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Empires and walls : globalization, migration, and colonial domination /

Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the 'barbarians' at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shiel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chaichian, Mohammad A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 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."