Critical, Connected Histories – serie
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Ishikawa Sanshir’s Geographical Imagination
Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Häftad, 2020
685 kr
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In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialisation. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshir. exemplifies this imagination, connecting European and Japanese thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. This …
Being a Slave
Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Av Alicia Schrikker, Nira Wickramasinghe
Häftad, 2020
771 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, …
Bureaucrats of Liberation
Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era
Häftad, 2020
785 kr
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Bureaucrats of Liberation narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from …
Monsoon Asia
A Reader on South and Southeast Asia
Av David Henley, Nira Wickramasinghe
Häftad, 2023
713 kr
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Monsoon Asia was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a connected space, has been in the past and is today. …
Tourism and the Emergence of Nation-States in the Arab Eastern Mediterranean, 1920s-1930s
Av Jasmin Daam
Häftad, 2022
685 kr
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"In the aftermath of World War I, the beaten paths of tourism guided an increasing number of international tourists to the hinterlands of the Arab Eastern Mediterranean, where they would admire pyramids and Roman ruins. Yet they were not the only visitors: Arab nationalists gathered in summer …
Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge
In Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2025
1448 kr
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This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a …
Knowledge in Modern Transimperial History
Actors, Formations, Causes
Av Cyrus Schayegh, David Motzafi-Haller
Inbunden, 2025
1535 kr
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This volume intervenes in the growing field of transimperial history, which explores interactions across empires—European and non-European—between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s, a period of heightened imperial entanglement. It focuses on how actors from one empire came to know, interpret, and …
Circus Bodies from the Global South
Subaltern Lives and Transnationalisms
Av Nisha P R
Inbunden, 2026
1448 kr
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This collection of essays on circus histories and theories focusing on the Global South and its transnational contexts is significant because circus studies has largely focused on the Global North. Many Latin American, African, and Asian regions have circus histories dating back to the nineteenth …
Civil War Samurai
The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America
Av Natalia Doan
Inbunden, 2026
1448 kr
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In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed "Tommy," made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States. The perception of Tateishi's interracial romantic encounters …
