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Topic imperialism/de-colonization : 11 results
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If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of and Anti-Zionist Jew - Mike Marqusee
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American surburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewis...
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Down With Colonialism - Ho Chi Minh and Walden Bello (Introduction by)
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) was the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He played a key role in the formation of the French, Chinese, and Vietnamese Communist movements and fought successfully against Japanese, French, and American imperialism, becoming a hate-figure of the American state during the Vietnam War. Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why Ho ...
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Barefoot Gen: Life After the Bomb - Art Spiegelman (Introduction by) and Keiji Nakazawa
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. Volume 3 picks up the story with Gen, his mother and his baby brothe...
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Barefoot Gen: Out of the Ashes - Art Spiegelman (Introduction by) and Keiji Nakazawa
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. Volume Four resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother ...
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Barefoot Gen: The Day After - Art Spiegelman (Introduction by) and Keiji Nakazawa
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations. Volume Two, The Day After, tells the story of the day after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as seen through...
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Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima - Art Spiegelman (Introduction by) and Keiji Nakazawa
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. Volume One begins shortly before the bomb was dropped, and ends on t...
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The War Of 33: Letters from Beruit - Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman – a mother living through the war in Beirut – carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with – the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday...
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Hoping Against Hope: The Stuggle Against Colonialsm in Canada - Michael Parenti (Contributor), Ward Churchill (Contributor), and Praxis Media Productions (Producer)
Hoping Against Hope: The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada is a three-part audio documentary on colonization in Canada featuring the voices of Roland Chrisjohn, Andrea Bear Nicholas, Ward Churchill, Michael Parenti, Patricia Monture-Angus, Jeanette Armstrong, Arnie Jack, and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.


The first episode examines the origins of European colonialism, its growth in Canada, and...
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Columbus: His Enterprise, Exploding The Myth - Hans Koning and Bill Bigelow (Afterword By)
Most of us have been taught to think of Christopher Columbus as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. In this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus' life and voyages.


Koning describes how Columbus' consuming drive to send "mountains of gold" back to...
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In Praise Of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire - Mike Davis
Mike Davis attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers such contemporary idols as Mel Gibson and Howard Dean, debates with Tom Frank about "what's the matter with America," unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system, visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, predicts ...
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