Product Description: Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island...read more

For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.

Product Description: An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.

Product Description: Extend Your Energy Management Capabilities Managing energy usage via a company network allows you to create an energy management program that can be scaled company-wide, and this unique book shows you just how to do it. Through step-by-step instruction and real-world case studies drawn from the expert author team's own experience at Cisco, this book lays out an IP-based energy management strategy to optimize resources, dramatically increase energy savings, and significantly reduce your carbon footprint...read more

Product Description: A historic look at the culture of homosexuality throughout time, this volume reflects on the so-called "secret history" of a community that for years has been marginalized, neglected, and misunderstood. A detailed and diverse account by nine different historians is also included describing the distinct ways that same-sex relationships have existed throughout the world across different time periods...read more

Draws on a wide range of authentic sources to trace the story of thirteen modern empires, in a lavishly illustrated account that evaluates the role of the empire in the western political landscape and considers such related topics as the role of women, ecological factors, and the contributions of explorers.

Product Description: The handover of Hong Kong to China focused attention on the colonies that remain in what is supposed to be a postcolonial world. This paradox lies at the heart of this comprehensive and authoritative book, which is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A global history from ancient times to the present, told through a series of essays by more than a dozen noted scholars, discusses a wide range of topics, from the Old Testament relationship between Jonathan and David and the Age of Confucius to Native American berdaches and the advent of AIDS. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Ghee and Masaaki are out for revenge for their destroyed clan. Peter and Cassidy have come far from their home in the hopes of stopping a war before it can begin. Zang wants to see history being made, while Husseri is on a quest to learn more magic...read more

Product Description: This book offers the first comprehensive study of "sites of memory" in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, museum collections and other "sites of memory" this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial "mission", the fate of these sites in the post-colonial period, and what that evolution reveals about French memory of the colonial epoch...read more

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Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.

Product Description: This work covers subjects drawn from politics, the arts and popular culture. It includes some 500 entries with geographical scope that takes in the whole of the Western world.

The award-winning director and screenwriter compiles interviews with sixteen of the world's greatest film directors--from Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock to Sidney Lumet and George Cukor--providing a firsthand history of motion pictures. 15,000 first printing. Lit Guild. Tour. (view table of contents)

Provides a comprehensive account of France's imperial history, from the sands of the Sahara to the jungles of equatorial Africa, from the lush rice paddies of Indo-China to the legendary isles of Polynesia. Examines the men and women involved in the enterprise: explorers, sailors, soldiers, priests, nuns, administrators and businessmen. Assesses the uses and abuses to which the French colonies were put, and concludes with an overview of the links which have remained between France and its former colonies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. (view table of contents)

This book provides the first ever English-language analysis of France's so-called "confetti of empire," the colonial remnants referred to as "DOM-TOMs"--the départements et territoires d'outre-mer. France shows no signs of relinquishing its remaining overseas outposts which are located from the tropics to the poles--Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Saint Pierre, and Miquelon in the western hemisphere, Réunion and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific as well as its claims on Antarctica and several sub-Antarctic islands. France's Overseas Frontier examines the DOM-TOMs in the context of France's colonial history and contemporary politics. It devotes chapters to constitutional change, demographic and economic development, politics, culture and identity, the strategic and geopolitical interests of France in the DOM-TOMs, and the emergence of independence movements in several of the territories.

Product Description: An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.

Product Description: Book by Tipton, Professor Frank B.

Product Description: Book by Tipton, Professor Frank B.