"Mary-Ellen Kelm's Colonizing Bodies which examines the impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows h…
"In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers--or "electric telescopes," as he called them -- that would allow people anywhere in the world to search and browse through millions of books, newspapers, photographs, films …
Everyday forms of state formation: revolution and the negotiation of rule in modern …
by Joseph, Gilbert Michael, Nugent, Daniel, Scott, James Campbell, University of California (San Diego, Calif.), Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, La Jolla, International Conference on Popular Culture, State Formation, and the Mexican Revolution, La Jolla, CA
"This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the s…
La quatrième de couv. indique : "Ce livre est l'histoire d'une entreprise oubliée : le Comité international d'histoire des prix. Si l'objet est d'intérêt, c'est que les échecs tout autant que les réussites nous renseignent sur le fonctionnement social. C'est aussi que l'on retro…
