Imperialism

The United States has often acted as an empire in Latin America. Nevertheless, there has been an obvious dissimilarity between U.S. actions in South America and U.S. actions in the rest of Latin America, which is illustrated by the fact that the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826506481Author Jessica Carey-WebbFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams) 272g

Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of domestic colonies were...

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined...

How to Make a New Spain presents an unprecedented view of the material worlds of Mexico City in the sixteenth century, drawing from a combination of sources and methodologies. It presents the author's original analysis of over 11,000 items in the probate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911405788Author Vladimir LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly...

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a non-fiction book about what writer William Burroughs called, " the backlash and bad karma of empire." Set against the author' s month-long trip to London, Vietnam and Thailand...

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A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour...

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Most writing today by activists and opponents of foreign policy is rooted in the 1960s. Underpinning many of these books is the unquestioned assumption that contemporary British imperialism is an adjunct to American foreign policy. Wherever the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250135599Author Jonathan M KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

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African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Rhythms of Resistance traces the development of this rich cultural heritage. Acclaimed author Peter Fryer describes...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private armies, and contractors have always been central to US-sponsored insurgencies and US counterinsurgent...

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Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762747Author Fadi LamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 156mm * 24mm

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094369Author W. Scott PooleFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

The attempt by the United States since 9/11 to establish liberal political regimes in the Middle East and in the mountains of Afghanistan was doomed to fail-and for one simple reason. Imperialism and militarism build empires, not liberalism. And if we do...

China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies - like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to 'catch up' economically, or overtake the rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808342Author Claudia de la CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U...

From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully combined rigorous research and passionate outrage to assess his political era. In this still-indispensable collection of essays written...

This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052505Author J A HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

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An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's...

Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the project as illegal. Britain, the League of Nations and the United Nations all mobilised international law to justify...

This book guides students as they explore how white identities are forged using both sociological and psycho-social ideas. Whiteness has traditionally been seen as 'ethnically transparent' - the marker against which other ethnicities are measured...

As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717801350Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and...

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'AN INNOVATIVE AND EXHILARATING READ' Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsEconomic development is not really development without consent.For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the less-developed 'Rest' in the name of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771863827Author Samir SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka Books

The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA's historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies.Scott...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227447487Author Shahidi IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Divine Black People LtdPublisher Divine Black People LtdWeight(grams) 213g