She explores how artists develop decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspectives on the collections and expeditions that were central to the evolution of European natural history.

This volume presents ten visual essays that reflect on the historical, cultural and socio-political legacies of empires.

The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises.

The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises.

The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule.

Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology.

El lector sale de Sobre los principios con una imagen del Caribe hispano muy ajena a los postulados identificatorios tradicionales. No es la religión, ni la lengua o la raza el elemento aglutinador de la comunidad.

With an Introduction by renowned philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff, this book adds an essential voice to our conversations about teaching, learning, and studying, as well as critical theory in general.

This work is a history of the Pacific, the ocean that became a theatre of power and conflict shaped by the politics of Europe and the economic background of Spanish America.

A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade ...