Possessing the World

Possessing the WorldBased on an impressive body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. From the beginning of European expansion the question was posed: what were the "empire tools" that gave Europe its military superiority, even before the industrial revolution? What was it that enabled Europeans to withstand life threatening tropical diseases and to control indigenous

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the Zanj resemble modern revolutionary movements that live off the countryside

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this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology

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and the meaning and relevance of liberation

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the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States

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Many of them were born into slavery

The authors offer practical care plans at various levels of expertise across the continuum of care