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  • Path of Empire

    Panama and the California Gold Rush

    by Aims McGuinness III ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • New Routes for Diaspora Studies

    Edited by Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness, Steven C. McKay ...
    "Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people." —Rhacel Parreñas, Brown UniversityStudy of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Postcolonial Melancholia

    by Paul Gilroy ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of ... Read more

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  • An Afrocentric Manifesto

    Toward an African Renaissance

    by Molefi Kete Asante ...
    Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on education through expanding curricula to be more inclusive, change the language of social institutions to reflect a more holistic universe, and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

    Edited by John McLeod ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as:the colonial ... Read more

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  • Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

    Migrant Metaphors

    by Elleke Boehmer ...
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    Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

    Edited by John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, Mayer Zald ...
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  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

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  • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory

    A Reader

    by Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman ...
    This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary. ... Read more

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    An Introductory Reader

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  • Postcolonial Theory and International Relations

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Sanjay Seth ...
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    What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism?In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations is the first book to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of how postcolonialism ... Read more

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