Rethinking the Colonial State (Rud Sren)(Paperback)

Rethinking the Colonial State (Rud Sren)(Paperback)

Studies of colonialism and empire have increasingly drawn attention to the problem of conceptualizing the political logic of colonial projects and the circumstances of state formation in colonial contexts. However, the nature and workings of the colonial state remains under-theorized and

Vietnam: Rethinking the State (Gainsborough Martin)(Paperback)

Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society. The book argues for a move away from the commonly associated idea of 'reform',

Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual (Brimmicombe-Wood Lee)(Paperback)

The United States Colonial Marines. Ultimate troubleshooters equipped with state-of-the-art firepower, capable of power projection across the vast expanse of deep space. They can sharpshoot a man at a thousand meters or obliterate an entire world from the safety of orbit. They reckon they are

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (Perel Esther)(Paperback)

A fresh look at infidelity, broadening the focus from the havoc it wreaks within a committed relationship to consider also why people do it, what it means to them, and why breaking up is the expected response to duplicity -- but not necessarily the wisest one.' -- LA Review of BooksFrom iconic

Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age (Higgs Paul)(Paperback)

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (Cronon William)(Paperback)

In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls

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

Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Borgwardt Elizabeth)(Paperback)

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it grand? In answering these questions, most scholars have

The Lives of Colonial Objects (Cooper Annabel)(Paperback)

'The Lives of Colonial Objects' is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object

Rethinking Fashion Globalization (Cheang Sarah)(Paperback)

Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse. This

Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible: From Kant to Schopenhauer (Polka Brayton)(Paperback)

Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard in order to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Brayton Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the

Our Voices II: The De-Colonial Project (O'Brien Kevin)(Paperback)

Our Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been

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

Latin America in Colonial Times (Restall Matthew)(Paperback)

Latin America in Colonial Times is a concise history of Latin America from the era of the Aztecs and Incas to the age of Napoleon and Bolivar, written in a lively style in order to sustain the interest of students and general readers in the main themes and events of colonial Latin American

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

Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (Marchal Jules)(Paperback)

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction (Taylor Alan)(Paperback)

In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant

The Seducer's Diary (Kierkegaard Sren)(Paperback)

'In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast,' observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from

Hybrid Food Retail: Rethinking Design for the Experiential Turn (Franken Bernhard)(Paperback)

Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South (Johnson Cassidy)(Paperback)

Rethinking Public Relations: Persuasion, Democracy and Society (Moloney Kevin)(Paperback)

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous editions that public relations is weak propaganda. However, while earlier editions focused on PR as representative of the uneven power distribution in society, this book goes further, conceiving the power of

Spanish Colonial Furniture (Williams Arthur Durward)(Paperback)

This book details the outgrowth of years of study of Spanish-American colonial furniture as it was developed in the vast territory now included in the states of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. In addition to a detailed explanation of the styles of furniture it contains designs of and directions for

The Men Who Would Be Kings: Colonial Wargaming Rules (Mersey Daniel)(Paperback)

The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid- to late-Nineteenth Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief,

Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 (Khodarkovsky Michael)(Paperback)