Political Science - Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Un recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU.A dos años del huracán María, Puerto Rico aún sigue recuperándose de la destrucción física de la tormenta y el colapso de la infraestructura resultante. La devastación...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe Sprawling across a quarter of...

"[Scott Miller] has excavated a fascinating trove of archival material." --Hari Kunzru, The New York Times Book Review "Propulsive . . . A thrilling excavation of a forgotten revolutionary moment in American and world history." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)The true story of an audacious...

A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James's reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901-89) was a brilliant polymath who was...

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNew York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing...

"Every page gave me chills. This is a must-read book for the times in which we are living" Lisa López Levers, Professor Emerita, Duquesne UniversityAppalachia's misery is caused by generations of colonial exploitationThe United States is in a state of decline--a reality decades in...

Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist "Provocative, elegantly written."--Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books "Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia...

An investigative journalist reckons with the cost of her own--and the culture-at-large's--obliviousness.Over the last thirty years, Canadians have been forced to face their country's genocidal attempt to destroy its Indigenous populations through segregation, poverty, coerced labour, and infectious diseases. Few have read the statements...

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...

Chomsky and Pappéeacute; discuss the past and future of Palestine.Author: Noam Chomsky,Ilan PappéPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 04/07/2015Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9781608464708About the AuthorNoam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy in...

AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492...

A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Raráaacute;muri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language...

The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones--and it's past time to face it. The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse--includes reflections, exercises, and prompts Climate collapse,...

In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's...

Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and exploited. She challenges...

A powerful critique of the racial myths that shape our world Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized across centuries to justify systems of...

A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis-featuring a new preface by the author. "Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win." -Naomi Klein A...

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that...

From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a collection of essays examining culture, the literary canon, and the ever-shifting terrain of history "This is surely a major work, among the most provocative and cogent accounts of culture and the...

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.Author: Robyn Maynard,Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9781642596892About the AuthorRobyn Maynard is a Toronto-based Black feminist activist and...