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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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    57,01 €

  • Black Divinity
    Shahidi Islam
    Is Black Theology Really for Black Professionals?A growing number of Black professionals are in the dark about Black theology.Shahidi Islam is a godbody theologian, a Pacific Book Award winner, and a member of the Society for the Study of Theology.As the first book in his Shahidi Collection Black Divinity Remastered provides a digestible look at Black theology ideas so that Bla...
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    23,82 €

  • The break-up of Greater Britain
    This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to C...
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    43,93 €

  • Who Are You Without Colonialism?
    This is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and ...
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    73,91 €

  • Reciprocal Mobilities
    Mark Dizon
    Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about—...
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    38,06 €

  • 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 Clark Brothers
    Garry Moore
    'This trio of brothers, whose names are almost unknown to the present generation, are deserving of a monument to their memory in each of the respective towns in which they resided, and so liberally assisted to establish as centres in the north-eastern part of Victoria.'North Eastern Ensign, Friday, 30 June 1893, p. 3. ...
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    50,48 €

  • 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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    33,44 €

  • 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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    31,29 €

  • 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
    Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing to the national histories of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it uses these...
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    43,87 €

  • New Zealand’s empire
    This edited collection investigates New Zealand’s history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country’s spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises ...
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    44,14 €

  • The Ship Wife
    Anne Vines
    In Ireland in 1795, young housemaid Elizabeth is arrested and charged with sedition.  On the transport ship, confined to the captain’s cabin, Elizabeth must please and obey. As the captain’s ship wife, she survives one of the most notorious transportation voyages to New South Wales. Six convicts are flogged to death. This so exceeds the usual brutality of transportation that Go...
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    27,71 €

  • Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique
    Tanja Kleibl
    By demonstrating that Western conceptions of ’civil society’ have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambiqueargues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices.Examining th...
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    51,27 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    45,48 €

  • 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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    71,08 €

  • Other Worlds Were Possible
    Joss Sheldon
    THE STATUS QUO IS JUST A PASSING PHASE!Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances and played games.Th...
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    21,28 €

  • The Zionist project Israel. Ethnically pure, or binational model democracy?
    Paul Lookman
    Trump’s Deal of the Century, if adopted, would have ended the Palestinian right to self-de­termination. Palestinians in Israel are treated as second-class citizens, in the occupied territ­ories - where settlers have free reign - virtually as slaves. The situation of the Palestinians in Gaza is intolerable. Intriguingly, there are compelling options that do respect international...
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    37,58 €

  • The End of Western Hegemonies?
    Marie-Josée Lavallée
    In the face of recent trends like growing authoritarianism and xenophobic nationalism, the rise of the Far Right, the explosion of economic and social inequalities, heightened geopolitical contest and global capitalism’s endless crisis, and the impacts of shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, discourses about the ’decline of the West’ no more look like mere ruminations of a handfu...
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    68,15 €

  • Reproducing Domination
    Percy C Hintzen
    Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the stu...
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    49,81 €

  • Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories
    Amilcar Cabral
    ’Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...’ - Amílcar Cabral Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories showcases the intellectual foundations and practices underpinning the liberation of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. From the importance of culture in decolonisati...
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    24,51 €

  • Decolonizing the Theological Curriculum in an Online Age
    The second annual conference of the Theological Society of Malawi was held at the historic Ekwendeni Campus of the University of Livingstonia from 14 to 16 September 2021. It took up the urgent theme of the decolonization of the theological curriculum. Though Malawi has been an independent country for 58 years, coloniality still stalks the land. This book calls theologians to t...
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    70,22 €

  • Making the British empire, 1660-1800
    Jason Peacey
    This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ’cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ’new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developme...
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    35,86 €

  • MATTHEW JAMES EVERINGHAM
    Ian J White
    The life and times of Matthew James Everingham - A Convict of the First FleetSentenced in the Old Bailey at the age of fifteen years, Matthew James Everingham spent almost three years at hard labour while incarcerated on the prison hulk, Censor, moored on the River Thames, before eventually being transported to New South Wales on board Scarborough as part of the First Fleet.He ...
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    17,86 €

  • Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia
    Job Shipululo Amupanda
    Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia-De Beers’ Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid dev...
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    54,95 €

  • Jean Vanmai’s Chân Đăng The Tonkinese of Caledonia in the colonial era
    Jean Vanmai / Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi / Tess Do
    Jean Vanmai’s Chân Đăng The Tonkinese of Caledonia in the colonial era is a rare insider’s account of the life experiences of Chân Đăng, the Vietnamese indentured workers who were brought from Tonkin to work in the New Caledonian nickel mines in the 1930s and 1940s, when both Indochina and New Caledonia were French colonies. Narrated from the unique perspective of a descendant ...
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    29,98 €

  • Settler Colonialism
    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first full-fledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492 Iberia and British-colonized Ireland with an economy based on land sales and enslaved African labor, an implementation of the fiscal-military state. Both the liberal and the rightwing versions of the national narrative misrepresent...
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    15,49 €


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