The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.
The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the 'museum movement' of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift.
This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.
The book looks at the impact that the idea and institution of nationhood have had on the constituents of India in the contemporary postcolonial period.
The Truth About Empirecomes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in todays polarised debates over Britains imperial past.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
In einer Zeit des Umbruchs und der kolonialen Eroberung erhebt sich Túpac Amaru als letzter König der Inkas, um das Erbe seines Volkes gegen die übermächtige spanische Kolonialherrschaft zu verteidigen.
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism.
This book examines the phenomenon of colorism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its association with social capital or mobility.
This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.
Discover how European colonization across the many regions in Africa dramatically altered the continent and the daily lived experiences of its peoples.
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767-1820, for the first time publishing this globally scattered material in one place, thereby revolutionizing its availability and understanding of the activities of a key figure who helped organize and publish a series of missions to penetrate the African interior, mainly from West Africa and by crossing the Sahara from Cairo and Tripoli.
This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.
Hinter dem Namen »East India Company« verbirgt sich eine Monstrosität: eine Firma, die auf eigene Rechnung und mit eigener Armee den ganzen indischen Subkontinent ausplünderte, Schlachten schlug und staatliche Macht an sich riss.
This book delves deep into the lived experiences of the Tibetan diaspora, offering an insightful exploration through the intersecting lenses of politics, psychology, and culture.
The word "e;pharmacopoeia"e; has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs.
An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.
This book critically analyzes the state-based regime of international law, eliciting its colonial and decolonial origins and proposing a new sub-regional basis for dealing with contemporary global challenges.
This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness.
This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.
An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of Darkness and In Cold Blood.
This carefully crafted ebook collection of Charles Coffin's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Seat of Empire The Story of Liberty Old Times in the Colonies My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 1776 The Boys of '61 Following the FlagWinning His Way The Life of Charles Carleton Coffin
Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.
