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Healing traditions
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Karen Elizabeth Flint |
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Tinderbox
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Craig Timberg |
In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post journalist Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how western colonial powers unwittin… |
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God's empire
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Hilary M. Carey |
"In God's Empire", Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wid… |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza |
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once … |
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver,Dean Robertson |
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them … |
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King Leopold's ghost
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Adam Hochschild |
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocid… |
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Decolonizing methodologies
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith |
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essen… |
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A rule of property for Bengal
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Ranajit Guha |
Guha is one of the colleagues of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Subaltern Studies group in India. Edward Said, in his book *Culture and Imperialism* (1993) says, "Guha is . . . concerned with the probl… |
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Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man
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Michael T. Taussig |
Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . … |
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Las venas abiertas de America Latina
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Galeano,Diego López,Eduardo Galeano,Galeano E. |
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural… |
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