This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free
definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to …

" This is a book about land. It is about a land--about India and how that vast and diverse
region came to be known to, and conceptualized by, British and other European travelers …

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen
as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the …

What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin
Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did …

In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin,
give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution …

An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing
techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two …

In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued
four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel …

It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself
sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia …

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical
profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in …

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct
a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya …