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  • Qayrawān

    The Amuletic City

    de William Gallois ...
    Series series Refiguring Modernism
    In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawān suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city’s Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why.Using visual archaeological methods, ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Time, Religion and History

    de William Gallois ...
    Series series History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
    What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that time is ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony

    de William Gallois ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa. Its coverage ranges from detailed case studies of massacres to the question of whether a genocide took place in Algeria. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Rethinking the History of Empire

    Edición de William Gallois ...
    This book forms part of the scholarly rejection of the ‘experts’ of empire and calls for us to centre our understanding of colonial praxis upon the lives of the colonised peoples of the past and the present.Western publics are constantly being told by ‘experts’ that they ought to rethink the history of empire. They are told that their (presumed) guilt regarding their countries’ imperial pasts can ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • After the Deluge

    New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

    de François Dosse, Michael Behrent, David Berry, Lucia Bonfreschi, Warren Breckman, Michael Scott Christofferson, Stuart Elden, William Gallois, Ron Haas, Ethan Kleinberg, Samuel Moyn, Philippe Poirrier, Christophe Premat, Alan D. Schrift ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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  • Ghosts of Empire

    Britain's Legacies in the Modern World

    de Kwasi Kwarteng ...
    Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British immigrants. He brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire, one that avoids sweeping judgmental condemnation and instead sees the Empire for what it was: a series of local fiefdoms ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    de William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ...
    First published in 1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk" is a seminal work in African American literature and an American classic.In this work Du Bois proposes that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." His concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fortunes of Africa

    A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

    de Martin Meredith ...
    A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Dangerous Games

    The Uses and Abuses of History

    de Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series Libro 31 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Algeria

    France's Undeclared War

    de Martin Evans ...
    Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    de Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Modern African Wars (4)

    The Congo 1960–2002

    de Peter Abbott ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions led to the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives.From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as armies and rebel groups from Rwanda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia and other countries crossed ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD