 €

  • Vernacular English
    Akshya Saxena
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and me...
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    136,02 €

  • Colonial Slavery
    Jacob Gorender / Alejandro Reyes
    Jacob Gorender’s (1922-2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English-language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes’ brilliant translation. ...
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    68,04 €

  • Colonial Slavery
    Jacob Gorender / Alejandro Reyes
    Jacob Gorender’s (1922-2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English-language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes’ brilliant translation. ...
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    244,41 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature
    Pablo Baisotti
    This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the word, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the Pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since. ...
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    380,53 €


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