A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (Price Rohan)(Paperback)

A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (Price Rohan)(Paperback)

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya by forcing its colonial administration to invent Malay nationalism and pursue ameliorative social policy among the Chinese

A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Hunt Nancy Rose)(Paperback)

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular

Price's Price (Maden Chris)(Paperback / softback)

A romp through the underbelly of colonial Hong

Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest (Harbour Jennifer R.)(Paperback)

Organizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which

Tradition and Emancipation in Horace and Alexander Pope (Ohsumi Megumi)(Pevná vazba)

In Tradition and Emancipation, Japanese scholar Megumi Ohsumi explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope's poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope's Horatian Imitations, Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope's oeuvre. Horace has

Closed Minds?: Politics and Ideology in American Universities (Smith Bruce L. R.)(Paperback)

The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Lipsett-Rivera Sonya)(Paperback)

With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo 'defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. While scholars studying men (TM)s

The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Kalyvas Stathis)(Paperback)

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective

The Spaces of Violence (Giles James)(Paperback)

Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks's

White Servitude in Colonial America (Galenson David)(Paperback)

White servitude was one of the major institutions in the economy and society of early colonial British America. In fact more than half of all the white immigrants to the British colonies sold themselves into bondage for a period of years in order to migrate to the New World. Professor Galenson's

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (Willis Deborah)(Paperback)

The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?In their pioneering book, Envisioning Emancipation, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and

Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Anderson Warwick)(Paperback)

Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while

Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Warren Calvin L.)(Paperback)

In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the 'Negro question' is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for

For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Arondekar Anjali)(Paperback)

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive'

Ideologies in World Politics (Giesen Klaus-Gerd)(Paperback)

Introduction Ideologies in World Politics.- Islam and Ideology in World Politics.- Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis.- Ideology and International Security.- Environmental Ideologies in Global Politics.- The Ideology of the Global Commons.- Revisiting and Revising World-Wide Neoliberalism.-

Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Protschky Susie)(Paperback)

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana

Too Many Times: How to End Gun Violence in a Divided America (Melville House)(Paperback)

A complete guide to the origins and everday experience of gun violence in America--and a series of solutions to put a stop to its destruction once and for all. Gun violence is a problem with many faces, but seemingly no solution. From mass shootings to deadly domestic abuse to police officers

Preventing Violence (Gilligan James)(Paperback)

Violence is most often addressed in moral and legal terms: How evil is this action, and how much punishment does it deserve? Unfortunately, this way of thinking, the basis for our legal and political institutions, does nothing to shed light on the causes of violence. Violent criminals have been

French Naval & Colonial Troops 1872-1914 (Chartrand Rene)(Paperback)

France's colonial wars in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia were very largely fought by an organization completely separate from both the home-defense Metropolitan Army and the Arm e d'Afrique in Algeria. The Naval Troops (Troupes de la Marine) were volunteers, and earned a reputation for

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses (Gee James)(Paperback)

In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the 'New Literacy Studies'.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of

Conflict, Domination, and Violence: Episodes in Mexican Social History (Illades Carlos)(Paperback)

Conflict, domination, violence--in this wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades, these three phenomena register the pulse of a diverse, but inequitable and discriminatory, social order. Drawing on rich and varied historical sources, Illades guides the

On Ideology (Althusser Louis)(Paperback)

This major voice in French philosophy presents a classic study of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. Spanning the years 1964 to 1973, On Ideology contains the seminal text, 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus' (1970), which revolutionized the concept of

Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament (Rmer Thomas)(Paperback)

Our National Shame: Violence Against Women (Fitz-Gibbon Kate)(Paperback)

The expos s in early 2021 of sexism and sexual violence in Parliament House prompted women across the country (and some men) to take to stages, lecterns and social media to express their rage and demand action. However, while these events highlighted that violence against women is an ongoing issue