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Making native space Making native space R. Cole Harris "Making Native Space is about the drawing of the most fundamental line on the map of British Columbia, the one separating the tiny fraction of the province set aside for Native peoples from the rest,… OL12342074W
Dialektik der postkolonialen Hybridität Dialektik der postkolonialen Hybridität Jochen Dubiel Der koloniale Diskurs stellte zur Versöhnung des kollektiven okzidentalen Bewußtseins mit sich selbst den Legitimationsrahmen für die politischen Untaten des Kolonialismus bereit. Trotz heterogener A… OL12818183W
The body of the conquistador 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
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
Envisioning America Envisioning America Peter C. Mancall viii,184 pages : 21 cm OL18345368W
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
Brown boys and rice queens Brown boys and rice queens Eng-Beng Lim "A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unp… OL19704887W
Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples David Maybury-Lewis,Biorn Maybury-Lewis,Theodore Macdonald Papers presented at an interdisciplinary seminar held Apr. 7-8, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. OL20896803W
Sands of death Sands of death Michael Asher In December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their territories in West Africa. T… OL21178397W
Colonial subjects Colonial subjects Oscar Salemink,Peter Pels "The essays in this volume share the assumption that "ethnography" is a broader field of practice out of which and alongside which anthropology attempted to distinguish itself as a scientific discipl… OL21242279W
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
Der Fall Hamilton Der Fall Hamilton Michelle De Kretser Ceylon in den 30er-Jahren. Sam fühlt sich in seiner Rolle als kolonialer Untertan wohl und ist britischer als alle Briten. Doch als es auf der Insel zu einem Mord kommt, ist er davon überzeugt, dass … OL24447199W
Modern Inquisitions Modern Inquisitions Irene Silverblatt Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bu… OL2529938W
Africa since 1940 Africa since 1940 Frederick Cooper ,Frederick Cooper,Frederick Cooper "Frederick Cooper's latest book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa initiates a new textbook series: New Approaches to African History. His book will help readers understand t… OL2632439W
Francisco Pizarro and his brothers Francisco Pizarro and his brothers Rafael Varón Gabai "Based on author's doctoral dissertation, work reconstructs and analyzes the making of the financial empire of the conquerer of Peru and his brothers. Painstaking study examines and elucidates multip… OL2835966W
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires Theatre and Postcolonial Desires Awam Amkpa This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The struggles it describes unfolded in two cultural setti… OL6033870W
A Passage to India A Passage to India E. M. Forster When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape… OL88883W
The African Trilogy (Things Fall Apart / No Longer at Ease / Arrow of God) The African Trilogy (Things Fall Apart / No Longer at Ease / Arrow of God) Chinua Achebe Contains: - [Things Fall Apart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL891793W) - No Longer at Ease - Arrow of God OL891766W
Rereading the Conquest Rereading the Conquest James Krippner-Martnez "Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish co… OL9368371W
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