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Maya Jasanoff 'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Ferguson... | Linda MacDonald-Lewis Takes you from the days of William 'Braveheart' Wallace and Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Independence in Scotland, to the days when Scottish and Irish people emigrated to... |
Watson, Adam; Exploring issues of independence in Europe and beyond, this text shows how freedom of action is limited not only by a tightening net of interdependence and by the rules of... | Alexandra Fuller Here, in one book, is the sequel and the prequel to the hugely successful Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight |
Edward W. Said Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal... | Afif Safieh The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown brings together Afif Safieh's articles, lectures and interviews from 1981, when he was a staff member in Yasser Arafat's Beirut office, to 2005... |
Robert Young An account of the history and debates in post colonialism. This book situates post colonialism in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as a historical condition, and as a... | Marc Mulholland Explores the issues and debates about Northern Ireland in the historical context of hundreds of years of conflict. This book tackles many questions, such as: what accounts for the perpetuation... |
George B.N. Ayittey George Ayittey argues that before Africa can prosper, she must be free. Taking a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Ukraine's orange revolution in 2004... | Patrick French At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled... |
Richard Hall 'A triumph: a first class comprehensive narrative of the impact upon the people of the Indian Ocean of those who penetrated it. It is hard to believe that this account... | Edward Paice An African Younghusband - the compelling life of a great adventurer. |
Vivek Chibber A provocative intellectual assault on the Subalternists' foundational work. | Eyal Weizman Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation. |
Arjun Appadurai Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future. | Cass R. Sunstein Never in history have 1,322 words held out such extraordinary determination to be free as those found in the Declaration of Independence. This title presents the full texts of both... |