Tous les livres numériques de la collection Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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G. Barton Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-05-27 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
E. Wald Vice in the Barracks Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-03-26 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kenneth A. Loparo Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation c. 1850-1930 Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-01-02 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A. Wright Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-11-21 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 105,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
R. Bright Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10 This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-11-01 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
S. Reinert , P. Røge The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-09-24 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
R. Berger Ayurveda Made Modern This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-09-16 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jonathan Curry-Machado Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society – forging this out of distinctive... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-07-12 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
L. Butler , S. Stockwell The Wind of Change Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-06-27 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
J. Tischler Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation 'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-04-23 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 105,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
J. Saha Law, Disorder and the Colonial State In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-02-04 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
B. Everill Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-12-15 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
E. Cleall Missionary Discourses of Difference Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-29 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
K. Candlin The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815 The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-06-28 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
S. Polu Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940 Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-04-17 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A. Dilley Finance, Politics, and Imperialism Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
R. Roque , K. Wagner Engaging Colonial Knowledge Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-11-07 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
N. Chatterjee The Making of Indian Secularism A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-01-26 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
L. Veracini Settler Colonialism A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-11-10 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 137,14 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
B. Ireland The US Military in Hawai'i An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-10-29 Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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