Spatial appropriations in modern empires, 1820-1960 beyond dispossession
This book provides fresh insights into colonial and imperial histories by focusing on spatial appropriations. Moving away from European notions of property, appropriation encompasses the many ways in which social actors consider a space as their own. This space may be physical or immaterial, public...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2019.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46091865*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From objects to territories: appropriations of nature in pre-colonial Gabon, 1848-1878 / Agnès Lainé
- The end of the empire forestry? Issues of land possession in Belize, 1930s-1950s / Odile Hoffmann
- Where is the border? Territorial claims and regional cartography on the East African Coast, 1860s-1890s / Clélia Coret
- Territory and belonging in the Kenya-Somalia borderlands: negotiating political authority in Wajir, c. 1912-1963 / Anna Bruzzone
- Planting the church on colonial land: missionary territorialization in the Northern Gold Coast, 1906-1957 / Jean-Marie Bouron
- Colonial spectacle and its spectators: celebrating the "Fête nationale" in the Shanghai French Concession, 1881-1940 / Qieyi Liu
- Case study of a rural incident in Colonial Egypt (1902): milestones for a "history from the middle" / Didier Inowlocki
- The French military occupation of two Algerian villages during the Independence War (1954-1962): a confiscated space? / Lydia Hadj-Ahmed
- Raffaele Scassi: improvised colonial agent and the appropriation of the Russian South, 1820s / Heloisa Rojas Gomez
- Local history as an appropriation of colonized space: maps and narratives in Kansas, 1870s-1910s / Emmanuel Falguières
- Appropriating "a future land for humankind": German colonial fantasies pertaining to South America, c. 1880s to 1930s / Hinnerk Onken
- Imperial projects and colonial territorialization / Isabelle Surun.
