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  • Readings in Caribbean History and Culture

    Breaking Ground

    by Dalea Bean, Eldon V. Birthwright, Trevor Burnard, D A. Dunkley, Dennis Gill, Claudia Hucke, Coreen J. Leacock, Russell Lord, Michael Niblett, Raymond Ramcharitar, Shivani Sivagurunathan, Benita P. Thompson, S Joel Warrican, D.A. Dunkley ...
    This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of current scholarly work on the two broad subject areas. Among the themes examined are colonialism, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Jamaican Women and the World Wars

    On the Front Lines of Change

    by Dalea Bean ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically been part of the war project, both as soldiers and civilians. This ground-breaking work fills a gap in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • World War II and the Caribbean

    by Dalea Bean, Bridget Brereton, Geoff Burrows, Esther Captain, Christian Cwik, Robert Devaux, Guy Ellis, Lovell Francis, Suzanne Francis-Brown, Dannelle Gutarra, Jolien Harmsen, Eric T. Jennings, Guno Jones, Gelien Matthews, Verena Muth, Rita Pemberton, Ronald Williams ...
    World War II and the Caribbean focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years. Local operations, cultural mores and the region’s international image were forever changed by its pivotal role in the war effort.The chapters in this volume respond to the need for information and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" ... Read more

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  • Shattering Empires

    The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908–1918

    by Michael A. Reynolds ...
    The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. ... Read more

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  • Exclusionary Empire

    English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900

    Edited by Jack P. Greene ...
    Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire – Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Brief History Of Bali

    Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of a Pacific Paradise

    by Willard A. Hanna ...
    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This book tells the story of Bali—the "paradise island of the Pacific"—its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic history of interactions with foreigners, particularly after the arrival of the first Dutch fleet in 1597. In this first comprehensive history ... Read more

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  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
    Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    World War I and its Aftermath

    by Robert H. Lieshout ...
    The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia'; the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that rebellion; and memoranda such as the Balfour Declaration all have shaped the Middle East into forms ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Dutch Empire

    Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000

    Edited by Catia Antunes, Jos Gommans ...
    In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th century that brought the Dutch into the fold of the general movement of ... Read more

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  • Language and Mobility

    Unexpected Places

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many ... Read more

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  • The Global History of the Balfour Declaration

    Declared Nation

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at the outset of the twentieth century. Embedded in this ... Read more

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