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  • Returning the Gaze

    The Manichean Drama of Postcolonial Exoticism

    by Asma Agzenay ...
    This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial thought and literature. Its analyses of the exotic include classical Arabo-Islamic ethnographic texts, Marco Polo’s and ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ...
    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Peopling of British North America

    An Introduction

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • American Settler Colonialism

    A History

    by W. Hixson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance. ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe

    Modules for History Lessons

    Edited by Uta Fenske, Daniel Groth, Klaus-Michael Guse, Bärbel P. Kuhn ...
    Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, ... Read more

    $69.39 USD

  • The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013

    Scars on the Archive

    by Jesse Shipway ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster behind less demanding historical narratives and politicised preoccupations such as convictism and environmentalism. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Remembering and Rethinking the GDR

    Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

    Edited by A. Saunders, D. Pinfold ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Memory as Colonial Capital

    Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English

    Edited by Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Europeanization in the Twentieth Century

    Historical Approaches

    Edited by M. Conway, K. Patel ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Europeanization is a term at the centre of contemporary political debate. In this innovative study, a team of British and German historians present the findings of their research project into how the concept and content of Europeanization needs to be understood as a historical phenomenon, which has changed its meaning during the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Engaging Colonial Knowledge

    Reading European Archives in World History

    Edited by R. Roque, K. Wagner ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD