Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Healing traditions Healing traditions Karen Elizabeth Flint Annotation OL12049285W
Tinderbox Tinderbox 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… OL16176732W
God's empire God's empire 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… OL16916575W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 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 … OL17640485W
The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible 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 … OL1846846W
King Leopold's ghost King Leopold's ghost 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… OL1869541W
Decolonizing methodologies Decolonizing methodologies 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… OL1927585W
A rule of property for Bengal A rule of property for Bengal 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… OL1932421W
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man 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 . … OL33626W
Las venas abiertas de America Latina Las venas abiertas de America Latina 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… OL698173W