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Colonial Ambition tells the story of the politicians and would-be politicians of Sydney, who were driven by a determination to lift themselves and their new col
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-28 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and i
Ambitious Rebels
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Authors: Reuben Zahler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-19 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Murder, street brawls, marital squabbles, infidelity, official corruption, public insults, and rebellion are just a few of the social layers Reuben Zahler inves
Colonial Habits
Language: en
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Worldmaking After Empire
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Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable