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Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies (Hardcover): Bernd Reiter, John Anton Sanchez Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies (Hardcover)
Bernd Reiter, John Anton Sanchez
R5,888 Discovery Miles 58 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Within Latin American and Africana Studies, Afro-Latin America is an area of growing interest as departments are hiring more faculty to teach specialty courses. There is a move to institutionalize Afro-Latin American Studies as a field of its own so this Handbook will likely plug a large gap in the field. The contributors as recognized experts across different fields within Latin American and Africana Studies. Gender diversity is strong as is the inclusion of scholars from the region. Comprehensive - it addresses four fields of analysis: disciplinary studies, problem focused fields, regional/country case studies, and pioneers or classics of such studies. Features an introduction and a conclusion written by the editors, a foreword, written by a prominent Afro-Latin American Studies and short section introductions, also written by the editors. All of this is overseen by an eminent international editorial board.

'Fair Play' or Poisoned Chalice - The Last Years of Britain's Presence and Policy in Southern Arabia... 'Fair Play' or Poisoned Chalice - The Last Years of Britain's Presence and Policy in Southern Arabia (Hardcover)
Sultan Ghalib Bin 'Awadh Al-Qu'aiti Ii
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Imagining Home - Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 (Hardcover): Wendy Webster Imagining Home - Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 (Hardcover)
Wendy Webster
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar period Ahead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in light of the Windrush scandal and recent debates surrounding race and colonialism in Britain This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author

Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora - Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging... Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora - Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging (Hardcover)
Anh Nguyen Austen
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora. As war and displacement compounds the need for creating communities and histories for cultural continuity, this book is a history about childhood and migration for the Vietnamese diaspora of refugees, adoptees, and second generation in Australia and their connectedness to a global and digital diaspora. Using Facebook as a digital archive for historical research, Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora presents new methods for the study of what Nguyen Austen proposes as a new area of digital diaspora studies for interdisciplinary research about real and digital life in the humanities and social sciences. As a contemporary digital diaspora study of Vietnamese forced child migrants from 1975 to the present, this book contains a mixed-methods historical analysis of the impact of war and displacement on memories of childhood. This book presents an innovative history of the national, transnational, digital, and contemporaneous lives of Vietnamese child migrants, which will make a significant contribution to the discourse on transnational childhood, migration, and belonging for refugees and migrants in the twenty-first century.

Blood and Bronze - The British Empire and the Sack of Benin (Hardcover): Paddy Docherty Blood and Bronze - The British Empire and the Sack of Benin (Hardcover)
Paddy Docherty
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An incisive history revealing Britain's conquest of the Kingdom of Benin and the plunder of its fabled Bronzes. The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum's most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once West Africa's most powerful, and today part of Nigeria. But despite the Bronzes' renown, little has been written about the brutal imperial violence with which they were plundered. Paddy Docherty's searing new history tells that story: the 1897 British invasion of Benin. Armed with shocking details discovered in the archives, Blood and Bronze sets this assault in its late Victorian context. As British power faced new commercial and strategic pressures elsewhere, it ruthlessly expanded in West Africa. Revealing both the extent of African resistance and previously concealed British outrages, this is a definitive account of the destruction of Benin. Laying bare the Empire's true motives and violent means, including the official coverup of grotesque sexual crimes, Docherty demolishes any moral argument for Britain retaining the Bronzes, making a passionate case for their immediate repatriation to Nigeria.

Repertoires of Slavery - Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (Hardcover): Sarah Adams Repertoires of Slavery - Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (Hardcover)
Sarah Adams
R3,234 Discovery Miles 32 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theatre and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection. The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan-and at times a specifically Dutch-identity. It offers insight into the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theatrical modes, tropes, and scenarios of racialised subjection and considers them as materials of the "Dutch cultural archive," or the Dutch "reservoir" of sentiments, knowledge, fantasies, and beliefs about race and slavery that have shaped the dominant sense of the Dutch self up to the present day.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (Paperback): Edward Cavanagh, Lorenzo Veracini The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (Paperback)
Edward Cavanagh, Lorenzo Veracini
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered 'New Worlds', and covers the history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia, Algeria, Canada, and the USA. Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman empires, to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican republic, to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its twenty-nine inter-disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the borders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler nations, on failed settler colonies, and on the historiographies of these experiences. Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet original introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and colonialism.

Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal - Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire (Hardcover): Ruchika Sharma Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal - Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire (Hardcover)
Ruchika Sharma
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills left by the British men who came in an official or economic capacity to India. It closely engages with these wills, considering them as unique personal records. These documents, where the men penned down details of their native mistresses, give a glimpse of what their lives, interpersonal relationships, household objects, and everyday affairs were like. The volume highlights how commonplace such non-marital cohabitation was and constructs the social history of these connections. It looks at issues of theft, violence, rape, bequeathment, and property rights which the women had to contend with, and also studies some of the early experiences of the mixed-race children who were a product of these relationships. A unique look into the asymmetrical but fascinating history of interracial households in early colonial Bengal, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, women's studies, gender studies, colonial law, colonial travel writing, minority studies, colonialism, imperialism, and South Asian studies.

Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside - Leisure in British Hong Kong (Hardcover): Shuk-Wah Poon Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside - Leisure in British Hong Kong (Hardcover)
Shuk-Wah Poon
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong. British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial union and then postimperial goodwill. Poon analyses the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and nationalism, respectively, transformed the Hong Kong seaside into a leisure space. She argues that the growing popularity of seaside resorts and sea bathing as a preferred form of leisure activity across the social and ethnic spectrums served an important role in shaping the racial relationship between Westerners and the Chinese population, as well as the Chinese people's perception of the female body and the seaside, during the colonial period. The popularity of British leisure forms in colonial Hong Kong does not necessarily mean the triumph of "Britishness." This book will be of great interest to historians with an interest in leisure and in Empire and Colonialism, as well as historians of Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China.

The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US - Education and Identity in Globalized Contexts (Paperback):... The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US - Education and Identity in Globalized Contexts (Paperback)
Xiangyan Liu
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Detailing ethnographic research conducted in U.S. public high schools, this text considers how Chinese immigrant youth's educational positionality and identity are shaped by diasporic and transnational migrant experiences. The Transnational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in the US presents a critical examination of themes relevant to Chinese immigrant education such as academic achievement, English language proficiency, and cultural and social capital. The intersection between diaspora and education is explored to highlight the existence of multi-layered youth identities, which exist beyond and between national boundaries, and which embody the concept of global citizenship. Building on this realization, chapters consider how institutional structures might be better designed to meet the needs of students who arrive in host countries due to larger global forces. This text will primarily be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with an interest in multicultural education and the sociology of education. Those interested in the Asian diaspora, race and ethics, and educational research methods more broadly will also benefit from this volume.

Migration, Identity, and Belonging - Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland (Paperback): Margaret Franz, Kumarini Silva Migration, Identity, and Belonging - Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland (Paperback)
Margaret Franz, Kumarini Silva
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained, examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power, capital, and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity, nation, and homeland on the other. The authors' diverse methodologies, ranging from archival research, oral histories, literary criticism, and ethnography attend to these contradictions by studying how the practices of migration and identification, procured and produced through global exchanges of bodies and goods that cross borders, foreclose those borders to (re)produce, and (re)imagine the homeland and its boundaries.

Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau (Paperback): Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau (Paperback)
Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
R1,246 Discovery Miles 12 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork, architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies, practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received little attention to date individually, and consider these as the collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and fashioned by individual experiences. Adopting a transnational approach to the Nassau family, the authors explore the family's self-presentation across a range of languages, cultures and historiographical traditions, situating their representation of themselves as an influential House within an international context and offering a new vision of power as a gendered concept.

Asian Migration and New Racism - Beyond Colour and the 'West' (Hardcover): Sylvia ANG, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A.... Asian Migration and New Racism - Beyond Colour and the 'West' (Hardcover)
Sylvia ANG, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
R3,769 Discovery Miles 37 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing 'Others': whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this 'white'/'Other' binary homogenises select groups of non-'white' including Asians. This approach also ignores racialisation and racism by Asians and among Asians. Consequently, there is a dearth of studies on issues of race in non-'white' settings. Through engaging the themes of co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality, this book contributes to extant studies of migration in three ways through: (1) examining new geographical sites of racialisation and racism; (2) illuminating racialisation and racism beyond the 'white'/'Others' binary; and (3) introducing new dynamics in racialisation and racist discourses, including intersectional factors such as nationality, class, gender, language, religion, temporal framings and postcoloniality. Asian Migration and New Racism will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of Sociology, Social and Political Geography, Social Anthropology, History and Politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia - Eastern Bengal, Sylhet, and Assam, 1874-1971 (Hardcover): Ashfaque... Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia - Eastern Bengal, Sylhet, and Assam, 1874-1971 (Hardcover)
Ashfaque Hossain
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the experience of globalization "from below", rather than from the perspective of the British imperial centre. Focusing on the impact of colonial globalization on the people of Sylhet, East Bengal, and Assam, the volume seeks to analyse the "global" as a process in constant negotiation with the "local". It discusses various issues such as the opening of the hills of Sylhet and Assam for tea plantation. the involvement of local entrepreneurs with overseas planters in the global tea industry, the phenomenon of regional labour migration into eastern India, and Sylheti seamen and their involvement in the merchant marine. The author also highlights the contribution of peasants, labourers and women in the independence movement and the irreversible changes that they brought about. A unique contribution to the study of colonial globalisation, this volume will be indispensable for students and researchers of colonial history, modern Indian history, Northeast India, border studies, globalization, political economy, minority studies, globalization studies, third world studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and South Asian studies.

Slavery (Hardcover): C.W.W. Greenidge Slavery (Hardcover)
C.W.W. Greenidge
R3,038 Discovery Miles 30 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Slavery, first published in 1958, examines four main types of modern slavery: chattel slavery; the sale of women into marriage; the sale of children into work and prostitution; serfdom. Mr Greenidge, a Director of the Anti-Slavery Society, marshals an astonishing array of findings into modern slavery, and outlines the history of the anti-slavery movement.

Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) (Hardcover, New Impression): Sir William M.N. Geary Nigeria Under British Rule (1927) (Hardcover, New Impression)
Sir William M.N. Geary
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1965. This book recounts Nigeria under British rule and is dedicated by the author to Mr Joseph Chamberlain who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1895 to 1903. It includes the areas of Lagos and the Niger coast as revenue generators, the Niger Delta Protectorate, the Royal Niger Company, and Amalgamated Nigeria from 1914.

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene - A Postcolonial Critique (Paperback): Gaia Giuliani Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene - A Postcolonial Critique (Paperback)
Gaia Giuliani
R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants' invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a thread that weaves together re-emerging 'past nightmares' and future visions. This book will be of great interest to students and academics of the Environmental Humanities, Human and Cultural Geography, Political Philosophy, Psychosocial Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Cinema Studies and Visual Studies.

The Impacts of Language and Literacy Policy on Teaching Practices in Ghana - Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Literacy and... The Impacts of Language and Literacy Policy on Teaching Practices in Ghana - Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Literacy and Instruction (Paperback)
Philomena Osseo-Asare
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text critically examines changes in Ghanaian language and literacy policy following independence in 1957 to consider its impacts on early literacy teaching. By adopting a postcolonial theoretical perspective, the text interrogates the logic behind policy changes which have prioritised English, local language, or biliteracy. It draws on data from interviews with teachers and researcher observation to demonstrate how policies have influenced teaching and learning. Dr Osseo-Asare's findings inform the development of a conceptual framework which highlights the socio-cultural factors that impact the literacy and biliteracy of young children in Ghana, offering solutions to help teachers combat the challenges of frequent policy changes. This timely monograph will prove to be an essential resource not only for researchers working on education policies, teacher education, and English-language learning in postcolonial Ghana but also for those looking to identify the thematic and methodological nuances of studying literacy and education in postcolonial contexts.

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues - Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice... Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues - Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (Paperback)
Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Bjoerkert
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.

The Ending of Tribal Wars - Configurations and Processes of Pacification (Paperback): Jurg Helbling, Tobias Schwoerer The Ending of Tribal Wars - Configurations and Processes of Pacification (Paperback)
Jurg Helbling, Tobias Schwoerer
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All over the world and throughout millennia, states have attempted to subjugate, control and dominate non-state populations and to end their wars. This book compares such processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and 21st centuries. It shows that pacification cannot be understood solely as a unilateral imposition of state control but needs to be approached as the result of specific interactions between state actors and non-state local groups. Indigenous groups usually had options in deciding between accepting and resisting state control. State actors often had to make concessions or form alliances with indigenous groups in order to pursue their goals. Incentives given to local groups sometimes played a more important role in ending warfare than repression. In this way, indigenous groups, in interaction with state actors, strongly shaped the character of the process of pacification. This volume's comparison finds that pacification is more successful and more durable where state actors mainly focus on selective incentives for local groups to renounce warfare, offer protection, and only as a last resort use moderate repression, combined with the quick establishment of effective institutions for peaceful conflict settlement.

The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016 - A Political and Social History (Paperback): Daniel Renshaw The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016 - A Political and Social History (Paperback)
Daniel Renshaw
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different contexts. Analysing the relationship between discourse and action, Renshaw explores how ideas and language originating on the peripheries of debate on migration and belonging can permeate the mainstream and transform both discussion and policy. The book sheds light both on how the migrant 'other' has been viewed in Britain, historically and contemporaneously, and more broadly how the relationship between state, press, and populace has developed from the early Victorian period onwards. It identifies key junctures where the concept of the removal of 'othered' groups has crossed over from the rhetorical to the actual, and considers why this was the case. Based on extensive original archival research, the book reassesses modern British history through the lens of the most polarised attitudes to immigration and demographic change. This book will be of use to readers with an interest in migration, diaspora, the development of populism and political extremes, and more broadly the history of modern Britain.

Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820-1900 - Rule by the Best? (Paperback): Annie Tindley Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820-1900 - Rule by the Best? (Paperback)
Annie Tindley
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin's career to link the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and imperial world, and was based on two elements: the inheritance and management of a landed estate, and a well-defined sense of 'rule by the best'. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire and aristocracy, one that was riven with tensions and angst, as those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and, in Ireland, by a powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth century, and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the wider public.

Nathaniel Wallich - Global Botany in Nineteenth Century India (Hardcover): Martin Krieger Nathaniel Wallich - Global Botany in Nineteenth Century India (Hardcover)
Martin Krieger
R3,782 Discovery Miles 37 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In March 1807, Nathaniel Wallich, a young Danish surgeon left his home in Copenhagen towards India. During the troubles of the Napoleonic Wars, it was not possible to foresee, that he was to emerge as one of the most prominent nineteenth century botanists. Wallich spent most of his adulthood in India and, as the long-time superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, gained extensive expertise on Indian flora. A truly global communication network emerged from his desk facing the River Hooghly, reaching out to eminent specialists as well as amateur researchers long forgotten today. He conducted research trips to Nepal, as well as to South East Asia and may be perceived as one of the founding fathers of tea production in Assam. This book is based on the enormous correspondence of Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. It aims to approach a long career marked by biographical ruptures and contradictions, but at the same time by continuity. It furthermore explains the tight links between supposedly neutral botanical studies and the emergence of British colonial power in India.

Hinduism and Popular Cults in Mauritius - Sacred Religion and Plantation Economy (Hardcover): Suzanne Chazan-Gillig,... Hinduism and Popular Cults in Mauritius - Sacred Religion and Plantation Economy (Hardcover)
Suzanne Chazan-Gillig, Pavitranand Ramhota
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1) This is the first comprehensive book on Mauritian Hinduism. 2) It contains a rich ethnographic study of the changing Mauritian society. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of religion, Hinduism, social anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, diaspora studies, sociology of religion and African studies.

Mauritian Hinduism and Globalisation - Transformation and Reinvention (Hardcover): Suzanne Chazan-Gillig, Pavitranand Ramhota Mauritian Hinduism and Globalisation - Transformation and Reinvention (Hardcover)
Suzanne Chazan-Gillig, Pavitranand Ramhota
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1) This is the first comprehensive book on Mauritian Hinduism. 2) It contains a rich ethnographic study of the changing Mauritian society. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of religion, Hinduism, social anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, diaspora studies, sociology of religion and African studies.

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