Repression and resistance? French colonialism as seen through Vietnamese museums by Claire Sutherland

“…The paper examines how resistance to colonial rule is officially represented in contemporary Vietnam. …”
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The Paramount Hotel, Freetown: Neocolonial Investment and the Business of Tropical Modernism in Sierra Leone by Ewan Harrison

“…This article examines the planning of the Paramount Hotel in Sierra Leone, completed to the designs of James Cubitt & Partners in 1961, during Sierra Leone’s transition from colonial rule to independence. This paper demonstrates that the hotel was conceived of as a neocolonial instrument planned and funded by the British government’s Colonial Development Corporation to support the continued operation of British capital in a post-imperial world. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: KOREA REBORN: A MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT by Ajab Khan

“…The brutal dismemberment of the country quickly diminished the joy of being freed from Japan’s colonial rule. However, these difficulties did not go in vain. …”
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La teoria postcoloniale come nazionalismo post-coloniale by Dirk Uffelmann

“… In postcommunist countries such as Russia and Poland and, more specifically, in postcolonially inspired Russian- and Polish-language debates over communism as a (quasi)colonial rule, we can observe features of postcolonial nationalism. …”
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Through the Eye of the Other by Salam Hawa

“…Analyses show that both Arab authors' definition of Arab identity has been heavily influenced by colonial powers in a threefold manner: early colonization of the Arab lands by the Ottomans until 1920, European colonial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and finally, the impact of living in the West. …”
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Un “colonialismo corporativo”? L’imperialismo fascista tra progetti e realtà by Matteo Pasetti

“…Into the debate on the colonial rule, certain intellectuals introduced the myth of corporatism, outlining a new institutional system: the “corporatist colonialism”. …”
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O Ensino na Política Islâmica do Moçambique Colonial: Da ansiedade islamofóbica à miragem do “Islão português” by Mário Artur Machaqueiro

“…During the Portuguese colonial rule, the approach to Mozambican Islam evolved from a stubborn Islamophobia, sometimes with interspersed gestures of understanding, to a program aimed at seducing the Islamic leadership, developed between 1968 and 1974. …”
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Continental Origins of Insular Proslavery: George Dawson Flinter in Curaçao, Venezuela, Britain, and Puerto Rico, 1810s-1830s by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

“…Abstract This article traces the career and migrations of George Dawson Flinter, a naturalized Spanish subject of Irish origin, who became a prominent apologist for slavery and Spanish colonial rule in the Caribbean in the 1820s and 1830s. …”
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La fine del colonialismo italiano tra storia e memoria by Antonio M. Morone

“…The loss of the colonies during the Second World War is usually related to the end of the Italian colonial rule in Africa. In fact the existence of a “Ministero Italiano dell’Africa” until 1953 and of a Italian Amministration of Somalia (AFIS) until to 1960 show a long transition: this could be considered as a decolonization case which ended only with the independence of the country on 1th July 1960. …”
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The environmental impact of colonial activity in Belize by Rita Pemberton

“…From the activities of buccaneers, pirates, baymen, logwood, mahogany and agricultural companies, this study traces the factors which have shaped the unique culture of Belize and discusses the ways in which colonial rule has impacted in the colony’s environment. …”
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: from historiographer to literary character by Antonio González Montes

“…We intend to present and discuss examples of the way in which the Inca Garcilaso, who has earned an important place in the field of the historiographical, as a great chronicler of important moments of the Peruvian past (the Empire of Tahuantinsuyo, the civil wars, the establishment of colonial rule), has become, by the action of certain writers, a literary character of some stories or novels to fictionalise important moments in the life of the first Peruvian mestizo or subsequent events to your death, but related to the growing impact of his personality and his work in Peruvian society.…”
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Conservative politics and Whig colonial government, 1830–41 by Middleton, A

“…This article explores Conservative critiques of Whig colonial rule in the 1830s. Its case is that imperial administrative and constitutional issues occupied a more prominent place in the Tories’ politics of opposition during the ‘decade of Reform’ than historians have assumed. …”

The impact of history and institutions on economic development by Lakshmi Iyer

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As corridas de cavalos na colônia alemã do sudoeste africano (1884-1914) by Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa

“…During the German colonial rule in South West Africa (now Namibia), several associations were important for the building of a culture of sport. …”
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<em>Pishtacos</em>. Human fat murderers, structural inequalities, and resistances in Peru by Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

“…This paper examines the myth of pishtaco in Peru, arising from experiences of colonial rule up to the present media news reports and discussions in on-line Peruvian newspaper sites. …”
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A Note on the Origins of Human Rights: Bartolomé de las Casas and Francisco de Vitoria by Julio Jensen

“…In the wake of the Spanish arrival in America, a controversy arose with respect to the legitimacy of the conquest and the colonial rule. This debate was started by the Dominicans in the New World, who denounced the oppression of the native population. …”
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“All my loves / are reparations loves”: Decolonizing Borders and Reparative Queerness in Natalie Diaz’s Poetry by Héloïse Thomas

“…In her two poetry collections, When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem, Diaz crafts a poetics specifically tailored to three intertwined goals: revisiting traumatic history on three different levels (individual/personal, family, community) in order to counter hegemonic erasures on which is founded an illegitimate national imaginary; questioning the legitimacy of all borders imposed by ongoing colonial rule –whether geographical, social, or sexual; and articulating lesbian Indigenous desire as a means to create new types of kinship and reopen a sense of futurity.…”
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The language ecology of a new Afrikaans Bible by F. Ponelis

“…The sweeping transformation of Cape society by British colonial rule gave great impetus to Dutch as a local language of culture. …”
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Monumenti, musei e il genocidio degli Herero e dei Nama in Namibia: uno sguardo storiografico by Karin Pallaver

“…Between 1904 and 1907 the brutal repression of the Herero and Nama revolts against German colonial rule caused what has been defined the first genocide of the 20th century. …”
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“I now go to church, I am not under the chief” by Timo Kallinen

“…The essay seeks to explain this disjuncture by looking at the case of the Asante people of Ghana, claiming that one of the most dramatic changes brought by the colonial rule was the secularization of indigenous leadership, which permanently transformed the ways in which the traditional institutions were conceptualized. …”
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