Author: Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan & Alex Hughes
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-ma ... |
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A History Since Independence
Author: Charles Hornsby
Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact and without experiencing war or military rule. However, Kenya's independence ha ... |
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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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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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A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
Author: Jonathan Lawley
What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; ... |
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Author: Jordanna Bailkin
"The Afterlife of Empire" investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply ... |
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Continuity or Change?
Author: Peter Clegg & David Killingray
By the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone - well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have esche ... |
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Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Author: Kristin Loftsdottir & Lars Jensen
This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which contemporary discourses in Nordic society are rendered meanin ... |
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A Critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism'
Author: Ibn Warraq
This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism", a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen langua ... |
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Hymns, Grief and a Narrative in Motion
Author: Michael McNally
The Ojibwe of Anishinaabe are a native American people who were taught by 19th-century missionaries to sing evangelical hymns translated into the native language both as a means of worship and as a tool for eradicating t ... |
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The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
Author: Deena J. Gonzalez
Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the ... |
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A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny
Author: Thomas M. Leonard
When he was elected President in 1845, James K. Polk was only 49 years old-at that time the youngest president ever to be elected. He faced a conflicted nation on the verge of tremendous territorial expansion. James K. P ... |
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Cesaire, Glissant, Conde
Author: Jeannie Suk
This book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently ... |
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The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660
Author: Larry Gragg
Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalist ... |
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The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911
Author: William Schell
In this original and compelling book book, William Schell Jr. examines the largest foreign colony in Mexico during the reign of Porfirio D'az, from 1876 to 1911. Expatriate Americans constituted the greatest number of te ... |
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A Political Biography
Author: Arne Perras
Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods. In the 1880s he emerged as a leader of the colonial movement and became known as the founder of Deutsc ... |
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French Fiction and Film, 1954-62
Author: Philip Dine
This is the first full-length survey in any language of the fiction and film generated in France by the Algerian war (1954-1962). Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic tha ... |
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Author: Peter Dunwoodie
Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in English, this interte ... |
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Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture
Author: Stephen Howe
A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to analyse Ireland'past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for unde ... |
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A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Jeffrey Clark
In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the ... |
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