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From  Regurgitations: What’s Left? |
In this chapter, Filippi traces how roughly eighty years of Italian colonial rule, spanning the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, left enduring marks on language, cinema, and … | Francesco Filippi | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Responding to Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson & Claiming the Power of Native VoiceFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author recounts her shock and offense at the play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which, as she explores in this essay, is ahistorical and includes racist and problematic represenations of … | Betsy Theobald Richards | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Return to Germany, March 1885 – July 1886: Seeking and Testing Academic Pursuits in Geography / Baffin-Land – Surveys and Inuit Place Names, 1885: Coping with Map Design and LanguageChapters 7 and 8 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 7 covers the period of Boas’ life after he returned to Germany, detailing his feelings, travels, research and lectures. Chapter 8 starts as Boas is finishing his influential book … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From Returns: Colonial Memory and Colonial Oblivion |
In this chapter, Filippi traces how Italian society sidestepped reckoning with its colonial past after the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties stripped the nation of all overseas territories. | Francesco Filippi | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Rise to power of the Atlantic world: Netherlands, England, FranceFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces the shift of the global economic centre from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, centring on the rise of the … | Samir Saul | 22 | 2025 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Rise to power of the Atlantic world: Portugal and SpainFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces how Portugal and Spain reshaped global trade during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. | Samir Saul | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Roman modelFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces the Roman Empire from its 753 BC founding in Latium through its Mediterranean dominance by 130 BC, its collapse in 476, and the Byzantine successor’s fall in 1453. | Samir Saul | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Russia, 1993 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1993 Russian political crisis where President Boris Yeltsin ordered the bombing of the parliament building after dissolving the elected legislature. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
 Rwanda and the New Scramble for AfricaFrom Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction |
“… essential reading.” Edward S. Herman An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a … | Robin Philpot | 276 | 2013 | View |
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From  Sabotaging an Alternative to the US-Led Global Economic Order |
Chapter thirteen, Sabotaging an Alternative to the US-Led Global Economic Order focuses on a north Korean reunification. The DPRK defines itself as “a revolutionary State” originating … | Stephen Gowans | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Saddam |
Chapter Nine focuses on Saddam Hussian. During the 1970s, Saddam used Iraq’s oil wealth to pursue ambitious programs of social reform and economic uplift, earning him the plaudits of the … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Saving a Grand Old LadyPart I |
Part one of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
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From Saving a Grand Old LadyPart II |
Part two of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
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From Saving a Grand Old LadyPart III |
Part three of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
 Scandinavian Common SensePolicies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health |
When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought. Cited as models for their … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 192 | 2015 | View |
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From Scouts at her Majesty’s Service |
In Chapter 4, Philpot critiques and highlights the fact that a commission comprising of mainly American, Canadian, and French nationals– six of ten members of whom admitted that they knew … | Robin Philpot | 12 | 2013 | $1.20 Add |
