National liberation & independence, post-colonialism books

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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors' Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia

The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949:...

Author: Jan A. Krancher
ISBN: 9780786417070
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago,...  Read More >>

Presidio Santa Maria De Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola

Presidio Santa Maria De Galve: A Struggle for Survival...

Author: Judith A. Bense ,  Jerald T. Milanich
ISBN: 9780813026602
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A study of the Pensacola presidio and its fort during the first Spanish colonial period. It provides an inventory...  Read More >>

Making History, Drawing Territory

Making History, Drawing Territory

Author: Ian J. Barrow
ISBN: 9780195665468
Format: Hardback
$47.95

A unique study of British possession and territorial legitimacy in India as represented by colonial maps, this book...  Read More >>

Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South

Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature...

Author: Faye Yuan Kleeman
ISBN: 9780824825928
Format: Hardback
$134.64

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Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions

Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical...

Author: Johann P. Arnason
ISBN: 9789004132825
Format: Hardback
$242.88

This book begins with a critical survey of current debates on the ""clash of civilizations"", goes on to discuss...  Read More >>

Colonialism [3 volumes]: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia

Colonialism [3 volumes]: An International Social, Cultural,...

Author: Melvin E. Page
ISBN: 9781576073353
Format: Hardback
$529.95

The most exhaustive reference work available on this critical subject in world history, focusing on the politics,...  Read More >>

Enlightenment against Empire

Enlightenment against Empire

Author: Sankar Muthu
ISBN: 9780691115177
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism,...  Read More >>

The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law

The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the...

Author: Nasser Hussain
ISBN: 9780472113286
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The tension between the ideology of liberty and government by law in British India shaped the development of colonial...  Read More >>

Orientalism

Orientalism

Author: Edward W. Said
ISBN: 9780141187426
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European...  Read More >>

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Author: Simone Weil ,  J. P. Little
ISBN: 9780742522824
Format: Hardback
$180.95

Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated...  Read More >>

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other

Author: Simone Weil ,  J. P. Little
ISBN: 9780742522831
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil's complete writings on colonialism are collected and translated...  Read More >>

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War

Author: Louise Minks ,  Benton Minks
ISBN: 9780816049363
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This work explores the troubled times of the 1760s and 1770s, and presentsan account of America's heroic seven-year...  Read More >>

Theory in an Uneven World

Theory in an Uneven World

Author: R. Radhakrishnan (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780631175384
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Radhakrishnan argues that identifications that have been made between the post-coloniality and anti-nationalism...  Read More >>

'Englishmen Transplanted': The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660

'Englishmen Transplanted': The English Colonization...

Author: Larry Gragg (, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Rolla)
ISBN: 9780199253890
Format: Hardback
$391.00

'Englishmen Transplanted' challenges the widely accepted view of seventeenth-century Barbados planters as reckless...  Read More >>

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease...

Author: Philippa Levine
ISBN: 9780415944472
Format: Paperback
$94.99

While most agree that Contagious Diseases (CD) ordinances were put in place primarily to protect the health of British...  Read More >>

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease...

Author: Philippa Levine
ISBN: 9780415944465
Format: Hardback
$305.00

While most agree that Contagious Diseases (CD) ordinances were put in place primarily to protect the health of British...  Read More >>

Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective

Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative...

Author: Bruno Coppieters (, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ,  Richard Sakwa (, Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent at Canterbury)
ISBN: 9780199258710
Format: Hardback
$246.00

This book provides a combination of research with questions about why states stay together, and why they fall apart....  Read More >>

Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath: The Union and its Aftermath

Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath: The Union and...

Author: Oliver MacDonagh ,  W.J. McCormack (Professor Emeritus of Literary History, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781900621816
Format: Paperback
$41.95

MacDonagh regarded the Act of Union as the most important single factor in shaping Ireland as a nation in the modern...  Read More >>

The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives

The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global...

Author: Julian Go ,  Anne L. Foster
ISBN: 9780822330998
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines. While it became a colonial power at the zenith...  Read More >>

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