Empires and walls : : globalization, migration, and colonial domination / / by Mohammad A. Chaichian.
Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselv...
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| Superior document: | Studies in critical social sciences, Volume 62 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 62. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 1 Walls, Borders, and Imperial Formations: In Search of an Explanation / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 2 Hadrian’s Wall: An Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 3 Red Snake: The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 4 Clash of Empires: Prelude to the Berlin Wall / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 5 Build the Wall: The Two German Economies are Now United! / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 6 Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: Banning the Islamic Veil (Hijab) in French Schools / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 7 An Empire in the Making: American Colonial Interests South of the Border / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 8 The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico: Border Blues / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 9 Israel and Palestine: a Settler Colony is Born / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 10 Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- 11 Epilogue: Conceptualizing Walls and borders—“Globalization from within” / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- References / Mohammad A. Chaichian
- Index / Mohammad A. Chaichian.