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Empires and Walls : Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination.

In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian provides compelling comparative-historical analysis of ancient and contemporary walls and barriers, both 'offensive' and 'defensive, ' that imperial powers have erected in order to subjugate the colonized subjects and control population...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chaichian, Mohammed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brill, 2013.
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 62.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by David Fasenfest
  • Walls, borders, and imperial formations : in search of an explanation
  • Borders, walls and globalization
  • Part One. The imperial walls that are no longer around
  • Hadrian's Wall : an ill-fated strategy for tribal management in Roman Britain
  • Red snake : the Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran
  • Clash of empires : prelude to the Berlin Wall
  • Build the wall : the two German economies are now united!
  • Part Two. Anti-imperialist walls
  • Dismantling the defensive wall of the colonized
  • Neo-colonial walls
  • An empire in the making : American colonial interests south of the border
  • The great offensive wall of Mexico : border blues
  • Israel and Palestine : a settler colony is born
  • Bantustans, maquiladoras, and the separation barrier Israeli style
  • Epilogue: Conceptualizing walls and borders : "globalization from within."