Colonialism and imperialism Books
V&R Unipress Kontaktarchitektur: Kolonialarchitektur in
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£76.99
V&R unipress GmbH Österreich-Ungarns imperiale Herausforderungen:
Book SynopsisÖsterreich-Ungarn lässt sich nur verstehen, wenn nationale Lebenswelten mit politischen, militärischen, wirtschaftlichen und künstlerischen Beispielen der imperialen Herrschaft verglichen werden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren verbinden theoretische Überlegungen zu Österreich-Ungarn als Imperium bzw. Kolonialmacht mit der Analyse konkreter Beispiele der imperialen Herrschaftspraxis. Ein besonderer Fokus gilt dabei Städten als Laboratorien gebauter, intellektueller und gesellschaftlicher Diskurse über imperiale und koloniale Vorstellungen. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert damit Antworten auf die Frage, wie ein Imperium überhaupt mit den andauernden Herausforderungen von innen und außen umgehen und seine eigene Existenz sichern kann. The book combines theoretical reflections on Austria-Hungary as an empire and colonial power with the analysis of concrete political, military, economic and artistic examples of imperial rule, which come to fore in particular by comparison. A special focus is on cities as laboratories of built, intellectual and social discourses on imperial and colonial ideas. This volume presents answers to the question of how an empire can handle the ongoing challenges from inside and outside and secure its own existence.
£73.52
V&R Unipress Verwobene Geschichte - Verflochtenes Gedachtnis?:
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£63.20
Basler Afrika Bibliographien Gender and Colonialism: A History of Kaoko in
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£24.30
Sternberg Press The White West
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£19.00
Gerlach Press Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid
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£136.74
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for
Book SynopsisBurma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role since its inception. Woven into this history is an outline of how Aung San Suu Kyi herself has become a highly respected pro-democracy icon internationally while being revered nationally as the "female Bodhisattva" who will deliver the Burmese people from the evil of the military regime. Lintner considers her strengths as well as her weaknesses, and traces her life not only in Burma, but also in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Bhutan, and Japan. She was greatly inspired by her father, Aung San, Burma's independence hero who was assassinated when she was an infant, and also by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Lintner analyzes the staying power of Burma's military regime and points out the obstacles to achieving what Aung San Suu Kyi is striving for: a free and democratic Burma.Trade Review"Bertil Lintner is an established authority on Burma . . . His succinct and insightful analysis focuses on post-1988 developments within the pro-democracy movement and the role of Aung San Suu Kyi, the NLD, and the '88 generation of student activists." -- Jeff Kingston * The Japan Times *"Lintner is a vetran reporter who has written several books on Burma. His expertise is widely acknowledged . . . While Suu Kyi still emerges as a remarkable, if somewhat test, saint . . . Litner's conclusion is pessimistic." -- Sholto Byrnes * The Independent *
£19.79
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Analytical History of India: From the Earliest
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£43.22
Cosmo Publications Dictionary of British-Indian Dates
Book SynopsisDictionary of British-Indian Dates The book is a compendium of all the dates which are essential to the study of the history of British rule in India. It is a unique compilation of facts and important historical data. The reference book would a useful companion for students of Indian history, especially the British period.
£16.88
Academic Foundation Indian Independence
Book SynopsisThis book is essentially a collection of select articles by some of India's topmost economist and experts. It is supported with editorial notes and excerpts
£37.49
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of
Book SynopsisReprint of 1996 edition. This book is an important study of State-led Islamization in Pakistan, of the contents of the process and how it impacted the spokesmen of religion. This is a solid work of scholarship and an important contribution to the study of Islam and politics in general and Pakistan in particular.
£18.74
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Village Communities and Land Tenures in Western
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£25.49
Tulika Print Communication Services 1857 – Facets of the Great Revolt
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£11.39
Zubaan Organizing Empire Individualism, Collective
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£14.99
Tulika Books Voices of Komagata Maru – Imperial Surveillance
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£25.50
Sexto Piso Editorial La Herencia Colonial y Otras Maldiciones:
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£20.57
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hegemonía o supervivencia: La estrategia
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£14.89
Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A. Crisis atlntica automa e independencia en la
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£18.60
University Press of Southern Denmark Unheard Voices: A tranquebarian Stroll
Book SynopsisOn 16 April 1620, Raghunatha Nayak of Tanjore invited Danes to settle down and establish trade in Tharangampadi known also as Tranquebar. Over the next 225 years, several hundred Danes made Tranquebar their home, and over a thousand found their resting place here. During this period, printing was established by German missionaries, a Protestant mission was founded, science and arts flourished, an astronomical observatory was set up and an exploration of the Nicobar Islands took place. The town had to be rescued several times from impending wars. This book shows glimpses of this exciting period from the remains left by the Danes. Arranged as a walking tour of the town, we pass by places where significant people lived and noteworthy events took place.
£29.34
Aarhus University Press Dark Continent?: Images of Africa in European
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£45.00
NIAS Press Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in
Book SynopsisLaos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.
£97.75
NIAS Press Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in
Book SynopsisLaos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.
£30.56
NIAS Press Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in
Book SynopsisLong regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than richer and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that in Lao studies there is a greater potential for individual scholars to make significant contributions to their field. One such scholar is Australia's Martin Stuart-Fox, in honour of whom this festschrift has been produced with contributions from colleagues, former doctoral students and friends. The volume is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos all make significant contributions to Lao studies. These range from the writing of Lao prehistory in Laos, to early Lao-Thai relations, from French colonial archaeology to medical practices and gun-boat diplomacy, from the `invention' of Laos as a modern state to its revolutionary transformation and present politics. Though the main focus is on the history, politics and national identity of Laos, essays also point `beyond' Laos, both geographically and metaphorically. In the first instance, the volume provides a welcome comparative perspective, from precolonial relations between Southeast Asian polities and European courts to colonial policies within French Indochina, to the structure of communist power in Vietnam. Three concluding essays point beyond Laos in a metaphorical sense in directions indicated by Professor Stuart-Fox's wider intellectual interests - to cultural legitimation and identity, to Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, and to how the principles of Darwinian evolution apply to historical change. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while at the same time honouring a scholar whose unusual career took him from marine biologist to war correspondent to respected scholar of Southeast Asian politics and history.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Desley Goldston) • Contributors • 1. Martin Stuart-Fox: Evolution of a Worldview (Jessica Harriden) • 2. On Writing Volume One of The History of Laos (Souneth Phothisane) • 3. The Half Millennium Quandary: Establishing the Ayutthaya–Lan Xang Frontier 1357–1827 (Pheuiphanh and Mayoury Ngaosrivathana) • 4. The La Grandière, 1894–1910: A French Naval Presence on the Upper Mekong (Kennon Breazeale) • 5. The Birth of French Research into the Prehistory of Laos (Lia Genovese) • 6. Nurse Khamphanh and His Dead Horse: The Practice of Biomedical Science in Early Twentieth Century Laos (Kathryn Sweet) • 7. The Invention of French Laos (Geoffrey Gunn) • 8. Laos in the 60s (Tim Page) • 9. The Lao Long of Cambodia: Ethnic Lao in the Cambodian Revolutions (Martin Rathie) • 10. Marxist Leninist Ideology Drove the Lao Revolution (Desley Goldston) • 11. Mobilizing Hearts and Minds: Reconciliation Politics in Laos (Soulatha Sayalath) • 12. Photographing Laos (Steve Northup) • 13. The Ethno-Religious Identity of the Tai People in Sipsong Panna and Its Resurgence in Recent Manuscripts (Volker Grabowsky) • 14. An Embassy from Banten at the Court of Charles II (Sarah Tiffin) • 15. Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Cambodia: A Coolie History (Margaret Slocomb) • 16. Decentralization in Vietnam: Resolving Central–Provincial Relations (Timothy McGrath) • 17. What is the First jhāna? The Central Question in Buddhist Meditation Theory (Roderick S. Bucknell) • 18. Biological and Cultural Evolution: A Proper Analogy (Juan Ramón Álvarez) • Afterword (Martin Stuart-Fox ) • Publications of Martin Stuart-Fox • Index
£90.00
NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
£58.65
NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
£30.57
Damiani Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to
Book Synopsis‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center until Spring 2023. This project considers the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath while examining the social lives of Black Americans within various places including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic sites, and in public memory. This exhibition acknowledges artists’ constant involvement with efforts to explore the possibilities of freedom and their relationship to it. Their quest to be ‘as free as they want to be’ is envisioned in the subject matter they explore as well as in their persistent drive to innovate aesthetic practices in photographic media. The publication presents some 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation. Free as they want to be is inspired by the words of James Baldwin and the timely theme of FotoFocus, World Record, as well as events of late that have shaped the world as we know it. The artists selected for this publication are on the frontlines, creating, documenting, and writing. The works they have conceived reflect defining moments in the struggle for racial justice and equality. Free as they want to be presents an occasion to reflect upon the past, to mark significant defining moments – both triumphs and tragedies – that characterize a people and their experiences in the present – and to propose future possibilities. The artists offer images that advance a different sense of empowerment. Their images thus play an integral part in casting resilient narratives as they commemorate endurance, longevity, and accomplishment. The timing of a publication like this could not be more urgent given the human toll of the pandemic, widening economic disparities, the threat of war, voting rights, global migration crises, and quotidian violence. Proposed Artists: Terry Adkins; Radcliffe Bailey; J.P. Ball Studio; Sadie Barnett; Dawoud Bey; Sheila Pree Bright; Bisa Butler; Omar Victor Diop; Nona Faustine; Adama Delphine Fawundu; Daesha Devon Harris; Isaac Julien; Cathy Opie; Hank Willis Thomas; Lava Thomas; Carrie Mae Weems; Wendel White; William Earle Williams; anonymous tintype photographer – photo album
£37.50
Leiden University Press Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History
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£40.50
Leiden University Press Images of the Indonesian War of Independence,
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£31.45
Leiden University Press Serving the chain?: De Nederlandsche Bank and the
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£36.86
Bloomsbury India The Raj: A Journey through Ten Documents
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India The ‘Civilisational Mission’: From Discovery to
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India Indian People and Society: From Discovery to the
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure: From
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£80.75
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Broken Script: Delhi under the East India
Book SynopsisCombining immaculate scholarship with extraordinary storytelling, Swapna Liddle has produced an outstanding book of narrative historyâon a great city in transition, and on early modern Indiaâthat will be read and discussed for decades.
£25.64
Bloomsbury India Aurobindo
Book SynopsisThis book elaborates the politico-ideological viewpoints of Aurobindo, as displayed when he reigned as one of the major nationalist leaders defining Indian nationalism. Bidyut Chakrabarty examines Aurobindo's politico-ideological ideas during the period (1893-1910) when he was an active participant in the New Nationalist' or Democratic Nationalist' campaign, which started with the bifurcation of the Indian National Congress between the Moderates and Extremists (also known as the Revolutionary Nationalists) in its 1907 annual session, held at Surat.Chapters cover Aurobindo's distinctive ideas of nationalism, which he evolved in collaboration with his colleagues, especially Lal-Bal-Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal), and how he redefined the practice of nationalism. The book also demonstrates that unlike his predecessors, the Moderates, Aurobindo set out many strategies including boycott and passive resistance to execute the distinctive plan he designed to attain his politico-ideological goal. Other topics include the relatively less discussed aspect of Aurobindo's socio-political ideas, namely his unique model of education as an antidote to many of the crippling socio-cultural prejudices, and the importance of Bhagavad Gita in shaping Aurobindo's politico-ideological priorities.
£80.75
Bloomsbury India Orientalism Liberalism and Colonial
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£80.75
HarperCollins India Krantikari: Bharat ke Swatantrata Sangram ki Ek
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£15.29
Bloomsbury India Reinventing Aurobindo Ghose
£80.75
Zubaan Contesting Nation – Gendered Violence in South
Book SynopsisAn innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence—in wars of direct and indirect conquest—marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization.The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11 mobilizations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.
£28.46
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Uprising of 1857
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£49.50
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Seeta: Ordeals and Tribulations of a Widow in 1857 Mutiny
£46.54
Pan Macmillan India Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose's Life, Politics and
Book SynopsisThe complete life story of SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE from the pen of Krishna Bose, an eminent member of the Bose family and pioneering Netaji researcher. Featuring 95 images and letters from family albums and Netaji Research Bureau archives. Written over six decades by an esteemed scholar and Bose family member, Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose''s Life, Politics and Struggle vividly reveals the human being alongside the revolutionary and freedom fighter, traversing Bose''s life from childhood to his mortal end in August 1945. Krishna Bose travelled the subcontinent and the world to discover Netaji''s life. As she pieces together her findings, we gain striking new insights into Subhas Chandra Bose''s political motivations, his personal relationships, and the epic journeys and daring military campaigns he undertook to secure India''s independence. We visit the Manipur battlefields where the Indian National Army waged its valiant war, the Andamans where Netaji raised the national tricolour; Singapore, where the INA tookshape; Vienna and Prague, his favourite European cities; and Taipei, where his life was tragically cut short. We meet Netaji''s key political contemporaries from Nehru and Gandhi to Tojo and Hitler. And we learn in gripping detail about the Azad Hind Fauj''s spirit of unity and the bravery in war of its men as well as the women who fought as the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Krishna Bose closely knew many personalities who feature in this book Basanti Debi, Subhas''s adopted mother; Emilie Schenkl,his spouse; Lakshmi Sahgal, Abid Hasan and many other leading soldiers of the Azad Hind movement who all shared vital memories that helped complete Netaji''s life story. Drawing on Netaji Research Bureau''s archives and decades of fieldwork and interviews, this book offers an unmatched portrait of Subhas Chandra Bose the man, his politics and his epic struggle for India''s freedom. Krishna Bose''s writings were compiled, edited and translated from Bengali by her son Sumantra Bose. Krishna Bose''s writings were compiled, edited and translated from Bengali by her son Sumantra Bose.
£28.49
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Banned & Censored: What the British Raj Didn't
Book SynopsisThe book dives into the history of sedition and censorship in colonial India. Closely examining 100 texts that the British Empire banned, censored or deemed seditious, the work brings to life these lost gems from India’s freedom, cultural, and social movements. It includes writing by figures famous and obscure, of events immortalised and forgotten, by Indians and non-Indians, by people jailed and free, by politicians and missionaries, by travellers and novelists, and in several Indian as well as European languages. Each excerpt illuminates not just its author’s thought processes, but the times in which it was composed and circulated.
£22.46
Bloomsbury India Thugs and Dacoits: Volume VI: The Imperial
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£80.75
Amsterdam University Press A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the
Book SynopsisAs a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Invention of Photography, the Nederlands, and the Dutch East Indies Journeys Completed and Journeys to Come in Indonesian Photography Portraits of Power The Dance Photographs of Walter Spies and Claire Holt: A Biographical Study Midcentury European Modernism and the March Towards Independence: Gotthard Schuh, Cas Oorthuys, Niels Douwes Dekker, and Henri Cartier-Bresson A Short History of IPPHOS Art Photography in Indonesia: J.M. Arastatch Ro’is, Tirsno Suardjo, and Zenith Magazine Reflections on Reformasi Photography (from the Vantage Point of the 2014 Elections) Journalistic Circus: A Look at Photojournalism in Indonesia and the History of the Antara Gallery of Photojournalism New Media Culture Development of Photographic Education in Indonesia MES 56: Souvenirs from the Past Hybrid Practices of the MES 56 Photography Collective Outsiders On Silence, Seeking, and Speaking: Meditations on Identity Through My Family Albums A City on the Move: Bandung Today Urban Parallax: Jakarta Street Photography on Instagram A Personal Note: The Ground Beneath My Feet
£76.95
Hong Kong University Press Crisis and Transformation in China′s Hong Kong
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£22.50
Central European University Press Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and
Book SynopsisThe Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches—the Iron Gates and the delta—not only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense. Since the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans. The inconvenience that the river’s physical shape obstructed free navigation and the growth of commercial traffic, was an increasing concern to all parties. This book shows that alongside imperial aspirations, transnational actors like engineers, commissioners and entrepreneurs were the driving force behind the river regulation. In this highly original, deeply researched, and carefully crafted study, Gatejel explores the formation of international cooperation, the emergence of technical expertise and the emergence of engineering as a profession. This constellation turned the Lower Danube into a laboratory for experimenting with new forms of international cooperation, economic integration, and nature transformation.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Exploring the Danube 2. Connecting the Danube with the Sea 3. From Confrontation to Cooperation: the Crimean War and Its Aftermath 4. The Danube Delta: A Success in International Ruling 5. The Iron Gates Torn Between Imperial, International and National Interests Conclusion Bibliography
£69.30
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica The Moyne Report: Report of West India Royal Commission
Book SynopsisThe Moyne Report is perhaps the most referenced material related to the `dark ages’ of Britain’s colonial reign in the West Indies. The damning report on the working and living conditions in the colonies was ironically commissioned by the British government and the findings delivered in 1940 – they were only made public at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Seventy years later, the report is re-presented with an updated introduction by Professor Denis Benn, who ably contextualizes the findings informed not only by his scholarly work but also as a witness to the many labour disputes and agitation for better working and living conditions for the poor and working class citizens of the region.
£18.16
