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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Para leer al Pato Donald	Ariel Dorfmann,Armand Mattelart,Ariel Dorfman,Ariel Dorfman	First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the…	OL1003890W
The romance of the state and the fate of dissent in the tropics	Ashis Nandy	On the political culture of India during last three decades.	OL1044079W
The strange death of the liberal empire	David E. Torrance	Part biography and part study of imperialism, The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire is an examination of Lord Selborne's career as high commissioner for South Africa from 1905 to 1910. David Torran…	OL12011720W
Sudan republic	K. D. D. Henderson	A history of Sudan through to independence by the author a senior British administrator in the Sudan for 36 years. Henderson worked in the Sudan Political Service the British Civil Service for Sudan.	OL12101704W
American commodities in an age of empire	Mona Domosh	American Commodities in an Age of Empire is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late …	OL13255710W
FLAGSHIPS OF IMPERIALISM: THE P&O COMPANY AND THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1867	FREDA HARCOURT	ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm	OL13666066W
Captive Arizona, 1851-1900	Victoria Smith	xxxiii, 255 p., [10] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL13771753W
The rise of militarism in the Progressive Era, 1900-1914	Roger Possner	"The era, from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War I, saw an American attitude shift toward structure, social duty, and middle class manly values. The federal government sponsored m…	OL13781972W
Britain and West Africa	Joyce Cary	Joyce Cary, 'Late of the Nigerian Political Service', provides an overview very much of its time, of the history of the relationship between Britain and West Africa. The book sections are:- 1. Th…	OL14861303W
Power over peoples	Daniel R. Headrick	x, 400 p. : 24 cm	OL15250515W
The legacy of Edward W. Said	William V. Spanos	With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the n…	OL15287142W
War, religion and empire	Andrew Phillips	"What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, …	OL15444039W
Fur, Fortune, and Empire	Eric Jay Dolin	In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, an…	OL15741957W
Crusade	James Carroll	Publisher's description: With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a …	OL15835588W
Target Iran	Scott Ritter	The controversial former United Nations weapons inspector sets his sights on the White House's hyping of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. In Target Iran the bestselling author of War on Iraq o…	OL15857375W
Reinstating the Ottomans	Isa Blumı	"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyon…	OL16001805W
The body of the conquistador	Rebecca Earle	"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish Ame…	OL16489770W
Remaking the British Atlantic	P. J. Marshall	Remaking the British Atlantic focuses on a crucial phase in the history of British-American relations: the first ten years of American Independence. These set the pattern for some years to come. On t…	OL16794106W
Imperiofobia y leyenda negra	María Elvira Roca Barea	María Elvira Roca Barea acomete con rigor en este volumen la cuestión de delimitar las ideas de imperio, leyenda negra e imperiofobia. De esta manera podemos entender qué tienen en común los imperios…	OL17752681W
War and Peace and War	Peter Turchin	Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires. …	OL1812348W