Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts - from a journey to southern India...

Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and sociocultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current.

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John Reed's classic account of Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution is an early example of an "embedded" journalist, who shared the daily lives of the insurgents and was a witness to the wretched lives of the Mexican people. This is one of the most vivid testimonies of this revolutionary upheaval.

This volume looks at the birth of the republics of the Americas and the early anticolonial struggles for independence, beginning with the War of Independence in North America, the liberation struggle in Haiti, and then the movements in South and Central America led by Simon Bolivar and Francisco Morazan.

Here Alberto Prieto argues that the Cuban Revolution marked a turning point in the history of the Americas, with imperialism still mired in the Cold War, while revolutionary movements emerged that subsequently led to the rise of the new social movements and the revival of the concept of Latin American unity.

The first volume in a comprehensive history of Latin America by one of the continent's most prominent historians. It begins examining pre-Columbian society and the violent clashes with the colonizers, the subsequent emergence of a mestiza culture, and the development of a national identity that foreshadowed the struggles for independence.