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Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-centu…
In , Abbé Jacques Suchet arrived in the Algerian city of Constantine, an important North African crossroads and citadel dating back to the days of the Roman Empire. The city, perched on a rock and surrounded by cliffs on three sides, had been conquered with much bloodshed only two years before, in colo-nial France’s first successful foray into the Algerian interior. Suchet …
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- 2
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- 9780197605295
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- xi, 304p.
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- 266.20965 SAC p
A people's history of the second world war
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…
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- 9781849647205
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: the influence of global news organisations
The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press is a comprehensive and highly analytical study of the impact of foreign news organisations on the creation of an image of Africa in its own press. Identifying a problematic focus on the Western media in previous studies of the African media image, Serwornoo uses the Ghanaian press as a case study to explore the effects of centuries of Afro-pessimistic disc…
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- 9781800640436
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- x, 242p.; ill.
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- 363.80963 MIC t
Thou shalt forget : indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of …
The first chapter contains some theoretical reflections on cultural oblivion as well as background information (mostly from documentary sources) about the Essipiunnuat and the Salmon War. Chapter 2 identifies the central elements that have contributed to the occurrence of the Salmon War, according to those taking part. These went beyond their own subjectivity. Th…
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- 9781912250424
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- xiv, 284 : ill.
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- 305.800971 PIE t
Decolonizing science in Latin American art
Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NAS…
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- 9781787359765
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- xi, 288 p. : ill.
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- 709.8 PAG d
World literature and dissent
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. A…
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- 9
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- 9780203710302
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- viii, 204 p. : ill.
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- 809.933581 BUR w
Practicing decoloniality in museums : a guide with global examples
The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the museum cannot truly be decolonized, museum staff and museologists have been approaching the issu…
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- 9789048554836
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- 125 p.
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- 069 ARI p
Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan
"Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus‑being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, lit…
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- 9780520964198
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- vii, 307 p. : ill,
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- 951.903 WOR i
Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, sil…
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument (‘We are here because you were there’) were strong assets of the first generation. This ‘postcolonial bonus’ indeed facilitated their int…
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- 9789048514021
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- 290p.: ill.
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- -
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- 940.5 OOS p
Netherlands Indies and the Great War 1914-1918
World War I had just broken out, but colonial authorities in the Netherlands Indies heaved a sigh of relief: The colonial export sector had not collapsed and war offered new economic prospects; representatives from the Islamic nationalist movement had prayed for God to bless the Netherlands but had not seized upon the occasion to incite unrest. Furthermore, the colonial government, impressed by…
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- 9789067183086 (pbk.)
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- xiii, 674 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 254
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- 959.8022 VAN n
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