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  • ’Dignity of Labour’ for African Leaders
    Shoko Yamada
    From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is prese...
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    54,22 €

  • The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism of the Apostle Paul
    Shahidi Islam
    A Demystified Portrayal of the Apostle Paul and His MessageIf you wish to gain greater ammunition to fight against historical threats like White supremacy or misogyny, this book is for you. If you wish to learn the story and outlook of the apostle Paul based on information contained in a large number of historically lost or buried documents that have only in recent years come t...
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    13,22 €

  • Royals on tour
    Travel by European and ’native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. ...
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    35,48 €

  • Translation as Incarnation
    Israel Kamudzandu
    The publication and attention given to postcolonial work has flooded the field of academia, yet not much attention has been paid to the precolonial, premissional, and colonial eras, and receptions of the Western Missionary Bible and its impact on the colonization of Global South nations; schools in this area had to wrestle with the study of the Bible from kindergarten to colleg...
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    16,82 €

  • The break-up of Greater Britain
    Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation ...
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    43,93 €

  • Acknowledging Radical Histories
    Chris Time Steele / Gerald Horne
    In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper insights into the histories of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Chris Steele’s curiosity as an interviewer creates dialogues wh...
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    22,29 €

  • The breakup of India and Palestine
    These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power. ...
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    169,38 €

  • Breaking the Challenges
    Matthieu W Yangambi
    Awareness of the community culture is necessary for a successful leadership. No leader can successfully lead a community ignoring its culture. Knowledge of the culture helps shape the strategies that would convince people to buy-in and reduce resistance and weaken opposition attitudes.A leader must govern with moral purpose on all his/her actions or initiatives. He/she cannot t...
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    11,97 €

  • Decolonisation in the age of globalisation
    Chi-kwan Mark
    Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of ’educating’ China yielded mixed results. ...
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    157,25 €

  • The imperial Commonwealth
    Wm. Matthew Kennedy
    The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself became an empire. ...
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    157,28 €

  • The Policy of Self Help
    W Farrer b. 1827 Ecroyd
    Two essays proposing policies of economic self-sufficiency and imperial consolidation, written in the early twentieth century.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United State...
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    29,56 €

  • Covert colonialism
    Florence Mok
    This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of state-society relations in Hong Kong. ...
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    157,15 €

  • La Vérité sur l’Algérie
    Jean Hess
    On a publié des milliers et des milliers de livres, de brochures, d’articles de journaux sur l’Algérie; le détail en fut étudié, présenté, souvent avec vérité ; les observateurs, qui limitaient leur travail, quelquefois ont vu juste ; un brave homme qui s’applique à regarder une chose déterminée, pour nous la décrire ensuite, lorsqu’il ne s’inquiète de rien autre, il y a chanc...
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    17,92 €

  • Tainted Legacy Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria Revised and Expanded Edition 2019
    Professor Yusufu Turaki
    This is a revised and expanded edition 2019 of the tainted legacy released in 2017. This new edition included update to the chapters and an addition of Chapter 16 detailing specific ways the latest impact of islamization in having on Northern Christians and minorities. The past twenty years have seen a spate of violent riots and other conflicts in Nigeria resulting in considera...
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    24,21 €

  • Decolonial Ecologies
    Joanna Page
    In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.Page brings together an entirely new corpus ...
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    54,42 €

  • Conquering the maharajas
    Harrison Akins
    Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947. ...
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    157,22 €

  • Homestead, Homeland, Home
    Ato Sekyi-Otu
    This is a collection of observations and meditations by Professor Emeritus (York University, Toronto) and philosopher Ato Sekyi-Otu on events, issues, people and ideas culled from recent history and the world, from the US and Canada to Ghana. If there is a persistent thread in these entries, it is this: Virtually all of them testify to the ironic truth of the saying that there ...
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    21,84 €

  • Decolonising the Hajj
    Matthew Heaton
    This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it incorporates Nigeria into broader historical understanding of one of the most important transnational processes in the world. ...
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    157,39 €

  • Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History
    Colonial wars have been a very active part of 19th and 20th century history and their importance has often been overlooked. Their study and analysis, in order to understand the contemporary world and current international relations, is as necessary as it is interesting. Examining Colonial Wars and Their Impact on Contemporary Military History approaches the phenomenon of coloni...
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    216,13 €

  • Decolonial Ecologies
    Joanna Page
    In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.Page brings together an entirely new corpus ...
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    44,18 €

  • Human capital and empire
    Andrew Mackillop
    The book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies. ...
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    43,87 €

  • New Zealand’s empire
    Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power - as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region. ...
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    44,14 €

  • Genet’s Genres of Politics
    Mairéad Hanrahan
    In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet’s writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels to the struggle for emancipation of the Palestinians in the posthumously published Un Captif amoureux. She argues that his texts have always been centrally concerned with power relations, challenging from the very beginning the opposition tha...
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    139,09 €

  • Africa Must Deal with Blats for Its True Decolonisation
    Nkwazi N. Mhango
    Africa has always blamed external colonisation for its Catch-22s such as violent ethnic conflicts for the struggle for resource control, perpetual exploitation, poverty, and general underdevelopment all tacked to its past, which is a fact, logical, and the right to pour out vials of ire based perpetual victimhood it has clung to, and maintained, and lost a golden chance of addr...
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    49,23 €

  • Guerrilla Girl
    Helen Gamanya
    Southern Rhodesia was a colony of the British Empire. In 1980, it gained independence as modern-day Zimbabwe, after a long liberation struggle, and a bitter guerrilla war.Guerrilla Girl tells the story of Shupai, and her journey to liberation. Follow her from impoverished childhood in a convent school in rural Rhodesia; to her experiences of discrimination and injustice as a yo...
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    33,94 €

  • French B Movies
    David A Pettersen
    In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B Movie...
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    136,00 €

  • French B Movies
    David A Pettersen
    In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B Movie...
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    64,34 €

  • British culture after empire
    This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions. ...
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    169,47 €

  • Power Back to the People
    Vick Lukwago Ssali
    The ’scramble for Africa’ resulted in random and unlikely borders that remain today. These artificial borders, the colonial policy of divide and rule, and the resultant segmental cleavages in most post-colonial African states, may be blamed for the horizontal inequalities (unequal development of and inequitable social and political relations among salient identity groups) rampa...
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    43,26 €

  • Conflictualités Contemporaines, Sécurité Globale et Maintien de la Paix
    Pascal Touoyem
    Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hégémonique globale au 21e siècle ? Telle est la question thématique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polémologie et en irénologie endogènes, dans un contexte où la mondialisation des enjeux sécuritaires signifie pour l’Afrique, un reclassement géostratégique du continen...
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    67,60 €


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