In his critical study of Australian imperialism, Erik Paul analyses the making, character and contours of the geopolitical state from the time of the British invasion and colonisation to the present, expanding the country's continental political and economic power.
This book brings together a set of incisive essays that interrogate Malaysian history and social relations which began during pre-colonial times, and extended to colonial and post-colonial Malaysia.
Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world.
Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations' works in East Asia in the inter-war period.
This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to peace.
This book delves deep into the Social Construction of Theory, comparative epistemology and intellectual history to stress the interrelationship between diverse cultures during the colonial period and bring forth convincing evidence of how the 19th century was shaped.
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong's colonial history alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality.
The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.
Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.
Un nuevo reino imaginado examina el entramado discursivo del proyecto político de las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (1589-1601), una historia de la conquista del Caribe y lo que es hoy Colombia, Panamá y Venezuela, escrita por el erudito literato, riguroso historiador y clérigo, Juan de Castellanos (Alanis, España 1522- Tunja 1607).
Presentamos a los lectores académicos y público en general este trabajo de investigación con pretensiones de abarcar espacios y sociedades que en la globalidad permiten hablar de una unidad del Pacífico del Norte de Suramérica entre Colombia y Ecuador, con sus correspondiente valles interandinos del Cauca, Patía y Chota, con los cuales históricamente ha tenido relaciones que en su especificidad muestran los matices creados por la diversidad del medio y por las diversas formas de adaptación y resistencias de las sociedades negras al medio y a las relaciones conflictivas de dominio que allí se establecieron.
Esta es una fuente de consulta para la resolución de diversas inquietudes sobre la identidad de las personas que ejercían la autoridad durante el año del comienzo del proceso de la Independencia.
Refreshing and educational narrative historyAfter a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown.
Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.
Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and imperial monuments and to promote social equity.
Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the author's collaborative cross-cultural narrative research online with Parvana, an Afghan woman living in Afghanistan until August 2021.
Sobre la Leyenda Negra trata de analizar, cuestión a cuestión, cada uno de los hitos y temas que conforman no sólo un género historiográfico erigido a partir de dicho rótulo, sino ante todo un prisma a través del cual se reconstruye negativamente la Historia de España, dando como fruto una ideología de indudables repercusiones en el presente de la nación española.
Pugliese's More Than Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more than human diasporic entities-such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles-have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre existed and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade.
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities.
La relación de 1520 de Hernán Cortés —generalmente conocida como su segunda carta de relación— es uno de los documentos más importantes de nuestro pasado: es el registro más antiguo, y uno de los pocos escritos por un testigo presencial, de eso que conocemos como conquista de México.
A principios de 1925, y a partir de la colaboración entre comunistas mexicanos y estadunidenses, surgió en México la Liga Antimperialista de las Américas (LADLA), una organización impulsada por la Internacional Comunista con la misión de combatir la presencia cada vez más amenazante de Estados Unidos y de otras potencias europeas sobre los países de nuestra región.
Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of Europe to CEE, pose new challenges for the regional study of race and racialisation, including growing diversity and the tightening of border security.
Amos, siervos y revolucionarios es el primer ensayo comparativo de la literatura y de las imágenes visuales que produjeron los partidarios del Integrismo Nacional español y de la independencia de Cuba entre 1868 y 1898.
Ressourcenkonflikte und imperiales Prestige: Robert Kindler erzählt eine packende, mikroglobale Verflechtungsgeschichte mit Blick auf die Robbenjagd im Nordpazifik.
Ressourcenkonflikte und imperiales Prestige: Robert Kindler erzählt eine packende, mikroglobale Verflechtungsgeschichte mit Blick auf die Robbenjagd im Nordpazifik.
One of the prominent thinkers in the Social Sciences, Anibal Quijano (1930-2018), has a fundamental work for the compression of contemporary dilemmas since his main theoretical and political concerns have always been linked to the mutations of world capitalism and its reverse paths.
First published in 1978, Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence is a study of British policy towards Rhodesia and an account of the failure of both Labour and Conservative governments to find a satisfactory solution to its 'decolonization'.
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.
Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency.
