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Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific - 1880-1920 (Hardcover): Kate Stevens Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific - 1880-1920 (Hardcover)
Kate Stevens
R3,035 Discovery Miles 30 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space where men and women narrated their own story and at times challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases, Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with cases of sexual assault.

The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide - - making change through nonviolent action - (Hardcover): Rivera Sun The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide - - making change through nonviolent action - (Hardcover)
Rivera Sun
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Justice Goes To Church - The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism (Hardcover): Jon Harris Social Justice Goes To Church - The New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
Jon Harris
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handbook on the Geographies of Power (Hardcover): Mat Coleman, John Agnew Handbook on the Geographies of Power (Hardcover)
Mat Coleman, John Agnew
R6,051 Discovery Miles 60 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The so-called ?'spatial turn?' in the social sciences has led to an increased interest in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. This unique and intriguing Handbook argues that the spatiality of power is never singular and easily modeled according to straightforward theoretical bullet-points, but instead is best approached as plural, contextually emergent and relational. The Handbook on the Geographies of Power consists of a series of cutting edge chapters written by a diverse range of leading geographers working both within and beyond political geography. It is organized thematically into the main areas in which contemporary work on the geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war. The Handbook maintains a careful connection between theory and empirics, making it a valuable read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of political and human geography. It will also appeal to social scientists more generally who are interested in contemporary conceptions of power. Contributors include: J. Agnew, J. Allen, I. Ashutosh, J. Barkan, N. Bauch, L. Bhungalia, G. Boyce, B. Braun, M. Brown, P. Carmody, N. Clark, M. Coleman, A. Dixon, V. Gidwani, N. Gordon, M. Hird, P. Hubbard, J. Hyndman, J. Loyd, A. Moore, L. Muscara, N. Perugini, C. Rasmussen, P. Steinberg, K. Strauss, S. Wakefield, K. Yusoff

In Defense of Democracy (Hardcover): Anne-Marie Waters In Defense of Democracy (Hardcover)
Anne-Marie Waters
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Memo - Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First (Hardcover): Rich Higgins The Memo - Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First (Hardcover)
Rich Higgins
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confronting The Presidents - No Spin Assessments From Washington To Biden (Hardcover): Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard Confronting The Presidents - No Spin Assessments From Washington To Biden (Hardcover)
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.

Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents.

From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly forgotten, and some have changed as America has changed. Whether famous, infamous, or obscure, all the presidents shaped our nation in unexpected ways.

The authors' extensive research has uncovered never before seen historical facts based on private correspondence and newly discovered documentation, such as George Washington's troubled relationship with his mother.

In Confronting the Presidents, O’Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements―or lack thereof. Who best served America, and who undermined the founding ideals? Who were the first ladies, and what were their surprising roles in making history? Which presidents were the best, which the worst, and which didn’t have much impact? How do decisions made in one era, under the pressure of particular circumstances, still resonate today? And what do presidents like to eat, drink, and do when they aren’t working―or even sometimes when they are?

These and many more questions are answered in each fascinating chapter of Confronting the Presidents. Written with O’Reilly and Dugard’s signature style, authority, and eye for telling detail, Confronting the Presidents will delight all readers of history, politics, and current affairs, especially during the 2024 election season.

State and Revolution (Hardcover, Reprint, Enhanced ed.): Vladimir Ilich Lenin State and Revolution (Hardcover, Reprint, Enhanced ed.)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thank God For Trump Supporters 2020 (Hardcover): Scott M Flynn Thank God For Trump Supporters 2020 (Hardcover)
Scott M Flynn
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Feminist Theory of Violence - A Decolonial Perspective (Hardcover): Francoise Verges A Feminist Theory of Violence - A Decolonial Perspective (Hardcover)
Francoise Verges; Translated by Melissa Thackway
R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book, Francoise Verges denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit of the times, Francoise Verges refuses the punitive obsession of the State in favour of restorative justice.

Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 (Hardcover): Amanda Harris Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 (Hardcover)
Amanda Harris
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History. Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. In this open access book, Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices of non-Indigenous art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works, placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and policy frameworks. Centralizing auditory worlds and audio-visual evidence, Harris shows the direct relationship between the limits on Aboriginal people's mobility and non-Indigenous representations of Aboriginal culture. This book seeks to listen to Aboriginal accounts of disruption and continuation of Aboriginal cultural practices and features contributions from Aboriginal scholars Shannon Foster, Tiriki Onus and Nardi Simpson as personal interpretations of their family and community histories. Contextualizing recent music and dance practices in broader histories of policy, settler colonial structures, and postcolonizing efforts, the book offers a new lens on the development of Australian musical cultures. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian Research Council.

White Pacific - U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (Paperback, New): Gerald Horne White Pacific - U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (Paperback, New)
Gerald Horne
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. ""The White Pacific"" ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of ""blackbirding"" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, ""The White Pacific"" uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.

The Yoga Manifesto - How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself (Paperback): Nadia Gilani The Yoga Manifesto - How Yoga Helped Me and Why it Needs to Save Itself (Paperback)
Nadia Gilani
R385 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Paperback): John Campbell Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Paperback)
John Campbell
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick' universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence, education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in 1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.

The Communist Manifesto (Hardcover): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (Hardcover)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More - in Latin From the Edition of March 1518, and in English From the 1st Ed. of Ralph... The Utopia of Sir Thomas More - in Latin From the Edition of March 1518, and in English From the 1st Ed. of Ralph Robynson's Translation in 1551 (Hardcover)
Thomas More, J H (Joseph Hirst) 1836-1905 Lupton, Ralph B 1521 Robinson
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Chapters on Socialism (Hardcover): John Stuart Mill Chapters on Socialism (Hardcover)
John Stuart Mill
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
El Negro en ek (Afrikaans, Paperback): Frank Westerman El Negro en ek (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Frank Westerman; Translated by Daniel Hugo
R100 Discovery Miles 1 000 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

As negentienjarige ryloper in Spanje beland Frank Westerman toevallig in die dorpie Banyoles, waar ’n opgestopte “Kalahari-Boesman”, slegs bekend as El Negro, uitgestal word. Sy indrukke bly hom by – en wanneer hy dekades later weer van El Negro lees, die keer in ’n Franse koerant, is dit die begin van ’n ondersoeksreis wat belangrike vrae oor rasopvattings en die Westerse beskawing na vore bring. Wie was hierdie naamlose man? Wat se sy opgestopte “museumteenwoordigheid” oor Europese denke oor slawerny, rassisme en kolonialisme – en bied hy slegs ’n spieel op ’n vergange tyd, of ook op die hede?

Near Normal Man - Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope (Hardcover): Ben Stern, Charlene Stern Near Normal Man - Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope (Hardcover)
Ben Stern, Charlene Stern
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics of Deception - Target America (Hardcover): Capt John Pulsinelli Usn (Ret) The Politics of Deception - Target America (Hardcover)
Capt John Pulsinelli Usn (Ret)
R740 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond Tenebrae - Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West (Hardcover): Bradley J Birzer Beyond Tenebrae - Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West (Hardcover)
Bradley J Birzer
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hearts and Minds - The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present (Hardcover): Oliver Letwin Hearts and Minds - The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present (Hardcover)
Oliver Letwin
R625 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R83 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history and part history of ideas. In it, former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas and policies of the modern Conservative party came into being, how they have played out over the period from Mrs Thatcher to Mrs May, and what needs to happen next in order to make the country a better place to live. Far from being a sugar-coated version of events, Letwin tells a story that he hopes will persuade readers that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes and learning from them - and will show that social and economic liberalism, if correctly conceived, are capable of addressing the issues that confront us today. The book also describes Letwin's own journey from a remarkable childhood with American academic parents, via Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, into the very centre of first the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, and then the Cameron government, where, as Minister for Government Policy and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, every piece of government policy crossed his desk. It includes Letwin's personal reflections on two devastating electoral events: the EU referendum and the general election of June 2017.

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (Hardcover): Max Beer The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (Hardcover)
Max Beer; Created by T. C. Partington, H.J. Stenning
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s (Paperback, 1st): David Rosenberg Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s (Paperback, 1st)
David Rosenberg
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover): Adelheid Popp The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover)
Adelheid Popp
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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