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Visual systems before colonial rule
Coastal contact and transcultural exchange, c. 1471–1874
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Anticolonial and independence visual culture, 1945–1966
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Chapter 8 The Collapse of Anticolonial Modernization, 1963–1966
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
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Territorializing Maoism: Dictatorship, War, and Anticolonialism in the Portuguese “Long Sixties”
Miguel Cardina
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2017
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THe Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan
Christopher Gerteis
Critical Asian Studies
2007
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The French Anticolonial Solidarity Movement and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Víctor Barros
The International History Review
2019
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