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Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Empire was the only great European Muslim power and was at one time the most serious threat to European Christendom. Yet, by the turn of the nineteenth century, it was a crumbling power that, paradoxically, retained a strong military force. The Well-Protected Domains examines this anomaly, showing how the late Ottoman state grappled with the challenges of the modernity then changing the world. Selim Deringil traces the Ottoman state's pursuit of egitimation in many spheres of public life: state ceremonial, the iconography of buildings, the honours system, the language of the chancery, the proto- nationalist reformulation of Islamic legal practices, the efforts to inculcate the idea of 'Ottoman citizenry' through an expanded education system and the efforts of the Ottoman elite to present a 'civilized' image abroad. Based on unexplored sources in the Ottoman archives, The Well-Protected Domains brings to life the Hamidian period and provides readers with a unique view of the workings of the late Ottoman Empire.Trade Review'Selim Deringil's study of the Ottoman Empire's view of itself during its final half century gave me unalloyed pleasure. Elegantly written and impeccably researched ... {it} stands head and shoulders above anything I have seen in recent years on contemporary Turkey.' - David Barchard, CornucopiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Map Introduction ‘Long Live the Sultan!’: Symbolism and Power in the Hamidian Regime The Ottomanization of the Seriat ‘To Enjoin the Good and to Forbid Evil’: Conversion and Ideological Reinforcement Education: the Answer to all Evil? ‘They Confuse and Excite Minds’: The Missionary Problem. Ottoman Image Management and Damage Control The Ottoman ‘Self Portrait’ Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFar from having to 'scram from Africa' following the abandonment of her 'East of Suez' role, and despite the problems of Mau Mau, and the even the Suez debacle on a larger international stage, Britain continued to vigorously pursue imperial African interests. And Kenya was centre-stage. Much scholarship has been devoted to the Emergency (1952-60), fear of a post-Mau Mau civil war, de-colonization and setting up independent Kenya but little on British policy in pursuing her vital interests beyond independence. "Britain, Kenya and the Cold War", shows Britain maintaining her strategic priorities in Kenya - cultivating the moderate Kenyatta government, giving up the unacceptable colonial army base, but retaining military camps, rights of overflying, staging and training, and arming and training the Kenyan military, including internal security. Kenyan de-colonization and British defence interests were intimately linked and vital within the context of the Cold War and East-West regional rivalry.Trade Review'David Percox tells us, for the first time, and from intimate, previously secret, primary sources, the fascinating early history of this military relationship between Britain and Kenya. Kenya was never merely a 'Happy Valley' of aristocratic white settlement. In the First World War it was the base from which the Kaiser was driven out of East Africa and, in the Second, from which Mussolini was ejected from Ethiopia. The British army re-learned its guerrilla tactics in order to defeat Mau Mau in Kenya's forests, and looked to a Kenya base for conducting an 'East of Suez' strategy during the Cold War. No wonder the British protected and armed the man they had most feared, Jomo Kenyatta, erstwhile 'leader to darkness and death' transformed into robust Cold War ally. Percox ends this first-rate study by giving neo-colonialism a precise, ironic, and martial meaning.' - John Lonsdale, Emeritus Professor of Modern African History, University of Cambridge; 'The historical study of Kenya's decolonization, always a popular topic in African historiography, has reached a new stage... David Percox, drawing on newly accessible colonial records at the British Public Record Office and concentrating on defence and security issues, argues that the pathway to the transfer of power was far from the orderly one that recent historical studies have proposed.' - Robert Tignor, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Defence and Internal Security, 1945-52 British Counter-Insurgency in Kenya, 1952-6 East Africa, East of Suez, 1956-7 East Africa, East of Suez II, 1957-9 Internal Security and Decolonisation, 1956-9 Internal Security and Decolonisation II, 1959-65 Defence and Decolonisation, 1956-65 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPatrick John Dowling's 'Hedge Schools In Ireland' is a comprehensive chronicle of the underground education movement that emerged in 17th century Ireland, in the shadow of the oppressive 'penal laws.' These laws were directed against Irish Catholics and Ulster Presbyterians, as part of a long-standing British effort to impose their laws and customs, dating back to the failed Norman invasions of the 12th century. This book traces the resilience of the Gaelic Irish and Old English descendants who resisted Protestant conversion during the 16th-century Tudor reign and maintained their unique culture outside Dublin's Pale region. Dowling examines the political and religious tensions of the era, from Catholic loyalties being viewed as suspect due to European Catholic kingdoms supporting Irish rebellions, to the Cromwellian reconquest leading to land seizure from native Irish and Old English Catholics, effectively placing power in the hands of a Protestant minority. These tensions culminated in William III of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, solidifying Protestant control. The book delves into the impact of the penal laws that curtailed the rights of Catholics and Dissenters, relegating Catholic priests to fugitive status and banning Catholic schools between 1723 and 1782. Consequently, the vast majority of the Irish population was denied formal education, cementing the link between Catholicism and Irish identity. In response, 'hedge' schools emerged clandestinely to educate those who could not afford schooling abroad. Contrary to the term's implications, most of these makeshift schools operated in private houses and barns. The book recounts how these schools evolved from hidden institutions into an acknowledged part of Irish society, with records even appearing in British censuses. Dowling highlights the influence of 18th-century Enlightenment values, liberal Protestant planters identifying as Irish, and calls for reforms sparked by the 1798 rebellion and Daniel O'Connell's peaceful 19th-century Catholic Emancipation movement. By 1831, the National School system was established, marking the decline of hedge schools, with Catholic Church-run national schools dominating by the late 19th century. Dowling's work concludes by noting the continuing existence of hedge school forms into the late 19th century, underscoring the tenacity of Irish commitment to education.Table of ContentsThe Disappearance of the Old Order Education and the Penal Code English Schools in Ireland on Public and Private Foundation before 1782 The Education Societies The Rise of The Hedge Schools The Hedge School at Work The Standard of Knowledge Attained School Books The Making of the Schoolmaster The Income of the Schoolmaster The Social Prestige of the Schoolmaster The Poet Schoolmasters The Teacher of the City "Academy" The Last of the Philomaths

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Book SynopsisAn avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies. When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be five monarchs left at the end of the century: the kings of hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades, and England. To date, his prediction has proved wrong, and while the twentieth century saw the collapse of monarchies across Europe, many democratic societies have retained them. God Save the Queen is the first book to look at constitutional monarchies globally, and is particularly relevant given the pro-democracy movement in Thailand and recent scandals around the British and Spanish royal families. Is monarchy merely a feudal relic that should be abolished, or does the division between ceremonial and actual power act as a brake on authoritarian politicians? And what is the role of monarchy in the independent countries of the Commonwealth that have retained the Queen as head of state? This book suggests that monarchy deserves neither the adulation of the right nor the dismissal of the left. In an era of autocratic populism, does constitutional monarchy provide some safeguards against the megalomania of political leaders? Is a President Boris potentially more dangerous than a Prime Minister Boris?Trade Review‘At 153 pages God Save the Queen is a quick read, and Altman packs a lot into it, whizzing through the histories and current political climates of an array of countries to gain better understanding of the way monarchies have sustained themselves and evolved. … It’s the ability, in such a relatively brief space of words, to capture the breadth of diversity and nuances of modern monarchy, that makes Altman’s exploration of the phenomenon truly fascinating.’ -- Ben Pobjie * The Australian *‘This very readable little book encourages us to think more about the game of thrones and the different ways it might be played.’ -- Jeff Sparrow * The Age *‘A useful reconnaissance across a very large field of study.’ -- David McIntyre * New Internationalist *‘God Save the Queen is a book which deserves a wide readership.’ -- Bernard Whimpress * The Newtown Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisThis Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with an eventual rise in life expectancy and an increase in wealth for some sectors of the population and economy, notably for much business and industry. Yet many poor people suffered badly, with agricultural stagnation and an underfunded government who were too small to effect general improvements. In this book Roy explains the paradoxical combination of wealth and poverty, looking at both sides of nineteenth century capitalism. Between 1850 and 1930, India was engaged in a globalization process not unlike the one it has seen since the 1990s. The difference between these two times is that much of the region was under British colonial rule during the first episode, while it was an independent nation state during the second. Roy's narrative has a contemporary relevance for emerging economies, where again globalization has unleashed extraordinary levels of capitalistic energy while leaving many livelihoods poor, stagnant, and discontented. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The making of British India.- Chapter 3: The business of the cities.- Chapter 4: Unyielding land.- Chapter 5: A poor state.- Chapter 6: End of famine.- Chapter 7: A different story? The princely states.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century – the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962. It brings together an engaging account of its origins, course and legacies with an incisive examination of how interpretations of the conflict have shifted and why it continues to provoke intense debate. Locating the war in a century-long timeframe stretching from 1914 to the present, it multiplies the perspectives from which events can be seen. The pronouncements of politicians are explored alongside the testimony of rural women who provided logistical support for guerrillas in the National Liberation Front. The broader context of decolonisation and the Cold War is considered alongside the experiences of colonised men serving in the French army. Unpacking the historiography of the end of a colonial empire, the rise of anti-colonial nationalism and their post-colonial aftermaths, it provides an accessible insight into how history is written. Table of Contents1. Context and Historiography2. Origins, 1914-19543. The Course of the War, 1954-19624. Legacies, 1962-2020

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Introduction: ‘A Just Government’: Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622–1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640–1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661–1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ‘Amsterdam of Liberty’ .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A New World to Explore.- Chapter 3. The Spanish Empire.- Chapter 4. The Spanish Armada.- Chapter 5. The East India Company and the British Empire.- Chapter 6. The American Revolution.- Chapter 7. The Napoleonic Wars.- Chapter 8. The Mexican-American War.- Chapter 9. The American Civil War.- Chapter 10. The Crimean War.- Chapter 11. CINC: A Measure of Military Capability.- Chapter 12. Bismark’s Wars.- Chapter 13. The Spanish American War.- Chapter 14. The Russo-Japanese War.- Chapter 15. The Schlieffen Plan.- Chapter 16. The Sideshows: Italy, Gallipoli and the Middle East.- Chapter 17. Palestine and Sykes-Picot.- Chapter 18. The Treaty of Brest Litovsk.- Chapter 19. The Ludendorff Offensives.- Chapter 20. The Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression.- Chapter 21. Adolf Hitler and the Rise of National Socialism.- Chapter 22. Operation Barbarossa.- Chapter 23. A Dream of A Rising Sun.- Chapter 24. The Battle of Midway.- Chapter 25. Closing.

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Book SynopsisThe Moyne Report is perhaps the most referenced material related to the `dark ages’ of Britain’s colonial reign in the West Indies. The damning report on the working and living conditions in the colonies was ironically commissioned by the British government and the findings delivered in 1940 – they were only made public at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Seventy years later, the report is re-presented with an updated introduction by Professor Denis Benn, who ably contextualizes the findings informed not only by his scholarly work but also as a witness to the many labour disputes and agitation for better working and living conditions for the poor and working class citizens of the region.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Historiography of Intellectual Property Law History in Vietnam.. 12.- Setting a Framework for Historiographical Inquiry: An Analysis of the Legal System of Vietnam from the Beginning to 1994. 35.- The History of Copyright Law: Customary Rights, Droit D’auteur, and Socialist Ideology. 78.- The History of the Law of Inventions: Colonial and Socialist Laboratory Failures. 138.- The History of the Law of Trade Marks: Politics as a Function of Trade Marks. 180.- Vietnam as a Colonial and Socialist Laboratory: An Emerging Framework of Reversed Legal Transplantation 218.

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Book SynopsisThe way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIANAnne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the CaribbeanTipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bayOlaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the worldMary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women's rightsLadies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valleyMad, bad and dangerous to know' is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk's skull and slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many lovers. But mad, bad and dangerous' serves as a good description for the entire Georgian period: often neglected, the hundred or so years between the coronation of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV in 1830 were years when the modern world was formed, and changes came thick and fast.Across this century, new foods pineapples, coffee and pepper suddenly became available in the shops. Fashion exploded into a riot ofTrade Review‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself … He does make us think about the extraordinary breadth of experience on show in a period that tends to get written off in popular history … Peal has a sharp awareness of the best scholarly work on the subject and where to find it … An excellent entry point’KATHRYN HUGHES, GUARDIAN ‘[A] lively portrait of 12 notable Georgians … This book will keep you awake. Steering clear of pompous, soporific vocabulary … There are some good life stories here, gutsily told’DAILY MAIL ‘Peal brings the era to vivid, outrageous life, writing chattily, with a scattering of slang that wouldn’t have made the Georgians turn a hair’CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL ‘This is a form of history book that I very, very much enjoy … A really good, fun, interesting read. It’s very accessible. It’s very irreverent and witty, laughing at the madness of the Georgian period … I would definitely recommend it’BOOKS AND THINGS ‘I wish Robert Peal had been around when I did A-level history … I feel that Peal would have inspired me to achieve grade A stardom. The sheer energy and enthusiasm he brings to his subject is thrilling … Meet the Georgians uncovered in a wild and witty romp through the long 18th century’JANE AUSTEN’S REGENCY WORLD ‘Really interesting … I learnt some interesting facts I didn't already know, and enjoyed the way the author told the stories of their lives. I would recommend, and hope the author considers writing more like this, but set in other eras also’NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 5/5 STARS ‘A most enjoyable, witty and let's not forget educational read! I think this book can be a great way to attract teens to history. But it is definitely not only a read for teens … I would love to see this made into a series(patiently waiting for 'Meet the Victorians' to be made a reality)’NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 4/5 STARS

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Book SynopsisQuantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for population in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as populations took place far outside government institutions and philosophical treatises. It occurred instead in the work of colonial writers who found in the act of counting a way to imagine fixed boundaries between intermingling groups. Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies. By repositioning and unearthing a literary pre-history of population science, the book shows that representing individuals as numbers was a central element of colonial projects. Early colonial writings that describe routine and even intimate interactions offer a window into the way people wove the quantifiable forms of subjectivity made available by population counts into everyday life. Whether trying to make sense of plantation slavery, frontier warfare, rapid migration, or global commerce, writers framed questions about human relationships across different cultures and generations in terms of population.Trade ReviewFarrell's Counting Bodies examines ways of counting people in the British Colonial Atlantic using forms of literature such as poetry, captivity narratives and travel writing and mortality bills. Farrell makes the claim that such texts, disparate as they may be, nonetheless offer insight into what she terms 'human accounting' in the seventeenth and eighteenth century colonial context. * Philippa Chun, British Society for Literature and Science *I was continually excited by this book, and was especially struck by the way that Farrell's focus on the literary representation of population, and particularly on bodies that are difficult to count, might open up new possibilities for thinking about the complexity and variability of colonial American ideas of community. I'm persuaded, for example, that her book can help us think about colonial understandings of disability, another form of human categorization that was just beginning to emerge during this period. ... Just as important, however, is her careful attention to how writers in early America obstructed, disallowed, and resisted this kind of counting. Farrell's book is worth thinking with, and I'm eager to see how her methods and conclusions might further expand and enliven our understanding of what it meant to count and be counted in colonial communities. * Nicholas Junkerman, Common Place *Counting Bodies takes a very stimulating approach to its subject matter, and as an alternative route to understanding the emergence of population ideas it is to be welcomed. * Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography *If we take the counting of bodies today as an ordinary act of the state, Farrell invites us to consider a time when counting bodies was unusual and, further, takes us deep into the historical quandaries surrounding the counting of bodies. What is a countable body? Where does one body stop and another begin? In this book, Farrell brilliantly sounds the literary pre-history of the concept of population on colonial ground, illuminating the work that gender and race perform in the history of settler colonialism and European imperial expansion in early America. * Elizabeth Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 *By providing the reader with insight into the history of biopolitics before 'biopolitics' became the chief method of government, Farrell accomplishes something quite remarkable. Still more to her credit, she adds to the growing archive of early American texts by exploring the aesthetic dimension of literature, which doubled the perspective of these same procedures to expose the blindnesses induced by numerical representations of human life. * Leonard Tennenhouse, author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres *This is a marvellously rich reading of the conceptual logics associated with counting peoples. Treating colonialism, mortality, race and constitutionalism, Counting Bodies offers a compelling poetics of the enumerative imagination. It powerfully highlights the political implications of counting people * dead, alive or unbornpopulating the margins of systems of race, gender and religion.Peter Thompson, co-editor of State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Stories of Cataclysm and Population Chapter 1: Poetics of the Ark Ashore Chapter 2: Measuring Caribbean Aesthetics Chapter 3: Counting in King Philip's War Chapter 4: The Death and Life of Colonial Mortality Bills Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and iconography of these seminal celebrations. The focus is therefore very much on political culture in a broad sense, and changing perceptions and presentations over time. Highlights of the book include an overview by David Cannadine relating the topic to ornamentalism, invented tradition and transitions in British culture. Although the book is mainly concerned with the British Empire, Martin Shipway â a leading historian and cultural analyst of French decolonization â contributes an acute summary of how the same âmomentâ was handled differently in the other great European empires. There are detailed and lively studies by noted specialists of the immediate coming of Independence to India/PakistanTable of Contents1. Preface Susan Williams, Robert Holland and Terry A. Barringer 2. Introduction: Independence Day Ceremonials in Historical Perspective David Cannadine 3. Independence Day and the Crown Philip Murphy 4. ‘‘At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour’’: Lord Mountbatten and the British Media at Indian Independence Chandrika Kaul 5. The Ending of an Empire: From Imagined Communities to Nation States in India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan 6. Casting ‘‘the Kingdome into another mold’’: Ghana’s Troubled Transition to Independence Richard Rathbone 7. Whose Freedom at Midnight? Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966 Clem Seecharan 8. Freedom at Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe’s Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April 1980 Sue Onslow 9. ‘Transfer of Destinies’, or Business as Usual? Republican Invented Tradition and the Problem of ‘Independence’ at the End of the French Empire Martin Shipway 10. Merdeka! Looking Back at Independence Day in Malaya, 31 August 1957 A.J. Stockwell

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Book SynopsisThis book begins with the conquest of Cuba by the Spanish Conquistadores, and the annihilation of the Indian population despite its heroic struggles. It then analyzes the economic social and cultural development of Cuba from 1520 to 1808. This is followed by an analysis of the role of Cuba in the Latin American wars for independence of 1808-1820 and the first independence movement in Cuba, 1820-1830. Dr. Foner then discusses the emergence of United States policy towards Cuba and shows, through the most careful documentation, the role played by the government of the United States in blocking the achievement of Cuban independence from Spain.  The rest of the book deals with the reform movement in Cuba, Cuban slave society, and the anti-slavery struggles in the island, ending with La Escalera, the brutal suppression of the Negro people in the 1840''s. For the preparation of this volume, Dr. Foner examined original sources in English and Spanish, in Cuba and the Unite

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Book Synopsis`Equipped wih this book, readers will be offered a relibale adn thought-provokin guide to one of the most haated areas of debate in ancient hisoty. Erskine has accoumplished the task elegantly and concisely. The book deserves the widest possible readereship.''Mark Humphries, Professor of Ancient History, Swansea UniversityThe transformation of Rome from a small central italian city-state into the sole Mediterranean superpower has lng proved fascienting and controversial. At its height the Roman Empire extended from Britain in the North to Libya in the South and from sapin in the West to Syria in the Eas. It has impressed not only by its extent but also by its longevity.Andrew Erskine exomines the course nad nature of Roman Expansion, focusing on explanations, ancient adn modern, the impact of Roma rule on the subjed and the effect of empire on the imperial power. All these topics have crated fremedous amount of discussion among schloars, not least because the study of Roman imperialism has alwasys been informed by contemporary perceptions of international power relations.The book is divided into two halves, Part I treats some of the main issues in modern debates about Roman imperialsim, while Part II offers a selection of the most important source mateial, allowing readers to enter these debates themsleves.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Preface; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Map of Roman Italy; Map of Mediterranean; Timeline; Part I Debates; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2 : From City to Empire; Chapter 3: Explanations; Chapter 4: The Subject; Chapter 5: The Ruler; Part II Documents; Appian; Augustine; Caesar; Cicero; Digest; Dio Cassius; Diodoros of Sicily; Eusebius; Inscriptions; Lex Irnitana; Josephus; Lactantius; Livy; 1 Maccabee; Milestones; Philo of Alexandria; Pliny the Elder; Pliny the Younger; Plutarch; Polybios; Pompeius Trogus; Res Gestae Divi Augusti; Sallust; Schoolbook; Strabo; Tacitus; Tertullian; Third Sibylline Oracle; Valerius Maximus; Funeral stele of Regina; Trajan's Column; Colosseum; Coins; Victory Temples; Further Reading; Internet Resources; Glossary; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays to bring together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the ever-riotous assembly of decoloniality. JPN - Journal of Postcolonial Networks A welcome addition to the ever-riotous assembly of decoloniality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction. Deleuze and Postcolonialism; 1. Living in Smooth Space: Deleuze, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern; 2. Postcolonial Theory and the Materiality of Desire; 3. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method; 4. Affective Assemblages: Ethics Beyond Enjoyment; 5. The Postcolonial Event: Deleuze, Glissant, and the Problem of the Political; 6. Postcolonial Haecceities; 7. 'Another Perspective on the World': Shame and Subtraction in Louis Malle's L'Inde fantome; 8. Becoming-Nomad: Territorialisation and Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; 9. Violence and Laughter: Paradoxes of Nomadic Thought and Postcolonial Cinema; 10. The Production of Terra Nullius and the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict; 11. Virtually Postcolonial?; 12. In Search of the Perfect Escape: Deleuze, Movement, and Canadian Postcolonialism; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the history of how the ''Africa Trade'' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market in Africans operated, how transportation of millions of Africans over thousands of miles developed and how the experience affected slaves both in bondage and then in freedom.

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Book SynopsisSuad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis in the U.S. She founded the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and co-founded its internationally recognized Journal of Middle East Women's Studies; she also founded the Arab Families Research Group, and co-founded the Arab American Studies Association and the Association for Middle East Anthropology. She has edited or co-edited eight books, published over 100 articles, and is General Editor of the highly esteemed Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.Lena Meari is Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine, and Acting Director of their Institute of Women Studies. Previously she was a postdoctoral research at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, U.S. She specializes in the geopolitics of knowledge production, decolonized methodologies, colonial structures and coTrade ReviewEmerging from long-term collaborations and trainings, this set of critical and deeply moving essays exemplify how feminist epistemologies can productively explore the intersections of self, location and subject in different research settings and contexts. This volume is an essential addition to the library of all those interested and invested in transforming gender dynamics in the Arab region. -- Seteney Shami. Arab Council for the Social Sciences, LebanonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Politics of Engaged Transformative Gender Research, Suad Joseph, University of California Davis, U.S; Lena Meari, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Zeina Zaatari, University of Illinois Chicago, U.S 2. The Politics of Training for Engaged Gender Research, Suad Joseph, University of California Davis, U.S PART 1 MAGHREB (NORTH AFRICA) 3. Doing Fieldwork with Women Land Rights Activists in Morocco: Power Relationships Within Feminism and its Discursive Framework of Right, Souad Eddouada, Iben Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco 4. The Day I Became a Gentrifier: Narratives from the Outsider/Insider Ethnographer in the Field, Reeham Mourad, The American University in Cairo, Egypt PART 2 MASHRIQ (ARAB EAST) 5. The Daily During Field Research: Settler Colonialism, Motherhood, and Knowledge Production, Rania Jawad, Birzeit University, Palestine 6. Fieldwork in the Palestinian Colonial Context: Searching for the Voices of Palestinian Women, Samar Kassis, Birzeit University, Palestine 7. The Fear Factor: Fieldwork Away from the Safety Blanket of Depoliticized Gender and Women’s Issues, Sara Ababneh, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany 8. Research in the Jordanian Child Welfare System: Navigating Taboo Subjects, Rawan Ibrahim, German Jordanian University, Jordan 9. Conducting Research While Death Surrounds You: The Researcher, Gender, and War in Syria, Saja Al Zoubi, University of Oxford, U.K 10. Feminist Researcher in a Conservative Islamic Society, Iraq, Ilham Makki Hammadi, Ministry of Education, Iraq PART 3 KHALEEJ (ARAB GULF) 11. Conducting Fieldwork in Shared Time and Space, Sarah Shaer, Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, UAE 12. Personality and Perception: Aspects of the Researcher’s identity and. Their Impact on Field Research Within Diverse Locations, Kholoud Al Ajarma, The University of Edinburgh, U.K

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