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Settler and creole reenactment
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Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Daniel Spoth |
"Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish nat… |
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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
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Guy Vanthemsche |
"While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have e… |
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Transgressions
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Mark Hannah,Ingereth Macfarlane |
"This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral st… |
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Jerome's Pillows
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Christian Filostrat |
Sister Immanuel recounts her life and the life of her great love, Sister Mària, from their childhood in Belgium to their service as Catholic nuns in colonial Belgian Congo in this mesmerizing, psycho… |
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Branntwein, Bibeln und Bananen
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Heiko Möhle |
Der deutsche Kolonialismus wurde lange weitgehend aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein verdrängt. Dabei sind seine Spuren in großer Zahl erhalten – man muss sie nur zu lesen wissen.
Die AutorInnen des… |
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Vietnam
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Christopher E. Goscha |
"Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest-running conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused. Popular accounts have cherry-picked from the Vietnamese past to tell politicized,… |
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Another America
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James Ciment |
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the America… |
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A search for place
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F. LaMond Tullis |
This book is a trek through the back reaches of eight generations of the history of the Henry family. The Henrys pushed in from Northern Irelan'ds Celtic regions to rhode Island and them moved to New… |
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Confrontation
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William Hayashi |
Imagine a confrontation of epic proportions that takes place around the globe and across the solar system, with the most powerful nations on earth on one side and a community of a few thousand people… |
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Clash of titans
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Edward W. Chester |
ix, 316 pages ; 25 cm |
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Paul Cuffe
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Arthur Diamond |
A biography of the American seaman and merchant who encouraged fellow blacks to colonize Sierra Leone, who sought a stronger legal position for blacks in America, and who was responsible for a Massac… |
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From Mukogodo to Maasai
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Lee Cronk |
Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s… |
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Conquest
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Andrea Smith |
"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society… |
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Lands of true and certain bounty
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Jean Pierre Purry |
"The geographical theories and colonization strategies of the Swiss civil servant and entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry (1675-1736) presented here for the first time in a comprehensive, annotated Englis… |
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Moon Quest
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Anson Montgomery |
"You and a group of your friends are on an expedition across some particularly treacherous moonscape. A sudden quake rocks the mountain, and you and your leader are separated from the group. It's sum… |
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La colonización del riego en las zonas tributarias de los ríos, Negro, Neuquén, Limay y Colorado
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Dora Noemí Martínez de Gorla |
"A detailed examination of the process of building irrigation systems in upper Patagonia and colonizing the area. Coverage ranges from the 1880s-1930s. Based on archival sources and newspapers"--Hand… |
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