This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moroc...Loe edasi...
An unimpeachable, erudite jewel of a book, showing how tenaciously the shadows of colonialism reach into our lives - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Lives of Others Compulsively readable. The...Loe edasi...
This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial v...Loe edasi...
The Hwarang segi manuscripts, written by Pak Changhwa (18891962), have been a hot topic in Korean history since their discovery in 1989. Some scholars claim that Pak discovered the lost Hwarang segi of Kim Taemun (fl. 704) in Japan while working for...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. Highlighting the interconnectedness of postcolonial instability and migratory experiences, this is an important...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries. Special attention is paid not o...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning....Loe edasi...
This book offers a sweeping reappraisal of nativism as a central force within global capitalism rather than a simple reaction against it. Peter Bloom shows how the figure of the “native,” inherited from colonial rule, continues to shape how capita...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ethnogenesis, their integration in host societies and their bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas— a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...Loe edasi...
This book examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this...Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
This book explores how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies affect millions of migrant workers. It identifies two contrasting regulatory approaches that bookend a governance spectrum, offering an original theoretical framewo...Loe edasi...
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russias military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and r...Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted as creatures, objects, ideas, or people—were historically contingent and grounded in an often-hazy interplay...Loe edasi...
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done, and might yet do.It proposes twelve fundamental domains of human...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explainin...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explainin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049798)
Taller than the Rio de Janieros Christ the Redeemer statue, the Virgen del Panecillo draws visitors to the center of Quito, Ecuador, to take advantage of the sites unique view of the city. But few know the history behind El Panecillo or the monume...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089466)
Taller than the Rio de Janieros Christ the Redeemer statue, the Virgen del Panecillo draws visitors to the center of Quito, Ecuador, to take advantage of the sites unique view of the city. But few know the history behind El Panecillo or the monume...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moroc...Loe edasi...
An unimpeachable, erudite jewel of a book, showing how tenaciously the shadows of colonialism reach into our lives - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Lives of Others Compulsively readable. The...Loe edasi...
This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial v...Loe edasi...
The Hwarang segi manuscripts, written by Pak Changhwa (18891962), have been a hot topic in Korean history since their discovery in 1989. Some scholars claim that Pak discovered the lost Hwarang segi of Kim Taemun (fl. 704) in Japan while working for...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. Highlighting the interconnectedness of postcolonial instability and migratory experiences, this is an important...Loe edasi...
During the twentieth century Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear programs of numerous global powers. From uranium extraction to weapons testing, Australias lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of nati...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries. Special attention is paid not o...Loe edasi...
When energy transitions are disrupted, who benefits and who pays the price? Transitions to greener energy are often imagined as smooth, technical fixes. In reality, however, they often take place in rural and remote areas, far from centres of consump...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning....Loe edasi...
This book offers a sweeping reappraisal of nativism as a central force within global capitalism rather than a simple reaction against it. Peter Bloom shows how the figure of the “native,” inherited from colonial rule, continues to shape how capita...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ethnogenesis, their integration in host societies and their bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas— a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...Loe edasi...
This book examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this...Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
This book explores how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies affect millions of migrant workers. It identifies two contrasting regulatory approaches that bookend a governance spectrum, offering an original theoretical framewo...Loe edasi...
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russias military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and r...Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted as creatures, objects, ideas, or people—were historically contingent and grounded in an often-hazy interplay...Loe edasi...
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done, and might yet do.It proposes twelve fundamental domains of human...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explainin...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explainin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leiden University Press, ISBN-13: 9789087284978)
Medical Mercenaries, Masculinities, and Transimperial Science between the Dutch East Indies and German-speaking Europe traces the trajectories of some 300 physicians from German-speaking Switzerland, Habsburg Austria, and the German Empire who serve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049798)
Taller than the Rio de Janieros Christ the Redeemer statue, the Virgen del Panecillo draws visitors to the center of Quito, Ecuador, to take advantage of the sites unique view of the city. But few know the history behind El Panecillo or the monume...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089466)
Taller than the Rio de Janieros Christ the Redeemer statue, the Virgen del Panecillo draws visitors to the center of Quito, Ecuador, to take advantage of the sites unique view of the city. But few know the history behind El Panecillo or the monume...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691280998)
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule In A New World of Revolutions, Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, politics, and legacies of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770–1850) f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416536)
How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination? Inspired by Frantz Fanons insight that colonizatio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416512)
How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination? Inspired by Frantz Fanons insight that colonizatio...Loe edasi...
Decolonising International Solidarity analyses the post-independence trajectories of formerly colonised countries in Africa and the Middle East from an unexplored angle: the differences between the natural environments of coloniser and colonised....Loe edasi...
Decolonising International Solidarity analyses the post-independence trajectories of formerly colonised countries in Africa and the Middle East from an unexplored angle: the differences between the natural environments of coloniser and colonised....Loe edasi...
In A History of Manchuria, Ian Nish describes the turbulent times which the three Northeastern Provinces of China experienced in the last two centuries. The site of three serious wars in 1894, 1904 and 1919, the territory rarely enjoyed peace though...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009546676)
This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. It highlights a significant internal wave of settlement fro...Loe edasi...
This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. It highlights a significant internal wave of settlement fro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009569514)
This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. This book provides a better understanding of the imperial and colonial history of South Asia, and offers insights into various aspects of global history, particularly with regard to huma...Loe edasi...
This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. This book provides a better understanding of the imperial and colonial history of South Asia, and offers insights into various aspects of global history, particularly with regard to huma...Loe edasi...
Building on recent scholarship that challenges the supposed historical isolation of Eastern European art from the colonial matrix of power, this book critiques the sometimes uncritical application of established Western postcolonial and decolonial...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world. It focuses on three geographically and poli...Loe edasi...
Offering an incisive examination into aspects of the controversy regarding ownership of the marble sculptures infamously removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century, this volume challenges long-held scholarly assumptio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819824915)
Volume 2 of Heritage Hotels of Asia follows the movement of Europeans across Southeast and East Asia in search of trading wealth, establishing colonies as they went and founding new towns, cities, and even countries. Colonial settlements evolved int...Loe edasi...
This book offers an accessible introduction to the relationship between tourism and politics. Moving beyond traditional ideas about borders and passports, the chapters in this volume examine how everyday interactions, cultural ideologies, celebrit...Loe edasi...
Notes from the EUs Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. Along the Belarus–Poland frontier, it shows how Kremlin “migration engine...Loe edasi...
