“…If you're a programmer with intermediate JavaScript experience, author Boris Cherny will teach you how to master the TypeScript language. …”

“…Loin de se résumer à un champ de bataille ou à un espace colonial dont l'émancipation a déclenché tous les mouvements de libération ultérieurs, le Vietnam a été l'un des lieux les plus frappants de rencontres entre les peuples et les cultures dans l'histoire humaine, un creuset de civilisations par rapport auquel les melting pots les plus souvent invoqués se résument à des équations beaucoup plus simples. …”

“…Since its foundation as an animal protection area in 1954 under French colonial rule, the park has been object of often conflictual but productive negotiations between different groups of neighboring dwellers, such as peasants, herdsmen and hunters, as well as the park administration itself. …”

“…Using social movement, critical race and post-colonial theories, the author examines the ways in which both institutional and non-institutional actors, including immigrant activists, become involved and compete in the local arena over immigration and integration issues, and assesses the mechanisms by which both conventional and non-conventional forms of participation are made possible, or obstructed. …”

“…In addition to providing a clear analysis of the debates, Baldwin focuses on thorny issues such as copyright and ways to pay for “free” knowledge. …”

“…The lives of archaeologists are entangled with histories of museums and collections, developments in science and scholarship, and narratives of nationalism and colonialism into the present. In recent years life-writing has played an important role in the surge of new research in the history of archaeology, including ground-breaking studies of discipline formation, institutionalisation and social and intellectual networks. …”

“…Beginning with Napoleon's Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. …”

“…The authors have spent their professional lifetimes studying the politics and development in Sub-Saharan Africa since its emergence from colonial rule. The Horn of Africa, their special focus of interest, represents a striking paradigm of the enduring crisis of the western nation-state model adopted in Africa. …”

“…The will was to challenge the hierarchies of knowledge and an exclusive society. Since the colonial period, the indigenous population, their languages, knowledge and practices had been confined to a subordinate and invisible condition. …”

“…Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chineseimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery andanti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were notlimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully craftedassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, includingAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.Drawing on recent legal scholarship,comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting inDarkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, HuckleberryFinn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as hislesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as theallegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play AhSin. …”

“…Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? …”

“…No longer are we as worried by the prospect of democracies "dying in a single blow" as was typical in the recent post-colonial era of military coups and dictatorships. Rather, we now talk about the "slow death" of our democracies through a gradual "dismantling" of their institutions by leaders who have consolidated their power in a series of arguably legal moves."…”

“…Son père Tam-Tam, majestueux gorille argenté, appartient à la colonie de Pierre et Eliane Thivillon, les fondateurs du parc. …”

“…Organized as a passport, Passport Photos is a unique work, taking as its object of analysis and engagement the lived experience of post-coloniality--especially in the United States and India. …”

“…Their expansion resulted in a slew of social problems and political disruptions, but it was accompanied by impressive measures designed to improve urban life. Meanwhile, colonial cities bore the imprint of European imperialism. …”

“…Their thinking was shaped by racialized assumptions about work and workers inherited from the colonial era and inflected through scientific racism and positivism. …”

“…La transformation de Tripoli est en effet concomitante de son poids démographique croissant, faisant de la répartition de la population en fonction des catégories sociales et ethniques un des enjeux centraux du pouvoir colonial. À travers le cas de Tripoli, il s'agit ainsi de procéder à une analyse fine des modes de domination coloniale italiens et de contribuer à une nouvelle histoire de l'État italien par le biais de son outre-mer."…”

“…La relevancia pública de esta excepcional infanta, princesa y reina, especialmente tras la muerte de su hermano, el príncipe don Juan, hizo que adquiriera una sobresaliente exposición histórica, acariciando en su corona la ansiada unión ibérica. Isabel también se convierte en pretexto literario, esto es, destinataria y mecenas de una amplia literatura elaborada en su honor. …”

“…Entre las orillas de América del Sur y Asia existió en ese período una vasta y sofisticada red mercantil, liderada por China, que superaba los flujos comerciales intraeuropeos anteriores a 1800. De ese locus colonial de Asia oriental entre las décadas de 1570 y 1680 nos habla Manel Ollé; un espacio dinámico en el que confluyeron los intereses de distintos imperios, sultanatos y ciudades portuarias, flujos migratorios, culturas y credos. …”

“…The final portion of the book explains the disparate fates of these medieval legal opinions in colonial Algeria and Mauritania, where jurists granted lasting authority to some opinions and discarded others. …”