(Izdošanas datums: 06-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845661)
A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka. How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-ninetee...Lasīt vairāk
A major new textbook introduction to missiology at time of renewed post-colonial consciousnessFills a gap in the market for an accessible student textbook on the theme, which help to re-shape syllabiThe author draws on his extensive practical expe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231216012)
This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of renaming and the relationship between language and colonialism. French colonization dismantled Algerian names. Under the o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231216029)
Violence causes harm and extends power in many different ways. Best known is physical violence, meaning the wounds and deaths that weapons inflict upon living bodies. However, violence also exists in symbolic forms, such as language, individual word...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503641730)
Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of Londons burgeoning South Ame...Lasīt vairāk
Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of Londons burgeoning...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory move...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biograp
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753768)
A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Co...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents studies by international experts on aspects of the society, economy, religion, culture, and history of the Greek settlements of the ancient western Mediterranean, one of the most innovative areas of the ancient Greek world....Lasīt vairāk
This two-volume encyclopedia provides entries on the key peoples, events, industries, and landmarks essential to the history of South American countries from European contact to their independence-- This two-volume encyclopedia provides ent...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300272413)
How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake) had several namesWilson Jones, Bill Jones, Bill Harjo, Bil...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Oxford Studies in Modern European History
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198936275)
Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526193025)
This volume demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for crimes against humanity. Authored by eminent scholars...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526193032)
This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes aga...Lasīt vairāk
