This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the Muslim.
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history.
This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science.
As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from sixteenth-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness.
Descrição do livro: Apesar de todos os altos e baixos, o Paquistão é agora a 26ª maior economia do mundo em termos de Paridade de Poder de Compra, (44ª maior em termos de PIB nominal).
El 27 de abril de 1857, ochenta y cinco soldados de un regimiento Bengalí de la British East Indian Company, publicado en Meerut, desobedecieron las órdenes de su oficial británico superior, de usar los nuevos cartuchos para los nuevos rifles Enfield, presuntamente empacados en grasa de vaca y cerdo.
L’économie politique d’un État postcolonial: L’histoire du développement économique du Pakistan par Shahid Hussain Raja Comment l’histoire coloniale en interaction avec les politiques économiques néocoloniales influence le contenu et le cours du développement des états postcoloniaux.
This book is about two of the most prominent leaders of South Africa, leaders whose respective roles shaped and influenced South Africa, both positively and negatively.
This book takes a critical and historical perspective in parsing the current state of play for refugee and immigrant students in Germany, addressing federal, state, and institutional innovations as well as gaps in service.
An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "e;reads like a whistleblower's travel diary"e; (Disorient).
In 1914 the British expedition to Mesopotamia set out with the modest ambition of protecting the oil concession in Southern Persia but, after numerous misfortunes, ended up capturing Baghdad and Northern Towns in Iraq.
The sector north of Ypres is best known for the inundation of much of the ground to the east of the Yser that acted as a block to the German advance in the autumn of 1914.
So much has been written about the 1916 Battle of the Somme that it might appear that every aspect of the four-month struggle has been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail.
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges-mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence.
Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "e;solution"e; to ethnic conflict.
The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transition to French colonial rule.
This book examines the legacy of a British child migration scheme that relocated British children to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1962, with the aim of populating the colony with "e;fresh white stock"e;.
Mexican history comes to life in this "e;fascinating"e; work by the author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (The Christian Science Monitor).
Die Beobachtung des Great Game, der Machtkonkurrenz zwischen dem British Empire und dem Russländischen Kaiserreich in Zentralasien bildete seit Bismarck ein zentrales Element der Berliner Orientpolitik und der späteren Weltpolitik.
This book examines the legacy of a British child migration scheme that relocated British children to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1962, with the aim of populating the colony with "e;fresh white stock"e;.