Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
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
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
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
Trade, Plunder and Settlement Trade, Plunder and Settlement Kenneth R. Andrews Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire. OL4472170W
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