What We Get Wrong and How to Get it Right
Author: Ray Raphael
With the entry of the Tea Party onto the US political scene, America's Constitution has become a political battleground, with liberals and conservatives trading fire over its meaning and intent. Amid all the hubbub, hist ... |
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Colonial Power and the Maya
Author: Joel Wainwright
Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investiga ... |
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Author: David Nicolle
From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Port ... |
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Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
Author: Edna G. Bay
"Wives of the Leopard" explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Euro ... |
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Research and Indigenous Peoples
Author: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory for many of the world's coloni ... |
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Knowledge and Fantasy of Empire
Author: Thomas Richards
Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history - for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the far-flung corners of its empire much faster than it could easily digest ... |
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A Hundred Turbulent Years
Author: Brian Feeney
Sinn Fein is one of the oldest and most controversial parties in Irish politics. This is the fascinating story of a party which has repeatedly reshaped its identity over a hundred years. From Arthur Griffith to Gerry Ada ... |
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Pioneer of Capitalism
Author: Bill Warren
Ever since the First World War, socialists have considered imperialism a calamity: responsible for militarism, economic stagnation, and assaults on democracy in the metropolitan countries, an impediment to economic and c ... |
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Cyprus, the EOKA Conflict and the Road to Partition
Author: David Carter
Broadcaster and journalist David Carter spent much of his life on the now divided island of Cyprus and through his enduring interest and love for the island and its people was given unique access to the United Nations Fo ... |
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Life in Colonial America
Author: John Chester Miller
A vivid recreation of the varied ways in which colonists lived. Bustling seaport towns, lonely farming valleys and forest frontiers come alive through the words of contemporary observers. Their humorous, sometimes piousl ... |
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Recipes from English-speaking Africa
Author: Will Sellick
After 350 years of settlement, British African cookery heritage draws on a creative mix of Tudor spices, Indian feasting, Malaysian gastronomy, Victorian gentlemen's club dinners, and Boer survival rations. Across the sn ... |
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A Biographical Companion
Author: David Nicholls
It is claimed by some that Napolean was a military genius with enormous administrative and organizational abilities who, between 1799 and 1814, established an empire which spread across Europe. One of the most significan ... |
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Writing, Imagination, and the Making of Imperial Networks, 1750-1820
Author: Dermot Ryan
Technologies of Empire looks at the ways in which writers of the long eighteenth century treat writing and imagination as technologies that can produce rather than merely portray empire. Authors ranging from Adam Smith t ... |
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Author: Colin G. Calloway & Neal Salisbury
For the indigenous people of New England - the Abenaki, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Wampanoag, and other tribal nations - the colonial period has not yet ended. ... |
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A Case Study of Iraq, 1929-1941
Author: Daniel Silverfarb
This is a penetrating account of Anglo-Iraqi relations from 1929, when Britain decided to grant independence to Iraq, to 1941, when hostilities between the two nations came to an end. Showing how Britain tried--and faile ... |
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Laying the Foundations, 1560-1840
Author: Sean F. McEnroe
In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free an ... |
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Spanish-Mexican Women of Sante Fe, 1820-1880
Author: Deena J. Gonzalez
This work unveils a method for understanding how Mexico's northern land, New Mexico, came under the authority of the United States and what role women played in the political game of takeover. By not losing sight of the ... |
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Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses
Author: James Collins
Understanding Tolowa Histories develops a multi-leveled historical inquiry of the Native Tolowa of Northwestern California. The Tolowa were displaced and nearly destroyed in the nineteenth century. Presenting a wide rang ... |
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Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-cold War Era
Author: Mathew Connelly
Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab and African worlds. Yet, unlike the colonial wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Algerian war for independence has rarely been viewed as a primarily international ... |
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Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia
Author: Lisa Balabanlilar
Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal co ... |
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