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A Commonwealth of Thieves A Commonwealth of Thieves Thomas Keneally It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid an… OL103683W
Missing link of world civilization Missing link of world civilization Vishnu Kant Verma Study dealing with Indo-Aryans colonization of Greece, Middle-East Egypt, Persia, and Euro-Asian. OL1075093W
This our dark country This our dark country Catherine Reef Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African Americans. OL15281022W
Unfamiliar Fishes Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell From the bestselling author of *The Wordy Shipmates*, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, … OL15690936W
Naharyya - Moshewet haYekkim. Sippur Dor haMeyassdim 1935-1941. Naharyya - Moshewet haYekkim. Sippur Dor haMeyassdim 1935-1941. Klaus Kreppel History of 1000 German Jewish Immigrants founding, living and working in an agricultural settlement in Palestine 1935-1941. Analysis of the economic, social and political problems and conflicts the s… OL15874390W
Settler and creole reenactment Settler and creole reenactment Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Daniel Spoth "Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish nat… OL15907495W
Mont Plaisant Mont Plaisant Alain Patrice Nganang,Amy B. Reid In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the ve… OL16154657W
An infinity of nations An infinity of nations Michael J. Witgen An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of th… OL16529072W
Freedom bound Freedom bound Christopher L. Tomlins "Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War"--Provided b… OL16920586W
Transgressions Transgressions Mark Hannah,Ingereth Macfarlane "This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral st… OL16976787W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once … OL17640485W
Colonial lives of property Colonial lives of property Brenna Bhandar "In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examini… OL17899068W
Indian ink Indian ink Miles Ogborn A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and kno… OL1853627W
Enchantments of modernity Enchantments of modernity Saurabh Dube Contributed articles previously published in several journals. OL18629135W
We Are Legion We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor “Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself… OL19123425W
Branntwein, Bibeln und Bananen Branntwein, Bibeln und Bananen Heiko Möhle Der deutsche Kolonialismus wurde lange weitgehend aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein verdrängt. Dabei sind seine Spuren in großer Zahl erhalten – man muss sie nur zu lesen wissen. Die AutorInnen des… OL19242476W
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
Vietnam Vietnam Christopher E. Goscha "Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest-running conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused. Popular accounts have cherry-picked from the Vietnamese past to tell politicized,… OL19665878W
Everfair Everfair Nisi Shawl An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--… OL20038408W
Russian California, 1806-1860 Russian California, 1806-1860 A. A. Istomin,James R. Gibson,V. A. Tishkov From dust jacket: "This is a documentary history of Russia's nineteenth-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents, mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, fully annot… OL23321376W
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