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  • Hanging by a Thread

    Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa

    Edición de William G. Moseley, Leslie C. Gray ...
    Series Libro 8 - Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
    The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the global market, and debates about the pros and cons of this trend have intensified.Hanging by a Thread: ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

    de Queen Liliuokalani ...
    The Hawaiian kingdom's last monarch wrote her biography in 1897, the year before the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States. Her story covers six decades of island history told from the viewpoint of a major historical figure. Introduction by Glen Grant. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Stuffed and Starved

    The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Revised and Updated

    de Raj Patel ...
    Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Inner Life of Empires

    An Eighteenth-Century History

    de Emma Rothschild ...
    The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century familyThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Staying Alive

    Women, Ecology, and Development

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • David's Story

    de Zoë Wicomb, Dorothy Driver ...
    A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa's M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as "a tremendous achievement."South Africa, 1991: Nelson Mandela is freed from prison, the African National Congress is now legal, and a new day dawns in Cape Town. David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement, suddenly finds himself ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Eagle in Splendour

    Inside the Court of Napoleon

    de Philip Mansel ...
    "When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests changed the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Michael Mallin

    16Lives

    de Brian Hughes ...
    Series series 16Lives
    Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen's Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in the Irish Citizen Army.Born in a tenement in Dublin in 1874, he joined the British army aged fourteen as a drummer. He then worked as a silk weaver and became an active ... Leer más

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  • Son of France

    de Geoff Cush ...
    With a hint of philosophy, a dash of insanity, and a woman who could make Gauguin's mouth water, this novel takes the usual ingredients of history and tosses them into the air. Welcome to the beautiful French colony of New Zealand! OK, so it never happened. But it nearly did . . . Welcome to beautiful French New Zealand - a paradise of vineyards, cafes and forest conservation. The year is 1930. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Triumph of the Expert

    Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

    de Joseph Morgan Hodge ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Cultivating the Colonies

    Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies

    Edición de Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen, Karen Oslund ...
    Series Libro 12 - Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
    The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature revealsthe nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exoticnature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire.The eleven essays include studies of animal ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Cross the River to Home

    de Kaye Kelly ...
    An absorbing novel set in 1870s New Zealand about an impossible love between a half-Chinese woman and a young immigrant. Henry arrives in the South Island of New Zealand in search of his sister, who is now living in Charleston, married to a local doctor. It is there that he comes across Mai, who has brought her grandfather for eye surgery. Mai is half-Chinese and the love that ignites between her ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD