Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity 2018037352, 2018057700, 9781478004462, 9781478003182, 9781478003823

Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity 9781478004462

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and

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Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire 9781785331336

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were.

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Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan 9780824864101

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene

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Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia [1 ed.] 9789004253605, 9789067183680

Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscap

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Reflections Underwater: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Coral Reef Wonders 1784274135, 9781784274139

Why are we as humans so attracted to water and to colorful reefs? Indeed, why are reefs so dazzling? How did cleaning st

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Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan 9780822375401

Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. She de

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Colonial modernity in Korea 9780674005945, 9780674142558, 9781684173334

The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation ver

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How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire

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The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 9780691102221

These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese emp

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The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 9780691213873

These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese emp

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