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Sands of death
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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… |
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Close encounters of the invasive kind
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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… |
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Modern Inquisitions
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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… |
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Trade, Plunder and Settlement
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Kenneth R. Andrews |
Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire. |
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Rereading the Conquest
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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… |
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