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  • From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

    Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference

    Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.The contributors present eight in-depth studies and a substantial theoretical introduction, utilizing primary and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Nationalism

    Theory, Ideology, History

    by Anthony D. Smith ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Nation-States and Nationalisms

    Organization, Ideology and Solidarity

    by Sinisa Malesevic ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule.This innovative and concise book ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Read more

    $12.30 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent, Marc Stears ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. Ideologies, ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Sex & Secularism

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women—from the author of Gender and the Politics of History .One of The Guardian 's Best Books of the YearJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claim... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eurocentrism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world’s foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era

    by Anthony Smith ...
    In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is this due to the advance of modernity? Will a global culture supersede nationalism? In fact, the revolution of modernity has revitalized ethnic memories and communities, as people look for stability and meaning in an age of unprecedented change and ... Read more

    $37.25 CAD

  • Racism

    by Albert Memmi ...
    An eminent social analyst examines the way racism works-and how it can be overcome.Racism: It is social, not “natural”; it is general, not “personal”; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology-a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD