Описание: A study of Britain`s role in the Middle East from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to the 1956 Suez Crisis, based on significant new findings from the private papers of Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion. This book revises several key narratives regarding the decline of Britain`s imperial presence in the region.
Автор: Von Tunzelmann, Alex Название: Indian summer ISBN: 1471166449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471166440 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1648.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India, and the final days of the Raj.
Описание: The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. By connecting sex and eroticism to geopolitics both politically and epistemologically, he examines the logic, operations, and politics of sexuality in the West. The book focuses on the centrality of race, class, and empire to Western realities of "gender and sexuality" and to problematic Western attempts to theorize gender and sexuality (or embodiment). Addressing a wide range of intellectual disciplines, it holds out the hope for an analysis freed from the domination of white, Western terms of reference.
Автор: Rina Kent, Kent Название: Empire of desire ISBN: 1685450008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781685450007 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: "Powered by insight and true wit." - Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion. "I can`t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman." - Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
Автор: Game, David Название: D.H. Lawrence`s Australia ISBN: 0367879913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367879914 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence`s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, Game examines how Australia informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterize so much of Lawrence`s work. He sheds new light on Lawrence`s attitudes towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism, and re
Автор: Tripodi, Christian Название: Edge of Empire ISBN: 075466838X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754668381 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building.
Описание: Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building.
Автор: Jacobs, Jane M. Название: Edge of Empire ISBN: 0415120063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415120067 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30624.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text addresses the histories and cultures of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana by exploring their colorful pasts and explaining the vast cultural differences among them. Scholars and students of Caribbean history, Latin American history, colonialism and imperialism, and the history of slavery will find this collection especially helpful.
Описание: In 1623, Dutch authorities executed twenty-one alleged conspirators over a plot to seize a castle on a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. In this landmark study, Adam Clulow presents a new perspective on the Amboina case that aims to move beyond the debate over guilt or innocence.
Описание: This transnational account of colonialism at the margins reveals why frontiers are key to understanding imperial anxieties and conflicts. This book is the first monograph to explore Yucatan`s Caste War of 1847-1901 in the context of frontiers and borderlands studies, British history, and imperial and colonial studies.
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