Imperial History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 5

Matthew James Crawford
The Andean Wonder Drug

In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees t…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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Nikolas Broy
Flourishing Fasts

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, "vegetarian sects," that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active i…

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R D McChesney
An Afghan Prince in Victorian England

The first English account of the diplomatic visit of Prince Nasr Allah to Europe in the late nineteenth century, concentrating on his time in England

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Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of th…

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Eric Hielscher
Spezialisten für das Empire

Dieses Buch bietet Einblicke in die komplexen Netzwerke und Machtstrukturen des British Empire, indem es die Verwaltung der indischen Kontraktarbeit beleuchtet. Es analysiert die administrativen Verflecht…

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Sanjeev Kumar Hm
Orientalism, Liberalism and Colonial Governmentality

The book attempts to examine the modes by which orientalism and liberalism as colonial epistemologies and the ideological foundations of colonial power contributed to the making of the imperial history of…

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Shuchen Xiang
Chinese Cosmopolitanism

A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and differenceHistorically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal …

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Maria Birnbaum
Before Recognition

Recognizing religion in global politics is neither neutral nor benign. This book reveals how recognition operates to reinforce hierarchies, reify religious difference, and deepen political divisions. Mari…

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The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance

Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice

This Handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe. It consists of high-profile contributions that expose structural relations, glo…

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Maria Birnbaum
Before Recognition

Recognizing religion in global politics is neither neutral nor benign. This book reveals how recognition operates to reinforce hierarchies, reify religious difference, and deepen political divisions. Mari…

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Ivan Lee
Extradition and Empire

In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, a…

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The Papers of Admiral George Grey: Volume 69

The Papers of Admiral George Grey presents the memoir, journal, and correspondence of George Grey, son of the Whig prime minister the Earl Grey. By documenting the Grey family's experience of the Whig min…

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The Great Upheaval

The Great Upheaval seeks to challenge the periodization employed by most Anglophone scholars of colonial North America and to better integrate scholarship of North America and the Atlantic world with broa…

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