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  • Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955

    Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule

    by Alexios Alecou ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book analyzes the events that impacted the structure and competitive processes of the two dominant Cypriot political factions while under the watchful eye of British rule. Based on new archival research, Alecou addresses the social and political environment in which the Cypriot Communists and Nationalists fought each other while at the same time had to fight the British Empire. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Acceleration of History

    War, Conflict, and Politics

    by Alexios Alecou, Maria Mut Bosque, Juan Luis Fernández, Andreas Karyos, Nikolai S. Rozov, Svetlana N. Shchegolikhina, Marios Siammas, Zenonas Tziarras ...
    We willingly imagine that the speed of development of events has always remained constant here on earth. This is reflected in the fact that it is generally believed that the rate of natural phenomena is the same today as it has always been in the past and will remain this way more or less in the future. It is, now, a fact that the speed of progression of events is not constant over time. It was ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • George Washington: History in an Hour

    by David B. McCoy ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle of Washington’s life – his rise from middle class Virginian upbringing to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • To the Ends of the Earth

    Scotland's Diaspora, 1750-2010

    by T. M. Devine ...
    The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, the United States, and elsewhere, the Scottish contribution to the development of the modern world has been a formidable one, from finance to industry, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire

    by H. W. Crocker III ...
    The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and entertain. Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolome Las Casas ...
    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Exclusionary Empire

    English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900

    Edited by Jack P. Greene ...
    Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire – Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Constraints and Adjustments in British Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)

    by Michael Leifer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1972, offers a detailed analysis of the post-war formulation of foreign policy, as Britain sought to detach itself from its imperialist past and moved towards a European future. The contributors – all experts in their fields – together provide a comprehensive commentary on the complexities of the external pressures that moulded British foreign policy during these ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization

    by A. Acheraïou ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

    by Professor Tibebu Teshale ...
    Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Idi Amin’s Shadow

    Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda

    by Alicia C. Decker ...
    Series Book 28 - New African Histories
    In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the violence of Amin’s militarism resulted in both opportunities and challenges for women. Some assumed ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Monsoon Revolution

    Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

    by Abdel Razzaq Takriti ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East.Monsoon Revolution retrieves the political, social, and cultural history of that remarkable process. Relying upon a wide range of untapped Arab and British ... Read more

    $44.99 USD