Critical Histories – serie
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7 produkter
Fragments of Empire
Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean
Av Madhavi Kale
E-bok, 2010
806 kr
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When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly …
Gandhi's Body
Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
E-bok, 2011
948 kr
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No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality, human dignity, and freedom.Joseph Alter argues, however, that Gandhi has not been completely …
Producing Workers
The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills
Häftad, 1997
388 kr
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As the politicization of cultural identities-based on religion, ethnicity, gender, race-has come to play a central role in shaping relations between and among peoples, issues of difference raise unsettling questions about how identities overlap and group interests are represented. Using the jute …
Empire and Others
British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Av Martin Daunton, Rick Halpern
Häftad, 1999
655 kr
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Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The identities of Irish Catholics or Highland …
Fragments of Empire
Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean
Av Madhavi Kale
Inbunden, 1998
705 kr
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When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly …
India Against Itself
Assam and the Politics of Nationality
Inbunden, 1999
763 kr
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In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave concern in much of the world. And it is in India where some of the most turbulent of these clashes …
Gandhi's Body
Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
Inbunden, 2000
787 kr
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No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become synonymous with the highest principles of global equality, human dignity, and freedom.Joseph Alter argues, however, that Gandhi has not been completely …
