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36 produkter
World Histories from Below
Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
400 kr
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History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ‘ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it …
Blood and Iron
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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Appointed Commander of the Emperor’s Army of Sangrel, Wa-Ka-Mo-Do of Ko tries to establish relations between the existing robot population and the humans who have recently arrived on Yukawa.On the continent of Shull, Kavan forms the Uncertain Army and is marching to Artemis City. Upon discovery …
Capacity
Häftad, 2011, 15+ år
244 kr
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Society in the twenty-third century runs smoothly and peacefully with the aid of Social Care operatives such as Judy 3. Meanwhile benevolent AIs, under the control of the near mythical Watcher, seem to have solved all mankind’s problems, and with their aid humans have begun to explore the …
Moving Subjects
Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire
Av Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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Moving Subjects is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through careful archival research and a …
Divergence
E-bok, 2011, 15+ år
158 kr
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The robot Constantine notices an Artificial Intelligence spontaneously coming into being on a distant planet . . . and watches helplessly as it is destroyed.In deep space, far from Earth, Judy senses a change of mood aboard the passenger ship she travels on . . . and a quick investigation reveals …
Capacity
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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Society in the twenty-third century runs smoothly and peacefully with the aid of Social Care operatives such as Judy 3. Meanwhile benevolent AIs, under the control of the near mythical Watcher, seem to have solved all mankind’s problems, and with their aid humans have begun to explore the …
Twisted Metal
E-bok, 2010, 15+ år
155 kr
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On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own …
Empires and the Reach of the Global
1870–1945
Av Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton
Häftad, 2014
324 kr
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Empires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires into sharp focus by showing how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today’s world. Focusing on both the strengths and limits of imperial power, Tony Ballantyne …
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Inbunden, 2004
3066 kr
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This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the …
Webs of Empire
Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past
Inbunden, 2014
1145 kr
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Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building as a spreading web of connected places, …
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
Häftad, 2005
454 kr
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From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in …
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
Häftad, 2006
521 kr
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Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh …
Entanglements of Empire
Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body
Inbunden, 2014
1361 kr
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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly …
Entanglements of Empire
Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body
Häftad, 2014
454 kr
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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly …
Entanglements of Empire
Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body
E-bok, 2015
671 kr
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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly …
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Av Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton
E-bok, 2005
671 kr
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From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in …
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
E-bok, 2006
521 kr
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Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh …
World Histories from Below
Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1243 kr
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History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ‘ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it …
World Histories from Below
Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
E-bok, 2022
434 kr
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History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ''ordinary'' people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it …
World Histories from Below
Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Av Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne
E-bok, 2022
424 kr
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History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ''ordinary'' people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it …
Making and Remaking of Australasia
Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
Inbunden, 2022
1316 kr
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This book explores the emergence of ‘Australasia’ as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history.‘Australasia’ emerged in the mid-18th century …
Making and Remaking of Australasia
Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
E-bok, 2022
482 kr
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This book explores the emergence of ''Australasia'' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. ''Australasia'' emerged in the mid-18th …
Making and Remaking of Australasia
Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
E-bok, 2022
466 kr
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This book explores the emergence of ''Australasia'' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. ''Australasia'' emerged in the mid-18th …
Making and Remaking of Australasia
Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
Häftad, 2024
443 kr
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This book explores the emergence of ‘Australasia’ as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history.‘Australasia’ emerged in the mid-18th century …
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
E-bok, 2018
3745 kr
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This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the …
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
E-bok, 2018
3664 kr
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This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the …
Recursion
E-bok, 2011, 15+ år
121 kr
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Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life ... only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical …
Twisted Metal
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own …
Indigenous Textual Cultures
Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire
Av Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1851 kr
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As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the …
