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Decolonising Europe?
Popular Responses to the End of Empire
Av Berny Sèbe, Matthew G. Stanard
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but …
Beyond Science and Empire
Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945
Av Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Thomás A. S. Haddad m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.In this period, most of the world was under some …
Archiving Settler Colonialism
Culture, Space and Race
Av Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage …
Anti-Slavery and Australia
No Slavery in a Free Land?
Av Jane Lydon
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the …
Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World
Inbunden, 2008
2578 kr
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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the …
Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830
Inbunden, 2009
2578 kr
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Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of …
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Inbunden, 2010
3262 kr
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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical …
Archiving Settler Colonialism
Culture, Space and Race
Av Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Inbunden, 2018
2190 kr
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Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage …
Decolonising Europe?
Popular Responses to the End of Empire
Av Berny Sèbe, Matthew G. Stanard
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but …
Beyond Science and Empire
Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945
Av Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Thomás A. S. Haddad m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.In this period, most of the world was under some …
Inhuman Empire
Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture
Häftad, 2025
809 kr
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This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.Set in the context of British colonial rule in India, this book also reflects on similar situations across the British Empire and other colonial empires. The destruction of wildlife in the …
Inhuman Empire
Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture
Inbunden, 2024
2578 kr
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This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.Set in the context of British colonial rule in India, this book also reflects on similar situations across the British Empire and other colonial empires. The destruction of wildlife in the …
Art in the Time of Colony
Av Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized locals did more than merely collect material …
Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2016
889 kr
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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the …
Rethinking African Politics
A History of Opposition in Zambia
Av Miles Larmer
Häftad, 2016
863 kr
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In 1964 Kenneth Kaunda and his United National Independence Party (UNIP) government established the nation of Zambia in the former British colony of Northern Rhodesia. In parallel with many other newly independent countries in Africa this process of decolonisation created a wave of optimism …
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the state building process in Egypt by the British colonial administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical …
Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of …
Empire De/Centered
New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union
Av Maxim Waldstein, Sanna Turoma
Häftad, 2016
889 kr
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In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a …
Across the World with the Johnsons
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
Av Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
889 kr
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During the interwar period Osa and Martin Johnson became famous for their films that brought exotic and far-off locations to the American cinema. Before the advent of mass tourism and television, their films played a major part in providing the means by which large audiences in the US and beyond …
Anti-Slavery and Australia
No Slavery in a Free Land?
Av Jane Lydon
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the …
Rethinking African Politics
A History of Opposition in Zambia
Av Miles Larmer
Inbunden, 2011
3262 kr
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In 1964 Kenneth Kaunda and his United National Independence Party (UNIP) government established the nation of Zambia in the former British colony of Northern Rhodesia. In parallel with many other newly independent countries in Africa this process of decolonisation created a wave of optimism …
Across the World with the Johnsons
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
Av Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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During the interwar period Osa and Martin Johnson became famous for their films that brought exotic and far-off locations to the American cinema. Before the advent of mass tourism and television, their films played a major part in providing the means by which large audiences in the US and beyond …
Empire De/Centered
New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union
Av Maxim Waldstein, Sanna Turoma
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a …
Art in the Time of Colony
Av Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Inbunden, 2014
2818 kr
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It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized locals did more than merely collect material …
