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  • Maji Maji: Fire, Water, and the War for the Soul of East Africa

    de John Roe-Deasy ...
    In 1902, a German colonial governor signed a decree mandating that every village in the southern districts of German East Africa grow cotton — on land the families needed for food, during the months they needed for their own crops. Three years later, two men walked into a colonial cotton field and pulled the plants from the earth. What followed was one of the most extraordinary anti-colonial ... Leer más

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  • The Case for Colonialism

    de Bruce Gilley ...
    "For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name." So began Professor Bruce Gilley's watershed academic article "The Case for Colonialism" of 2017. The article sparked a global furor. Critics and defenders of Gilley's argument battled it out in the court of public opinion. The Times of London described Gilley as "probably the academic most likely to be no-platformed in Britain." ... Leer más

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  • The Will to Improve

    Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

    de Tania Murray Li ...
    The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    de Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Leer más

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  • Of War and Law

    de David Kennedy ...
    Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace is as legally regulated as the rest of modern life. In Of War and Law, David Kennedy ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Ordering Power

    Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

    de Dan Slater ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection ... Leer más

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  • Colonialism

    de Norrie Macqueen ...
    Series series Short Histories of Big Ideas
    Europe’s rapacious hunger for other people’s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonial past, from the way we see the world to the food we eat. Our contemporary preoccupations and ills – from globalization to humanitarian intervention to international terrorism – have colonialism somewhere in their genetic make-up.The character and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • A Short History of Migration

    de Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    Translated by Carl Ipsen.This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups. Separate chapters deal with the migration flows between Europe and the rest of the ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

  • Borders

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two, including sudden surges in migrant and refugees flows; ... Leer más

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  • Geography and Politics Among Nations

    An Introduction to Geopolitics

    de Martin Sicker ...
    Geography and Politics Among Nations is intended to assist the general reader to grasp the significance of geopolitical awareness in the conduct of foreign relations. Toward this end, the book begins with a cursory review of selected examples of geopolitical thought from antiquity to the present, which illustrates some of the main tendencies in geopolitical thinking throughout history. This survey ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Poseidon Project

    The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans

    de David Bosco ...
    A vibrant exploration of past and present controversies surrounding control of the world's oceans. In 1609, the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius rejected the idea that even powerful rulers could own the oceans. "A ship sailing through the sea," he wrote, "leaves behind it no more legal right than it does a track." A philosophical and legal battle ensued, but Grotius's view ultimately prevailed. To this ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Decolonization

    de Raymond Betts, Raymond F. Betts ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    Raymond F. Betts considers the 'process' of decolonization and the outcomes which have left a legacy of problems, drawing on numerous examples including Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong. He examines:the effects of the two World Wars on the colonial empirethe expectations and problems created by independencethe major demographic shifts accompanying the end of the empirethe cultural experiences, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD