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A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia’s highly profitable sea otter business.

After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. 

Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures.

Siglo XVII. La pugna por el poder en la Nueva España se intensifica con la llegada de un nuevo virrey. Las prebendas y privilegios otorgados por el antiguo representante de la corona han levantado envidias y enfrentamientos entre la burguesía, el Estado y la Iglesia, representada en esta lucha...

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic.

Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. 

An overarching history of Puerto Rico’s years as a colony of the United States. "Urgent, fascinating, and impassioned." —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and...

Kein Frieden ohne Feminismus. Immer noch dominieren alte, weiße, westliche Männer die Politik sowie Theorie und Praxis der internationalen Beziehungen. Dadurch werden die Bedürfnisse von Frauen und Minderheiten permanent ignoriert. Die Welt ist voller Kriege, Krisen und Unrecht. Kristina Lunz tritt mit ihrem "Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy" an, das zu ändern. Die Politikwissenschaftlerin, Aktivistin und Entrepreneurin denkt Frieden, Menschenrechte und Gerechtigkeit mit Außenpolitik zusammen und will so einen Paradigmenwechsel einleiten.

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983...

1662: Um einer Zwangsheirat zu entgehen, begibt sich die junge Catharina Ustings von Lübeck aus auf eine abenteuerliche Reise. Als Mann verkleidet versteckt sie sich auf einem Schiff der Vereinigten Ostindischen Kompanie und gelangt ans Kap der Guten Hoffnung. Doch in der brutalen Männerwelt...

'Eloquent and powerful . . . an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, but also looting and trafficking. They make the case for unconditional restitutions and returns'...

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel's founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal. Seen from the camps, Israel becomes a settler colonial project defined by its inability to move past the past—a project stuck at its foundational moment of conquest.

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be - and in so many respects were - at home, but they were not.

当文明的伪装褪去，一个私人野心家如何用血腥的橡胶与象牙，在非洲腹地铸就一段令人震撼的帝国殖民暴政史？沉浸在这段跌宕起伏的历史纪实音频中，你将直面十九世纪末国际政治的波诡云谲。无论是专注通勤还是深夜沉...

那些看似源于个人偏好的审美标准与自我怀疑，实则是殖民历史与制度性种族主义在潜意识中投下的漫长暗影。当权力的等级语言悄然渗透进日常情绪与亲密关系，我们对归属感的渴望便在不知不觉中被彻底重塑。...

Ontdek hoe Europees imperialisme en gruwelijk machtsmisbruik een rijk Afrikaans gebied verwoestten voor puur gewin. Terwijl je naar werk reist of een rustige avondwandeling maakt, zuigt deze beklemmende en onthullende historische kroniek je mee in een duister web van hebzucht. Het toont de rauwe...

تتبع مسار التاريخ الإفريقي الملحمي من الممالك القديمة إلى نضالات التحرر وبناء الدول في تجربة صوتية تأسر الألباب. سواء كنت تستمع أثناء رحلة تنقلاتك اليومية أو...

تتبع مسار صعود وسقوط قوة بحرية انطلقت من جزيرة فقيرة لتهيمن على ربع مساحة العالم وتصيغ مسار التاريخ العالمي الحديث. استمتع بتجربة استماع عميقة أثناء رحلات تنقلك...

تتبع مسار الصعود الملحمي لجزيرة معزولة تحولت لقوة مهيمنة في سرد تاريخي يعيد صياغة مفاهيم السلطة والإمبراطورية. اجعل من تنقلاتك اليومية رحلة درامية تأخذك عبر...

一家最初只为追逐香料利润的商业公司，究竟是如何通过资本扩张与坚船利炮，演变成吞噬整个南亚次大陆的殖民帝国？这段波澜壮阔的商业与帝国主义扩张史，将彻底颠覆你对现代世界格局形成过程的认知。无论你是在每日...