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In search of greatness : Russia's communications with Africa and the world
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ISBN: 1567505325 9781567505320 1567505333 9781567505337 0313002983 9780313002984 Year: 2001 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : London : Praeger, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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An analysis of Russia's foray into communication with Africa and the world. It examines news reports and civic discourse, and explores the intellectual, social, cultural, political, geographical and historical aspects of the relationship between Africa and Russia.


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Imperialisme.
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ISBN: 9022837203 Year: 1975 Publisher: Bussum Unieboek

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Discourse on colonialism
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ISBN: 9781583670255 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Monthly Review Press

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This classic work, firstpublished in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation ofscholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles inAfrica, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later,when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialisminspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, andanti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date.Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism andcolonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing thecontradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress"and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or"primitive." Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, andculture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationshipbetween consciousness and reality are extremely complex. . . . It isequally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the sametime that we decolonize society." An interview with Césaire by the poetRené Depestre is also included.


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XVIII. De adembenemende 18e eeuw. Revolutionairen, avonturiers, libertijnen & puriteinen; het tijdperk dat de wereld voorgoed veranderde
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ISBN: 9789463938556 Year: 2022 Publisher: Gent Borgerhoff & Lamberigts

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De achttiende eeuw was een eeuw van grondige verandering. Alles wat voordien onwrikbaar leek, kwam op de helling te staan: de macht van de Kerk en de adel, het absolutisme van de heersers, de rechteloosheid van het volk.De Amerikaanse grondwet trad in werking en had mondiaal een grote invloed op begrippen als democratie en burgerrechten. De Franse revolutie wierp de alleenheerschappij van de monarch omver. De eerste versie van de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens en de Burger kwam tot stand. Verlichte ideeën rond vrijheid en gelijkheid werden rondgestrooid.In onze streken was er de Brabantse Omwenteling, maar die mislukte – België moest nog een hele tijd wachten tot ook hier de verlichte waarden naar voren traden.Dit alles kwam er niet zonder slag of stoot. Want terwijl revolutionairen en avonturiers stormden, boden puriteinen, slavenhandelaars en machtshebbers weerstand.Francis Weyns beschrijft dit historische keerpunt in al zijn internationale aspecten, inbegrepen sterke verhalen.


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Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery
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ISBN: 9783031202865 9783031202858 9783031202872 9783031202889 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies — one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots — from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It takes the University of Lisbon as a point of departure to explore broader questions of how the field can be rethought from within, through Anglophone (post)coloniality and an institutional location in a department of English, while also considering forces from without, as the arguments in this book issue from a specific, liminal positionality outside the Anglosphere. The first half of the book examines the critical practice of and the political push for decolonising the university and the curriculum, advancing existing scholarship with this focus on semi-peripheral perspectives. The second half comprises two theoretically-informed and classroom-oriented case studies of adaptation of the literary canon, a part of model syllabi that are designed to raise awareness of and encourage an understanding of a global, pluriversal literary history. Ana Cristina Mendes is Associate Professor of English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches courses in cultural studies, visual culture and adaptation, and English history and culture. She is the author of Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace (2013) and The Past on Display (2013), and editor of Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture (2012). .


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Talking about global inequality : personal experiences and historical perspectives
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ISBN: 9783031080425 9783031080418 9783031080432 3031080424 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG,

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"Comprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it? Leading figures within the fields of History, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology and Postcolonial Studies, shed light on how their personal backgrounds, places of work, and hometowns have shaped their views on global inequality. We learn about the causes of global inequality, the historical factors that have shaped the world into an unequal place, and the challenges that humanity is confronted with in the face of the widening gap between the poor and the rich. Bringing together voices from the Global North and South, this book helps us to think more broadly about inequality and deepens our understanding of how this long-lasting phenomenon is, and has been, experienced across the globe."--Provided by publisher.


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Hierarchies of power : evangelical christianity and adat transformation in Indonesian borneo
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ISBN: 9789811901713 9789811901706 9789811901720 9789811901737 Year: 2022 Publisher: Gateway East, Singapore : Springer,

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"This important ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of the interactions of Adat and Pentecostal-Evangelical Christianity among the Kenyah of Central Borneo cuts through the underbrush of now overfamiliar debates about Christian conversion and individualism to ask challenging new questions about how egalitarianism and hierarchy are negotiated by means of complex religious and political struggles. Opening up a fresh analytic perspective and posing a novel set of questions about religion and cultural change, this book is a major contribution to the anthropology of Christianity." - Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia. The book argues that the Pentecostal-Evangelical (P/e) mode of religious authority and organization has the capacity to adapt to both the pre-existing hierarchical traditional institution such as Adat and modern egalitarian social forms. It has been necessary within the context of Kenyah's experience of religious change as it enabled many actors from various social classes to obtain and perceive religious authority in a specific local and regional political-religious situation while promoting their identity as egalitarian and autonomous modern subjects. In contrast with other studies on the P/e church that emphasize its egalitarian spirit as a factor that supports its impressive growth, the book contends that its adaptive structural characteristics have enabled the development of this specific Christian denomination to expand rapidly and play a dominant position in contemporary social life in various parts of the world. The book thus provides novel findings in the study of religious change in Southeast Asia by enriching the discussion of historical transformation in the region, and analyzing the articulation of global and regional Christian movements, with the socio-political characteristics of Bornean society. Imam Ardhianto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia. His research interests include religious change, Adat transformation, globalization, anthropology of Christianity and Borneo studies. .


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De derde wereld nabij
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ISBN: 9027609063 Year: 1986 Volume: vol 311 Publisher: Tilburg Zwijsen

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Veel mensen leven in de derde wereld. In dit boek wordt hun dagelijks leven belicht met de bedoeling de achtergronden van de problemen waarmee deze mensen worstelen, te verduidelijken.We hopen hiermee een aanze te geven tot een grotere bewustwording van de problemen die onderontwikkeling met zich meebrengt. Het onderwijs heeft hierbij een belangrijke taak.


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Writing the South African San : colonial ethnographic discourses
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ISBN: 9783030862268 9783030862275 9783030862282 9783030862251 3030862267 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference. The study identifies an 'ethnographic poetics' in which the claims of scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference for metaphor and analogy. This created a set of mobile figures that could be disseminated to different reading publics in both Britain and the colonies through a variety of literary genres and textual media. It advances research on race and imperial history by focusing on the importance of literature - from newspapers and periodicals to popular novels - in shaping discourses of national and racial belonging in Britain and the Cape Colony. Lara Atkin is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent, UK. After graduating with a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University of London in 2017, she worked as an ERC-funded postdoctoral resarch fellow on the project 'SouthHem' based in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She is co-author of Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Palgrave, 2019, with Sarah Comyn et al).


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Portuguese colonial military in India : apparition of control, 1750-1850
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ISBN: 9789811962943 9789811962936 9789811962950 Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under the onslaught of the early modern globalization. The research shows that far from being dilapidated or archaic, the Portuguese colonial military there kept up with some developments in technology and organization in a competitive environment. Although the colonial military was not the most important reason in accounting for the survival of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, nor was the military profession the most lucrative occupation, the Portuguese experience gave indication of how a colonial state and society was able to survive against coalescing threats from the position of weakness. Located in the period and geographical region of the wax and waning of the Mughal and Maratha empires, Portuguese India was not necessarily a more violent place than the surrounding territories although resistance to and uprising against the Portuguese was usually underestimated. Beginning from the attempt at political and military centralization (and standardization) in the eighteenth century, the abolition of the army of the Estado da Índia in the nineteenth marked nominally the end of an era that may have a reverberation on the pacifist perception of Goa today. Teddy Sim is involved in research extending from the doctoral work he does on the Portuguese enterprise in the East centering on colonial India in the eighteenth century, of which he has published related papers and the book Portuguese Enterprise in the East: Survival in the Years 1707-57 (2011). He is also the editor of Piracy and surreptitious activities in Malay Archipelago and adjacent regions (2014), and Maritime Defense of China: Ming General Qi Jiguang (2017).

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