A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a...
John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years...
Knowledge production is a highly political and politicized practice. This book questions the way in which knowledge of and about Africa is produced...
In 1571, Diego Ortiz, an Augustinian friar, was executed in the neo-Inca state of Vilcabamba (Peru). His killing, and the events surrounding it...
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated...
Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial...
As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =– and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century – a...