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Faith and Boundaries - Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871... Faith and Boundaries - Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 (Paperback, Revised)
David J. Silverman
R860 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R112 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference. Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard, religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness of race.

Humanism and America - An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Paperback): Andrew Fitzmaurice Humanism and America - An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Paperback)
Andrew Fitzmaurice
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.

The Last Colonies (Paperback): Robert Aldrich, John Connell The Last Colonies (Paperback)
Robert Aldrich, John Connell
R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.

France's Overseas Frontier - Departements et territoires d'outre-mer (Paperback, New ed): Robert Aldrich, John Connell France's Overseas Frontier - Departements et territoires d'outre-mer (Paperback, New ed)
Robert Aldrich, John Connell
R1,076 R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Save R64 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 1992 book is a full-length study in English of the 'confetti of empire', the former French colonies which have not gained their independence but remain part of France as the departements et territoires d'outre-mer (DOM-TOMs). More recent French governments have shown a determination to retain these possessions, despite independence movements (notably in New Caledonia) and international criticism. The authors' comprehensive description of the history, economy, geography and politics of the DOM-TOMs will make this the standard English reference on France's overseas territories.

The Eyes of Another Race - Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary (Paperback): Roger Casement The Eyes of Another Race - Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary (Paperback)
Roger Casement; Volume editing by Seamas O Siochain, Michael O'Sullivan; Edited by Seamas O Siochain
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Executed by the British in 1916 for treason, Roger Casement is one of Ireland's most colorful, mythologized, and controversial figures. His infamous Black Diaries, with their homosexual materials, were famously published by the Olympia Press in a suspect edition in 1959. In 1903 when he was a British consul, he left his base on the Lower Congo River and made a Conrad-like journey through the "heart of darkness" regions of the Upper Congo to personally investigate reports of alleged atrocities (Conrad found Casement to be "most intelligent and sympathetic"). His subsequent report gained him fame by exposing the appalling cruelties of the colonial and commercial regime there, and was a crucial instrument in the British government's efforts to bring about change in King Leopold's Congo Free State. He later exposed similar exploitation in Niger, Mozambique, and South America. This carefully edited work brings together Casement's report, as well as his diary of that year, with previously excised names restored and explanatory notes provided. The editors provide an overview of Casement's career and a thorough historical background to these documents. Seamus O Siochain teaches at the National University of Ireland and is completing a major biography of Casement. Michael O'Sullivan was at Dublin City University until his death in 2002.

Restating Orientalism - A Critique of Modern Knowledge (Hardcover): Wael Hallaq Restating Orientalism - A Critique of Modern Knowledge (Hardcover)
Wael Hallaq
R1,037 R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Save R101 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting the complicity of the rest of the academic disciplines? In this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project. Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, Restating Orientalism extends the critique to other fields, from law, philosophy, and scientific inquiry to core ideas of academic thought such as sovereignty and the self. Hallaq traces their involvement in colonialism, mass annihilation, and systematic destruction of the natural world, interrogating and historicizing the set of causes that permitted modernity to wed knowledge to power. Restating Orientalism offers a bold rethinking of the theory of the author, the concept of sovereignty, and the place of the secular Western self in the modern project, reopening the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique and ultimately theorizing an exit from modernity's predicaments. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines while also drawing on the best they have to offer, Restating Orientalism exposes the depth of academia's lethal complicity in modern forms of capitalism, colonialism, and hegemonic power.

Georgia - A Political History Since Independence (Paperback): Georgia - A Political History Since Independence (Paperback)
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Georgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in the 2008 war with Russia - characterise a two-decade struggle to establish democratic institutions and consolidate statehood. Here, Stephen Jones critically analyses Georgia's recent political and economic development, illustrating what its 'transition' has meant, not just for the state, but for its citizens as well. An authoritative and commanding exploration of Georgia since independence, this is essential for those interested in the post-Soviet world.

Living with Nkrumahism - Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (Paperback): Jeffrey S Ahlman Living with Nkrumahism - Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (Paperback)
Jeffrey S Ahlman
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa's postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman reexamines the infrastructure that organized and consolidated Nkrumah's philosophy into a political program. Ahlman draws on newly available source material to portray an organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Taking us inside bureaucracies, offices, salary structures, and working routines, he painstakingly reconstructs the political and social milieu of the time and portrays a range of Ghanaians' relationships to their country's unique position in the decolonization process. Through fine attunement to the nuances of statecraft, he demonstrates how political and philosophical ideas shape lived experience. Living with Nkrumahism stands at the crossroads of the rapidly growing fields of African decolonization, postcolonial history, and Cold War studies. It provides a much-needed scholarly model through which to reflect on the changing nature of citizenship and political and social participation in Africa and the broader postcolonial world.

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber - The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale (Paperback): Sean O'Driscoll Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber - The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale (Paperback)
Sean O'Driscoll
R332 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'It would be hard to overstate how good this book is . . . a fantastic read' Sunday Independent 'Superb . . . an even-handed and thrilling gallop through [Dugdale's] improbable life' Daily Telegraph The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958. She trained at Oxford as an academic economist and had a love affair with a female professor (who was on the rebound from Iris Murdoch). At thirty, she commenced giving her inheritance away to the poor. In 1972, the deadliest year of the Northern Irish Troubles, she travelled to Ireland and joined the IRA. Sean O'Driscoll's Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber tells the astonishing story of Rose Dugdale, who went on to become a committed terrorist, participating in a major art heist and a bombing raid on a police and army barracks; who kept a pregnancy secret for nine months in prison and gave birth there; and who ended up at the heart of the IRA's bomb-making operation during its deadly final spasms in the 1990s. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber is both the page-turning biography of a remarkable woman and a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of a terrorist organization. _______________ 'Possibly the most extraordinary book you'll read this year' Irish Examiner 'Jaw-dropping' Joe Duffy 'Well-researched' Irish Times

Exceptionalism and Industrialisation - Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (Hardcover, New): Leandro Prados de la... Exceptionalism and Industrialisation - Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (Hardcover, New)
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
R2,412 R2,232 Discovery Miles 22 320 Save R180 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation. First, they highlight growth and industrial change, the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialisation. Second, they examine technological change and, especially, Britain's unusual inventiveness. Third, they study her institutions and their role in facilitating economic growth. Fourth and finally, they explore British military and naval supremacy, showing how this was achieved and how it contributed to Britain's economic supremacy.

Archaeology and Colonialism - Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present (Paperback, New): Chris Gosden Archaeology and Colonialism - Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present (Paperback, New)
Chris Gosden
R916 R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Save R141 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Defining colonialism as, crucially, a relationship with material culture, destabilising of older values, changing both incomers and natives, Gosden attempts to understand the history of power, how it is exercised through material culture and how this understanding can generate new notions of interaction and encounter. By defining colonialism through its relationship with material culture, Gosden argues that modern colonialism, giving rise to settler societies, is historically unusual. Synthesising theoretical approaches and evidence from a broad span of colonial regions, this book provides an important new field of enquiry connecting historic and prehistoric archaeology.

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject (Paperback, Revised): Paula Jane Byrne Criminal Law and Colonial Subject (Paperback, Revised)
Paula Jane Byrne
R1,562 Discovery Miles 15 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and richness and is able to evoke the everyday lives of people in the colonial NSW.

Race over Empire - Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (Paperback, New edition): Eric T.L. Love Race over Empire - Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (Paperback, New edition)
Eric T.L. Love
R1,224 R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Save R81 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the ""white man's burden"" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire, Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had nearly the opposite effect. From President Grant's attempt to acquire the Dominican Republic in 1870 to the annexations of Hawaii and the Philippines in 1898, Love demonstrates that the imperialists' relationship with the racist ideologies of the era was antagonistic, not harmonious. In a period marked by Jim Crow, lynching, Chinese exclusion, and immigration restriction, Love argues, no pragmatic politician wanted to place nonwhites at the center of an already controversial project by invoking the concept of the ""white man's burden."" Furthermore, convictions that defined ""whiteness"" raised great obstacles to imperialist ambitions, particularly when expansionists entered the tropical zone. In lands thought to be too hot for ""white blood,"" white Americans could never be the main beneficiaries of empire. What emerges from Love's analysis is a critical reinterpretation of the complex interactions between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the dawn of the American century.

Bonded Histories - Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Paperback, New Ed): Gyan Prakash Bonded Histories - Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Paperback, New Ed)
Gyan Prakash
R1,632 Discovery Miles 16 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and that money possesses the power to bind people appear as natural facts. Bonded Histories traces the historical processes by which these notions became established as dominant discourses in India during colonial rule and continued into post-colonial India. Gyan Prakash locates the formulation of these discourses in the history of bonded labour in southern Bihar. He focuses on the emergence and subsequent transformation of the relationship of reciprocal power and dependence between landlords and labourers. The author explores the way in which these transformations were connected with broader shifts in the political economy of this part of the subcontinent; with the changing structures of agricultural production, land tenure and revenue demand; with local social hierarchies and the ideology of castes; and with Hindu cosmologies, spirit cults and their articulation in ritual practices.

Making Ireland British 1580-1650 (Paperback, Revised): Nicholas Canny Making Ireland British 1580-1650 (Paperback, Revised)
Nicholas Canny
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This pioneering study is the first to examine all the English settlements attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. The author looks at the arguments in favour of a 'plantation' policy and Irish responses to it in practice. He places what happened in Ireland in the context of events in England, Scotland, Continental Europe, and England's Atlantic colonies.

The Rest Write Back - Discourse and Decolonization (Paperback): Esmaeil Zeiny The Rest Write Back - Discourse and Decolonization (Paperback)
Esmaeil Zeiny
R945 R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Save R154 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization, Esmaeil Zeiny brings together a collection of essays that interrogate the colonial legacies, the contemporary power structure, and the geopolitics of knowledge production. The scholars in this collection illustrate how the writing-back paradigm engages in a conversation and paves the way for a "dialogical and pluri-versal" world where the Rest is no longer excluded. Among the important features of this book is that it presents avenues for "decoloniality" and "epistemic disobedience." This book will be of interest to scholars and students of all Social Science and Humanities disciplines but it is particularly important for those in the disciplines of sociology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and theory and philosophy of Social Sciences and Humanities. Contributors include: Dustin J. Byrd, Ciarunji Chesaina, Hiba Ghanem, Mladjo Ivanovic, Masumi Hashimoto Odari, Arjuna Parakrama, JM. Persanch, Andrew Ridgeway, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Esmaeil Zeiny.

Unsettling Truths - The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Paperback): Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah Unsettling Truths - The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Paperback)
Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
R551 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award American Society of Missiology Book Award Publishers Weekly starred review You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the far-reaching, damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery." In the fifteenth century, official church edicts gave Christian explorers the right to claim territories they "discovered." This was institutionalized as an implicit national framework that justifies American triumphalism, white supremacy, and ongoing injustices. The result is that the dominant culture idealizes a history of discovery, opportunity, expansion, and equality, while minority communities have been traumatized by colonization, slavery, segregation, and dehumanization. Healing begins when deeply entrenched beliefs are unsettled. Charles and Rah aim to recover a common memory and shared understanding of where we have been and where we are going. As other nations have instituted truth and reconciliation commissions, so do the authors call our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open the door to conciliation and true community.

Colonial Odysseys - Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel (Paperback, New): David Adams Colonial Odysseys - Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel (Paperback, New)
David Adams
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire was at its height. David Adams observes that, because of their structure and specific literary allusions, they also demand to be read in relation to the epic tradition.

The elegantly written and powerfully argued Colonial Odysseys focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds. The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port.

Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute."

Hailey - A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969 (Paperback, Revised): John W. Cell Hailey - A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969 (Paperback, Revised)
John W. Cell
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969) was by common consent the most distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service in the twentieth century, and one of the few raised to the peerage (1936). Going out to India in 1894, he served as the first chief commissioner of Delhi (1912-18), as Finance and then Home Member of the Viceroy's Council (1919-24), and then as Governor of the Punjab (1924-28) and the United Provinces (1928-34). As advisor to five viceroys, he was one of the most intelligent developers of the British strategy in response to the challenge of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. After leaving India he had what amounted to a second career in relation to Africa, during which he directed two editions of the African Survey (1938, 1956), wrote two important reports on British colonial administration, and served as an advisor to the Colonial Office. This is the first book-length study of Hailey's career. Its larger theme, in which the man himself played a truly amazing number of central roles, is the theme of colonialism-nationalism-decolonization: spanning more than half a century on two continents. John W. Cell, Professor of History at Duke University, has written three books in the fields of history of the British Empire-Commonwealth and comparative relations.

Australian Women in Papua New Guinea - Colonial Passages 1920-1960 (Paperback, Revised): Chilla Bulbeck Australian Women in Papua New Guinea - Colonial Passages 1920-1960 (Paperback, Revised)
Chilla Bulbeck
R1,763 R1,428 Discovery Miles 14 280 Save R335 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were missionaries, plantation owners or government administrators while numerous others came of their own initiative working as teachers, medical practitioners, nurses and missionaries. Australian Women in Papua New Guinea is an evocative and compelling account of the experiences of these women in Papua New Guinea between the 1920s and 1960s. The book is based on oral interviews and the written documentation of nineteen women and is written against a backdrop of official colonial affairs.

The First English Empire - Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 (Paperback, Revised): R. R. Davies The First English Empire - Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 (Paperback, Revised)
R. R. Davies
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Long before the British Empire came into existence, was there an English Empire? In this compelling study, R. R. Davies examines England's medieval conquest and colonization of the outer zones of the British Isles. He shows how the increasingly vexed question of the future of the United Kingdom has its roots in the Middle Ages, when Edward I set out to subjugate his Celtic neighbours.

In Another Country - Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Paperback): Priya Joshi In Another Country - Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Paperback)
Priya Joshi
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, "In Another Country" vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses. Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.

Independence in Latin America - Contrasts and Comparisons (Paperback, Third Edition): Richard Graham Independence in Latin America - Contrasts and Comparisons (Paperback, Third Edition)
Richard Graham
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent. What social and economic groups lined up on one side or the other? Were there variations from place to place, region to region? Did men and women differ in their experience of war? How did Indians and blacks participate and how did they fare as a result? In the end, who won and who lost? Independence in Latin America is about the reciprocal effect of war and social dislocation. It also demonstrates that the war itself led to national identity and so to the creation of new states. These governments generally acknowledged the novel principle of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty, even when sometimes carving out exceptions to such rules. The notion that society consisted of individuals and was not a body made up of castes, guilds, and other corporate orders had become commonplace by the end of these wars. So international politics and military confrontations are only part of the intriguing story recounted here. For this third edition, Richard Graham has written a new introduction and extensively revised and updated the text. He has also added new illustrations and maps.

Refusing the Favor - The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 (Paperback, Revised): Deena J. Gonzalez Refusing the Favor - The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 (Paperback, Revised)
Deena J. Gonzalez
R2,161 Discovery Miles 21 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Refusing the Favour examines the experience of Spanish-Mexican women before and after conquest of the area that became New Mexico. This book will be of use to those with an interest in Western history, gender studies, Chicano/a studies, and the history of borderlands and colonization.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Hardcover): Anna Ball, Karim Mattar The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Hardcover)
Anna Ball, Karim Mattar
R5,089 Discovery Miles 50 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, it assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies. Throughout its twenty-four chapters, its focus is on literary and cultural critique. It draws on texts and contexts from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries as case studies, and deploys the concept of 'post/colonial modernity' to reveal the enduring impact of colonial and imperial power on the shaping of the region. And it covers a wide and significant range of political, social, and cultural issues in the Middle East during that period - including the heritage of Orientalism in the region; the roots and contemporary branches of the Israel-Palestine conflict; colonial history, state formation and cultures of resistance in Egypt, Turkey, the Maghreb and the wider Arab world; the clash of tradition and modernity in regional and transnational expressions of Islam; the politics of gender and sexuality in the Arab world; the ongoing crises in Libya, Iraq, Iran and Syria; the Arab Spring; and the Middle Eastern refugee crisis in Europe.

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