Europe After Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture

From the writings of Fanon and W.E.B. DuBois to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire explores the plight of beleaguered multi-culture and defends it...

Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, e...

DescriptionEurope has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have alwa...

Reducere. For Indigenous Minds Only features Indigenous scholars, writers, and activists who have collaborated for the creation of a sequel to For Indigenous...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kristin RossNumber of pages: 274Collection: October BooksPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 183 x 249 x 14Cover t...

DescriptionThis book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer move...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Monique A. BedasseFrom its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the ex...

This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the 'Pompeii of...

Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a...

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union--and its potential lack of a futur...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Michael KuhnNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 21...

Reducere. Jean Thiriart was a true prophet of the coming age of empires and continental multipolarity. He foreshadowed a conservative European Union by decad...

Reducere. Jean Thiriart was a true prophet of the coming age of empires and continental multipolarity. He foreshadowed a conservative European Union by decad...

Reducere. In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union--and its potential lack of a futur...

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edit...

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas ...

This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the Second World War.

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas ThomasIllustration(s): 181 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany

Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book questions how contemporary control mechanisms influence, ...

Psychology and Pop Culture: An Empirical Adventure examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from ac...

Reducere. DescriptionThe only way to lower the criminal recidivism rate in the United States is by offering help for those who have made mistakes in the past...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard SallerIllustration(s): 11 colour and 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2014Dim...

Reducere. ``Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.``--Glenn BeckThe secrets of history's most enduring mystery are finally reveale...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Glenda SlugaIllustration(s): 5 maps. 34 b+w illus.Number of pages: 392Publication date: 2...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. ...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Moritz SchrammNumber of pages: 400Collection: Postmigration StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 3...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Pulitzer prize-winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic an...

"If you want to get beyond gestures and slogans and to the truth, this is the book to get you there" Russell Brand"Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voi...

With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns l...

A timely collection of essays examining the legacies and politics of knowledge production and the writing-back paradigm.Illustrations: NoEditor(s):...

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

Publisher: Central European University PressIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175...

In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Ca...

After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the p...

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

DescriptionEric Ngalle thought he was leaving Cameroon for a better life... Instead of arriving in Belgium to study for a degree in economics he en...

Reducere. An exhilarating and darkly comical exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha's madhouse, longing to cross to Greec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Meredith MillerThere is currently a silent pandemic leaving millions of people feeling alone and confused, struggling to es...

Reducere. DescriptionA curriculum guide designed to supplement the Emmy-Award-winning documentary Oh Freedom After While, The Missouri Sharecropper Protest o...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairytale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pashas,...