Colonialismo e imperialismo

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  • Negotiating Abolition
    Shawna Herzog
    Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or ’free’ labor created a new illicit t...
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    154,37 €

  • Dynamising Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
    The primary aim of this interdisciplinary book is to take stock of the state of liberation movements in Southern Africa. This aim is informed by the fact that the study of the reconciliation of the past and present politics of liberation movements can never be complete without a rigorous and systematic focus on Southern Africa and through the South[ern] angled lens. The aim of ...
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    50,70 €

  • 臺勢教會 The Taiwanese Making of the Canada Presbyterian Mission
    Mark A. Dodge / Mark ADodge
    '臺勢教會 The Taiwanese Making of the Canada Presbyterian Mission' explores the Canadian Presbyterian Mission to Northern Taiwan, 1872-1915. The Canada Presbyterian Mission has often been portrayed as one of the nineteenth- century’s most successful missions, and its founder, George Leslie Mackay, has been called the most successful Protestant Missionary of all time. Mark Dodge cha...
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    86,36 €

  • Not Yet Post-Colonial
    Zvikomborero Kapuya
    The epistemic deficiency of contending issue in post-imperial Africa, Zimbabwe in particular influence the author to take readers on the interesting journey of joining the reflections of ghetto life into concept and culture. Ghetto renaissance responding to ghetto condition proved itself to the future, Cultural Revolution confronting Afro-fascist nationalist regimes and the com...
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    32,35 €

  • A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Vol 1 1492-1845
    Phillip Sheldon Foner
    This book begins with the conquest of Cuba by the Spanish Conquistadores, and the annihilation of the Indian population despite its heroic struggles. It then analyzes the economic social and cultural development of Cuba from 1520 to 1808. This is followed by an analysis of the role of Cuba in the Latin American wars for independence of 1808-1820 and the first independence movem...
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    27,81 €

  • A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States Vol II, 1845-1895
    Phillip Sheldon Foner
    Foner’s second Volume on Cuban history begins by analyzing U.S. efforts to annex Cuba. The author traces the filibustering movements of the 1850’s as southern slaveholding elements battled to expand slavery. The 'Africanization of Cuba' scare, and the Ostend Manifesto are detailed, as are the forces responsible for the defeat of annexationism. The 1868-78 Ten Years’ War for ind...
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    27,27 €

  • The Imperial Discipline
    Alexander E Davis / Peter Vale / Vineet Thakur
    This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition - that of the Round Table. The Round Table were a network of imperialists emerging in the late 1800s ac...
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    127,20 €

  • Mujer y poder en los Andes coloniales:
    María Rostworowski
    Es ampliamente reconocido que la reestructuración de las identidades y roles de género fue parte de las drásticas transformaciones experimentadas por las sociedades andinas durante las primeras décadas de la Colonia Este volumen de las Obras Completas de María Rostworowski está dividido en dos secciones; la primera reúne ensayos de carácter teórico en los que la autora explora ...
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    31,20 €

  • Sakhalin
    Kristine Ohkubo
    Sakhalin Island or Karafuto as it is known in Japan changed hands a number of times during the course of its history. Each change had a far-reaching impact not only on the native peoples but also on the thousands of immigrants who had settled there, either willingly or by force. For over a century, two major powers, the Soviet Union and Japan, endeavored to bring Sakhalin into ...
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    12,14 €

  • Savage worlds
    Savage Worlds examines frontier encounters between Germans and indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. It demonstrates the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters and poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering ’savage worlds’. ...
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    46,66 €

  • Banished potentates
    Robert Aldrich
    An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s. ...
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    46,40 €

  • A Passage to India
    E. M. Forster / EMForster
    Regarded as one of the greatest works of 20th century English literature, A Passage to India by novelist E. M. Forster is an eye-opening look at the relationships between colonizers and the colonized. E. M. Forster was an author who did not fear criticism for his writings at the time they were published and actively sought to examine class struggles and social hypocrisy in his ...
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    23,60 €

  • The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State
    W. Alade Fawole / WAlade Fawole
    This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa’s colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises, security challenges, and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science, political economy, sociology, African history, and African studies in general. ...
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    54,33 €

  • False Start in Paradise
    Iaveta Short
    After 65 years under New Zealand control the Cook Islands adopted the United Nations push for self-government with a hiss and a roar under the enigmatic leader Albert Henry who wanted to build a self-serving empire.  He manipulated the political system and used Government funds to stay in power which resulted in a major court case where for the first time a government was overt...
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    36,04 €

  • False Start in Paradise
    Iaveta Short
    After 65 years under New Zealand control the Cook Islands adopted the United Nations push for self-government with a hiss and a roar under the enigmatic leader Albert Henry who wanted to build a self-serving empire.  He manipulated the political system and used Government funds to stay in power which resulted in a major court case where for the first time a government was overt...
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    46,21 €

  • Hong Kong Protest Leaders - Sick facts that Western countries do not know
    Selina Co
    A terrible example of democratic movements: when a fight for democracy is just an excuse for riots and anti-government movements ...Hong Kong protest activists have been proactively contacting foreign governments and foreign press, telling them how righteous they are and why their governments are wrong. But why have they not received the majority’s supports from the locals? Awa...
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    7,10 €

  • The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice
    Harold A. Young / Harold AYoung
    This book examines the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, an ancient colonial court, and how the Caribbean community, specifically, the fifteen former British colonies of the Caribbean Basin, are navigating their changing political environments during the transition to its own extraterritorial court, the Caribbean Court of Justice. ...
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    122,55 €

  • Indian Speeches (1907-1909)
    John Morley (Viscount Morley)
    Indian Speeches (1907-1909)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-settin...
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    13,11 €

  • Derek Walcott’s Poetry Deconstructed, Its Political and Sociological Discourse Revealed
    Daurius Figueira
    This is a deconstruction of the published books of poetry of Derek Walcott from 1961 to 1981 to unearth, expose and analyze the discourse and worldview of Walcott of miscegenated being, the Caribbean dystopia and the existential condition of the African and Indian Diasporas in the Caribbean dystopia. Walcott segregates himself from the Caribbean dystopia as he excoriates the Af...
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    15,17 €

  • An Empire Teeters - Foray into Portugal’s Fascism
    J.J. Hespeler-Boultbee / J.JHespeler-Boultbee
    An Empire Teeters - Foray into Portugal's Fascism is the first-hand account of a journalist who travelled to and through Angola, Moçambique and Portuguese Guiné (Guiné-Bissau after 1975) in the summer and fall of 1963, when they were still Portuguese colonial possessions - and fighting for their independence. Over the centuries little bits of Portugal's empire had been ...
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    27,76 €

  • Art and Emergency
    Emilia Terracciano
    During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracci...
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    57,18 €

  • Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
    Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s. ...
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    157,55 €

  • Making the British empire, 1660-1800
    Jason Peacey
    This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of the first British empire. ...
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    157,67 €

  • Colonial Son
    Clayton Didier
    Colonial Son describes the failure of the historical system of British colonial rule, which has adversely affected the lives of so many souls around the world.The book is an indictment of a defunct global political system and philosophy of life that has shamefully enriched and pampered one section of mankind on the backs of unfortunates, and in the process causing enslavement.C...
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    18,76 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up ...
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    13,62 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up ...
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    13,62 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up ...
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    13,62 €

  • Anthropology after Gluckman
    Richard Werbner
    This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. ...
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    156,77 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up ...
    Disponible

    13,62 €

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up ...
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    13,62 €


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