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  • ’Dignity of Labour’ for African Leaders
    Shoko Yamada
    From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is prese...
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    57,01 €

  • Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans
    Nikita Dhawan
    In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges faced by postcolonial thought, which must be articulated using the very language of Enlightenment discourses on human rights, democracy, international law, sovereignty, and justice-eve...
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    35,02 €

  • Modern Crisis and the Edge of the Futurity
    Shahidi Islam
    Can Studying Black History Give Us a Greater Understanding of God’s Plan?Learn the history of modernity from the perspective of the Black Atlantic.Also see God’s hand in all the events that have transpired in Black history, from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Civil Rights movement.Finally, get a greater understanding of the direction God has been taking Black people in t...
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    15,59 €

  • On Cultural Islam
    Shahidi Islam
    In an Age of American Empire What Real Hope is There for Islamic Beliefs?A growing number of modern Muslims are unable to reconcile modern life with their Islamic faith.Shahidi Islam is a godbody theologian, a Pacific Book Award winner, and a member of the Society for the Study of Theology.As the third book in his Shahidi Collection On Cultural Islam Remastered takes a novel lo...
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    25,93 €

  • Eschatological Judgments
    Shahidi Islam
    A Black Theology from the Ghetto by the GhettoAs the world moves into late modernity urbanisation is slowly being replaced by ghettoisation with its attendant hypersexuality, hyperviolence, hyperexploitation, and underdevelopment.From within these conditions the Black underclass of Harlem, New York were able to build a philosophy and outlook that came to not only give them high...
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    13,17 €

  • A Godbody Theology of the First Resurrection
    Shahidi Islam
    Learn the Mysteries of the Ancients From a Demodernised PerspectiveFrom the days of the Messiah many people have been trying to figure out the truths about the last days.Continuing on from his last book in series Shahidi Islam explores what was and is believed to come after the Great Tribulation and Armageddon War.An eschatologist of long standing Shahidi Islam trained under Ar...
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    13,31 €

  • Godbodyism
    Shahidi Islam
    What Can the Story of Adam and Eve teach us About the World?The New York City street culture created a powerful movement that has effected America in a spectacular way, and has inspired and challenged Black people all over the world.This culture, called godbodyism, is now maturing into an ideology that we believe could improve society dramatically.Godbodyism: How Adamology Lead...
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    13,23 €

  • Black Divinity
    Shahidi Islam
    Is Black Theology Really for Black Professionals?A growing number of Black professionals are in the dark about Black theology.Shahidi Islam is a godbody theologian, a Pacific Book Award winner, and a member of the Society for the Study of Theology.As the first book in his Shahidi Collection Black Divinity Remastered provides a digestible look at Black theology ideas so that Bla...
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    23,86 €

  • The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism of the Apostle Paul
    Shahidi Islam
    A Demystified Portrayal of the Apostle Paul and His MessageIf you wish to gain greater ammunition to fight against historical threats like White supremacy or misogyny, this book is for you.If you wish to learn the story and outlook of the apostle Paul based on information contained in a large number of historically lost or buried documents that have only in recent years come to...
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    13,22 €

  • India’s Postcolonial Hinterlands
    Samir Kumar Das
    This volume offers an insightful and compelling exploration of the complex dynamics that define governance, identity, and power in India’s northeast. ...
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    77,28 €

  • Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900
    Farish A. Noor
    Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. ...
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    82,64 €

  • Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence
    This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste’s road to independence. ...
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    81,92 €

  • The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste
    During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed. This book focuses on the dynamic interplay between the potent presence of the dead in everyday life and their symbolic usefulness to the state. ...
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    82,27 €

  • Religion, Colonialism, and White Supremacy
    Jimi Little
    In spite of the number of churches, temples, and synagogues, firearms remain embedded in American history and culture. Americans own 46 percent of the world’s civilian-owned firearms and use firearms ownership rates far exceed those of other high-income countries. It has been well documented that firearm-related death rates are, among high-income countries, the United States is...
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    13,78 €

  • In Pursuit of Epistemic Healing in South African Universities
    Wanelisa Xaba
    This book demonstrates the epistemic challenges in the South African education system and asks readers to think critically about the role of the university in a decolonial future. Xaba reveals how Western colonial educational models severed indigenous ways of knowing and learning across the Global South and settler colonial contexts. ...
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    80,09 €

  • Reparations
    Nigel Biggar
    Many now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. Why is this claim being made now? How far does it make sense? And, more generally, how can historic wrongs be righted? Reparations removes the sloganeering from a newly fashionable cause, sets the issue in its proper historical context,...
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    24,34 €

  • The Great Famine in Tralee and North Kerry
    Bryan MacMahon
    Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of those who were there and reveals information which has lain hidden and untapped for 170 years. This book gives an account of incidents in Tralee and North Kerry. It gives a detailed overview and a moving insight ...
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    34,01 €

  • Postcoloniality and Statehood
    Priyanka Chandra
    This book traces the evolution of the postcolonial state and the social contract in Egypt. It problematises two of the most ubiquitous and contentious terms: democratisation and development, within the context of Egypt and the larger Global South. ...
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    77,39 €

  • Israel In Palestine
    Yakov M Rabkin
    In the wake of the Hamas attack of October 7 and the Israeli response, historian and current affairs commentator Yakov Rabkin brings together his writings that shed light on the violence in Palestine since the creation of the State of Israel.For decades, Yakov Rabkin has drawn attention to the danger Israel has posed to both Palestinians and Jews, both in Israel and in other co...
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    8,83 €

  • African States
    Abu Bakarr Bah
    Essays on the security challenges faced by African states.The central concern that shapes this edited volume is the nature of the African state. Contributors point to an interesting intersection of domestic and external issues that is framed as a glocalized security situation. Individual chapters shed new insights on conflict drivers through case studies on Sierra Leone, Camero...
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    45,91 €

  • Intersectional Colonialities
    This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined - post/de/anti/settler colonialism. ...
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    75,66 €

  • Ballots Over Bullets
    Victor Mwendwa Muthoka
    Ballots Over Bullets is a rallying cry for a generation standing at the crossroads.In the fictional nation of Zinjara, the youth are trapped between the weight of a silent government and the shadow of brutality in uniform. They have marched, they have mourned, they have buried their dreams alongside their dead-but now, they are learning the power of the ballot.Through powerful ...
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    114,69 €

  • The Politics of Not Speaking
    Elad Lapidot
    In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).According to a common conception, modern politics is based on speaking, on discussion and rational argumentation-on 'logos.' In contrast, The Politics of Not Speaking argues that politics ...
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    42,58 €

  • Combating Oppression with New Commemorations
    Christopher C. Fennell
    Combating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regimes through commemorations and advocacy of their own heritage. ...
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    77,28 €

  • United Nations Peacekeeping and the Principle of Non-Intervention
    Jennifer Giblin
    In the unique application of a Third World Approaches to International Law perspective, this book provides a critical, interdisciplinary, examination of the contemporary practice of United Nations peacekeeping. ...
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    82,58 €

  • The Role of Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Education in Shaping Perspectives on Extremism
    Helal Hossain Dhali
    This book extends a comprehensive overview of the treatment of extremism in education in Bangladesh, using a study of perceptions among students to explore proactive measures for the prevention of various types and forms of extremism prevalent among youth. ...
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    80,06 €

  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    Amitayu Chakraborty
    It explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. ...
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    82,78 €

  • The Gaidinliu Uprising in British India
    Sajal Nag
    This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India. ...
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    81,92 €

  • A Manifesto on Palestine
    Ibraheem Rasras
    Ibraheem Rasras’s 'A Manifesto on Palestine: Rethinking Liberation from Below' argues that genuine Palestinian freedom necessitates a bottom-up, ethical, and collective resistance, departing from the hierarchical and technocratic methods adopted by the Palestinian Authority (PA). The manifesto identifies the core problem as not only material dispossession but also an epistemolo...
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    18,96 €

  • Malaysia’s State Formation
    Abdillah Noh
    Tracing Malaysia’s political economy since 1800, Abdillah Noh argues that it has been substantially path-dependant based on choices made by the British colonial administration. A valuable read for scholars of Malaysian history and politics, as well as for scholars of postcolonial state formation and public policy more broadly. ...
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    82,75 €