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Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian African and European¿who together forged a new world. These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers Indian diplomats and Dutch governors French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean Colonial North America and the Atlantic World suggests that the challenges of globalization¿and the growing reality of American diversity¿are among the most important legacies of the colonial world. | Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

GBP 130.00
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The Atlantic Slave Trade Volume I Origins–1600

The Atlantic Slave Trade Volume I Origins–1600

Originally published as a collection in 2006 this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600 the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave trade; the demographic situation in Latin America; and European attitudes to slavery as an institution. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes. | The Atlantic Slave Trade Volume I Origins–1600

GBP 115.00
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Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World 1500-1850

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World 1500-1850

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people space and labor together in harvesting raw materials cultivating agriculture for export-level profits and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1850. This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social physical and mental nexus that is architecture just as architecture’s development in the last 500 years cannot be adequately comprehended without attention to empire extraction colonialism and the rise of what Immanuel Wallerstein has called the world system. This world system was possible because of built environments that enabled resource extraction transport of raw materials circulation of commodities and enactment of power relations in the struggle between capital and labor. Separated into three sections: Harvesting the Environment Cultivating Profit and Circulating Commodities: Networks and Infrastructures this volume covers a wide range of geographies from England to South America from Africa to South Carolina. The book aims to decenter Eurocentric approaches to architectural history to expose the global circulation of ideas things commodities and people that constituted the architecture of extraction in the Atlantic World. In focusing on extraction we aim to recover histories of labor exploitation and racialized oppression of interest to the global community. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history geography urban and labor history literary studies historic preservation and colonial studies. | Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World 1500-1850

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Racialized Health COVID-19 and Religious Responses Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

Racialized Health COVID-19 and Religious Responses Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

Racialized Health COVID-19 and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and dynamics viewing these matters from various disciplinary and national vantage points. The volume is divided into the following four parts: Systemic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Black Health Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities Public Education and Policy Considerations Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds Bodies and Souls Part I explores ways social and cultural factors such as racial bias religious conviction and resource capacity have influenced and delimited black health prospects. Part II looks historically and contemporarily at denominational and ecumenical responses to collective black health emergencies in places such as Nigeria the UK the US and the Caribbean. Part III focuses on public advocacy particularly collective black health both in terms of policy and education. The final section deals with spiritual psychological and theological dimensions understandings and pursuits of black health and wholeness. Collectively the essays in the volume delineate analysis and action that wrestle with the multidimensional nature of black wellness and with ways broad public resources and black religious resources should be mobilized and leveraged to ensure collective black wellness. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Racialized Health COVID-19 and Religious Responses Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

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The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux is a collection of ten essays by internationally known scholars of Irish British French and Atlantic History that covers the entire period in which there was a substantial Irish colony in Bordeaux (1689–1815). Among the topics discussed are the growth and decline of the community and the reasons for both the daily lives and assimilation of the Irish in Bordeaux the numerous activities and institutions in which the Irish were involved and the patterns of trade and the major commodities that were traded. This volume argues that the Irish community in Bordeaux was a product of contingent factors including religious bigotry and war but mostly because of commercial and educational opportunities that were not available in Ireland itself. This confessionally mixed Irish community made remarkable contributions to Atlantic European and global production consumption and trade especially in Bordeaux wine. The book will enlarge complicate and challenge our understanding of the eighteenth-century European and Atlantic worlds. Students and scholars who are interested in early modern immigrant and trading communities the impact of religious tolerance and intolerance the development of international trade networks and the production and meaning of commodities will find it invaluable. | The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

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Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory which is the location of some of Russia’s most potent air sea and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North and of developments in Western military strategies capabilities doctrines and operational concepts the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this the book provides key insights into the role of branch-specific and joint approaches to power projection and operations in the High North which also include selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO military studies security studies and International Relations. | Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

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Colonial and Revolutionary America

Colonial and Revolutionary America

Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America. It places early America into an Atlantic and comparative context with emphasis on the impact of trade warfare migration and the vast cultural exchange that took place among American Indians Africans and Europeans. Political social economic and cultural history are interwoven to provide a holistic picture that connects local developments to the larger historical forces that shaped the lives of all.

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Plant Invaders The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

Plant Invaders The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek to offer an accessible account of the subject and how to protect natural habitats. The majority of countries suffer from invasive plants and there are case studies from North America Europe Australia South and South East Asia and the Pacific and Atlantic islands. There is also a list of invasive species with their countries of origin and regions of introduction. | Plant Invaders The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

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Slavery Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Slavery Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After being forcibly taken across the Atlantic enslaved Africans were moved within Cuba and sometimes sold to owners in other Caribbean islands or the U. S. South. The chapters included in this book written by historians and literary critics pay special attention to debates between abolitionists and proslavery ideologues the ways in which people and ideas moved from the countryside to the city from one Caribbean Island to the next and from the United States or the coasts of West Africa to the sugarcane fields. They examine how enslaved persons ran away or were captured and coerced to relocate; how they mobilized information and ideas to ameliorate their situation; and how they were used to advance other people’s interests. Movement these chapters show was regularly deployed to reinforce enslavement and the suppression of rights while at times helping people in their struggle for freedom. This book will be a great resource for academics researchers and advanced students of Latin American Literature Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies. The chapters were originally published in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. | Slavery Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

GBP 130.00
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Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social economic religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners patrons matchmakers investors and network builders. | Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

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Authors Publishers and Politicians The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement 1815-1854

Authors Publishers and Politicians The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement 1815-1854

First published in 1974 Authors Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement. It explores the underlying causes of the failure of this quest a failure which enabled literary pirates on both sides of the Atlantic to continue operations for another forty years. It traces the effects this had on the writers and producers of books as well as their reading public. Few aspects of Anglo-American relations were untouched by the drama presented in this study. Its broader implications range from straightforward business transactions official diplomatic manoeuvres endless legal complexities and clandestine political intrigue to the peculiarities involved in book smuggling newspaper rivalries and industrial espionage. The book will be of interest to students of legal history publishing and literature. | Authors Publishers and Politicians The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement 1815-1854

GBP 105.00
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Islamic Gunpowder Empires Ottomans Safavids and Mughals

Islamic Gunpowder Empires Ottomans Safavids and Mughals

Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey) the Safavids (in modern Iran) and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological institutional military and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise expansion and ultimate transformation and decline. Streusand depicts the three empires as a part of an integrated international system extending from the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca emphasizing both the connections and the conflicts within that system. He presents the empires as complex polities in which Islam is one political and cultural component among many. The treatment of the Ottoman Safavid and Mughal empires incorporates contemporary scholarship dispels common misconceptions and provides an excellent platform for further study. | Islamic Gunpowder Empires Ottomans Safavids and Mughals

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Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus from the fourth century AD. The modern translations of texts in this book represent 1 000 years of Greco-Roman geographical scholarship and thus provide an overview of the discipline from its beginnings to late antiquity. Readers will learn about the development of Greek geography and the earliest adventures outside the Mediterranean into the Atlantic as far south as the tropics and north toward the Arctic. These explorations make for fascinating stories about early human endeavors into an unknown world. Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation offers specialists new information about Greek exploration and a modern translation of significant ancient texts while non-specialist scholars and undergraduate students with an interest in Greco-Roman literature and ancient geography will also find the volume useful and accessible. | Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation Hanno the King Nikomedes Periodos and Avienus

GBP 130.00
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Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

Combining contextual institutional and global perspectives this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment. Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment carefully explores contemporary debates about economic institutions which were a crucial element in the race for controlling international trade. Eighteenth-century thinkers devoted much attention to the relative merits of existing institutions such as free ports grasped the dangers of economic dependence and appraised emerging conceptions of property rights. The author draws on an impressive range of sources including pamphlets and travel accounts and work from lesser-known figures such as Pierre Poivre and Ange Goudar. This volume will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought economic history political economy the history of ideas and global history. | Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories Practices and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

GBP 120.00
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Voices and Silences Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean

Voices and Silences Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean

Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social phenomena of modern history which sent over one million men and women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic Pacific and Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920; a period which finds little or no mention either in history textbooks or in literature. This book takes a closer look at some of the important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight the experience of the indentured people across the plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of indenture is the story of betrayal of trauma and of resistance. It is also a narrative of resilience assimilation and acculturation. This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there exists a language of indenture one that permeates all the texts written on the subject. The texts speak to and for each other thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader. | Voices and Silences Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean

GBP 120.00
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English Law the Legal Profession and Colonialism Histories Parallels and Influences

English Law the Legal Profession and Colonialism Histories Parallels and Influences

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches. This edited collection harnesses the lesser-researched perspectives of the impact of global and imperial factors on the development of law. It is argued that to better understand these timely discussions we must understand the process and significance of colonisation itself. The volume brings together experts in the field of law and history to explore the ways in which law and lawyers contributed to the expansion of the British Empire and the ways in which the Empire influenced the Metropole. The book sheds new light on the role of the law and legal actors during the pivotal centuries that saw the establishment of the Empire. Exploring such topics as Atlantic relations the impact of British jurists upon Indian law and the development of the law settler colonies this collection reveals some of the lesser-known intersections between law history and empire. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in legal history comparative history equity and trusts contract law the legal profession slavery and the British Empire. | English Law the Legal Profession and Colonialism Histories Parallels and Influences

GBP 130.00
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The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas along with current thinking and interpretations. The various chapters deliver a personal approach to the many issues themes and approaches that are embedded within the rock art of the outpost of western Atlantic Europe. Ethnographical perspectives have often dominated the study of rock art but unlike other well-studied regions the western Iberian Peninsula is absent of an ethnographical or ethno-historical past and therefore the production of rock art can only be archaeologically assessed. Thus the work promotes interpretive perspectives on Portuguese rock art illustrating the richness chronology and context of these unique artistic expressions and explores the variability of rock art imagery and the diversity of landscapes and social contexts in which it was produced. Although focusing on Portuguese rock art the book includes a number of universal themes that will appeal to a broad range of scholars researching in archaeology and anthropology history of art as well as professionals engaged in rock art heritage and conservation. | The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

GBP 130.00
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A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim scholars and creative artists synthesized and reworked the legacy of Rome Greece Iran and India into a new civilization. A History of the Muslim World to 1405 traces the development of this civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the death of the Mongol emperor Timur Lang. Coverage includes the unification of the Dar a1-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims) the fragmentation into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ite and Sunni and the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization. Features: Balanced coverage of the Muslim world encompassing the region from the Iberian Peninsula to South Asia. Detailed accounts of all cultures including major Shi'ite groups and the Sunni community. Primary sources. Numerous maps and photographs featuring a special four-color art insert. Glossary charts and timelines. | A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

GBP 175.00
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The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

In The End of Economic Man long recognized as a cornerstone work Peter F. Drucker explains and interprets fascism and Nazism as fundamental revolutions. In some ways this book anticipated by more than a decade the existentialism that came to dominate the European political mood in the postwar period. Drucker provides a special addition to the massive literature on existentialism and alienation since World War II. The End of Economic Man is a social and political effort to explain the subjective consequences of the social upheavals caused by warfare. Drucker concentrates on one specific historical event: the breakdown of the social and political structure of Europe which culminated in the rise of Nazi totalitarianism to mastery over Europe. He explains the tragedy of Europe as the loss of political faith resulting from the political alienation of the European masses. The End of Economic Man is a book of great social import. It shows not only what might have helped the older generation avert the catastrophe of Nazism but also how today's generation can prevent another such catastrophe. This work will be of special interest to political scientists intellectual historians and sociologists. The book was singled out for praise on both sides of the Atlantic and is considered by the author to be his most prescient effort in social theory. | The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

GBP 145.00
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Environmental Security in the Anthropocene Assessing Theory and Practice

Environmental Security in the Anthropocene Assessing Theory and Practice

This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene. The work analyses the intellectual foundations the evolution and different interpretations strengths and potential of the link between environment and security but also its weaknesses incoherencies and distortions. To do so it employs a critical environmental security studies analytical framework and uniquely places this analysis within the context of the Anthropocene. Furthermore the book examines the practice–theory divide and the political implementation of the environmental security concept in response to global environmental change and in relation to different actors. It pays significant attention to the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) which is led by different programs of the United Nations the OSCE and until recently by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) among others and has largely been overlooked in the academic literature to date. The goal is to study how environmental security practice could inform and shape the environmental security theory and also to explore how conversely new theoretical insights could contribute to the enhancement of environmental security activities. This book will be of great interest to students and academic scholars of Environmental Security Critical Security Studies Green Political Theory Global Governance and International Relations in general. | Environmental Security in the Anthropocene Assessing Theory and Practice

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Caribbean Literature in English

Caribbean Literature in English

Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean' generally considered as one area is highly discrete in its topography race and languages including mainland Guyana the Atlantic island of Barbados the Lesser Antilles Trinidad and Jamaica whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of. Guiana (1596) this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery but were intimately related to individual local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary examining the heritage of the plantation era and the issues of language and racial identity it created. From this base Louis James reassesses the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n' is considered as a West Indian island created by `colonization in reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean aesthetic and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean literature with an exploration of its place in world and postcolonial literatures this study offers a panoramic view that has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal to the general reader and student alike and particularly to all who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and culture postcolonial studies Commonwealth 'new literatures' and contemporary literature and drama.

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Recovering Naval Power Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy

Recovering Naval Power Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy

This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman’s work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century. Written at a revolutionary and troubling time Maydman’s 1691 book offers an analysis of the state of the Royal Navy at the time together with a set of recommendations for its improvement. It not only tells us a good deal about the Royal Navy of the time but also provides a general theory of why navies decline and what can be done to rejuvenate them. Recovering Naval Power shows that the issues he identifies have applied to every navy in every period. We are now seeing the dramatic rejuvenation of the Chinese Navy and the reactions to it of the US and other navies together with a new rise in naval tensions in the Euro-Atlantic. Despite the obvious political economic and technological differences between Maydman’s day and ours this work shows that his recommendations could hardly be more relevant in today’s circumstances. Alongside the modified text of Naval Speculations this book includes a preface and two chapters addressing first the Royal Navy of Maydman's time and his role in it and second the relevance of what Maydman said for the navies of the 21st century. The book concludes with some overall comments about Maydman and the recovery of naval power and recommendations for further reading. This book will be of much interest to students of naval history maritime power strategic studies and International Relations in general. | Recovering Naval Power Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy

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Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries Redefining Progressiveness Coloniality and Transition Efforts

Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries Redefining Progressiveness Coloniality and Transition Efforts

Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness Coloniality and Transition Efforts is a timely contribution to the project of theorizing “Europe” through decolonial perspectives on the Left as the European and global crisis has prompted new reflections on what it means to sit still at the European “peripheries”. The book explores how the joint scholarship efforts of postcolonial and postsocialist scholars might come up with better-grounded and more detailed theoretical and methodological insights into the process of globalization and subsequent peripheralization if framed under a progressive and leftist perspective. The authors many from the South-East Europe region use a variety of analytical lenses to demonstrate how the nexus of postcolonial postsocialist area studies and progressive developmental political thought could inspire changes in the future which are in dissonance with neoliberal and neoconservative capitalism. As the side effects of global capitalism continue to accelerate scholars and activists in the postsocialist periphery are increasingly turning to the concept of decoloniality in the hope that it might offer more options on how to begin to build up their framework. This book offers numerous examples of how decolonial theory can be applied to activist work in the fight against austerity and neoliberalization as well as examples of how decolonial critique can be mobilized to contest processes of Europeanization and Euro-Atlantic integration. This book will intrigue students and scholars of critical social scholarship in general as well as postsocialism and postcolonialism critiques of right populism and the rise of white nationalism in Europe and those studying the regions of South-Eastern Europe and Eurasia more generally. It will also interest activists organizers decision-makers policy analysts and leftists both in the region and internationally. | Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries Redefining Progressiveness Coloniality and Transition Efforts

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