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Author |
: Robert Aldrich |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 1998-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521414616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052141461X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Colonies by : Robert Aldrich
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.
Author |
: John Scalzi |
Publisher |
: Tor Books |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2007-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429933780 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142993378X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Colony by : John Scalzi
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game--as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war. Old Man's War Series #1 Old Man’s War #2 The Ghost Brigades #3 The Last Colony #4 Zoe’s Tale #5 The Human Division #6 The End of All Things Short fiction: “After the Coup” Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Lock In The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: José Trías Monge |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1997-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300076185 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300076189 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Puerto Rico by : José Trías Monge
Former Attorney General and former Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, Jose Trias Monge describes his island as one of the most densely populated places on earth, with a severely distressed economy and limited political freedom--still considered a colony of the U.S. Monge claims the island has become too dependent on U.S. money and argues for decolonization and movement toward more independence. 28 illustrations.
Author |
: John Connell |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 531 |
Release |
: 2020-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811559051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811559058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ends of Empire by : John Connell
This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories command attention because of their unique status, and for the ways that they occasionally become flashpoints for rival international claims, dubious financial activities, illegal migration and clashes between metropolitan and local mores. Connell and Aldrich argue that a negotiated dependency brings greater benefits to these territories than might independence.
Author |
: Fanny Pigeaud |
Publisher |
: Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745341799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745341798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa's Last Colonial Currency by : Fanny Pigeaud
How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa.
Author |
: Tristram Hunt |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 2014-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780805093087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0805093087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities of Empire by : Tristram Hunt
"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."
Author |
: John Scalzi |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2007-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780765316974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0765316978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Colony by : John Scalzi
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game--as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.
Author |
: Alan Taylor |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199766239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199766231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonial America by : Alan Taylor
In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the transatlantic and a transcontinental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flows of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas.
Author |
: Nicole Eggers |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351044011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 135104401X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United Nations and Decolonization by : Nicole Eggers
Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples. This book will prove foundational for scholars and students of modern history, international history, and postcolonial history.
Author |
: Tom Rice |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520300392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520300394 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Films for the Colonies by : Tom Rice
Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.