wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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An Autobiography of Miss Wish
ISBN: 9783868288117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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243,34 zł |
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German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences
ISBN: 9780472119127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the... German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to ad... |
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416,38 zł |
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Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance
ISBN: 9780253024244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani's schools and water resources are supplied by funds... Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also ... |
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390,42 zł |
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German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989
ISBN: 9780472117512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. German Literature on the Middle East explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and economic, social, and political processes and material dimensions on the other. Focusing on German-language literary and nonfiction writings about the Middle East (including historical documents, religious literature, travel writing, essays, and scholarship), Nina Berman evaluates the multiple... German Literature on the Middle East explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the... |
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346,08 zł |
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Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance
ISBN: 9780253024305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani's schools and water resources are supplied by funds... Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also ... |
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154,07 zł |
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Impossible Missions?: German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa
ISBN: 9780803213340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Thisstudy of the German presence in Africa in the modern period exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and good intentions. The humanitarian belief in development, however, can ultimately lead to the same structural imbalances that an overtly racist model of intervention produces. Berman examines five case studies involving German individuals and their respective missions in Africa: Max Eyth in Egypt, Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, Ernst Udet in East Africa, Bodo Kirchoff in Somalia, and modern-day tourists in Kenya. These engineers, doctors, pilots,...
Thisstudy of the German presence in Africa in the modern period exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and goo...
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231,17 zł |
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In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America
ISBN: 9780813585376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have...
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, ...
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190,07 zł |
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In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America
ISBN: 9780813585383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that "America" is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have...
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, ...
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688,38 zł |