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  • Ruling the Margins

    Colonial Power and Administrative Rule in the Past and Present

    af Prem Kumar Rajaram ...
    Serier serie Interventions
    Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter.Histories of the global south are rarely used to ... Læs mere

    312,01 kr.

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  • Heaven's Command

    af Jan Morris ...
    Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces the impact of empire on places as diverse as Sierra Leone and Fiji, ... Læs mere

    98,75 kr.

  • The White Possessive

    Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty

    af Aileen Moreton-Robinson ...
    Serier serie Indigenous Americas
    The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and ... Læs mere

    184,11 kr.

  • Lord Kitchener

    Enriched edition.

    af G. K. Chesterton, Lily Wharton ...
    In "Lord Kitchener," G. K. Chesterton explores the complex figure of Lord Horatio Kitchener, a pivotal military leader during the First World War. With his characteristic wit and incisive prose, Chesterton delves into themes of duty, heroism, and national identity. The book reflects the uncertainties of its time while also critiquing the romanticized notions of warfare, set against the backdrop of ... Læs mere

    15,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Imperialism, Power, and Identity

    Experiencing the Roman Empire

    af David J. Mattingly ...
    Serier serie Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    "An ambitious attempt to map the transformation of lifestyles and experience among Rome's provincial subjects in the first three centuries AD. . . . "History from below" at its best" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and ... Læs mere

    133,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Colonialism

    af Norrie Macqueen ...
    Serier serie Short Histories of Big Ideas
    Europe’s rapacious hunger for other people’s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonial past, from the way we see the world to the food we eat. Our contemporary preoccupations and ills – from globalization to humanitarian intervention to international terrorism – have colonialism somewhere in their genetic make-up.The character and ... Læs mere

    451,93 kr.

  • The Lords of Human Kind

    European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

    af Victor Kiernan ...
    Serier serie Critique Influence Change
    When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of ... Læs mere

    223,29 kr.

  • Aleppo

    The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

    af Philip Mansel ...
    Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.'Al-MutanabbiAleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo – one of the oldest, continuously ... Læs mere

    158,35 kr.

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    af Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Serier Bog 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Læs mere

    673,41 kr.

  • Gender, Empire, and Postcolony

    Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

    af Anna M. Klobucka ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. ... Læs mere

    840,61 kr.

  • Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

    af A. Rudd ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. ... Læs mere

    466,97 kr.

  • The Idea of Nation and its Future in India

    af Shibani Kinkar Chaube ...
    This volume is a theoretico-empirical study of nations and nationalism on a global scale. It enquires if the idea of the nation, by its own logic, is feasible and whether India fulfils the requirement of nationhood with a reasonable prospect of survival. The monograph engages with the theories of nation and nationalism and examines if they are relevant and tenable in contemporary times. It looks ... Læs mere

    527,27 kr.