War, revolution and society in the Rio de la Plata 1808-1810

Thomas Kinder´s narrative of a journey to Madeira, Montevideo and Buenos Aires

Edited and with an introduction by Malyn Newitt. The year 2010 sees the official celebration of the bicentenary of the revolutions in the Río de la Plata. This book contains the narrative that Thomas Kinder wrote of his voyage to that region in 1808-10 and ...

Crítica de la razón poscolonial

hacia una historia del presente evanescente

En este ambicioso trabajo, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak disecciona la compleja articulación de la experiencia colonial en el corazón de las mismas disciplinas que han conformado la modernidad occidental, demostrando que la filosofía, la literatura, la historia y la cultura occidentales están atravesadas por un pasado ...

The german colonial experience

select documents on german rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884- 1914

Eds. Arthur J. Knoll, Hermann J. Hiery. This book provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I, by intensely scrutinizing colonial documents. Many of these documents have never ...

The African Diaspora

a History Through Culture

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these ...

Western Sahara

the refugee nation

The Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the only Spanish- speaking territory in the Arab World. When Francoist Spain abandoned the colony in 1975, Morocco and Mauritania occupied the territory, despite the UN's protest and the resistance of a nascent Saharawi ...

Slavery in Indian Country

the Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder#s pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting ...

La amenaza colonial

el imperialismo norteamericano y las Filipinas, 1900-1934

En 1898, los Estados Unidos libraron una corta pero muy exitosa guerra contra España, conocida como la guerra hispanocubano-norteamericana, que les concedió el control sobre Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam y las Filipinas. De todas estas posesiones, ninguna se encontraba más distante del imaginario norteamericano que ...

Encountering Revolution

Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic

Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American ...

La auténtica historia de Las minas del rey Salomón

La autentica historia de Las minas del rey Salomón presenta la oportunidad de acceder a los hechos más oscuros y extraordinarios protagonizados por el Imperio británico en el África colonial del siglo XIX, en su afán por adueñarse del territorio de los matabele, rico en ...

La colonización

una historia global

Por primera vez, un historiador presenta y analiza el conjunto de fenómenos de la colonización desde su origen hasta su fin -o su supervivencia- si es el caso. Marc Ferro aborda en esta obra, desde luego, todas las prácticas coloniales de los europeos, pero también ...

Indian slavery in colonial America

Ed. Alan Gallay. European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus#s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America#s indigenous peoples continued to be captured and ...

La Biblia y el imperio

exploraciones poscoloniales

Trad., Raquel Vázquez Ramil En una época de renovado interés por los imperios, este estimulante libro analiza la compleja relación entre la Biblia y la aventura colonial, y examina algunos aspectos que habitualmente se omiten de esa relación. Entre ellos, destacan las reescrituras no convencionales ...

Africa

the politics of suffering and smiling

Considers the role of theory in African politics. This book discusses the limitations of political theories of Africa and proposes a starting point; arguing that political thinking ought to be driven by the need to address the immediacy of everyday life and death

La aventura mexicana del General Prim

El 31 de octubre de 1861, Gran Bretaña, Francia y España firmaron en Londres un tratado para intervenir conjuntamente en México #país que acababa de suspender el pago de la deuda externa durante dos años y de expulsar al embajador español#, con la intención de ...

Frontier constitutions

christianity and colonial empire in the nineteenth-century philippines

Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century and the social anomie that resulted from ...

Ocean of letters

language and creolization in an Indian Ocean diaspora

Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the ...

The empire project

the rise and fall of the British world-system 1830-1970

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than ...

A history of Portugal and the portuguese empire

from beginnings to 1807

Contents: Vol.1: Portugal. Vol.2: The portuguese empire. The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d#être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained ...

Geographies of empire

european empires and colonies c.1880-1960

How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and ...

Trabajo libre y coactivo en sociedades de plantación

Ed., José A. Piqueras. La geografía del azúcar y el café proporciona el escenario de una vida social en la que convivieron formas distintas de dominación, también un impulso determinante por acumular riquezas utilizando el trabajo ajeno que se garantizaba mediante la propiedad sobre el ...