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or sites to which his pages link.
- A librarian's remarkably
comprehensive bibliography of authors and texts from non-Western
sources from ancient times through today. This is a great
resource for choosing an independent book - find a title that
looks interesting, and then go to amazon.com
and read some reviews to see if looks like something you
would like.
- Africa We learn a great deal about the Greek and Roman
Empires, but very little about the great empires that ruled
(and whose descendants still occupy) Africa.
- Wikipedia has some good resources about major
empires in Africa.
- For more detail, Central Oregon Community College has copious
information about African
Empires in ancient times, and from the 1st
- 15th centuries. You can keep on reading right up through
the slave
trade era, then the resistance
to colonialism, and even into the
modern day.
For a different kind of video game, try playing Third
World Farmer, which bills itself as a realistic look
at the challenges faced by farmers in developing African nations.
Probably the most difficult simulation game you've ever tried!
Another interesting game is Food-Force!
You play as a United Nations food relief team. The website also
has excellent links to real-world resources for addressing hunger,
and how you can get involved.
- Some good resources on the history of and ideas in Postcolonial
literature:
- Postcolonialweb
has a wealth of resources about various former colonies
- history, economics, demographics, etc, as well as literature
and literary and political theory.
- Emory University's
Postcolonial Studies site
- A bibliography
of Postcolonial Studies readings from Boston College
- A half-complete but still interesting Wikipedia
page on Postcolonialism
- The Middle East
- Some great links to and descriptions of Arab
Poets and Poetry are here.
- General resources
on Arab Culture and Civilization are available here through
the NITLE Arab World project.
- Want to get news about the Middle East (and the rest of the
world) from an Arab perspective? Check out Al-Jazeera.net
(the world's most popular Arab satellite channel), or the Middle
East's leading English daily, Arabnews.com.
- The Jerusalem Post is
Israel's most popular newspaper, and Ha'Eretz
is also a good source for Israeli news from Israel. PeaceNow
is one of the largest peace movements in Israel.
- China - some language
and literature resources.
- Japan - Link to the full translated text of the Tale
of Genji, the most highly esteemed literary work in
the culture (think of it as Japanese Shakespeare, as respected
and as difficult). For help, read this thorough
background on the Tale of Genji.
Want to learn some Japanese? Here's a
great site that uses lessons taught by anime characters!
- Miscellaneous
- The CIA
World Factbook gives you quick and thorough facts at a glance
about any nation in the world.
- How equally do the people of the world share our planet?
>>>Distribution
of resources in the world
>>>Consumption
of those resources
>>>An
opposing viewpoint
- Human Rights Watch
monitors and reports on the state of human rights around the
globe, as does the UN
Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equity.
- Resources about sweatshops
and the
impact of globalization on developing nations. For opposing
arguments, you can always visit Nike,
Reebok, etc. and get their
point of view.
- Hostelling
international - for when you want to travel the world on
the cheap.
- A list of when
women gained the right to vote, by country.
- How to communicate
vegetarianism in a hundred different languages.
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