Culture and Imperialism

Reducere. Vladimir Putin și Federația Rusa au starnit ingrijorarea tuturor in ultimii ani prin acțiunile intreprinse, atat in Europa, cat și dincolo de Batra...

Reducere. Castigator al premiului Hugo 2020 pentru cel mai bun roman Finalist al premiilor Nebula, Locus & Arthur C. Clarke Castigator al premiului pentru de...

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have informed ground-breaking work...

Reducere. Publicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo / Culture and Imperialism es una obra indispensable que restablece el di logo entre la lite...

Subtitled How The Media And The Experts Determine How We See The Rest Of The World. Said argues the media have produced a misleading and simplified...

Reducere. - Concerning the Concept of Intellectuals - Intellectuals and Power - The Responsibility of Scientists in the Contemporary World - Edward Walter Sa...

Reducere. From Summary: ◊ Concerning the Concept of Intellectuals ◊ Intellectuals and Power ◊ The Responsibility of Scientists in the Contemporary World ◊ Ed...

Empire of Sentiment opens up a new area of the emotional history of imperialism, showing why a history of the emotions is crucial to understanding ...

Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes...

Provides inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, analysing the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for f...

Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policie...

The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular ...

Reducere. A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives o...

Reducere. DescriptionAn intimate account of Edward Sa d's life and thought Edward Said is a personal, literary portrait of one of the twentieth century's mos...

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as ...

Reducere. Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as ...

Reducere. Working with new insights on the influence that Christian translations of Scriptures and catechisms into African languages had on cultural self-und...

Presents the history of Japan from c 8000 BC to the present day. This title covers a range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, go...

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

Reducere. "When it comes to the first Nobel prize winner in English literature, everyone remembers The Jungle Books and Mowgli, but few see the multiple and ...

Reducere. Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European lib...

From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the ...

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

DescriptionIn 1956 Harry Belafonte's Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was t...

DescriptionThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It high...

For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jurgen Osterhammel"Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the European power...

Reducere. "CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE - Connecting Countries Saving Millions of Lives" is a compilation of essays by Andre Vltchek. China's Belt and Ro...

Reducere. Everything you should know--but PC professors won't teach--about our Western heritageWestern civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to...

Reducere. Foreword by James ScottThis classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonia...

DescriptionNo island is more deeply steeped in ancient history than Britain. The megalithic monuments are mute testimony to the mysterious foundati...

Reducere. Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue ab...

Reducere. Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cab...

Reducere. A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectu...

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Duane ElmerDuane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries ...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Begi...

Reducere. The Home and the World (1916) is a novel by Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Written after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, t...

Reducere. Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributi...

Reducere. In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society ...

Reducere. Amilcar Cabral, who was the Secretary-General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), was assassina...

DescriptionNestled on the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, the city of Khartoum has, for two centuries, been a focal point for both imperial...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Noenoe K. SilvaForeword by: Ngugi Wa Thiong'oIn The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigeno...

Reducere. Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Sai...

DescriptionOften the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne ...

In South Sea Tales Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Reducere. In non-Western contexts, Christianity has often been viewed as the religion of foreigners with a hidden political agenda. Sharing the gospel in non...

From the bestselling author of Daughters of the Dragon comes the story of one of the most extraordinary queens in history.As tensions rise on the K...

Reducere. 1. Platonism 2. Aristotelism 3. Regula de aur 4. Altruism 5. Libertate 6. Toleranţă 7. Scepicism 8. Raţiune 9. Pedeapsă 10. Materialism 11. Relativ...