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  • Britain in Global Politics Volume 1

    From Gladstone to Churchill

    Edited by C. Baxter, M. Dockrill, K. Hamilton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of broad-ranging and particular issues, including: 'cold wars' before the Cold War in Anglo-Russian relations; Lord Curzon and the diplomacy of war ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Heart Berries

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  • Enemy on the Euphrates

    The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

    by Ian Rutledge ...
    In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for ... Read more

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  • Decline and Fall

    The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America

    by John Michael Greer ...
    The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.S. dominance on the world stage in this persuasive and provocative book.The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape. How we respond to this reality will determine much of our future trajectory, with implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation's ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Uganda

    by Richard J. Reid ...
    This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Sovereignty?

    The Nisga’a Final Agreement

    by Tracie Lea Scott ...
    In 1999 the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia signed a landmark agreement which not only settled their land claim but outlined significant powers that could be exercised by its government. The Nisga’a Final Agreement granted powers over land, resources, education, and cultural policy to the Nisga’a government, a major departure from previous land claims agreements. However, it ... Read more

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  • The Setting Sun

    A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets

    by Bart Moore-Gilbert ...
    "I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage ... Read more

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  • The Lords of Human Kind

    European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

    by Victor Kiernan ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

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  • The Common Cause

    Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900 to 1955

    by Leela Gandhi ...
    Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism ... Read more

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  • Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas

    by Alka Kurian ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and colonialism. The book explores the cinematic construction of an oppositional narrative of feminist ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia

    The Overseas Chinese in IndoChina

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    As Qing Dynasty China disintegrated, economic hardship and civil disorder led to millions of Chinese men and women seeking their fortunes abroad, many journeying south into French Indochina. These emigres settled into tight-knit communities called huiguan: organisations which closely mirrored the religious, social and economic constitution of their own places of origin. Here, Tracy Barrett sheds ... Read more

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