This volume confronts black problems rooted in historical and material realities of oppression, colonialism, slavery, corruption, and subjugation in a world deaf to the cries, voices, and visions of heralds of an imminent black revolution.
The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier is a riveting spider web story of courage, determination, pursuit of justice and survival against all odds.
Tracing recent bouts of globalised Mugabephobia to Robert Mugabe,s refusal to be neoimperially penetrated, this book juxtaposes economic liberalisation with the mounting liberalisation of African orifices.
Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land.
Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence , portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited.
This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist.
Esta obra ha mantenido su vigencia pues representa un enorme esfuerzo de sintesis documental y de ordenamiento logico y cronologico, resultado de un proceso de investigacion documental imposible de superar, dada la calidad del material rescatado por Leon Fernandez.
Hubo un tiempo, entre 1814 y 1820, en que las independencias hispanoamericanas –ese acontecimiento inaugural que solemos dar por sentado como una consecuencia "natural" de las guerras revolucionarias– peligraron y estuvieron literalmente en suspenso, a punto de verse sofocadas por fuerzas contrarrevolucionarias.
Vivimos sumergidos en la política, bombardeados por noticias nacionales o internacionales que yuxtaponen guerras, elecciones, crisis económicas, delitos de sangre.
This book presents a unique array of insights into Hong Kong's transition to China since the 1 July 1997 handover, from several perspectives around the region.
This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.
This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the American Empire in the Pacific, and to the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization.
This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.
This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels.
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime.
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.
Cuando los profesores Pío García, Felipe Medina Gutiérrez y Diana Cure me hicieron la honrosa invitación a escribir el prólogo de esta obra, mi primera reacción fue de duda, pues no soy experto en el tema del que se trata aquí y no suelo escribir sobre lo que no conozco con profundidad defendible.
El atlantico espanol durante el siglo XVIII destaca el juego entre Espana y America mientras el imperio espanol luchaba por sobrevivir en la feroz competencia internacional que domino el siglo dieciocho.
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).
Las historias de Teresa y Eusebio Prada, Gerardo Gonzalez, de los cuadernos de Jaime Jara, de Juan de la Cruz Varela y tantos otros, elaboradas o relatadas por ellos mismos y recogidas por sus hijas e hijos y por estudiosos como Jacques Aprile-Gniset y Henry Salgado, autor de esta obra, nos conducen a una memoria que enriquece el reconocimiento de los campesinos colombianos.
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.
"En esta obra se muestra la manera como funcionó el proceso de censura inquisitorial en los libros en la Nueva Granada, específicamente en las bibliotecas de Santafé.
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.
El objetivo de esta obra consiste en analizar la composición de las principales instituciones de la capital del virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada con el fin de conocer quiénes formaban parte de las altas instancias rectoras de Santa Fe durante unan época caracterizada por grandes cambios administrativos.