Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisThis lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, weaves together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history to examine how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.Trade Review'By focusing on material and visual evidence, Professor Coltman brings fresh and original perspectives to the study of Scottish identity‎. The perceptive arguments within the book are complemented by an impressive examination of relevant original sources. The result is an important study.' Sir Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh'Viccy Coltman's book explores the multiple negotiations of Scottish identity with Britain, Europe and the Empire through art and material culture with flair, skill and a wide range of reference. Fresh thoughts and insights are everywhere, from Warren Hastings' visit to Ossian's Hall to the commodification of Paul Sandby. Highly recommended.' Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow'Coltman's book is an illuminating and entertaining contribution to the study of Scottish visual culture, opening the ongoing debate about Scottish identity to cosmopolitan and colonial influences, and widening the range of critical perspectives brought to bear upon it.' Nigel Leask, H-Albion'As a cultural history, Coltman's book is exemplary, informed by considerable new archival material, shuffling her pack of slippery identity concepts with great dexterity, and lightened by flashes of wit throughout.' Robin N. Campbell, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Beyond Scotland: 1. Scots in Europe: 'making a figure' – painted portraiture on the Grand Tour; 2. Scots in London: 'the means of bread with applause' – George Steuart's architectural elevation; 3. Scots in Empire: 'good fishing in muddy waters' – Claud Alexander in Calcutta and Catrine; Part II. Within Scotland: 4. The Prince in Scotland: 'daubed with plaid and crammed with treason' – the visual and material culture of embodied insurrection; 5. The Monarch in the metropolis: a scopic spectacle – George IV's visit to Edinburgh, August 1822; 6. Borders Bard: 'the exactness of the resemblance': Sir Walter Scott and the physiognomy of Romanticism; Conclusion: Scott-land.

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Book SynopsisBronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.Table of ContentsList of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks An African Middle Class Americans in Africa PART II: INTERACTIONS The Abolitionist Propaganda War Slave Trade Interventionism Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence Arguments for Colonial Expansion Epilogue: 1861 and Beyond Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe. Trade Review“Global Goods presents us with a fascinating array of case studies that add valuable details and perspectives to our understanding of Spain’s involvement in the first global age. … Global Goods, in other words, does more than just rehash Spain’s involvement in early globalization, it also helps to explain often forgotten aspects of how, why, and to what effect that involvement occurred.” (Journal of Jesuit Studies, booksandjournals.brillonline.com, Vol. 3 (3), June, 2016)“The chapters assembled in Global Goods and the Spanish Empire represent a significant contribution to a number of fields of inquiry. Scholars interested in the history of globalization, colonialism, consumption, material culture, and many other issues will find that this book rewards their attention. It is certainly appropriate for postgraduate students, but it should be accessible to advanced undergraduates as well.” (Stephen Webre, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 7 (4), November, 2015) Table of Contents1. Global Goods in the Spanish Empire: State of the Art and Prospects for Research; Bethany Aram PART I: CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTRAINTS 2. The Early Modern Food Revolution: A Perspective from the Iberian Atlantic; María de los Ángeles Pérez Samper 3. The Difficult Beginnings: Columbus as a Mediator of New World Products; Consuelo Varela 4. Accommodating America to Europe: Renaissance Missionaries between the Ancient and the New World; Antonella Romano 5. America and the Hermeneutics of Nature in Renaissance Europe; María Portuondo 6. The Diffusion of Maize in Italy: From Resistance to the Peasants' Defeat; Giovanni Levi PART II: THE SOCIAL USE OF THINGS 7. Taste Transformed: Sugar, Spice and the Sixteenth-Century Hispano-Burgundian Court; Bethany Aram 8. Diet, Travel and Colonialism in the Early Modern World; Rebecca Earle 9. Asian Silk, Porcelain and Material Culture in the Definition of Mexican and Andalusian Elites, c.1565-1630; José Luis Gasch 10. Interest and Curiosity: American Products, Information, and Exotica in Tuscany; Francisco Javier Zamora Rodríguez PART III: CONNECTED AND CONTRASTING SOCIETIES 11. Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for a Luxury Dye, 1550-1850; Carlos Marichal Salinas 12. Hispaniola's Turn to Tobacco: Products from Santo Domingo in Atlantic Commerce; Antonio Gutiérrez Escudero 13. Global trade, environmental constraints and local conflicts: The case of early modern Hispaniola; Igor Pérez Tostado 14. The Resilience and Boomerang Effects of Chocolate: A Product's Globalization and Commodification; Irene Fattacciu 15. Globalization, Iberian Empires and Cross-Cultural Consumption in a World Context, c. 1400-1700; Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. Trade Review"Gender, Empire, and Postcolony is an outstanding collection of essays written by many prominent figures in the field of Lusophone Studies. It centers on cultural production in the realms of literature, cinema, painting, photography, sculpture, and comic books that highlights complex gendered dynamics operating at various junctures throughout the history of the Portuguese empire, as well as in its aftermath in Portugal, Mozambique, and Brazil. While individual essays are theoretically sophisticated, the volume as a whole opens new and exciting avenues of inquiry that will shape the field for years to come." - Fernando Arenas, Professor of Lusophone African, Portuguese, and Brazilian Studies, University of Michigan, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen PART I: LUSOTROPICALIST AFFECT AND ANTI-IMPERIAL ETHICS 1. Pessoa's Works on the Self: Toward an Anti-Imperial Askesis; Leela Gandhi, 2. Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis; Ana Paula Ferreira 3. Love Is All You Need: Lusophone Affective Communities after Freyre; Anna M. Klobucka PART II: EMPIRE OF THE LENSES: CINEMA AND THE POST/COLONIAL GAZE 4. Filming Women in the Colonies: Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire; Patrícia Vieira 5. Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida in Margarida Cardoso's A Costa dos Murmúrios ; Mark Sabine 6. Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Camões in Manoel de Oliveira's Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar ; Hilary Owen PART III: POSTCOLONIALITY AND GENDER POLITICS IN VISUAL ARTS 7. Not Your Mother's Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil; Kimberly Cleveland 8. Salazar's Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego; Memory Holloway 9. A Turma do Pererê : Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic; Elise Dietrich PART IV: HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, AND THE MYTH OF POWER 10. Karingana Wa Karingana : Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique; Maria Tavares 11. Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa; Maria Irene Ramalho 12. Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus ; Steven Gonzagowski

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Book SynopsisSpencer Mawby is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham, UK.Trade Review'Methodologically sophisticated but accessibly written, Mawby's account brims with insights about the processes that drove British imperial decline. The thematic focus and impressive command of the specialist literature make this an obvious first choice for students new to British imperial history.' - Martin Thomas, University of Exeter, UK 'Were this simply a thoughtful and lucid guide through a dynamic and complex area of history, the reader would have much for which to be thankful. But Dr Mawby's work is more than that. In its critical engagement with the literature, it also invites the reader into a direct conversation with these texts. It simultaneously equips and provokes us to think with care about how we write about some of the most important events of the recent past.' - Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface 1. Introduction 2. Anti-Colonialism in the British Empire 3. Britain and Britishness 4. Migration 5. Counterinsurgency, Intelligence and Propaganda 6. Capital and Labour 7. Conclusion Chronology Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.Table of ContentsTable Of Contents 1. Experiments In Modernity: The Making Of The Atlantic World Economy; A.B. Leonard And David Pretel 2. From Seas To Ocean: Interpreting The Shift From The North Sea-Baltic World To The Atlantic, 1650-1800; David Ormrod 3. On The Rocks: A New Approach To Atlantic World Trade, 1520-1890; Chuck Meide 4. Commerce And Conflict: Jamaica And The War Of The Spanish Succession; Nula Zahedieh 5. Baltimore And The French Atlantic: Empires, Commerce, And Identity In A Revolutionary Age, 1783-1798; Manuel Covo 6. Modernity And The Demise Of The Dutch Atlantic, 1650-1914; Gert Oostindie 7. From Local To Transatlantic: Insuring Trade In The Caribbean; A.B. Leonard 8. Slavery, The British Atlantic Economy, And The Industrial Revolution; Knick Harley 9. Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, And Technological Innovation In The Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783-1878; Dale W. Tomich 10. From Periphery To Centre: Transatlantic Capital Flows, 1830-1890; Martín Rodrigo Y Alharilla 11. Baring Brothers And The Cuban Plantation Economy, 1814-1870; Inés Roldán De Montaud 12. Circuits Of Knowledge: Foreign Technology And Transnational Expertise In Nineteenth-Century Cuba; David Pretel And Nadia Fernández-De-Pinedo 13. Afterword: Mercantilism And The Caribbean Atlantic World Economy; Martin Daunton

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.Trade Review“This work situates children’s lives and agency within the local frame of Egypt and in so doing contributes to a growing body of work on ‘non-western childhoods.’ … this is a pioneering work on a highly important and much-neglected topic. No doubt Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt will pave the way for what may very well blossom into a new school for childhood studies in Egypt and the wider region of the Middle East and North Africa.” (Linda Herrera, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol.10 (1), 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism 2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child 3. Child-Rearing and Class 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt 5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.Trade Review“Hunting Africa is a valuable tool for scholars who study late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. … Hunting Africa adds to the field of scholarship on imperial masculinity and femininity. Moreover, Thompsell’s thorough investigation of personal accounts, social contracts, and violence deepens our understanding of the fraught and complex relationship between colonizers and colonized.” (Precious Mckenzie, American Historical Review, February, 2017)“Angela Thompsell’s Hunting Africa is relatively short at just over 150 pages of text … . The book touches on themes of gender, the social history of both African and colonial communities, the economics of hunting, and the image of Africa in British culture. … Hunting Africa was published by Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the British Scholar Society, which indicates that the audience is specialist historians of empire and gender … .” (Toby Harper, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2016)Table of Contents1. Real Men / Savage Nature: The Rise of African Big Game Hunting 2. 'The Bitter Thraldom of Dependence': Negotiating the Hunt 3. Guns and Reeds: Africanizing British Big Game Hunting 4. Lady Lion Hunters: An Imperial Femininity 5. 'To Make a Fetish of Roughing It': Reimagining Hunting in the Age of Safaris, 1900-1914

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.Trade Review“The well-written introduction by Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn provides a good overview, and even readers who are not specialists will profit from studying the contents of this important contribution. It opens up many highly interesting research perspectives and can be recommended wholeheartedly.” (Günther Oestmann, ISIS, Vol. 108 (4), December, 2017)“The editors declare an aim of giving depth to the British story by describing analogous activity in other European countries and the transnational linkages that facilitated progress in the theory and practice of navigation. … This volume must find a place in university libraries. It is essential reading for any serious student of the development of marine navigation.” (M. K. Barritt, The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 102 (2), April, 2016)“This collection of essays deals with the development and introduction of methods for finding longitude at sea between 1730 and 1850, mainly by non-British nations. … Approaching the issue from a non-British perspective considerably broad-ensour understanding and is no doubt the book’s strongest point. … this volume deserves a place in the bookcase of everyone interested in or studying the history of navigation and astronomy.” (W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, The Northern Mariner, Vol. 26 (1), March, 2016)“It has achieved a set of original perspectives on the Board and its work, that were not accessible from the internal study, as well as a rich series of accounts that are valuable in their own right. … Taken together, these papers form an excellent book, which demonstrates that the study of navigation in the period, and perhaps particularly of the longitude problem, has resumed its serious engagement with historical work.” (Jim Bennett, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (4), 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction; Rebekah Higgitt and Richard Dunn 2. A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; Juan Pimentel 3. The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c.1750-1850; Karel Davids 4. From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; Guy Boistel 5. The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Martina Schiavon 6. Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-60; Jacob Orrje 7. 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; Simon Werrett 8. A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology and Conventions of Location by Geodesy; Michael Kershaw 9. Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; Danielle M. E. Fauque 10. Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; John Gascoigne 11. Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?; Jane Wess 12 . Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840; David Philip Miller

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Book SynopsisMaking an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark.Trade Review"Vallgårda's book is immensely impressive. It is distinguished by wide and close reading and by innovative methodology. In critical and convincing ways it complicates missionary interventions and the missionary experience." - Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions 2. Controversy and Collapse: On Christian Day Schools 3. Raising Two Categories of Children 4. Tying Children to God with Love 5. Science, Morality, Care, and Control 6. Emotional Labor of Loss 7. Planting Seeds in Young Hearts Epilogue: The Productive Figure of the Universal Child Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Overview over Mission Stations

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic by Christer Petley and John McAleer. - 2. The Royal Navy and Caribbean Colonial Society during the Eighteenth Century by Siân Williams. - 3. Ireland and the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century by Patrick Walsh. - 4. Another Look at the Navigation Acts and the Coming of the American Revolution by Stephen Conway. - 5. The Royal Navy, the British Atlantic Empire and the Abolition of the Slave Trade by Christer Petley. - 6. At War with the detestable traffic': The Royal Navy's Anti-Slavery Cause in the Atlantic Ocean by Mary Wills. - 7. Atlantic Empire, European War, and the Naval Expeditions to South America, 18067 by James Davey. - 8. Atlantic Periphery, Asian Gateway: The Royal Navy at the Cape of Good Hope, 17851815 by John McAleer. - 9. Love and Death: The Royal Navy in the Atlantic World by Kathleen WilsonTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic by Christer Petley and John McAleer. - 2. The Royal Navy and Caribbean Colonial Society during the Eighteenth Century by Siân Williams. - 3. Ireland and the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century by Patrick Walsh. - 4. Another Look at the Navigation Acts and the Coming of the American Revolution by Stephen Conway. - 5. The Royal Navy, the British Atlantic Empire and the Abolition of the Slave Trade by Christer Petley. - 6. At War with the ‘detestable traffic’: The Royal Navy’s Anti-Slavery Cause in the Atlantic Ocean by Mary Wills. - 7. Atlantic Empire, European War, and the Naval Expeditions to South America, 1806–7 by James Davey. - 8. Atlantic Periphery, Asian Gateway: The Royal Navy at the Cape of Good Hope, 1785–1815 by John McAleer. - 9. Love and Death: The Royal Navy in the Atlantic World by Kathleen Wilson

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Book SynopsisFrancis Graham-Dixon holds a PhD in History from Sussex University and was Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University, Germany.Trade ReviewDrawing on an impressive range of archival sources, this study broadens our understanding of the complexities of post-war stabilisation and reconstruction, and the challenges of establishing democracy in the context of military occupation. * Stephen Schroeder, German History *[A]n important contribution in the field and a very rich source for those interested in the history of the British occupation. * Camilo Erlichman, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *Francis Graham-Dixon makes excellent use of the relevant sources, and his interpretations are both nuanced and balanced. * Mark Hull, H-Net Reviews *In our age of mass uprooting and enforced migrancy, when the hardships of refugees and the ethics of humanitarian aid press ever more insistently on the boundaries of engaged democratic consciousness and feasible action, the urgency of looking carefully at earlier episodes become evident and compelling. In his searching examination of the British occupation administration of Germany after 1945, Francis Graham-Dixon provides precisely such historical guidance. * Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsContents Maps and list of illustrations vii List of abbreviations ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 3 1. Occupation Policy and German refugees: The case for revision 15 Britain's 'moral leadership' 17 Minorities and human rights 32 2. 'Germanity and Humanity' 37 'The Trouble with Germans' 37 'Transfer of the German populations': a political expedient 42 'Victors justice: the background to Hamburg 1943 and its aftermath 52 Victors' justice: Nuremburg and its aftermath 67 3. Realities of the occupation 77 A predisposition for control 77 Economic constraints 97 The British churches and voluntary organisations: political instruments 106

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Anthony Kirk-Greene, who served as a district officer in Nigeria for over a decade, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and official papers, and his own experience, to paint a vivid picture of the service from his perspective. Symbol of Authority explores the socio-educational status of district officers, their recruitment and training, and what they did in both their work and leisure.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations – vi Foreword by J.H. Smith, CBE – vii Abbreviations – xi Introduction – xv Part I. Stepping Stones 1. The Colonial Administrative Service: Chronology and Context – 1 2. Towards a Colonial Service Career – 15 3. Training for the Colonial Service – 42 Part II. The Heart of the Matter 4. First Tour – 60 5. The Day’s Work: In Station – 94 6. The Day’s Work: On Tour – 124 7. The Day’s Work: The Secretariat – 143 8. After the Day’s Work – 164 9. Through Female Eyes – 180 Part III. All Change 10. The District Officer and Decolonization – 207 11. Looking Back: The Image and the Memory of the DO – 231 Notes – 270 Bibliography – 305

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Book SynopsisTom Lawson is Professor of History at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Debates on the Holocaust and The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: History, Memory and Genocide in Tasmania Chapter 1: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing 1804-1832 Chapter 2: Saving Souls and Cultural Genocide 1832-1876 Chapter 3: Memory and Return: Genocide in British Culture 1804-2011 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFlinders investigates the charismatic soldier's sexuality and religious views India Todaybalanced and meticulously researcheda welcome addition to our understanding of Britain's imperial history. Military History MagazineIn September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted such devotion, not just from his religious followers, but from the general public? And why is he no longer considered a hero? The man called ''The Lion of the Punjab'' by his contemporaries and compared to General Wolfe of Quebec, and even to Napoleon, has in recent times been dubbed ''an imperial psychopath'' and ''a homosexual bully''. Yet his was a remarkable tale of a life of adventure lived on thTrade ReviewWell-researched and very readable, Flinders’s book is as fair and balanced a biography of this contentious figure as we are likely to see. * The Spectator *Superb…fascinating study of this fearsome figure… * Church Times *Stuart Flinders has brought this towering, controversial Victorian hero to life… * History of War Magazine *…balanced and meticulously researched…a welcome addition to our understanding of Britain’s imperial history. * Military History Magazine *‘…a remarkable tale of a remarkable Irishman during the British Imperial rule * Irish Post *…A meticulously nuanced, well-written biography of this important and controversial figure. * Durbar Magazine *Flinders investigates the charismatic soldier’s sexuality and religious views * India Today *…Engaging…perceptive… * Sudhirendar.blogspot *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Hero of Delhi' or 'Great imperial psychopath'? Nicholson’s changing reputation considered. 1: 'Trying to hit the Devil', Ireland and India, 1822-1840…early life and first experience of India. 2: 'A bloodthirsty and treacherous Race', Afghanistan 1840-1842…Nicholson taken prisoner in Afghanistan. 3: 'I dislike India and its inhabitants', India and Kashmir, 1843-1846…homesickness and the First Sikh War. 4: 'A fearless, self-reliant, fierce and masterful man', the Sikh Rebellion, 1848…Nicholson’s energetic response to the breakdown of the alliance between Britain and the Sikhs. 5: 'A skirmish in the hills', The Second Sikh War, 1848-49… Nicholson’s growing reputation. 6: 'What corner of the Punjab is not witness to your gallantry?', Going Home, 1849-1851…origins of Nikal Seyni cult and Nicholson’s adventures as he returns home. 7: ' There is not one in the hills who does not shiver in his pyjamas when he hears his name mentioned', Bannu, 1852…Nicholson returns to India to become the strongman of Bannu. 8: 'The evil spirit within me', Bannu, 1853-56…Nicholson’s ambivalence on religion and his growing hatred of John Lawrence. 9: 'A good Mahomedan of the kind told of in old books', Kashmir and Peshawar, 1856-57…Nicholson as moral policeman in Kashmir. 10: 'The word is said and death surely follows', Peshawar, 1857…Nicholson responds to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising. 11: 'I have been hanging your cooks', the Movable Column, 1857…Nicholson chases down the Sepoy rebels. 12: 'Not a bad sliver, that!', Chasing the Sialkote Mutineers, July 1857…the Battle of Trimmu Ghat. 13: 'When an Empire is at stake, women and children cease to be of any consideration whatever,' Delhi, August 1857…Nicholson arrives at Delhi Ridge. 14: 'I wish I had the power of knighting you on the spot', Najafgarh and the Siege of Delhi, 1857…preparing for the assault on Delhi. 15: 'Woe to the bloody city!', The Assault on Delhi, 1857…Nicholson fatally shot during the assault on Delhi. 16: 'Is Nicholson any better?', Death, 1857…Nicholson’s decline and death. 17: 'His loss is a national misfortune', Aftershock, 1857…responses to the death of Nicholson. 18: 'The mother of heroes', Nicholson's legacy protected, 1857-1897…Nicholson’s family and friends try to manage his reputation after death. 19: 'I'm a little baffled about why they are valourising Nicholson now', Nicholson's Afterlife, 1857-2015…Nicholson’s loss of hero-status.

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Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Early Origins, Encounters and Exchanges: The Indian Clubs in India 2. Medicine and Muscles: Discovering Indian Clubs in Victorian Britain 3. An Unlikely Duo? Professor Harrison, Sim D. Kehoe and Transnational Health 4. Swinging Back Round?: Indian Clubs and Global Fitness from the Mid-Nineteenth Century 5. Physical Culture and the End of Club Swinging? Indian Clubs at the Turn of the Century 6. The Global Performer? Tom Burrows Indian Club World Tours and World Records Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWILLIAM S. MALTBY is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His publications include The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1588-1660, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, The Reign of Charles V and with Steven Hause, Western Civilization.

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Book SynopsisWILLIAM S. MALTBY is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His publications include The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1588-1660, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, The Reign of Charles V and with Steven Hause, Western Civilization.

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Book SynopsisCatia Antunes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004).Jos Gommans in Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is author of The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780 (1999) and Mughal Warfare (2002).Trade ReviewThe individual essays are uniformly very good — they are exceptionally readable for this sort of genre, and they are likewise enjoyable and informative — and they collectively immerse the reader in a wide swath of the Netherlands’ overseas colonies and engagements. * The English Historical Review *[An] excellent and enjoyable overview of Leiden scholarship on Dutch colonial history. * European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Catia Antunes and Jos Gommans Introduction Catia Antunes PART I: AGENTS 1. South Asian Cosmopolitanism and the Dutch Microcosms in Seventeenth-Century Cochin (Kerala) Jos Gommans 2. Negotiating Foreignness in the Ottoman Empire: The Legal Complications of Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth Century Maurits van den Boogert 3. Pioneering in Southeast Asia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Anita van Dissel 4. Nodal Ndola Robert Ross and Anne-Lot Hoek PART II: NETWORKS 5. The Networks of Dutch Brazil: Rise, Entanglement and Gall of a Colonial Dream Catia Antunes, Erik Odegard and Joris van den Tol 6. Networks of Information: The Dutch East Indies Charles Jeurgens 7. Paramaribo: Myriad Connections, Multiple Identifications Peter Meel 8. The Global Dutchman in Indonesian Waters J. Thomas Lindblad PART III: INSTITUTIONS 9. ‘Not out of Love, but for Money and Profit’: The Dutch-Japanese Trade from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Wim Boot 10. Institutional Interaction on the Gold Coast: African and Dutch Institutional Cooperation in Elmina, 1600-1800 Henk den Heijer 11. Conflict Resolution, Social Control and Law-Making in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sri Lanka Alicia Schrikker 12. Curaçao: Insular Nationalism vis-à-vis Dutch (Post-)Colonialism Gert Oostindie Conclusion: Globalizing Empire: The Dutch Case Jos Gommans Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisPeo Hansen is Professor in the Institute for Research in Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.Stefan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.Trade ReviewEurafrica is a very timely book on an important topic. While stressing continuity across the twentieth century and cataloguing Eurafrican projects in an accessible and useful manner, it shows that colonies played a much more important role in the thinking about European cooperation than is generally acknowledged. * Anne-Isabelle Richard, Journal of Global History *A powerful essay ... Hansen and Jonsson are to be commending for having written a book on European integration that will be of interest to scholars both of postcolonial studies as well as of modern European history in general. * H-Soz-Kult online *It is not often that one reads a work of academic history that has both interpretative value and policy relevance, as Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson’s Eurafrica does. …[This] splendid book rightly dwells upon the ambiguous legacy of the concept of Eurafrica for the process of European integration. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Hansen and Jonsson’s exceptional study Eurafrica ... is invaluable in recovering the imperial history of Europe qua Europe. * Sociology *[A] wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... The authors are to be commended for their extensive research. * The European Legacy *A roseate glimmer of postwar peace attaches to 'Europe' - the fake continent and the organization of states that is said metonymically to stand for it. Hansen and Jonsson uncover something altogether different in the formation of the European project, something either unknown or papered over in embarrassed silence: Eurafrica. The colonial ideology, morphing into the neo-colonial here, is nothing less than astonishing. * Anders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History, Columbia University, USA *[...] the work Eurafrica offers a very valuable contribution to the thorough knowledge and full understanding of the bond existing between decolonization and europeanisation processes. Based on a wide range of sources, it provides a general overview of the origins, motivations, forms and means of EC cooperation policies and illuminates the denseness of themes, controversies and approaches covered in research. In this way it advances knowledge about the debate on the “centrality of colonial legacy in early blueprints for European Integration” and provides a good fact finding of the state of the research in the field. * Jean-Marie Palayret, former Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union, European University Institute, Florence *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface 1. Introduction: The Past that Europe Forgot 2. A Holy Alliance of Colonising Powers: The Interwar Period 3. Making Europe in Africa: The First Postwar Decade 4. The Eurafrican Relaunch: The Rome Treaty Negotiations, 1955–1957 5. Conclusion: Ending Colonialism by Securing its Continuation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUndoubtedly one of Africa's most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene''s creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene''s oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with documenting the past in an attempt to present a balanced and nuanced view of African history. While these studies, unquestionably contribute to a better understanding of his works, they collectively ignore Sembene's relentless preoccupation with culture in his entire career as a writer and filmmaker. The collection of essays in Sembene and the Politics of Culture sets out to fill that gap as the contributors at once foreground Sembene's fixation on the centrality of culture in the articulation of the discourse of national consciousness Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: Cultural Politics in Senegal: A Quest for Relevance, by Lifongo Vetinde Part One: Culture and Development Chapter One: Sembene, Senghor and Competing Notions of Culture and Development at the 1966 Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres de Dakar, by David Murphy Chapter Two: Sembène and the Aesthetics of Senghorian Négritude, by Lifongo Vetinde Chapter Three: Representations of Islam and the question of Identity in Ousmane Sembene’s Ceddo, by Cherif Correa Part Two: Discourses Chapter Four: A Twice-Told Tale: The Post-colonial Allegory of La Noire de …(1966) and Faat Kine (2000), by Dayna Oscherwitz Chapter Five: Bringing the Rain Indoors: Rereading the National Allegory in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala, by Mathew H. Brown Chapter Six: Women in Sembène’s Films: Spatial Reconfigurations and Cultural Meanings, by Moussa Sow Chapter Seven: Why Does Diouana Die? Facing History, Migration and Trauma in Black Girl, by Lyell Davis Part Three: Language and Aesthetics Chapter Eight: Language, Racial Difference and Dialogic Consciousness: Sembene's God’s Bits of Wood, by Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu Chapter Nine: An Onomastic Reading of Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kine, by Mouhamedoul A Niang Chapter Ten: Trans-formal Aesthetics and Cultural Impact on Ousmane Sembene’s Xala, by Rachel Diang’a Part Four: Testimonies Makhète Diallo Pathé Diagne Fatoumata Kandé Senghor

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Book SynopsisOsterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Virtually all other studies to date have looked at strategies of colonial conquest, exploitation, and rule from the imperial point of view. Osterhammel shows that the colonial situation developed in ways that duplicated neither the metropolis nor the pre-colonial society, but instead blended these and added a new direction characteristic only of colonial realms. He emphasizes that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local populations until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.Trade ReviewA conviction of imperial cultural superiority gave modern colonialism an aggressive turn. The result was ethnic and social stratification in the colonial society, even when colonists took over the pre-colonial administration and society as the British did in India. - Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have focused on visually re-imagining historical material and events as memories, histories and dreamscapes. Creole in the Archive uses photographic analysis to explore portraits, postcards and social documentation of the colonial worker between 1850 and 1960 and contemporary, often digital, visual art by post-independent, postcolonial Caribbean artists. Drawing on Derridean ideas of the archive, the book reconceptualises the Caribbean visual archive as contiguous and relational. It argues that using a creolising archive practice, the conjuncture of contemporary artworks, historical imagery and associated locations can develop insightful new multimodal representations of Caribbean subjectivities.Trade ReviewRoshini Kempadoo invites us into a complex space that offers new ways of reading photographs, documents, and letters focusing on the Caribbean. This book is wonderfully researched. An expert reader of the visual, Kempadoo is the voice that is able to view the archive as a performative space that is revisited time and again. An insightful and important contribution to the study of identity, race, memory, and global studies. -- Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University - Tisch School of the ArtsCreole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the ‘archive’, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoo’s own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University This book harnesses the process of creolisation in a sensitive engagement with the notion of the archive. Kempadoo considers formal and informal repositories, offline and online realms, historical records and contemporary acts of art making – as ways of seeing. She launches the reader into an expanded visual matrix, from which it is possible to discern more complex Caribbean subjectivities. -- Marsha Pearce, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and TobagoCreole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the ‘archive’, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoo’s own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, Lecturer in English, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Notebook of a Return / 1. Creolising Archives: A Relational and Contiguous Practice / 2. Caribbean Spaces: Seeing Her Presence, Exploring Her Past / 3. Controlling Her Image / 4. ‘See We Here’: Determining the Caribbean Self / 5. Visualising Change / Conclusion: Endnote / Index

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Book SynopsisDisrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of maize, the staple food and symbol of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such ‘contamination’ were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty. Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination ‘biotechnological disruption’ emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is provocatively conceptualized as a gift, that is, as the promise of a more democratic Mexico.Trade ReviewThe problem is complex and the authors’ ideas are stimulating. There’s no doubt, as the history shows, that growing and eating maize became a political objective for Mexican postrevolutionary governments, and that a sacredness of maize was somehow crafted to achieve that goal. * Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society *Disrupting Maize offers a detailed and innovative examination of the ways in which food both becomes heritage and a focus of political activism. In 2010, Mexican cuisine was added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. Méndez Cota maps the complex and dynamic field of dissent and disagreements that challenged the nationalizing narrative represented by the listing. In doing so, she argues that diversity and dissent is an ongoing and integral aspect of intangible heritage. In illustrating the ways in which intangible heritage interconnects with disputes over knowledge production and biotechnological developments and applications the book provides a rare and sophisticated glimpse into the political and cultural complexity of 'living heritage’. -- Laurajane Smith, Professor of Archaeology and Anthroplogy, Australian National UniversityContamination is present in all sovereignty and identity is always necessarily transgenic. In the maize wars nationalist desire crosses biotechnical critique on its way to a posited refoundation that cannot know its limits and confuses its core. This fascinating book disrupts biological disruption itself while refusing to give in to endemic cultural moralisms. Its wager for democracy actively dislocates the compromised nostalgia of some emancipatory narratives while resisting the calculation of the future. -- Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements / Introduction / 1. Mexican Maize: A Biotechnological Story / 2. Colonial Legacies, Constitutive Disruptions / 3. Resisting Technoscience: The Nationalist Trap / 4. The People of Maize and the Technoscience of Culture / 5. The Gift of Biotechnological Disruption / Index

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Book SynopsisReviewed by Astrid Lustulin for Readers' Favourite: It is time to learn the stories of some nations in a more equitable way - not from the point of view of the conquerors but of the oppressed. This is why books like The Black History Truth: Jamaica by Pamela Gayle arouse great interest in a conscious reader. This book tells the story of 'The Sharpest Thorn in Britain's Caribbean Colonies,' focusing on the 16th to 19th centuries. Through extensive use of sources and images, Gayle sheds light on the injustices perpetrated by the British and analyses the stigmatization of Eurocentric historiography, which portrayed unfavorably behaviors and customs of groups of people it could not understand. Although the subject is complex, this book is clear and precise. Gayle tackles so many topics that she arouses the admiration of readers with her profound knowledge of Jamaica. She is very direct when she blames the British, but the evidence she brings is overwhelming. In The Black History Truth: Jamaica, you will not only find descriptions of struggles and injustices but also valuable information on local heroes and heroines, such as Nana Yaa Asantewaa and Queen Nanny, as well as customs that Europeans have misunderstood. Aft er reading this book, readers will understand why Jamaica was actually (as the subtitle describes it) "the sharpest thorn in Britain's Caribbean Colonies." I recommend this book to all those who want to see the history of humanity from a new perspective.Trade ReviewReviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favourite: Exploring the time between the 16th and 19th centuries when Jamaica was a part of the British colonial empire, the work seeks to uncover racial injustices and celebrate the roots of the many different black cultures.

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