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  • American Settler Colonialism

    A History

    by W. Hixson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance. ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • Empire:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Howe ...
    A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems, the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers, have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dreams in a Time of War

    A Childhood Memoir

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    **Man Booker International Prize Finalist • By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.“A testament to the resilience of youth and the strength of hope."—The Boston Globe**Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe

    Modules for History Lessons

    Edited by Uta Fenske, Daniel Groth, Klaus-Michael Guse, Bärbel P. Kuhn ...
    Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Cuba and the U.S. Empire

    A Chronological History

    by Jane Franklin ...
    The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements – in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • A Turn to Empire

    The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France

    by Jennifer Pitts ...
    A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013

    Scars on the Archive

    by Jesse Shipway ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster behind less demanding historical narratives and politicised preoccupations such as convictism and environmentalism. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Remembering and Rethinking the GDR

    Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

    Edited by A. Saunders, D. Pinfold ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Memory as Colonial Capital

    Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English

    Edited by Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD