192 books (10 pages) in this category
(Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india
by CreatiVentures Publishing
<p data-version="1.1">Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an ...
ISBN: 9781519933324
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eBookPiracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of a Pacific Paradise
by Willard A. Hanna
<p><strong>This book tells the story of Bali—the "paradise island of the Pacific"—its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.</strong></p> <p>Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also ...
ISBN: 9781462918751
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eBookA Human Right to Culture and Identity
The Ambivalence of Group Rights
by Janne Mende
<p>Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities? Do different conceptions of culture and identity, and their potential to frame human rights violations as culturally appropriate, complicate the ...
ISBN: 9781783486809
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eBookA Third University Is Possible
by la paperson
<DIV><P><I>A Third University is Possible</I> unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny ...
ISBN: 9781452954103
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eBookAbove the Colonial Subconscious, Africa Moves
by Michel Ngue-Awane
<p>Above the Colonial Subconscious, Africa Moves take us through a journey of self-discovery. Although African countries won the physical battle against the colonial powers' occupation, they are still struggling to liberate their minds as a ...
ISBN: 9781910782668
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eBookAfrica and the Indian Ocean Region
by Timothy Doyle & Dennis Rumley
<p>This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean. Africa will increasingly play a pivotal role in the future of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region. The book considers the scope for greater ...
ISBN: 9781315467153
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eBookby Mhango, Nkuzi
Africa?s Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains. It chastises and challenges Africans, academics in the main, to revisit and write a true history of Africa. Written by ...
ISBN: 9789956764136
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eBookAfrican Miracle, African Mirage
Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
by Abou B. Bamba
<p>Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent. At the same time, Marxist scholars—most ...
ISBN: 9780821445822
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eBookAfrican Political Thought of the Twentieth Century
A Re-engagement
by Shiera Malik
<p>This book focuses on African political thought, as it emerged in the context of and contributed to fundamental changes in world order during the twentieth century, and as it continues to speak to the present global condition. The six chapters
ISBN: 9781317230281
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eBookThe Politics of Manhood in Kenya
by Paul Ocobock
<p>In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas ...
ISBN: 9780821445983
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eBookAn Unexpected Journey: Life in the Colonies at Empire's End
A Woman's Role
by Margaret Reardon
<p>Travelling into some distant, challenging and at times dangerous regions of the world during episodes of political unrest, these <strong>autobiographical memoirs</strong> from diaries written at the time follow the author's role in the ...
ISBN: 9780993401015
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eBookAngola: Promises and Lies: Promises and Lies
by Maier, Karl
Acclaimed account of Angola's civil war, the longest in Africa, combining an analysis of the geopolitics behind the conflict with vivid eye-witness descriptions of the struggle as it affected ordinary people. Now in its second, updated edition. ...
ISBN: 9781909150232
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eBookColonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking
by Lucy Mayblin
<p>Asylum seekers are not welcome in Europe. But why is that the case? For many scholars, the policies have become more restrictive over recent decades because the asylum seekers have changed. This change is often said to be about numbers, ...
ISBN: 9781783486175
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eBookPerdana Discourse Series, #8
by Perdana Leadership Foundation
<p>The notion of Bangsa Malaysia was introduced in 1991 by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the country's fourth Prime Minister, as part of his Vision 2020, to bring about greater integration among the various ethnic groups within the country. The idea ...
ISBN: 9781386949176
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eBookdethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955
by Robert Aldrich
<p>Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this ...
ISBN: 9781526113436
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eBookIndigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
by Jay T. Johnson & Soren C. Larsen
<p><em>Being Together in Place</em> explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites—the Cheslatta-Carrier ...
ISBN: 9781452955445
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eBookBelize: Human Smuggling, Transnational Organised Crime, Politicians And Public Servants
by Daurius Figueira
<p>This book analyses Mexican Transnational Trafficking Organisations (MTTOs) organised crime enterprises in Belize with specific emphasis on human smuggling and the joint organised crime enterprises with politicians and public servants. The ...
ISBN: 9789768280251
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eBookby Dabashi, Hamid
Dabashi picks up where Franz Fanon left off, examining the negative influence of intellectual immigrants as facilitators of American imperialism. ...
ISBN: 9781849645737
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eBookby Andrew Woolford & Jeff Benvenuto
<p>Settler colonialism in Canada has traditionally been portrayed as a gentler, if not benevolent, colonialism—especially in contrast to the Indian Wars in the United States. This national mythology has penetrated into comparative genocide ...
ISBN: 9781315401645
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eBookCaptive Revolution: Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
by Abdo, Nahla
Drawing on oral history of female Palestinian political detainees, this book analyses their anti-colonial struggles in this overlooked subject. ...
ISBN: 9781783711840
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