{"title":"Colonialism and imperialism Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-gold-machine-9780861543731","title":"The Gold Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year, 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry Miles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last London\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLights Out for the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by - and in reaction to - an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe Gold Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis a trip, a psychoactive expedit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable. \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e made me angry, sad, envious of Sinclair’s beautiful, evocative prose and grateful that I did not have to endure a \u003cem\u003esoroche\u003c\/em\u003e headache to gain a new understanding of colonial attitudes and the damage we have done.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Barry Miles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A glorious achievement, by turns drily humorous and darkly atmospheric.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ian Thomson, \u003ci\u003eFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e is an intense negotiation with [Sinclair’s] ancestor… the driest of wit… Sinclair is incapable of writing a dull sentence, and his style in many ways reflects the hallucinatory nature of the tropics. I cannot think of many authors who can combine “sordid pilgrimage”, “manufactured myths” and “Jungian misdirection” in a single paragraph… The classic tropes of Sinclair’s work are all here, although transposed onto the Peruvian backdrop… \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine \u003c\/em\u003eis a form of alchemy, and Sinclair is a wry sorcerer throughout.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The journey is richly imaginative, Sinclair’s mind sparkling with connections… \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine \u003c\/em\u003eis a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company. We finish it reeling slightly, and feeling grateful to have undertaken this journey without having to leave home.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Miranda France, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Impeccably researched’\u003c\/p\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Other than Peter Ackroyd, nobody knows London better than Sinclair. Here, five decades into a distinguished writing career, he ventures farther afield, traveling to Peru on the trail of a Scottish ancestor who sought his fortune in coffee… Fans of travel literature will prize this shimmering account of a journey into the past.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In this magnificent book, Iain Sinclair and his daughter follow their culpable, intrepid ancestor into Peru, towards a coffee-black heart of colonial darkness. Of course the old man is looking for gold, and finding it, on every page, in every line. A sultry masterpiece.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alan Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Marshalling his exceptional skills of social observation and narrative, Britain’s finest modern essayist Iain Sinclair strikes south in \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e… he conducts an elegiac dialogue between generations and sinks into the deep past.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Sinclair’s discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Best travel books of 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Swapping London for Lima, Hackney for Huancayo, in an unexpected departure from more familiar territory, \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e tracks a feverish descent into the darkness of Peru’s colonial past, as Sinclair follows in the footsteps of his nineteenth-century forbear. Written with his customary linguistic flair, this is a vivid and revealing addition to a unique body of work.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Merlin Coverley, author of \u003ci\u003ePsychogeography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Excavator, outlier, alchemist. Sinclair’s formidable gaze turns backwards, forwards and touchingly inwards. A father–daughter pilgrimage to the rapids and along the bloodline: panning for salt, coffee, gold, misdeeds, consequences, presence, absence, family…and self. Disarmingly tender, generous and brimming. A book of wonder (noun and verb), from first word to last I was agog.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Keggie Carew, author of \u003ci\u003eDadland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Like Fitzcarraldo carrying a boat over mountains to fabulous worlds, Sinclair backpacks all the known legends, skeletons and lies, to tightrope a lurching dazzling bridge between generations. His, ours and those to come. Splendid in corruption. Wealthy in shock. This is the invaders' New Testament. Jamming gold coins in our eyes for lenses, leaving nothing to pay the boatman, because after this reads you, there is no place to go. \u003cstrong\u003eA masterpiece\u003c\/strong\u003e.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- B. Catling, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vorrh Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Sinclair is the laureate of the peripatetic and \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e is his \u003cem\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e. It is the brilliantly written narrative of a long, dark journey into his own familial past. The magic begins on page 1 and continues to its end.’ \u003c\/p\u003e -- Duncan Wu, Raymond A. Wagner Professor of Literature, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Iain Sinclair remains the reigning ambassador from the kingdom of books, a fifty-year argument for the practice and legitimacy of writing. \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e extends the argument. Sinclair and his daughter travel to Peru and re-create the colonial expedition of his great-grandfather, pathways laid out in the forgotten ancestor’s published works. This is what the template has always been, will always be. Find an old book, absorb its secret message, go outside and destroy yourself in its service. Brilliant.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jarett Kobek, author of \u003ci\u003eI Hate the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is some of the best prose Sinclair has ever written – its poetic playfulness always in energetic tandem with razor-sharp observation. The book also transcends the genres you throw at it. It is a post-colonial essay haunted, if not deeply disturbed, by what the complex literary spirits of Conrad, Poe, Burroughs, Ginsberg and Ed Dorn bring to the party, a peripatetic séance in Amazonia often rudely interrupted by reality. This is an enthralling read.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Paul Tickell, film-maker and journalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Ceylon, Australia and Peru, as well as Dundee, Maesteg and, of course,  Hackney too. \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e thrusts a sharp and revealing probe into the not always leafy heartlands of Britain’s imperial past. Perfect reading for anyone keen to understand how this history continues to weigh on the present, and a prophetic last word for those Brexit-crazed champions of “unwoke” England who refuse to accept that it is over.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Patrick Wright, Professor (emeritus) of Literature, History and Politics, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This book is further proof that, when he leaves London, Iain Sinclair’s gifts of observation expand to suit his subject. In \u003cem\u003eThe Gold Machine\u003c\/em\u003e he follows the psychic and physical resonances of a visionary ancestor through the personal origin myth he has explored in poetry and prose all his life. Marshalling his exceptional skills of social observation and narrative, Britain’s finest modern essayist strides South. Travelling with his daughter Farne he conducts an elegiac dialogue between generations and sinks into the deep past, making profound associations, travelling back and forth in time through a rapidly changing Peru on the trail of the mysterious Arthur Sinclair.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Moorcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The physical journey begins in Lima; the intellectual voyage, as Sinclair devotees might guess, is serpentine… Prospective readers may wonder how this avowed Londoner gets on outside the M25. 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Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia.Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment.In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. 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Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Irelandin a time of Brexit, ''the culture wars'', and the campaigns around ''Black Lives Matter'' and ''Statues must fall''to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future.Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as processand Ireland''s role in itthrough the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that equate roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550-c.1770s).Ireland was England''s oldest colony. How then did the English empire actually function in early modern Ireland and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? This book answers these questions by interrogating four interconnected themes. First, that Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system, Second, that the Irish operated as agents of empire(s). Third, Ireland served as laboratory in and for the English empire. Finally, it examines the impact that empire(s) had on people living in early modern Ireland. Even though the book''s focus will be on Ireland and the English empire, the Irish were trans-imperial and engaged with all of the early modern imperial powers. It is therefore critical, where possible and appropriate, to look to other European and global empires for meaningful comparisons and connections in this era of expansionism.What becomes clear is that colonisation was not a single occurrence but an iterative and durable process that impacted different parts of Ireland at different times and in different ways. That imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion and expropriation. 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Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare. Davíd Carrasco looks beyond Spanish accounts that have colored much of the Western narrative to let Aztec voices speak about their origin stories, the cosmic significance of their capital city, their methods of child rearing, and the contributions women made to daily life and the empire. Carrasco discusses the arrival of the Spaniards, contrasts Aztec mythical traditions about the origins of their city with actual urban life in Mesoamerica, and outlines the rise of the Aztec empire. He also explores Aztec religion, which provided both justification for and alternatives to warfare, sacrifice, and imperialism, and he sheds light on Aztec poetry, philosophy, painting, and especially monumental sculpture and architecture. 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Hatcher's fascinating introduction highlights Vidyasagar's contribution toward an imaginative sociology of Bengal, embellished by an early data-driven perspective, and informed by enormous sympathy for Bengali women trapped in Kulin marriages. Hatchers voice merges with this sympathy, while retaining its analytical acumen. This book is central for understanding women's reform in colonial India and is a tremendous read. * Deepra Dandekar, PhD, Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin *\u003cbr\u003eA daunting task indeed-to make relevant a late-nineteenth century text on the plight of high-caste Hindu women, subject to, as Vidyasagar writes 'the practice of this hideous and cruel custom' of serial polygamy. Hatcher's seamless introduction and extremely readable translation successfully highlights Vidyasagar's fundamental ethical commitment to women's dignity. 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Smooth, and with enough \"human interest\" to bring the subject alive - history as it should be written, but so seldom is these days... * Ian Mitchell's Book Recommendations *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1: A Father's Legacy 2: The Making of a Home Ruler 3: Churchill in Belfast 4: The 'Plot Against Ulster' 5: Ireland at the Front 6: War in Ireland 7: The Making and Breaking of the Treaty Settlement 8: The Disintegration of Churchill's Irish Legacy 9: Churchill and Irish Neutrality 10: 'Saving them from themselves' Conclusion Notes Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732778791255,"sku":"9780198755227","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198755227.jpg?v=1719998362"},{"product_id":"the-devil-from-over-the-sea-9780198848318","title":"The Devil from over the Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently ''forgotten'' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell''s powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the ''Cromwellian'': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded al\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating book explores how Oliver Cromwell has been remembered, forgotten, misremembered, demonized, and mythologized in Ireland and Irish America for more than three centuries. * D. R. Bisson, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing * Nicholas Canny, Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis thoughtful, innovative work by Sarah Covington represents the latest, and by far the best, attempt to understand the extraordinary power of Cromwell's name and reputation amongst Irish people at home and abroad... this extraordinarily rich volume not only brings our understanding of Cromwell and his reputation in Ireland on to a new level, it also represents a further important contribution to the burgeoning field of Irish 85 memory studies by a historian who is at the height of her powers. Add to this the attractive pricing by OUP, and The Devil from over the Sea becomes a must-buy book. * Alan Ford, University of Nottingham, The Seventeenth Century *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book that people with even a passing interest in Irish history have an obligation to acquire and to read. * Eamon Maher, Technological University Dublin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1: Aftermath 2: Religious Cromwell 3: Political Cromwell 4: Propertied Cromwell 5: Ruinous Cromwell 6: Folkloric Cromwell 7: Migrated Cromwell Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732811198807,"sku":"9780198848318","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198848318.jpg?v=1719998498"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/colonialism-and-imperialism.oembed?page=42","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}