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Nationell befrielse & självständighet, postkolonialism
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Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency, this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how, unlike in other …
The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to …
In the twenty-five years since the last comprehensive book on state and society in North Africa was published, the nations of the Maghrib have undergone profound social, political, …
Belarussometimes called the Western Gate of the Soviet Unionhas been placed by history between powerful states to the east and west. Soldiers of Muscovy and Poland, of Napoleon …
After breaking free from the Bolsheviks in 1918, Estonia enjoyed independence until 1940 when the country was subsumed by the Soviet Union. Not until 1991 was Estonia able to make …
Formerly one of the four territories that made up French Equatorial Africa, Gabon maintains close ties with its former colonizer. Since independence in 1960, this republic has …
Explores Mexicos' diverse cultures, and the cultures of Latin America including AmerIndian, African-American, European, and ethnically diverse groups, beginning with the conquest …
This study reopens the debate about the size of Mexico's native population before the Spanish conquest and the scale and rate of its decline thereafter.
One of the most complex societies to emerge from the break-up of the Soviet Union, Latvia, with a population only half of which is Latvian, is a country whose solid agricultural …
A study of Namibia since independence which was a "Choice" Outstanding Academic Book for 1993.