Free Download Richard David Williams, "The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal "
English | ISBN: 0226825434 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.

Free Download Anne Ruth Hansen, "How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930"
English | 2007 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 0824830326, 0824836006 | PDF | 37,8 mb
This ambitious cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia. In How to Behave, Anne Hansen argues for the importance of Theravāda Buddhist ethics for imagining and articulating what it means to be modern in early-twentieth-century Cambodia. The 1920s in Cambodia saw an exuberant burst of new printed writings by self-described Khmer Buddhist modernists on the subject of how to behave (as good Buddhists and moral persons) and how to purify oneself in everyday life in the modern world. Hansen's book, one of the first studies of colonial Buddhism based largely on Khmer language sources, examines the modernists' questioning of Buddhist values that they deemed most important and relevant. She explores their new interpretations of traditional doctrines, how they were produced, and how they represent Southeast Asian ethical and religious responses to the modern circulation of local and translocal events, people, ideas, and anxieties.

Free Download Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Polish and Polish American Studies) by Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
English | August 28, 2019 | ISBN: 0821423738 | 320 pages | PDF | 2.76 Mb
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial worlds in Africa and Latin America. She also analyzes how Poles in the German Empire positioned themselves in relation to Germans and native populations in overseas colonies. She thus recasts Polish perspectives and experiences, allowing new insights into identity formation and nationalist movements within the German Empire.

Free Download Colonial America: Biographies by Peggy Saari, Julie Carnagie
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0787637629 | 389 Pages | PDF | 10.0 MB
Profiles sixty men and women relevant to the colonial era in America; features shorter biographies and sidebars about people and events who are in some way connected to the main biographee; and includes illustrations, cross-references, time lines, and sources for further study.

Free Download Silvana Rabinovich, "Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology "
English | ISBN: 3031038215 | 2022 | 168 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the Old Testament. In the framework of Critical Theory, the book questions readings that inform the State of Israel's military apparatus. It embraces Martin Buber's pacifist vision and Edward Said's perspective on Orientalism, influenced by critical authors such as Amnon Raz Krakotzkin, Ilan Pappé, Shlomo Sand, Idith Zertal, and Enrique Dussel's.

Free Download The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq By Nelida Fuccaro
1999 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1860641709 | PDF | 4 MB
Offers an account - from the Kurdish perspective - of a fascinating and complex tribal society under the British Mandat, when the Yazidis resisted integration into modern Iraq and failed to identify with the aspirations of mainstream Kurdish society and the rising Kurdish movement.

Free Download Tracy L. Brown, "Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico"
English | ISBN: 0816530270 | 2013 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Pueblo people reacted to Spanish colonialism in many different ways. While some resisted change and struggled to keep to their long-standing traditions, others reworked old practices or even adopted Spanish ones. Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico examines the multiple approaches Pueblo individuals and villages adopted to mitigate and manage the demands that Spanish colonial authorities made upon them. In doing so, author Tracy L. Brown counters the prevailing argument that Pueblo individuals and communities' only response to Spanish colonialism was to compartmentalize-and thus freeze in time and space-their traditions behind a cultural "iron curtain."

Free Download Geetha Ramanathan, "Post-colonial Intertexts: Hierarchies of Modernism "
English | ISBN: 9004541055 | 2023 | 116 pages | PDF | 3 MB
An investigation about the way how contemporary post-colonial intertexts take colonialism and euro-modernism to trial.

Free Download Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects By Raymond Hickey
2005 | 734 Pages | ISBN: 0521830206 | PDF | 7 MB
This collection brings together internationally-renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes. As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Considering the input of Scottish, English and Irish dialects, they examine a wide range of Englishes--including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. They also explain why many overseas Englishes still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past.

Free Download Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830"
English | ISBN: 019889483X | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression.