{"product_id":"empires-and-walls-globalization-migration-and-colonial-domination-9789004236035","title":"Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts?   In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around; as well as impending fate of ‘neo-liberal’ barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Photos, Figures and Tables  Foreword by David Fasenfest  Preface  1.  Walls, Borders and Imperial Formations    Borders, Walls and Globalization   PART I: THE IMPERIAL WALLS THAT ARE NO LONGER AROUND  2.  Hadrian’s Wall: an Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain    Geopolitics of Hadrian’s Wall    Why Did Hadrian Build the Wall?    Hadrian’s Wall: Beginning of the End?  3.  Red Snake: The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran    Was the Red Snake a defensive Wall?    The Wall’s Architecture    The Wall’s associated hydraulic structures and functions    The Red Snake as a Yet Unsolved Enigma  4.  Clash of Empires: Prelude to the Berlin Wall    The Rise and Fall of the German Empire    Preparing Germans for Occupation, 1945-1947    Emergence of the Two Germanys under Occupation, 1947-1949    Post-War Dependent Development of a Divided and Occupied Germany  5.  Build the Wall: The Two German Economies are Now United!    The Wall’s Architecture    Was the Wall a Sign of East Germany’s Weakness?    Concluding Remarks   PART II: ANTI-IMPERIALIST WALLS  6.  Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Islamic Hijab in France    The French Colonial Presence in North Africa    French Republicanism and the Problematic “Collective Identity”    Muslim Immigrants in France    Social Spheres and the ‘Maghrebi’ Muslim Identity    Hijab as the Last Defensive Tool of the Colonized    Conclusion  PART III: NEO-COLONIAL WALLS  7.  An Empire in the Making: American Colonial Interests South of the Border    Migration of Mexicans to the United States    Maquiladoras, NAFTA, and the Evolution of Twin Cities along the U.S.-Mexico Border    The Border is No Longer: Long Live the Border!  8.  The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico: Border Blues     Erecting the Offensive Barrier, or ‘The Great Wall of Mexico”    The Fence\/Wall Architecture    Is the Border Fence\/Wall Effective? Notes from the Field  9.  Israel and Palestine: a Settler Colony is Born    Israel: The Birth of a Nation    Advancement of Zionist Settler Colonies in Palestine under British Occupation    Zionist Colonization and the Land Question in Palestine  10.  Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style    Israel’s First Expansion Phase, 1947-1949    Israel’s Second Expansion Phase, 1949-1967    Israel’s Third Expansion Phase, 1967-1991    The Second Intifada: Prelude to the Wall\/Fence    Israel’s Final Expansionist Offensive: The Separation Barrier    The Separation Barrier’s Architecture    The Two Economies Are Now Fully Integrated: Erect the Separation Barrier!    A “Villa in the Jungle”? From Jabotinsky’s “Iron Wall’’ to the Separation Barrier  11.  Epilogue: Conceptualizing Walls and borders—“Globalization from Within”    Post-Wall Berlin  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210633175383,"sku":"9789004236035","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empires-and-walls-globalization-migration-and-colonial-domination-9789004236035","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}