wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914
ISBN: 9780719069635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies - a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire. Martial races bridges regional studies...
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manl...
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106,21 zł |
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ISE Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past
ISBN: 9781260571011 / Miękka / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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318,73 zł |
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World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
ISBN: 9781316501092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914-18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the region's strategic location between North America and India made it a convenient way-station for expatriate Indian revolutionaries who hoped to smuggle arms and people into India and thus to overthrow...
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ran...
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145,39 zł |
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World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
ISBN: 9781107135192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914-18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the region's strategic location between North America and India made it a convenient way-station for expatriate Indian revolutionaries who hoped to smuggle arms and people into India and thus to overthrow...
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ran...
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479,64 zł |
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Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780190216375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather Streets-Salter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of modern empires and colonialism from the late fifteenth century to the present. Synthesizing the vast outpouring of new scholarship that examines empires in a global context, the book pays as much attention to the Ottoman, Mughal, Ming, and Qing Empires as to European colonialism, and stresses the continuous social, political, and cultural interactions between colonizers and colonized.
Amply illustrated with photographs and full-color maps,... In Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective, Heather Streets-Salter and Trevor R. Getz provide a thorough overview of m...
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593,71 zł |
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The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives
ISBN: 9789087283414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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227,14 zł |