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subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
P.C. Emmer, one of the most prominent experts in this field, tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century–much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese–and goes on to show how the trade ...
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of post-independence political conflicts.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div “Diana Taylor’s ideas, carefully etched out here to great effect, provide a new vocabulary to understand the work that ...
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one.
subject:"Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism" from books.google.com
Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on ...