Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity, Paperback - Ann Elias

DescriptionFrom vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the boun...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

Description. Floral Sea Adult Coloring Book contains 25 hand-drawn, single-sided pages to color featuring under the ocean sea marine-themed illustr...

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corru...

This book covers theories and applications from aquatic visual perception and underwater robotics. Within the framework of visual perception for un...

Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of...

Reducere. The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwoo...

DescriptionHow did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern sta...

Publisher: Oxford University PressNumber of pages: 576Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 195 x 129 x 19Cover type...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

DescriptionFrom popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illnes...

Reducere. This book is for you, the busy teacher or instructional designer. You already know that too much text on a slide is counterproductive to teaching a...

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial cultur...

A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser's ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and t...

Reducere. From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

This book critiques existing literature on the response of Western states to asylum seeking 'others' and outlines an alternative perspective to ack...

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challengi...

Reducere. Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the ...

Reducere. The first ever written Zulu history book covering 800 years of authentic history, written from the traditional Zulu perspective. This riveting and ...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Beautiful and informative explorations of Earth's largest biomePublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Claudia MartinNumber of pages: 32Coll...

Providing the ocular anatomy and physiology content needed for a thorough comprehension of this complex field, Clinical Anatomy and Physiology of t...

Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book...

DescriptionIn 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Charter...

Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature ...