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Le colonialisme en question : théorie, connaissance, histoire.
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ISBN: 9782228905169 222890516X Year: 2010 Publisher: Payot & Rivages


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Herodotus, Explorer of the Past : Three Essays
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ISBN: 0691068712 1322020140 1400861853 0691605858 0691634750 9780691068718 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's expansion as a new manifestation of imperialist aggression. In this skillful analysis of Herodotus' intellectual world, J.A.S. Evans combines historical, anthropological, and literary techniques to show how the war affected not only the great thinker's view of Persian aggression and of the people involved in it but also the shape of the Histories themselves. The first essay discusses Herodotus' investigation of imperialism, and the second finds the beginnings of biography in his descriptions of individuals, particularly in his well-crafted portrait of Cyrus. The third essay describes the "Father of History" as a collector and evaluator of local oral stories, sources for the written work that was destined by its scope and unifying plan to introduce a new genre. Evans draws analogies between Herodotus' methods and those of oral historians in other cultures, particularly in precolonial Africa. He also explores comparisons between Herodotus in Egypt and sixteenth-and seventeenth-century European ethnologists in the Americas.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Russia in world history : a transnational approach
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ISBN: 9781350026421 9781350026414 9781350026438 9781350026445 1350026433 1350026425 1350026417 1350026441 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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"Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In doing so she rethinks many historical narratives that bluntly posit a liberal West against a repressive, authoritarian Russia. Instead Chatterjee argues for a wider perspective which reveals that imperial practices relating to the appropriation of human and natural resources were shared across European empires, both East and West. Incorporating the stories of famous thinkers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Emma Goldman, Wangari Maathai, Arundhati Roy, among others. This unique interpretation of modern Russia is knitted together from the varied lives and experiences of those individuals who challenged the status quo and promoted a different way of thinking. This is a ground-breaking book with big and provocative ideas about the history of the modern world, and will be vital reading for students of both modern Russian and world history"--

Napoleonic Imperialism and the Savoyard Monarchy 1773-1821 State Building in Piedmont : State Building in Piedmont
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ISBN: 0773421408 9780773421400 0773486097 9780773486096 088946636X 9780889466364 Year: 1997 Volume: 12 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Ancien régime Piedmont is a little-studied area, and so there exists a geographical and conceptual imbalance in the historiography of the Napoleonic era which this work addresses. It concentrates on the character and shape of mainstream political life in an area representative of the much of the territory controlled by the Napoleonic régime. It illustrates that the major problems of law and order and political polarization which beset the Revolutionary period did not disappear under Napoleon. They preoccupied his government as much as those of his predecessors. These problems, rather than ideo

Reappraisals in overseas history : essays on post-war historiography about European expansion.
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ISBN: 9060214447 9060214471 9789060214473 9789060214442 Year: 1979 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden Leiden university press


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Memories of post-imperial nations : the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013
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ISBN: 9781107102293 9781316182543 1107102294 1316182541 1316569985 1316570045 131657007X 131657010X 1316570169 9781316570166 9781316569986 9781316570043 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Memories of Post-Imperial Nations presents the first transnational comparison of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Italy and Japan, all of whom lost or 'decolonized' their overseas empires after 1945. Since the empires of the world crumbled, the post-imperial nations have been struggling to come to terms with the present, and as recall sets in 'wars of memory' have arisen, leading to a process of collective 'editing'. As these nations rebuild themselves they shed old characteristics and acquire new ones, looking at new orientations. This book brings together varying perspectives with historians and political scientists of these nations attempting to bind memory and its experience of different post-imperial nations.


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Memories of post-imperial nations : the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013
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ISBN: 1316569985 131657007X 131657010X 1316570045 1316570169 1316182541 1107102294 9781107102293 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Memories of Post-Imperial Nations presents the first transnational comparison of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Italy and Japan, all of whom lost or 'decolonized' their overseas empires after 1945. Since the empires of the world crumbled, the post-imperial nations have been struggling to come to terms with the present, and as recall sets in 'wars of memory' have arisen, leading to a process of collective 'editing'. As these nations rebuild themselves they shed old characteristics and acquire new ones, looking at new orientations. This book brings together varying perspectives with historians and political scientists of these nations attempting to bind memory and its experience of different post-imperial nations.

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Imperialism --- Memory --- Decolonization --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Historiography. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Europe --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colonies --- Imperialism - Historiography --- Memory - Social aspects - Europe - History --- Memory - Social aspects - Japan - History --- Decolonization - Social aspects - Europe - History --- Decolonization - Social aspects - Japan - History --- Postcolonialism - Social aspects - Europe - History --- Postcolonialism - Social aspects - Japan - History --- Europe - Colonies - Historiography --- Japan - Colonies - Historiography --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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