Zbirka: Kolonializem in imperializem
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Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820(2010) HAMILTON, DOUGLASThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Colonialism and Homosexuality(2002) ALDRICH, ROBERT (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)Examining case studies, each a micro history of a particular colonial situation and a sexual encounter, this is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s until the era of decolonization.Vezava: Mehka76,02 € -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire(2002) JAMES, LAWRENCE* Uniquely complete account of the British Empire - Jan Morris' great Penguin trilogy PAX BRITANNICA only starts from 1837, rather than the 16th Century. * A modern classic of narrative history, updated to include the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Colonialism and Neocolonialism(2006) SARTRE, JEAN-PAULNearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work.Vezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Fishing Fleet(2013) DE COURCY, ANNEThe adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. Perfect for fans of SINGLED OUT - a great book club option.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Ghosts of Empire(2012) KWARTENG, KWASIThis fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatismVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Lords of the Horizons(1999) GOODWIN, JASON‘Perhaps the most readable history ever written’ Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic — detailed and alive — a journey, and a world all in one. The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on WesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Kaiser's Holocaust(2011) ERICHSEN, CASPER,OLUSOGA, DAVIDOn 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Freedom at Midnight(1997) COLLINS, LARRY,LAPIERRE, DOMINIQUEThe electrifying story of India’s struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants – from Mountbatten to the assassinsVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Deterring Democracy(1992) CHOMSKY, NOAMFrom World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies(1992) LAS CASAS, BARTOLOMEA catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
To the Ends of the Earth(2012) DEVINE, T. M.The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Captives(2003) COLLEY, LINDALinda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look differenVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Washing Of The Spears(1994) MORRIS, DONALD RIn 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men wVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
On the Postcolony(2001) MBEMBE, ACHILLEA collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, historyVezava: Mehka42,01 €
