Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780253221193 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as a tool of domination and resistance, however unequally applied, to get to the heart of why Nigeria has not built a successful democracy. Falola's analysis centers on two phases of Nigerian history: the last quarter of the 19th century, when linkages between violence and domination were part of the British conquest; and the first half of the 20th century, which was characterized by violent rebellion and the development of a national political... Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as... |
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111,65 zł |
Lord Clive's Speech In The House Of Commons: On The Motion Made For An Inquiry Into The Nature, State, And Condition Of The East India Company (1772)
ISBN: 9780548841563 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. And Of The British Affairs In The East Indies, In The Fifth Session Of The Present Parliament.
And Of The British Affairs In The East Indies, In The Fifth Session Of The Present Parliament.
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The Royal Over-seas League : From Empire into Commonwealth, a History of the First 100 Years
ISBN: 9781848850118 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most people international travel was a new and exciting opportunity. One hundred years later, the world and Britain's place in it has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Yet the League has weathered all these changes and now enters its second century with a renewed sense of energy and purpose. How has the ROSL developed since 1910 and responded to the fundamental shift from Empire into Commonwealth? What are the enduring aims and values,... In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most ... |
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101,49 zł |
Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World
ISBN: 9781848851252 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohesion. Yet they are also the sites of division, fragmentation and political conflict. This ambitious study encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Europe to examine the emergence of state borders and polarised identities in the Mediterranean. The authors look at the impact of political boundaries upon the region, along with pressures from European and economic integration, the resurgence of nationalism, and refugee and... The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohes... |
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Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific
ISBN: 9780824833688 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I's ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia's strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition an embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships' commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists,... In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect ar... |
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Black Gold : The Dark History of Coffee
ISBN: 9781841156569 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary tale of the wildfire spread of a drink which is embedded in our history and our daily cultural life - and which provides a compelling allegory for corporate greed, mercantile ruthlessness and global expansion. Arguably the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil, coffee's dark five-hundred year history links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, and science and slavery. Revolutions have been hatched in coffee houses, secret socities and commercial alliances formed, and politics and art endlessly debated. With over a hundred million people...
The extraordinary tale of the wildfire spread of a drink which is embedded in our history and our daily cultural life - and which provides a compellin...
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The Royal Over-seas League : From Empire into Commonwealth, a History of the First 100 Years
ISBN: 9781848850101 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most people international travel was a new and exciting opportunity. One hundred years later, the world and Britain's place in it has been transformed almost beyond recognition. Yet the League has weathered all these changes and now enters its second century with a renewed sense of energy and purpose. How has the ROSL developed since 1910 and responded to the fundamental shift from Empire into Commonwealth? What are the enduring aims and values,... In 1910, when Evelyn Wrench founded the Royal Over-Seas League, King George V was on the throne, the British Empire seemed invincible and for most ... |
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228,48 zł |
Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America: Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies
ISBN: 9780230618190 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of a new type of executive instability without regime instability in Latin America referred to as "presidential breakdown." It includes a theoretical introduction framing the debate within the institutional literature on democracy and democratization, and the implications of this new type of executive instability for presidential democracies. Two comparative chapters analyze the causes, procedures, and outcomes of presidential breakdowns in a regional perspective, and country studies provide in-depth analyses of all countries in Latin America...
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of a new type of executive instability without regime instability in Latin America referred to as "pre...
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Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970
ISBN: 9781571810441 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " . . . collected in a single volume, these papers] become a rich case study of an African people's relations with various European agents over more than four centuries." - Choice " . . . a true treasure . . . challenging example of how history and anthropology can be combined in practice . . . such a combination can offer a deeper understanding of present-day issues and tensions." - Africa The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact,...
" . . . collected in a single volume, these papers] become a rich case study of an African people's relations with various European agents over more ...
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162,21 zł |
Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism : From Independence to Dependence
ISBN: 9781845193966 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the modern history of post-mandatory Syria. The evolution of the Syrian ideology and policy of neutralism since the early stages of the Cold War is explained, and the effects that Arab neutralism had on shaping Syria s foreign policy and the shaping of its national identity are identified. The phenomenon of Arab neutralism has never before been comprehensively investigated. The prevailing belief is that the formulation and realization of the policy of anti-alignment began only during Nasser s first years in power in Egypt. However, the author demonstrates that the roots of...
This book examines the modern history of post-mandatory Syria. The evolution of the Syrian ideology and policy of neutralism since the early stages of...
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149,38 zł |
Violent Modernity: France in Algeria
ISBN: 9780674053281 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, the author examines the advent of political modernity in Algeria and shows how colonial modernity was not only a project imposed by violence but also a violent project in and of itself, involving massive destruction and significant transformation of the population of Algeria.
In this work, the author examines the advent of political modernity in Algeria and shows how colonial modernity was not only a project imposed by viol...
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Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape
ISBN: 9781845193386 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This caliphate of humankind belongs in a now global situation as the abiding reality of Semitic humanism. We are not on our own, but trustees in a sacramental order, neither playthings nor puppets of a bland omnipotence but associates of the God who willed to create and cared to inform, inspire and invite as such to be."
This caliphate of humankind belongs in a now global situation as the abiding reality of Semitic humanism. We are not on our own, but trustees in a sac...
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534,45 zł |
When Empire Meets Nationalism: Power Politics in the US and Russia
ISBN: 9780754678052 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative study presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russian neo-eurasianists and the neo-conservatives in the United States. It traces the growth of nationalism and the concept of 'Empire' in relation to the ideologies and foreign policy of both Russia and the USA. Beginning with a genealogy of the two movements, the authors present the intricacy of imperial rhetoric and nationalist ideologies in modern states compared with the distinctive definition of Empire as a politico-historical form. The...
This innovative study presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russ...
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Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa
ISBN: 9783894738754 / Angielski / Miękka / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study by Monica Hunter Wilson, originally published in 1936, and reissued in a second edition in 1961, was one of the first to provide a detailed account of an African people in the process of change from rural cattle-raising tribesmen to urban and agricultural wage-earners in a European-dominated economic system. It also broke new ground in its attempt to apply anthropological methods to the study of an African community living in urban conditions. The book is divided into three main sections. The first, and most extensive, studies the effects of culture contact upon the Pondo living in...
This study by Monica Hunter Wilson, originally published in 1936, and reissued in a second edition in 1961, was one of the first to provide a detailed...
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144,04 zł |
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power
ISBN: 9780415588614 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This text examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories, showing how they operate, how well they work and how in the end their chief purpose is population control.
Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This text examines the several layers of surveilla...
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710,82 zł |
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire
ISBN: 9780230104556 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.
A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written lar...
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194,52 zł |
Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland
ISBN: 9780719082467 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and displaced Irish "savages" are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English "adventurers" including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Raleigh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity to their Renaissance tastes and ambitions.Based on decades of research,...
Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of ...
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Decolonizing Literacy: Mexican Lives in the Era of Global Capitalism
ISBN: 9781847692627 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Millions of descendants of the former colonized and enslaved peoples around the world are now classified as poor readers, bad writers, and slow learners. Are they illiterate or silenced people? Are they global citizens or global outcasts? Drawing from case studies of flesh and blood individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book questions the colonizing images of the "illiterate," and explores the ways in which the long social history of conquest and colonization, plunder and globalization, is inscribed in the personal histories of today's subjugated people. It argues that rather than... Millions of descendants of the former colonized and enslaved peoples around the world are now classified as poor readers, bad writers, and slow lea... |
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160,07 zł |
Poltiical Change in the Third World
ISBN: 9780415601290 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-political beliefs and structures cause political change in the Third World. The author examines 3 types of political change: (1) transitions in political leaders and their policies, (2) fundamental transformations in political structures, policy priorities, and political strategies for dealing with policy issues; and (3) the impact of economic, education, and health care policies on the society itself (including changes in unemployment, inflation,... In this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-politic... |
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736,21 zł |
America and the Third World: Revolution and Intervention
ISBN: 9780415601306 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Girling's book, first published in 1980, investigates the relationship between America and the Third World, centring on three main themes: the nature of American involvement in the Third World, the challenge posed by the rival Super-Power; and the Changes both in US-Soviet relations (from containment to detente) and in the Third World. Three propositions are put forward: that the overriding interest of American foreign policy maker is in the stability of the global system of relationships; that this interest coincides with most Third World elites; and that the global system normally... John Girling's book, first published in 1980, investigates the relationship between America and the Third World, centring on three main themes: the... |
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203,04 zł |