An edition of Decolonizing Development (2007)
Decolonizing Development
Colonial Power and the Maya (Antipode Book Series)
By Joel Wainwright
Publish Date
January 28, 2008
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell,Blackwell Pub.
Language
eng
Pages
328
Description:
"Postcolonialism and political economy are brought together in this book to examine development among the Maya of Belize. Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development. Through readings of archival texts, maps, and development practices, Joel Wainwright unearths the roots of centuries of struggle over the representation of the Maya and their lands. He traces the shifts in discourses on this pre-Columbian civilization and documents indigenous resistance to the British colonial state."--BOOK JACKET.