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Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya

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ISBN: 978-1-444-39979-0

July 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

336 pages

Description
Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))

Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.

  • Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data
  • Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations
  • An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya
About the Author
Joel Wainwright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Ohio State University.
Features

  • Investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power
  • Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data
  • An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya