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Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919 British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919 Graham D. Goodlad British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involv… OL14857290W
Crusade 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
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
The birth of energy The birth of energy Cara New Daggett "In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs… OL20229864W
Close encounters of the invasive kind Close encounters of the invasive kind Sarah Seymore Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and beh… OL24158910W
Empire Empire Antonio Negri,Michael Hardt ---------- ---------- OL3929700W
Como Europa subdesarrollo a Africa Como Europa subdesarrollo a Africa Walter Rodney Work of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. Rodney makes the unflinching case that African “mal-development” is not a natura… OL4062001W