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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew dj shield”
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  • Immigrants on Grindr

    Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online

    by Andrew DJ Shield ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution

    Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe

    by Andrew DJ Shield ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation activism. Using multilingual newspapers, foreign worker organizations’ archives, and interviews, this book shows that immigrants in ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

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  • A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927

    From the Ulster Crisis to the formation of the Irish Free State

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  • Enemy on the Euphrates

    The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

    by Ian Rutledge ...
    In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for ... Read more

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  • India

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    by Andrew Robinson ...
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    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

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  • The Transit of Empire

    Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

    by Jodi A. Byrd ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands ... Read more

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  • The British Empire

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    Series series Oxford Readers
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  • The Setting Sun

    A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets

    by Bart Moore-Gilbert ...
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  • Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70

    Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina

    by Gabriele Esposito ...
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    The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America.Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as the predominant military power.Despite the importance of the war, little ... Read more

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  • The Lords of Human Kind

    European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

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    When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of ... Read more

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