"Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial dispossession, enslavement, confinement, assimilation, and removal. Charting the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect these historical differences"--

Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural critics Think Again gathers one hundred of the best of Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate. Addressing controversies about such hot-button topics as atheism, affirmative action, free speech, identity politics, guns, and postmodernism, Fish dissects the arguments put forth by different sides in order to explain how their arguments work or don't work. Brief and accessible yet challenging, these essays teach you not what to think but how to think more clearly, and provide all the powerful intellectual, cultural, and political analysis one expects from Fish, one of America's most influential thinkers.

Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comprehensive view of the field.

Introduction -- Garden cities and colonial Africa: -- Symbolic usage of the 'garden city' concept during the French Protectorate of Morocco : from the Howardian model to garden housing estates /Charlotte Jelidi -- From metropolitan to colonial planning : Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin /Liora Bigon -- The 'plateau' in West African, French-speaking colonial towns : between garden and city /Alain Sinou -- The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan : Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow /Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali Muhajir -- Garden cities in in colonial and Mandatory Palestine (Eretz Israel): -- 'May be solved by the construction of garden cities' : German Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel /Ines Sonder -- Urban development in the 'garden city' : examples from late Ottoman-era Palestine and the late British Mandate /Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon -- Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine : the case of Tel Aviv /Miki Zaidman and Ruth KarkAfterword -- Multilateral cities and colonial planning /Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz.