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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 62. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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."