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Book SynopsisMichael Mason is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where he is also Associate Professor in Environmental Geography. He publishes on global environmental governance, politics and security. He is author of The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (2005) and Environmental Democracy (1999), co-author of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (2014) and co-editor of Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2009).Muna Dajani is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. For over 9 years, she has worked in the fields of environment and development in Palestine, working with grassroots initiatives, NGOs, universities and governmental bodies. She received her PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.Munir Fakher Eldin is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and CultTrade ReviewThe Untold Story of the Golan Heights is one of very few books about this region. But what distinguishes this volume is the fact that it is a collaborative endeavor authored by Jawlanis and their allies, thereby giving readers a chance to learn from the truest of experts. -- Lisa Hajjar, University of California – Santa Barbara, USATable of Contents1 Introduction: Representing the occupied Jawlan/Golan, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK I: EVERYDAY COLONIZATION Chapter 2: The Politics of Lifeworld Colonisation in the occupied Golan: Michael Mason, LSE, UK Reflection 1: The 1982 General Strike, Bassel Rizqallah, Birzeit University student, Palestine II: THE POLITICS OF THE GOVERNED Chapter 3: Mapping the Politics of the Governed among the Jawlanis: A Semiotic Approach, Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 2: The occupied Syrian Golan and Birzeit University: A Story of Solidarity, Diaaeddin Horoub, journalist and researcher, Palestine Reflection 3: The occupied Syrian Golan Heights after 2011: The Constant and Variable, Aram Abu Saleh, Syrian writer and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan III: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI ART Chapter 4: Sculptures in Jawlani Public Places: Reflections on the Work of Identity, Wael Tarabieh, Jawlani artist, and Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 4: The Jawlani Art and Cultural Scene, Abdel Qader Thweib, Birzeit University student, Palestine Reflection 5: The Role of Literature and Folk Music in Resisting Israelization of the Jawlan, Nadine Musallam, journalist IV: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI YOUTH AND EDUCATION Chapter 5: Israeli Education Policies as a Tool for the Ethnic Manipulation of the Arab Druze, Amal Aun, independent researcher Reflection 6: How to Counter-map the Jawlani Lands: Visualizing Memory, Place and Identity, Jumanah Abbas, independent researcher Reflection 7: The Concept of ‘Jawlani Youth’: Between Colonial Policies and Society, Ali Aweidat, Syrian researcher and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan V: A JAWLANI POLITICAL ECOLOGY Chapter 6: Being in Place: On the Jawlan Formation and Agroecological History of Highlands, Omar Tesdell, Birzeit University, Palestine, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; and Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) Reflection 8: From Jabal al-Shaykh to Mount Hermon Ski Resort, Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) 7 Conclusion: The Jawlan as Counter-Geography, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe main pleasure of a book like this is akin to that of listening to a series of assured after-dinner speakers, highly knowledgeable about their chosen subject and able to entertain as well as inform. * Alan Ross, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction Wm. Roger Louis, The University of Texas at Austin 1. How Churchill’s Mind Worked, Paul Addison, Oxford University 2. Éamon de Valera, Kevin Kenny, New York University 3. Calouste Gulbenkian: Mr. Five Percent, Richard Davenport-Hines, Oxford University 4. Lord Beaverbrook, Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham 5. Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill, Jeffrey Meyers, Biographer and literary, art and film critic 6. Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim, Robert King, University of Texas 7. Louis George Martin: Champion Weightlifter, John Fair, University of Texas 8. Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde, Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna and Oxford University 9. William Morris: Artist, Businessman, and Radical, Peter Stansky, Stanford University 10. Ida John: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Rosemary Hill, Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University 11. Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism, David Leal, University of Texas 12. P. G. Wodehouse, Joseph Epstein, Author of more than 25 books including The Ideal of Culture (2018) 13. Samuel Beckett and Surrealism, Alan Friedman, University of Texas 14. Harry Potter and Bloomsbury, Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing 15. A Battle for the Soul of Classics at Oxford, Paul Woodruff, University of Texas 16. Obedience by the Book, Al Martinich, University of Texas 17. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford University 18. The Problem with Monuments: A View from All Souls, Edward Mortimer, Oxford University 19. The Social History of the Raj, Max Hastings, Journalist and author of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (2018) 20. Warnings from Versailles, 1919, Margaret Macmillan, Oxford University 21. The British Defense of Cyprus, 1941, George Kelling, Civilian Historian with the U.S Air Force 22. How the British Left Palestine, Bernard Wasserstein, Author of several books including The British in Palestine (1978) 23. America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Derek Leebaert, Author and a founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Army 24. Brexit: An Historical Romance, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Journalist and Historian 25. Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights, Philip Waller, Oxford University

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Book SynopsisAny observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican attitude became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-61) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the US military occupation that preceded it.Trade Review“Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature.”—Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo“The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to Caribbean and other Latin American students of the intersection of history, political power, and gendered practices and discourses.”—Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban Nation""A novel and thoughtful analysis of the sexual gender relations and the construction of masculinity in contemporary Dominican culture. The Americas“A well-researched and rigorously historicized contribution to the field of Dominican cultural studies, moving elegantly between cultural and literary analyses.”—Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisAnne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.Trade Review"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution." -- Amanda Reid * Public Books *"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South." -- Nico Slate * Journal of American History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas." -- Juan De Lara * Aztlán *"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today." -- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra * Chasqui *“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.” -- Evan C. Rothera * African Studies Quarterly *"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues." -- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco * American Historical Review *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation." -- Daniel Cooper * American Literary History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it." -- Alfred J. López * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental 19 2. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens 68 3. The "Colored and Oppressed" in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans 106 4. "Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café": Racial Politics in the "Latin, African" Nation 160 5. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental 200 Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South 241 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 329

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Book SynopsisWhile most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, native inhabitants of the Ohio Country, and the empire he represented.

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Book SynopsisThe Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.Trade Review"An intriguing book that brings together an array of literary and non-literary texts dealing with eighteenth-century British response to South Asian techne. Sudan is a significant voice in global eighteenth-century studies as well as a leading critic of Anglo-Indian Relations." -- -Robert Markley University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire 1. The Alchemy of Empire 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters Conclusion Notes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisRecognising that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward.Table of Contents Introduction Ch. 1 Paved with Comfortable Intentions: Moving Beyond Liberal Multiculturalism and Civil Rights Frames on the Road to Transformative Reconciliation Ch. 2 Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation: Lessons from Gacaca in Post-Genocide Rwanda Ch. 3 Monitoring That Reconciles: Reflecting on the TRC's Call for a National Council for Reconciliation Ch. 4 A Move to Distract: Mobilizing Truth and Reconciliation in Settler Colonial States Ch. 5 Teaching Truth Before Reconciliation Ch. 6 “The Honour of Righting a Wrong:” Circles for Reconciliation Ch. 7 What Does Reconciliation Mean to Newcomers Post-TRC? Ch. 8 Healing from Residential School Experiences: Support Workers and Elders on Healing and the Role of Mental Health Professionals Ch. 9 Learning and reconciliation for the collaborative governance of forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada Ch. 10 Bending to the Prevailing Wind: How Apology Repetition Helps Speakers and Hearers Walk Together Ch. 11 How do I reconcile Child and Family Services’ practice of cultural genocide with my own practice as a CFS social worker? Ch. 12 Repatriation, Reconciliation, and Refiguring Relationships. A Case study of the return of children's artwork from the Alberni Indian Residential School to Survivors and their families Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHigh in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s. Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author through the British Library''s Endangered Archives Programme, Kyle Jackson sheds new light on the complex and violent processes of how and why diverse populations of highland clans in the Indo-Burmese borderlands came to redefine themselves as Christian Mizos. By using historical Indigenous concepts and logics to approach early twentieth-century imperial encounters, Jackson guides readers into a decolonial history of Northeast India, demonstrating the value of thinking not just about the histories of colonized peoples and concepts but also with them.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Coming into View: Trade, Violence, Coercion (1870–1899); 2: Reading the Forest: Roads, Animals, Converts (1891–1912); 3 Adopting the Missionary: Messages, Commodities, Technologies (1894–1908); 4. Sensing the Mission: Hearing, Tasting, Harhna (1910s); 5. Crisis and Conversion: Bamboo, Debt, Disease (1906–1924); Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company's empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.

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Book SynopsisWorking-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family histories and remaking class in British India; 2. Writing family together across Imperial distances; 3. Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India; 4. Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service; 5. Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire; 6. Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities.Examining diasporic literature produced in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Indian Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Marathi, and Tamil, the book argues that writers in the diaspora who choose to write in their vernacular languages attempt to retain their native language, for they believe that the loss of the language would lead to the loss of their culture. The author answers seminal questions including: How are these writers different from mainstream Indian writers who write in English? Themes and issues that could be compared to or contrasted with the diasporic literatures written in English are also explored.The book offers a significant examination of the nature and dynamics of the multilingual Indian society and culture, and its global readership. It is the first book on Indian diasporic liter

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Book SynopsisInstitutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism. It documents how the manipulation of truth and knowledge facilitated colonialism and epistemicide to create a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism that maintains the illusionary status of equality and justice and continues to conceal the breadth and depth of victimisation.The chapters present an understanding of how epistemicide, critical race theory, post-colonialism, white racial frames, white privilege, and insidious trauma can be used to critique the discourses and mechanisms that sustain a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism and how these concepts facilitate a victim perspective of institutional racism that documents the cumulative psychological and physical harms of institutional racism. The second half of the book provides grounded case studies of institutional racism in the areas of education, policing, the war o

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. Impeachment originated in England during the Good Parliament of 1376. It was used, subject to several periods of disuse, until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The British form of impeachment in turn inspired the drafters of the US Constitution and the inclusion of a mechanism permitting the removal of members of the federal executive and federal judiciary. These Anglo-American origins of impeachment have inspired many constitutions around the globe to include impeachment mechanisms which permit, in most cases, the legislature to remove the President, a Prime Minister, ministers and judges. This volume explores the origins, influence and practice of impeachment. Divided into three parts, the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history is the focus of part one. The inclusion of Ireland reflects the Trade Review‘This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of impeachment is essential readingfor scholars, citizens, and public officials alike. Now more than ever, it is vital to appreciate the promise and perils of the impeachment power, and to reckon with its proper role in constitutional democracy.’Joshua Matz, Partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP; Impeachment Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the first (2019–20) and second (2021) Senate trial of President TrumpTable of ContentsList of Contributors xiPreface xiiForeword xiv1 Impeachment Matters 1MATTHEW FLINDERS AND CHRIS MONAGHANPART 1British Origins 152 Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Its Abeyance in the Sixteenth Century 17CHRIS MONAGHAN3 Impeachment in Seventeenth-Century England 42MARK GOLDIE4 British Politics and Impeachment in the Eighteenth Century 64ROBIN EAGLES5 Edmund Burke, India and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings 84MITHI MUKHERJEE6 The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment 114CHRIS MONAGHAN7 ‘Impeachment’ in Irish Constitutional Law 132LAURA CAHILLANE AND TOM HICKEYPART 2American Practice 1558 Impeachment in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Early United States 157JOHN R VILE9 Parallel Evolution: American Impeachment and the Two-Party System 180BRIAN C KALT10 Impeachment, Responsibility and Constitutional Failure: From Watergate to January 6 206JACK N RAKOVE11 The US Impeachment Process: Fit for Purpose in a Hyper-Partisan Era? 238CLODAGH HARRINGTON AND ALEX WADDANPART 3Evolutionary Dynamics 25912 The Renaissance of Impeachment: Political and Legal Accountability in the 21st Century 261DAN PLESCHIndex 271

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Book SynopsisAtlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history. European powers not only colonised American lands but also brought African men and women to work as slaves on plantations. Intellectuals did not remain indifferent to this practice and from the second half of the 18th century criticised the institution of slavery from an ethical, legal, and economic point of view.This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct the debate on colonialism and slavery that developed in these two countries, approaching the issue from the standpoint of the History of Economic Thought. The decisive phase in this debate took place in the second half of the 18th century, when some classical economists belonging to the cultural movement of the Enlightenment laid the foundations for the critique of a production system based on slavery. On the same basis, some economists of the first half

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Book SynopsisThrough in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different trajectories according to gender, race, and class; and significant regional variations in the rates of failure and dropout, among other problems.Focusing on processes performed between 1918 and 2012, this book offers rich analysis of historiographic sources including journals, newspapers, and administrative documentation to trace the development of initiatives intended to promote the democratization of Brazilian schooling. An examination of reforms including school classification, the graduated school model, admissions examinations, and automatic promotion reveal a school system that mirrors wider societal injustices and guarantees academic success for only a minority of students.Bringing a nuanced and elaborated historical perspective of the pragmatics of the selective classificatory logic in different institutional and epistemic qualities of the school organization of children and the reasoning about abilities and achievement, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in curriculum and assessment, the sociology of education, and the history of education.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices.Despite the acclaimed twentieth-century decolonisation waves, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible mechanisms of power, and in the privileging of certain knowledges and the dismissing of others. Decolonising Political Concepts critically addresses the role political concepts play in the continuing legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality. This book, building on postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and ideas, demonstrates how concepts may be used as oppressing political and epistemological tools. By presenting efforts to decolonise political concepts, the book signals the potential for genuinely postcolonial academic and political contexts. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and engaging with a wide array of geographical contexts, the chapters examine concepts such as agency, violence, freedom, or sovereignty. This book enables readers to critically engage with concepts used in political discourse and allows them to reflect on their impact and alternatives.It will appeal to graduate students and scholars from international relations, social sciences, or philosophy, as well as to socio-political actors engaged in decolonisation agendas.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to, and explicit about, colonial and neocolonial legaciesurging the decolonization of One Health.While acknowledging the importance of One Health, the volume at the same time critically examines its roots, highlighting the structural biases and power dynamics still at play in this global health regime. The volume is distinctive in its geographic breadth. It travels from Inuit sled dogs in the Arctic to rock hyraxes in Jerusalem, from black-faced spoonbills in Taiwan to street dogs in India, from spittle-bugs on Mallorca's almond trees to jellyfish management at sea, and from rabies in sub-Saharan Africa to massive culling practices in South Korea. To

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Book SynopsisThe Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Through a focus on the understudied role of colonial periodicals in the creation and public discussion of colonial built environments, the present book contributes to a cultural history of the idea of built environment. The studies underscore the role of press in articulating environment imaging and transformations with colonial ideologies, projects and policies, and the fixing, othering and disputing of identities, while still retaining the epochal circulation of ideas. This role is evidenced through discussions of forests, clubs, hotels, barracks, hospitals, houses, verandas and gardens, railways, Catholic churches and Hindu templescapes, restorations and exhibitions. The book also examines a non-canonical varietTable of Contents1. The Forest or the Tree? Colonial Forestry and Environmental Debates in the Goan Periodical Press.José Ferreira2. Iron Message: Railways in the German Colonial Press.Corinna Schäfer3. Infrastructure in the Making: The Ottoman Railway Company as Portrayed by the Smyrna Mail.Elvan Cobb4. Tropical Building: A Typology Defined in British Military Engineering Journals.Pedro Guedes5. Illustration as propaganda in the nineteenth-century periodical press: British Empire building on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo.Anne Shelley6. Educating the colonial spouse or pushing the agenda of Tropical Modernism in the Belgian Congo? Architecture and the coloniser's house in the pages of the Bulletin de l'Union des Femmes Coloniales.Johan Lagae7. Reconstructing Templescapes in Goa: Santeri-Śāntādurgā and Other Female Deities through the Compromissos of the Boletim OfficialCibele Aldrovandi8. Conflicted Identities: Bombay's Catholic communities, its buildings and the Press.Alice Santiago Faria and Sidh Losa Mendiratta9. Constructing the Empire: Italian Colonial Architecture and the practice of ambientazione.Monica Palmeri10. 'Old Goa must be brought back to life': The restoration of Old Goa's monuments in the Goan periodical press during the Portuguese colonial period.Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos11. Cabo Verde Boletim de Propaganda e Informação (1949-64): from propaganda to the demands for change at the periphery of the Portuguese empire.Ana Vaz Milheiro

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Book SynopsisWriting Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth centuryâs four famous husband-wife writers of Chinaâs Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921â2020) and Zhu Ti (1923â2012).The writings herein were published from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, in Manchukuo, north China, and Japan; their writings appeared in the most prominent Japanese-owned, Chinese-language journals and newspapers. This volume includes materials that were censored or banned by the Manchukuo authorities: Li Zhengzhongâs Temptation and Frost Flowers, and Zhu Tiâs Cross the Bo Sea and Little Linzi and her Family. Li Zhengzhong has been characterized as an angry youth while Zhu Tiâs work questioned contemporary gender ideals and the subjugation of women. Their writings â those that were censored or banned and those published â shed important light on Japanese imperialism and the Chinese literature that was produced in different regions, reflecting both official support and suppression.Writing Manchuria is the first English-language translation of their writings, and it will appeal to those interested in Chinese wartime literature, as well as contribute to understandings of imperialism and the varied forms it took across Japanâs vast war-time empire.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concepts, processes, and experiences which circulate around the figure of the environmental end of the world. Importantly, this book argues that apocalypticism can provide a productive philosophical framework for addressing the climate catastrophe, enabling us to propose a distinctive answer to the fundamental question which haunts progressive ecological projects: how can we defend the world we find indefensible?Appealing to students, academics and researchers in philosophy, political theology, and environmental humanities, this book is a timely intervention which hopes to demonstrate that, when all else fails,

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Book SynopsisForegrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context.Bringing together studies from around the world (e.g. Australia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and Italy), this collection foregrounds how the transnational migratory experience profoundly reshapes menâs complex identity practices. Specifically, the collection highlights how transnational migratory aspirations and experiences often lead men to reimagine local patterns of masculinity and/or reaffirm prescriptive gender roles as they encounter new spaces/places. In presenting interdisciplinary research, the international scholars consider the powerful roles of economics, politics and social class in shaping masculinities. Furthermore, the contributors emphasise how men affectively and agentically experience migration and how interaction with new spaces/places can often lead to negotiations between disempowerment and empowerment.As such, this collection will appeal to both non-academic readers who share transnational migratory aspirations and experiences and academic readers across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality, migration and diaspora, transnationalism and contemporary masculinities.Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisWest Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise rivalry, and exploitation in West Africa. It examines the achievements of the Portuguese during the century following their exploration of its shores, and the successive attempts of its rivals Castilians, the French and English to disrupt the commercial monopoly claimed by Portugal in West African waters.Table of Contents1. Castilo-Portuguese Rivalry in Senegambia, 1454–56 2. Portuguese Progress, Especially after the Grant to Fernao Gomes, 1456–75 3. The Challenge of Castile, 1475–80 4. The Consolidation of the Portuguese Monopoly, 1480–1530 5. Trade and Fortification in West Africa, 1480–1578 6. French Intervention in West Africa, 1530–53 7. Triple Rivalry in West Africa, 1553–59 8. Monopoly on the Wane, 1559–78

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Book SynopsisThis book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.In this volume, the authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes. The chapters track the contested histories of monuments, scrutinizing their narrative power and examining the violent events behind them. It is both about the history of monuments and the histories the monuments are meant to commemorate. It is interested in this nuanced relationship between violence, monuments, memory, and colonial legacies; the ways different facets of colonial violenceconquest, resistance, massacres, genocides, internments, and injusticeshave been commemorated (or haven't been), how they live in the present, and how pertinent they are in the present to different peoples. Legacies of colonial violence, and continued reiTrade Review"In recent years, debates over historical statues and monuments have been central to the struggle of former colonial powers, and former colonies, to come to term with their past – or to disavow it. With a genuinely global scope, this timely and exciting collection of case-studies examine how memorials both conceal and reveal contested histories of colonial violence, which refuse to be peacefully consigned to the past."Kim A. Wagner, University of London, UK"The global approach utilized by Cynthia Prescott and Janne Lahti reinforces the relationality of violence, monuments, memory, and legacy across time and place. This volume makes visible those histories and peoples erased by colonial violence and later settler colonial monuments. Prescott and Lahti’s volume provides necessary context for current contestations over public space and memory. Monuments matter. This volume is a must-read."Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota, USA"This compelling collection offers a truly global perspective on the relationship between colonial violence and monumentality. Contributions by scholars and community advocates map the ways colonial and postcolonial monuments have celebrated, concealed, and embodied the violence of empire in North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia over the last two centuries. Always insistent on the specific histories of both monuments and the acts they commemorate, these essays go beyond simple binaries to trace the multiple, shifting actions and experiences of colonizers, settlers, postcolonial states, and Indigenous peoples through time."Jennifer Sessions, University of Virginia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies 1. Visualizing Juan de Oñate’s Colonial Legacies in New Mexico 2. De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: “Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn 3. The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars 4. Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia 5. South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument: Monuments to Cultural Violence 6. The Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in Contemporary India 7. Belgian Monuments of Colonial Violence: the Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries

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Book SynopsisThis book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years.

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Book SynopsisRace in the Anthropocene provides a radical new perspective on the importance of race and coloniality in the Anthropocene. It forwards the Black Horizon as a critical lens which places at its heart the importance of ontological concerns fundamental to problematising the violences and exclusions of the antiblack world.At present, multiple new approaches are emerging through the shared problem field of Anthropocene thought and policy, offering to save not just the world, but the practice of governance, the business of Big Data, the progress of development, and the dream of peace. It is against this backdrop that Race in the Anthropocene unsettles not just the already shaky foundations of modernity but also the affirmative visions of its critics, by directing our gaze to how race and coloniality are baked into the grounding concepts of international thought.This book is essential reading for students of International Relations, particularly those interested

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Book SynopsisAfter assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). This book investigates the ways in which photographs are being used within Zimbabwe, especially on social media, to challenge the prevailing narrative and reclaim the memories of the subjugated.The book analyses the photographs produced by Zenzo Nkobi during the struggle against colonialism. Drawing on the memories of veterans from ZAPU and its military wing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), the book shows that photographs can both act as a conduit for existing narratives, and as a tool for shaping memory narratives, and evidencing ZPRA military prowess ahead of other movements.At a time when Zimbabwe is reassessing the legacy of liberation, this book offers a powerful multidisciplinary assessment for

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Book SynopsisCombating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regimes through commemorations and advocacy of their own heritage.Presenting case studies from across the globe, the volume provides invaluable insights into the diverse strategies and various disciplinary approaches being used to counter oppression through commemorations of the heritage of marginalized groups. Reminding the reader that such commemorations are often created by individuals who have directly confronted traumas of oppression, contributors emphasize that their survivance, successes, and vitality are tributes to human resilience and creativity. Chapters also demonstrate how such commemorations can advance recognition of the groupâs diverse legacies and cultural identity and help enhance social and economic equities for that population across local, regional, and national scales. It is also made clear that they can provide resources for reconciliation negotiations with other social collectives who seek to oppress the marginalized group. These dynamics can facilitate truth-telling, accountability, recovery of unrecorded histories, revitalization, increments of healing, and efforts to avoid future repetitions of past and present social traumas.Combating Oppression with New Commemorations will be essential reading for academics, and students working in heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, landscape analysis, and museum studies. It will also be of great interest to practitioners and activists around the world.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.The book is divided into three sections. The first section highlights the continuing issues that Indigenous people face in law schools and universities, including the ongoing impacts of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, institutional racism and exclusion. This section also includes chapters that explore arguments for the recognition of Indigenous legal knowledge and of the impact of settler law, and the incorporation of Indigenous concepts, laws and ways of thinking about settler law across the curriculum. The second section explores how Indigenous ways of reading and thinking about settler law make a difference to how settler law is understood and interpreted. Contributors consider the power of storytelling and address the prospect of lawâs decolonisation. The third section of the book grapples with how traditional law school subjects can be taught through an Indigenous lens, including torts, public law, criminal law and sentencing, clinical legal education, and native title. Throughout, the book demonstrates the importance of, and offers practical advice for, teaching law in a way that includes critical Indigenous perspectives.This book will be of enormous value to teachers, researchers, students in law, legal studies and Indigenous studies, and others with an interest in decolonising legal education.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisFranks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.Using original documents as well as secondary sources, Avner Falk demonstrates that the deepest and most powerful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial â or the quest for lands, wealth, or titles â but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, Us and Them. The book demonstrates the collective inability to mourn large-group losses, and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Falk investigates the unconscious dynamics of the Crusades, both on the individual and on the collective level, to understand why the Crusading fantasies persisted for nearly tw

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Book SynopsisFrom the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict is unpopular back home in France: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an option – a global power cannot surrender to an army of peasants – but victory is impossible without more soldiers and more money. The soldiers can be sourced from the colonies, but the money is out of the question. A solution needs to be found.In this gripping and shocking novel, Éric Vuillard exposes the tangled web of politicians, Trade ReviewExcoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work . . . I cannot think of an Anglophone author who writes with such polemical, poetical indignation * Scotsman *Powerful . . . An entracingly nightmarish analysis of the First Indochina War -- Graham Robb * The Spectator *Clever and scathing * Le Temps *Vuillard writes into grey areas of history * New York Times *A work of ferocious reckoning . . . chilling . . . shine[s] a hard light on figures who might otherwise disappear into the jumbled backdrop of the past * Wall Street Journal *Absolutely spectacular * France Info *Pages clenched like fists ready to strike. It is the eternal war of the powerful against the weak that Vuillard stages in each of his books * L'Obs *Sparkling . . . By his pen, historical figures become beings of flesh and blood; we hear them breathe, we see them sweat * L'Histoire *The challenge for Vuillard is to tear the rancid nostalgia for 'the good old days' of the colonies, for the chic, elegant, confident and honourable colonial France, to pieces * La Croix *Brilliant . . . An Honourable Exit not only illuminates the machinations behind the Vietnam debacle for the French, but shows just how damaging an anachronistic hunger for domination can be. * Arts Fuse *

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Book Synopsis''The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind'' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit.Trade Review'Empires of the Mind is a uniquely valuable account of the fate of the French and British empires.' William Roger Louis, University of Texas'Accessibly written and genuinely comparative, Robert Gildea's new analysis of the lingering effects and bitter aftershocks of British and French colonialism is essential reading for anyone keen to understand where legacies of empire register in contemporary politics. A terrific read.' Martin Thomas, author of Fight or Flight: Britain, France and their Roads from Empire'Empires of the Mind is an exhilarating comparative survey of British and French self-regard from competitive collaboration in the hecatombs of slavery, through Suez in 1956, to responses to immigrants from ex-colonies, Islamic fundamentalism and Brexit. Among many startling quotes we read Nigel Farage claiming Brits are different from Europeans. Robert Gildea shows that we are too alike.' Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy'The past never remains in the past, Robert Gildea skilfully reminds us as he recounts the brutal histories of both British and French colonial and neo-colonial ventures. This is a book that insists on the connections between what happens/ed 'out there' and what happens/ed 'in here' and helps us to think through that complex and dangerous entanglement, which continues to inform our contemporary politics today.' Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867'Gildea uses a comparative approach to examine the legacy of empire in France and Britain … both countries desperately hoped to preserve their empires, fiercely resisted decolonization, and frequently intervened to keep former colonies as dependencies. … In France, the long shadow of the Algerian conflict, racism, and an emphasis on secular republican values led to a reassertion of colonial rule in the banlieues. Despite Britain's avowed multiculturalism, its formerly colonized subjects faced segregation, exclusion, and violence at the hands of former colonizers. Alienated from both their adopted nation and their country of origin and enraged by the US's neo-imperialist 'war on terror', many in Europe's immigrant community embraced Islam. A radicalized minority turned to jihad and terrorist violence. … the dubious but apparently widespread belief that Brexit would enable Britain to restore its free-trade empire supports Gildea's thesis that the past remains disturbingly present. Highly recommended.' P. C. Kennedy, Choice'A valuable and shaming book.' Lucy Beckett, The Tablet'… [Empires of the Mind] can … be profitably read for its extensive comparative account of the British and French empires and their afterlives … highly accessible.' Richard Toye, Journal of British Studies'A grand narrative that tracks the resurgence of imperial and neo-colonial thinking since the end of the Cold War, which has provoked increased military interventions in the global South, the growing stigmatization of immigrant populations in the West, and the delusions of grandeur that have accompanied our own debates around Brexit.' Sudhir Hazareesingh, Times Literary Supplement'… a stimulating and inspiring read …' Patricia Lorcin, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Empires constructed and contested; 2. Empires in crisis: two world wars; 3. The imperialism of decolonisation; 4. Neo-colonialism, new global empire; 5. Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash; 6. Europe: in or out?; 7. Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism; 8. Hubris and nemesis: Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis; 9. The empire strikes back; 10. Fantasy, anguish and working through; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisGermany's short-lived colonial project had wide-reaching consequences for German politics and the nation as a whole. Sebastian Conrad draws on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation to shed new light on Germany's major role in the colonial world and the legacy of its involvement.Trade Review'In this brief but superb book, Conrad manages to couple acute analysis with all the essential information about Germany's colonial ventures in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. It is a model history, a tour de force.' Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota'Sebastian Conrad's German Colonialism is a smart, scintillating synthesis of a great deal of new scholarship; it places the German experience in a cultural and transnational frame, and shows why this episode was so important for German, European, and global history. By far the best brief treatment.' Helmut W. Smith, Vanderbilt University'Sebastian Conrad has proven to be a master in the art of condensed and efficient writing. He skilfully analyses most aspects of German colonial history and provides an impressive bibliography as well. The result is a brilliant mixture of wide ranging narrative account with cultural historical methods and a timely discussion of the social and economic effects of the European Powers' colonialist period.' Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, University of Oxford'With its many excellent illustrations and maps, its annotated critical bibliography and its acute awareness of historiographical trends, it is a model of its kind, providing an essential guide to the subject and intelligent pointers for further research.' London Review of Books'This is an excellent overview of German colonialism … It is the best survey of the subject in English to date, and will be welcomed by students and scholars alike. The breadth of the discussion marks this book out as a particularly valuable addition to the existing literature, and distinguishes it from other textbooks on the topic.' Reviews in History (history.ac.uk/reviews)'Sebastian Conrad's brief summary provides an excellent overview not only of the events and of the geographical and structural dimensions of Germany's colonial experience but also of its historiography.' Woodruff Smith, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Colonialism before the colonial empire; 3. Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes; 4. The German colonial empire; 5. The colonial state; 6. Economy and work; 7. Colonial society; 8. Knowledge and colonialism; 9. The colonial metropole; 10. Colonialism in Europe; 11. German colonialism and its global contexts; 12. Memory; 13. Selected readings.

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Book SynopsisHow did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today''s modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same ''define and conquer'' and ''define and rule'' strategies to carve out the West''s biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the ''rise of the West'', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.Trade Review'Andrew Phillips has done it again - this book will completely change how you think about empires, as well the competition between the East and the West.' Ayşe Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge'How the East was Won brilliantly shows how peripheral groups overcame more powerful polities to create universal empires. Andrew Phillips demonstrates how these groups created such empires not by assimilating subject peoples but by a strategic process of cultural differentiation. They established diversity regimes that maintained the unique identity of the dominant elite, while simultaneously yoking culturally diverse indigenous elites to the conquest elite. In comparing the British Raj to Manchu and Mughal rule, he challenges the preconception that Western colonial empires differed fundamentally from the Asian empires. Instead of displacing indigenous practices, the British layered on to existing practices. Rather than see the current international order, as propelled by “the Rise of the West,” we might thus conclude that order has been infused with the hybridization of West and East from its infancy.' Hendrik Spruyt, Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University, Illinois'A sweeping and beautifully-written explanation of how the Mughals, Manchus and British created vast and powerful empires and left lasting legacies for world order. This book is a definitive contribution to the creation of modernity and the study of global historical International relations.' Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC, and co-author (with Barry Buzan) of The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2019)'In this magnificent book Andrew Phillips takes us on a fascinating and deeply insightful journey beyond IR's Eurocentric frontier to challenge many of the continuing theoretical/conceptual assumptions of the discipline. He reveals the near-ubiquity of hierarchical Asian empires in the early modern period and how these shared many similarities in their origins and modalities of rule with the British empire as well as how international politics was forged through the interweaving of Western and Asian agency.' John M. Hobson,, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, UK'Phillips' masterful book on the Mughal Empire (c.1526-1858), the Qing Empire (c.1644-1912), and the British Raj (c.1765-1947) ambitiously challenges the received wisdom about early modern Asia. The author highlights that the West was initially backward so that Western colonialism could succeed only because it was built on Asian precedents of imperial emergence, expansion and consolidation. The winning formula was a 'define-and-conquer' and 'define-and-rule' strategy that curated identities to facilitate cultural appropriation and local collaboration. The resulting mega-states of 'India' and 'China' are modern inventions rather than the manifest destiny of supposedly unified and ancient civilizations. This book is a must read for students of international relations, comparative history, East Asia, India and China.' Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame'A provocative read … Highly recommended.' Q. E. Wang, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won; 2. The Eurasian transformation; 3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires; 4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia; 5. The great Asian divergence – Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century; 6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820; 7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.

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Book SynopsisAfrica since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press'' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa''s position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the ''development question'' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, thrTrade Review'Cooper's new edition, with its profound and stimulating exploration of Africa's post-2000 spurts of growth, documents links to the preceding eras of post-colonial development and neoliberal disinvestment. He portrays African citizens, though enmeshed in a network of world affairs, as finding new ways to cope with the continent's possibilities and restraints.' Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh'Not once, but now twice, Cooper has performed that rare trick of producing a genuinely introductory text for the beginner that also excites seasoned scholars with its interpretive depth and flair. Not content with simply tacking on an 'update' chapter in this second edition, he has also refreshed 'old' chapters and their bibliographies. Maps, figures, and pictures are superb.' John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge'Cooper's survey is the most thorough, artful, and compelling text available on Africa's late-colonial and post-colonial history. Africa since 1940 combines a masterful historical narrative with an acute and insightful examination of the continent's troubled politics. This new and significantly updated edition is the place to start for any reader wishing to understand the dynamics of Africa's recent past.' David M. Anderson, University of Warwick'Frederick Cooper's brilliant Africa since 1940 was by far the most popular book in Cambridge's New Approaches to African History series. Now, he presents a revised, much expanded, and original second edition, which not only updates to the present the story he tells, but expands his analysis. This is once again the most perceptive critique of Africa's recent history.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto'When Africa since 1940 was first published, it was a major event: here was a comprehensive introduction to twentieth-century African history that actually proffered new and important arguments linking the colonial and independence eras. It is the only introductory text I've considered using. Thoroughly updated, including a survey of post-2000 developments - covering epoch-shaping events such as the 'Africa rising' narrative, militant Islam, democracy and reform in states like Ethiopia, and much more - Africa since 1940 remains an essential read for teachers, students, and anyone interested in Africa's past and present.' Daniel Magaziner, Yale University, Connecticut'Africa has often appeared as a monolithic entity, both in popular imaginations, and in academic and policy discourses - a place marked by a history of colonialism, poverty, and violence. In this measured and rigorously researched text on the continent's history from the 1940s to the present, Frederick Cooper argues powerfully against the tendency to read Africa reductively, thereby occluding a rich history of possibilities. All students of the continent - beginners and specialists alike - will profit immensely from this work.' Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin'Once more, Frederick Cooper helps us rediscover how the urban and rural people of Africa struggled to understand and refashion their way to independence, in spite of tremendous difficulties. A clear and lucid book for all readers.' Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Université Paris Diderot'Since its publication in 2002, Africa since 1940 has been the most indispensable book in the field of African history. It is a useful textbook for students, and I've enjoyed teaching from it for years. But, more importantly, it set out a coherent, capacious analytic with which to see Africa's past. In this revised and updated edition, there are new themes - religion and gender, among others - that allow a more capacious view. There is an expanded and enriched geographic scope. And there is a whole new chapter about twenty-first-century Africa, allowing Cooper to describe the fate of the 'gatekeeper state' up to recent times. Now more than ever, Cooper's clear-headed, unromantic, synthetic, far-seeing book is essential. It furnishes all of us students of Africa's past with a shared vocabulary to think about history and the future.' Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan'Cooper has an extraordinary ability to synthesize the vast and discordant evidence of change in Africa since 1940. Since 1940, Africa has witnessed periods of enthusiastic expectations for development, and periods of wrenching disappointments. Since 1960, Africa's population has tripled, propelling youth into the forefront of change even as aging leaders refuse to yield power. Since the 1990s, parts of Africa have experienced high economic growth fueled by demand for raw materials. As Cooper notes, such growth may be part of long-established short-term spurts and does not necessarily translate as development. Cooper reminds us that there are many Africas and many trajectories of change. The new edition has been updated to reflect on these and other changes and it remains the standard for understanding modern African history.' Richard Roberts, Stanford University, California'This educational book, which discusses important concepts while presenting the major axes of the recent history of continent, is an excellent introduction to the history contemporary of Africa.' Claire NicolasTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Workers, peasants, and the challenge to colonial rule; 3. Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities of the post-war moment; 4. Ending empire and imagining the future; Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world; 5. Development and disappointment: economic and social change in an unequal world, 1945–2018; 6. White rule, armed struggle, and beyond; 7. The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state; 8. Twenty-first century Africa; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.Table of ContentsTables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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Book SynopsisUnder Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.Trade Review“This study contributes substantially to critical texts on Italian colonialism, Fascism, and postcolonial Italy, and to studies of racial identity in Italy by considering the role of hybrid individuals and the way in which they directly challenged … . The valuable, and timely, historical lesson contained in this book—particularly in light of the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean—is twofold: Italian national and racial identities are contested and fluid, and borders and boundaries are not fixed.” (Meriel Tulante, gender/sexuality/italy, gendersexualityitaly.com, Issue 05, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Meticci and Levantines in Literary and Cinematic Representations of Colonial Experience in Africa 1. Art of Darkness: The Aestheticization of Black People in Fascist Colonial Novels 2. The Dissident Literature of Enrico Pea and Fausta Cialente 3. Fade to White: Cinematic Representations of Italian Whiteness 4. Levantines and Biracial Offspring in Postwar Italy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the 17th-20th centuries. The authors show how emotional practices such as prayer, tears, and Methodist 'shouting', and feelings such as pity, joy and frustration, shaped relationships between missionaries and prospective converts.Table of ContentsContents Faith through Feeling: An Introduction; Claire McLisky and Karen Vallgarda 1. 'What Do You Mean by Prayer?': Emotion and Devotion in Thomas Wilson's Essay Towards an Instruction of the Indians (1740); Laura M. Stevens 2. German 'Shouting Methodists': Religious Emotion as a Transatlantic Cultural Practice; Monique Scheer 3. Neuendettelsau Missionaries, Objectivity and the Ethno-musicological Study of Papuan Emotions; Daniel Midena 4. Errant Hearts: Missionary Melancholy and Consolation in the Spanish Philippines; Maria Cecilia Holt 5. A Complicated Pity: Emotion, Missions and the Conversion Narrative; Elizabeth Elbourne 6. Affective Circuits: Emotional transfer and Christian mission in Early Colonial Greenland and Australia; Claire McLisky 7. Converting Emotions: Domesticity and Self-Sacrifice in Female Missionary Writing; Angharad Eyre 8. The Evocation of Emotions in a Swedish Missionary Periodical; Hanna Acke 9. 'I feel that we belong to the one big family': Protestant Childhoods, Missions and Emotions in British World Settings, 1870s-1930s; Hugh Morrison Emotions, Missions and Colonial Histories: An Epilogue; Jacqueline Van Gent

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial and decolonial approaches and their implications for development studies. By outlining contemporary theoretical debates and examining their implications for how the developing world is thought about, written about and engaged with in policy terms, this book unpacks the difficult, complex and important aspects of the relationships between postcolonial theory, decoloniality and development studies.The book focuses on the importance of development discourses, the relationship between development knowledge and power, and agency within development. It includes significant new material exploring the significance of postcolonial approaches to understanding development in the context of rapid global change and the dissonances and interconnections between postcolonial theory Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women's travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform.This new set in the Chawton HouTable of ContentsIntroductionAnn Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823)Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846)Editorial Notes

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