Colonialism and imperialism

Este libro destaca terrenos locales de cinco geografías espaciales específicas de América del Sur: el Biobío en Chile, el Valle Sagrado en Perú, Potosí (y La Paz) en Bolivia, el oriente de Ecuador y el suroccidente de Colombia como fuentes de conocimiento, vitalidad y habitabilidad.

The British Empire has generally been seen as a racist empire (most influentially in Edward Said's ORIENTALISM).

"Geopolítica, relaciones internacionales y etnicidad.

El nuevo libro de Amitav Ghosh, una poderosa obra de historia, ensayo, testimonio y polémica, remonta nuestra crisis planetaria contemporánea al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo y la ruta marítima hacia el Océano Índico.

Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony's 400th anniversary in 2007.

One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service.

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.

The winner of the 2013 Longman-History Today Book Prize is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain's retreat from empire.

In 1942 at the centre point of World War II an extraordinary event took place not on the battlefield but in a municipal stadium in Kiev.

'A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up' Simon Heffer, author of The Age of DecadenceIn 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, an exodus begins.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

Devils may be elevated before the eye not only as a luminous lesson to mankind, but as the instigators of evil, to be trodden underfoot.

Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek.

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 second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date.

'Ian Knight combines meticulous research with a depth of knowledge of his subject, and a knack for ferreting out unusual and illuminating details, with, crucially, a true flair for storytelling .

Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence.

'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.

Am I unlucky because of the terrible things that happened to me as a child, or am I lucky because of the life I lead now?

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Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y.

This is a thoughtful and sensitive analysis of the history and significance of non-violent civil resistance in the Palestinian national movement.

A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire.

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons.

Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N.

Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence.

'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif KureishiBetween the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean.

Between Sea and Sahara is one of the great classics of travel writing about the Middle East - a landmark in the story of Europe's fascination with 'the Orient'.

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity.

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity.

Francis Light, the enigmatic Martinha, and the island of Penang.

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers.

The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set.

Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America.

Hacia una nación de ciudadanos contiene las reflexiones de numerosos especialistas acerca de la ciudadanía y los derechos civiles.

The Mystical Qabalah Dion Fortune - Very few students of occultism know anything at all about the fountain-head whence their tradition springs.

Ricard analiza un periodo fundamental en la formacion de Mexico posterior a la Conquista: en el se lleva a cabo el choque de civilizaciones, se funden, amalgaman o yuxtaponen los elementos americanos y europeos que lo constituiran.

"El poder hegemónico de un país, si es firme y duradero, produce inevitablemente reacciones adversas.

The Love Books Ovid - The Love Books of Ovid is a collection of four works of Roman poet Ovids verses on love in English prose translation.

Este libro no solo critica al extractivismo como modelo en America Latina o las politicas de gobierno en las ultimas decadas.

El Gran Norte es la región más inhóspita de lo que hoy conocemos como el Oeste americano, una región donde las abruptas cadenas montañosas se alternan con altiplanos desérticos de magnitud inconmensurable, la frontera norte del vasto imperio español en América, una auténtica Terra Incognita.

A history of the English East India company.

Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the "e;gendarme of Europe"e; secured order beyond the country's borders and entrenched the autocratic system at home.

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