Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective (Digby Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective (Digby Anne)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing

Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education - Mapping the Long View(Paperback / softback)

Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in

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

Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast (Vanvalkenburgh Parker)(Pevná vazba)

Alluvium and Empire uncovers the stories of Indigenous people who were subject to one of the largest waves of forced resettlement in human history, the Reducci n General. In 1569, Spanish administrators attempted to move at least 1.4 million Indigenous people into a series of planned towns called

A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa (Hill Kimberly D.)(Pevná vazba)

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian

Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Tortorici Zeb)(Pevná vazba)

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three

Indigenous Research Ethics: Claiming Research Sovereignty Beyond Deficit and the Colonial Legacy (George Lily)(Pevná vazba)

It's important that research with indigenous peoples is ethically and methodologically relevant. This volume looks at challenges involved in this research and offers best practice guidelines to research communities, exploring how adherence to ethical research principles acknowledges and maintains

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier (MacAuley Melissa)(Pevná vazba)

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this

Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (Bouteldja Houria)(Paperback)

A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective.Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci's anxiety: 'The old are dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.' The fascist monster, born in the entrails of

Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other (Noor Farish A.)(Pevná vazba)

1. This is the first broad systematic study of colonial data-mining and knowledge-production in colonial Southeast Asia that has been written. 2. This work will show how data-mining and knowledge-production in colonial Southeast Asia was intimately linked to the broader enterprise of Orientalist

Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Stoler Ann Laura)(Paperback)

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as 'legacies' of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that

Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 - Texts and Contexts(Pevná vazba)

The Colonial Past in History Textbooks - Historical and Social Psychological Perspectives (Nieuwenhuyse Karel Van)(Paperback)

Examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial

Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (Boittin Jennifer Anne)(Paperback)

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes-either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars,

Women's Medicine: Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70 (Rusterholz Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

Women's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning

Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607-1713: History, Organization and Uniforms (Esposito Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not

Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (Hinton Alexander Laban)(Paperback)

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The

Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (Newell Stephanie)(Paperback)

In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of

Decolonization: A Short History (Jansen Jan C.)(Pevná vazba)

A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Brom)(Pevná vazba)

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To

Journalism and Politics in Nigeria: Embers of the Empire (Ette Mercy)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the legacy of colonial heritage on Nigerian political activities and journalistic

Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Scott Bede)(Pevná vazba)

Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee,

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania (Arvin Maile Renee)(Paperback)

From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (Brian Amber)(Pevná vazba)

Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After a distinguished education and introduction into the life of the empire of New Spain in