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Empires and Walls

Empires and Walls

Chaichian, Mohammed

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Brill Academic), Book 62

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004236031
ISBN13: 9789004236035
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 13 2013
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 themselves from colonial onslaughts?

In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around; as well as impending fate of 'neo-liberal' barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire.

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