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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Chaichian Mohammed"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Empires and walls : globalization, migration, and colonial domination / / by Mohammad A. Chaichian"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"90-04-26066-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (390 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Studies in critical social sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; Volume 62"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"909"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Walls - Political aspects - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Boundaries - Political aspects - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Borderlands - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Imperialism - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Preliminary Material / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 1 Walls, Borders, and Imperial Formations: In Search of an Explanation / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 2 Hadrian’s Wall: An Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 3 Red Snake: The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 4 Clash of Empires: Prelude to the Berlin Wall / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 5 Build the Wall: The Two German Economies are Now United! / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 6 Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: Banning the Islamic Veil (Hijab) in French Schools / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 7 An Empire in the Making: American Colonial Interests South of the Border / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 8 The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico: Border Blues / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 9 Israel and Palestine: a Settler Colony is Born / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 10 Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- 11 Epilogue: Conceptualizing Walls and borders—“Globalization from within” / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- References / Mohammad A. Chaichian -- Index / Mohammad A. Chaichian."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the ‘barbarians’ at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]