África, racismo y colonialismo

una herencia presente en la salud global

"Este ensayo analiza la influencia de la visión europea en África durante la era colonial y su impacto en la práctica médica. Esta visión, caracterizada por el racismo y los mecanismos opresivos de la colonización, estableció un sistema coercitivo que permeó numerosos aspectos de la ...

White Malice

the CIA and the neocolonisation of Africa

The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba ...

Decolonizing the study of Palestine

indigenous perspectives and settler colonialism after Elia Zureik

Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists the mission of guiding the "backward" natives of ...

Colonialismo, comunidad y capital

pensar el despojo, pensar América Latina

Los textos aquí reunidos analizan las intersecciones entre las herencias coloniales, las formas del despojo capitalista y las respuestas que han dado distintas experiencias comunitario-populares en América Latina. A partir del análisis de conflictos y realidades, de casos situados en escenarios diversos (México, Guatemala, Brasil ...

El genocidio alemán en Namibia

Esta monografía, así como el resto que conforma la colección, trata desgraciadamente de un tema bastante de actualidad: el genocidio, empeño en la supresión forzosa, o exterminio, de un grupo grande de personas por parte de otro poder. En este caso, el genocidio de los ...

Empire, incorporated

the corporations that built British colonialism

An award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries ...

Internal empire

the rise and fall of English imperialism

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas territorial expansion--a ...

Bury the corpse of colonialism

the revolutionary feminist conference of 1949

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The ...

America before 1787

the unraveling of a colonial regime

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution With America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here ...

Colonialismo energético

Territorios de sacrificio para la transición energética corporativa en España, México, Noruega y el Sáhara Occidental

Asistimos a un incremento de megaproyectos eólicos y fotovoltaicos, cuyo vertiginoso despliegue sobre grandes extensiones de territorios ha despertado movilizaciones y resistencias de zonas rurales y grupos ecologistas en España, y de pueblos indígenas en México, en el Sáhara Occidental y en Noruega. Estos casos ...

The untold story of the Golan Heights

occupation, colonization and Jawlani resistance

In 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes characterised as the 'forgotten occupation', the western Golan Heights have been transformed by Israeli colonisation, including ...

El río de los dioses

genio, coraje y traición en la búsqueda del origen del Nilo

Una historia sin igual de valor y aventura, con el telón de fondo de la carrera de las potencias coloniales por explotar África. A lo largo del siglo XIX las potencias europeas comenzaron a lanzar campañas de exploración destinadas a cartografiar los rincones desconocidos del ...

Teoría crítica anticolonial

Ensayos de historia intelectual

La historia intelectual ha sido desdeñada por las disciplinas decimonónicas bajo el supuesto que pone a "hervir la olla sin cocer bien ninguno de los ingredientes". En esta obra, el autor examina diversas inflexiones en la tradición del pensamiento crítico para esbozar los contornos de ...

The colonial world

a history of European empires, 1780S to the present

The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With ...

Empire building

the construction of British India, 1690-1860

'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building ...

Cómo ocultar un imperio

historia de las colonias de Estados Unidos

Estamos familiarizados con los mapas que delimitan los cincuenta estados. Y también estamos familiarizados con la idea de que Estados Unidos es un "imperio" que ejerce su poder en todo el mundo. ¿Pero qué hay de los territorios reales -las islas, atolones y archipiélagos- que ...

Colonialism and codification

a legal history of the Caribbean and the Americas

When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predicted that this would result in the most dramatic upheaval in the history of the American continent and the nearby islands. The encounter with the new world inaugurated an era ...

Settling for less

why states colonize and why they stop

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the twentieth century? At the same ...

Colonialism

a moral reckoning

A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however ...

Palestina

100 años de colonialismo y resistencia

Una historia de referencia sobre los cien años de guerra contra los palestinos de la mano del principal historiador estadounidense de Oriente Medio, contada a través de acontecimientos cruciales y de la historia familiar En 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, alcalde de Jerusalén, alarmado por el ...