“…The Handbook explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and the different types of cities from great metropolitan centres to suburbs, colonial cities, and market towns, but also many of the essential themes in the making and remaking of the urban world: the role of power, economic development, migration, social inequality, environmental challenge and the urban response, religion and representation, cinema, and urban creativity. …”

“…Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre-Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. …”

“…By reusing, misusing and redirecting UNESCO World Heritage guidelines and criteria, Refugee Heritage challenges definitions of heritage and their colonial foundations, asking instead how architecture is mobilized as an agent of political transformation."…”

“…Asimismo, se examina el plan de búsqueda y rescate desarrollado por la Corona para encontrar las embarcaciones perdidas y auxiliar a los supervivientes. …”

“…The war experiences of conscripts, colonial troops, and junior officers forged the Francoist ideology. …”

“…She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues. Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper's controversies, from Hillary Clinton's emails to Elon Musk's accusations of unfairness to the need for greater diversity in the newsroom. …”

“…Braidotti outlines new forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism that emerge from the spectrum of post-colonial and race studies, as well as gender analysis and environmentalism. …”

“…Aspiramos, con él, a que el lector no solo se interese por la narrativa y el plano discursivo de los textos individuales, sino que despierte también su interés por escuchar lo que cada una de las secciones sugiere: desde las prácticas musicales de la América colonial hasta las músicas populares actuales, pasando por la canción, el teatro musical y las vanguardias transnacionales"--Contracubierta…”

“…With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering listeners insight into how and why each tool was built. …”

“…As the first genuine Nazi colony, the General Government became the principal 'racial laboratory' of the Third Reich. …”

“…He also played a foundational role in several important transnational organisations such as the Socialist Youth International, the largest anti-war movement in opposition to the First World War, the International Workers' Relief organisation, and the League against Colonialism and for National Independence. As a film distributor and promoter, he brought modern Soviet films to western Europe. …”

“…En sus páginas aparecen las numerosas y a menudo contradictoras facetas del autor: su educación protestante, su acercamiento al catolicismo, su rechazo posterior de ambos, su matrimonio sin consumar con su prima Madelaine, la reivindicación de homosexualidad y sus opiniones políticas, incluida su crítica al estalinismo y su oposición a la intervención colonial francesa en África. Esta primera entrega, que comienza por las entradas escritas a los diciocho años de edad, es también un documento de la edución sentimental e intelectual de Gide, en el que el escritor en ciernes va dejando constancia de sus afinidades y afiliaciones artísticas hasta escribir sus primeros libros importantes."…”

“…The essential history of one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant regions on the planet, this panoramic book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering"-- Pincenton University Press…”

“…A chaque fois aussi, la France s'invente des raisons d'y croire à nouveau, que celles-ci s'appellent les colonies, de Gaulle ou l'Europe. Sauf qu'aujourd'hui la mécanique impériale est cassée. …”

“…La France, deuxième empire colonial, en sort vaincue : le 8 octobre 1962, contre tous les pronostics, l'Algérie, plus grand pays du pourtour méditerranéen, est reconnue par ses pairs, dont la France. …”

“…Matteotti verrà ucciso prima delle nuove rivelazioni annunciate: corruzioni che avrebbero pesantemente coinvolto il fascismo e la stessa Corona. Mussolini va in Parlamento. Fa un discorso che sfida la Storia, con spavalderia. …”

“…Sarah Shortall argues that this “counter-politics” was central to the mission of the "nouveaux théologiens" : by recoding political statements in the ostensibly apolitical language of doctrine, priests were able to enter into debates over fascism and communism, democracy and human rights, colonialism and nuclear war. This approach found its highest expression during the Second World War, when the "nouveaux théologiens" led the spiritual resistance against Nazism. …”

“…En revanche pour la common law (Grande-Bretagne et ses anciennes colonies dont les États-Unis) le droit de propriété recouvre un pluriel plutôt flou : le « bundle of rights » (un faisceau de droits). …”

“…And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the holdup? In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. …”

“…Convertido durante su vida en una leyenda, y tras su muerte en una víctima propiciatoria, Silvestre no ha pasado a la historia como el caudillo militar que logró la pacificación de Marruecos, sino como el causante de la mayor catástrofe militar de un ejército colonial y como origen de la puesta en cuestión de las acciones de Alfonso XIII en relación con el problema de Marruecos, que desencadenó la crisis que dio fin a la monarquía restaurada en 1875. …”