Collection Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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« Examines land management programs pushed by the colonial government in western Kenya between 1920 and 1963, analyzing how those programs were negotiated or contested by the local community.
Drawing from (...)
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Collection Cambridge Latin American Studies
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« During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in (...)
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320 p. ISBN : 978-1-4696-2251-4 Prix : 32,95 $
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« In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation’s triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation’s new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the (...)
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« James Cook, en 1777, découvrit le tabou, le mot et la chose. Par lui, ce mot a pénétré nos langues européennes. Chez le Polynésien, le tabou est à l’opposé de ce qu’il signifie dans nos cultures. Pour nous, il est ce que l’on doit évincer, non ce qu’il faut respecter. On (...)
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456 p. ISBN : 9780674504783 Price : 39,95 $
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« The British Empire at its height governed more than half the world’s Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take seriously what one scholar called its (...)
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