Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire
Author: Eqbal Ahmad
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780896086159
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Confronting Empire
Author: Eqbal Ahmad
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1608467511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pakistani political thinker and activist shares his insight into global emancipatory politics in this interview collection—foreword by Edward W. Said. Edward W. Said once urged the legendary Eqbal Ahmad not to “leave your words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who don’t have the privilege of knowing you will know what a truly remarkable, gifted man you are.” Unfortunately, Ahmad died suddenly before Said's wish came to fruition. But in Confronting Empire, Ahmad's most provocative ideas are available to future generations of activists. In these intimate and wide-ranging conversations, Ahmad discusses nationalism, ethnic conflict, the politics of memory, and liberation struggles around the world.
Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Jack P. Greene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-29
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1107030552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. It focuses on the emergence of an early awareness of the undesirable effects of British colonialism on both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa, or Ireland.
War Talk
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780896087248
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Terror and Toleration
Author: Paula Sutter Fichtner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2008-02-15
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1861894139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and chronicles the evolution of a political relationship that shifted from hatred to understanding. In the fourteenth century, Ottoman armies swept westward across the Danube Valley before confronting the Habsburgs, who ruled central and eastern Europe, and in Terror and Toleration, Fichtner charts the religious and political conflicts that fueled 300 years of war. She reveals how ruling powers in Vienna and the church spread propaganda about Muslims that still lingers today. But the Habsburgs dramatically reversed their attitudes toward Muslims in the seventeenth century, and through this story, Fichtner explains how one can recognize an enemy while adjusting one’s views about them. A fascinating read, Terror and Toleration sheds new light on the deep roots of the often contentious relationship between Islam and the West.
Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation
Author: Weldon Matthews
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2006-07-28
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the rise of nationalism in Palestinian politics. This book argues that the advocacy of nationalist identity was interlinked with resistance to British imperialism. It probes early self-perceptions of Palestinian nationalism and its relationship with Islamic and pan-Arab identities.
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Author: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 085745952X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
Confronting Capital and Empire
Author: Viren Murthy
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9004343903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University’s philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun. Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment?
Reflections on Empire
Author: Antonio Negri
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2008-07-08
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0745637051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to the key ideas of his recent work. Giving the reader a sense of the wider context in which Negri has developed the ideas that have become so central to current debates, the book is made up of five lectures which address a series of topics that are dealt with in his world-famous books empire, globalization, multitude, sovereignty, democracy. Reflections on Empire will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today, to the many people who are followers of Negri's work and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.
One Nation, Many Gods
Author: Harry C. Kiely
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780976389286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors discuss how to love America and how to be a patriotic Christian. They sound an alarm within the church and invite readers to open themselves to God's judgment so that they may respond faithfully in a time of widespread injustice and human suffering.
