National liberation & independence, post-colonialism books

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Politics in the Portuguese Empire

Politics in the Portuguese Empire

Author: M. Anne Pitcher
ISBN: 9780198273738
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book examines the complex relationship between the Portuguese authoritarian regime, the domestic textile industry,...  Read More >>

Estonia: Return To Independence

Estonia: Return To Independence

Author: Rein Taagepera
ISBN: 9780813317038
Format: Paperback
$96.99

In this book, Rein Taagepera traces the evolution of Estonia from prehistory to the present, when a radical turn...  Read More >>

Colonialism in an Indian Hinterland

Colonialism in an Indian Hinterland

Author: D. E. U. Baker
ISBN: 9780195630497
Format: Hardback
$57.50

This study charts the effects a transplanted British revenue system had on the developing Indian economy over a...  Read More >>

The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling...

Author: Marc Simmons
ISBN: 9780806123684
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, a colonizer of the old Spanish borderlands. Born in...  Read More >>

After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nations

After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nations

Author: Timothy J. Colton ,  Robert Legvold
ISBN: 9780393963595
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The failed coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow in August 1991 marked the inevitable disintegration of the Soviet...  Read More >>

Yale French Studies, Number 82: Part I, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms

Yale French Studies, Number 82: Part I, Post/Colonial...

Author: Françoise Lionnet ,  Ronnie Scharfman
ISBN: 9780300052701
Format: Paperback
$60.72

"This two-volume issue of ""Yale French Studies"" is devoted to questions of identity and modernity in France and...  Read More >>

Yale French Studies, Number 83: Part II, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms

Yale French Studies, Number 83: Part II, Post/Colonial...

Author: Françoise Lionnet ,  Ronnie Scharfman
ISBN: 9780300053975
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"This two-volume issue of ""Yale French Studies"" is devoted to questions of identity and modernity in France and...  Read More >>

A Short History of Papua New Guinea

A Short History of Papua New Guinea

Author: John Dademo Waiko
ISBN: 9780195531640
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64

Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern...

Author: Denys Delâge ,  Jane Brierley
ISBN: 9780774804516
Format: Paperback
$94.91

The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization,...  Read More >>

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives...

Author: Carol A. Breckenridge ,  Peter van der Veer
ISBN: 9780812214369
Format: Paperback
$72.60

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture...  Read More >>

The Conquest of America: How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent

The Conquest of America: How the Indian Nations Lost...

Author: Hans Koning
ISBN: 9780853458760
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Imperatives, Behaviors and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History

Imperatives, Behaviors and Identities: Essays in Early...

Author: Jack P. Greene
ISBN: 9780813914084
Format: Paperback
$61.60

This work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment...  Read More >>

Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule

Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion...

Author: Vicente L. Rafael
ISBN: 9780822313410
Format: Paperback
$63.23

In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of...  Read More >>

South Africa, the Colonial Powers and ‘African Defence’: The Rise and Fall of the White Entente, 1948–60

South Africa, the Colonial Powers and ‘African Defence’:...

Author: G. Berridge
ISBN: 9780333563519
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book describes the fate of South Africa's drive, which began in 1949, to associate itself with Britain, France,...  Read More >>

Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988

Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World....

Author: Stephen Greenblatt (The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature, The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780198122661
Format: Paperback
$97.95

Marvelous Possessions examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and early modern period represented...  Read More >>

Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822...

Author: A.J.R. Russell-Wood
ISBN: 9780860783336
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Hernando Cortés: Five Letters, 1519-1526

Hernando Cortés: Five Letters, 1519-1526

Author: Hernando Cortes ,  Bayard J. Morris
ISBN: 9780393098778
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Atlantic American Societies

Atlantic American Societies

Author: Alan Karras ,  J.R. McNeill
ISBN: 9780415080736
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus

Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus

Author: Rene Jara ,  Nicholas Spadaccini
ISBN: 9780816621675
Format: Paperback
$46.95

The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical...  Read More >>

Colonialism and Culture

Colonialism and Culture

Author: Nicholas B. Dirks
ISBN: 9780472064342
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Provides new and important perspectives on the complex character of colonial history  Read More >>

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