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Book SynopsisPostcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that postcolonial poets have also dramatically expanded the atlas of literature in English.

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Book SynopsisEurope's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.Trade Review"Empire's Children is a brilliant and deeply researched exploration of the place of race in the French citizenship experience, focusing on the rights of mixed-race people in French Indochina and other colonies. Emmanuelle Saada deftly weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, journalists, and the mixed-raced individuals themselves to demonstrate why the French Empire - and by extension, today's France - cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms. A nuanced and important account, beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer." (Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University)"

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Book SynopsisEurope's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.Trade Review"Empire's Children is a brilliant and deeply researched exploration of the place of race in the French citizenship experience, focusing on the rights of mixed-race people in French Indochina and other colonies. Emmanuelle Saada deftly weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, journalists, and the mixed-raced individuals themselves to demonstrate why the French Empire - and by extension, today's France - cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms. A nuanced and important account, beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer." (Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University)"

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Book SynopsisIn 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and over 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. This work examines the question of what their action meant and its significance in contemporary Klungkung.

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Book SynopsisAnna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants.Trade Review"Indentured Servitude is an important contribution to the social, legal, and labour history of the British colonies. Suranyi walks her readers through the many points of the indenture process, the experience of a variety of servants, masters' treatment of different groups of servants in the colonies, servants' means of recourse against abusive masters, and life after servitude, while also directing them to the important connections between servitude and the evolving understanding of citizenship." Patrick O'Brien, Kennesaw State University“Suranyi’s work provides us with a picture of an era of horrific cruelty preceding and overlapping with the barbarity of slavery. She does not fail to impress upon the reader the difference between servants and the enslaved. Indentured Servitude will be useful to those teaching the seventeenth century, for in depicting the lives of people the same age as our students, the history will resonate and help move them toward empathy with those who suffer exploitation, then and now.” Agricultural History“Indentured Servitude encourages readers to grapple with important yet difficult questions on inequality and unfreedom to help illuminate changing conceptions of rights, oppression, and exclusion in a society that would later—and contradictorily—champion democratic ideals.” William and Mary Quarterly“The text will be accessible to a broad range of audiences, as the individual stories, ranging from poignant to bizarre, breathe life into and paint a complex picture of the indenture experience.” The American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisCovering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people.Trade Review"This is the most important book on the history of New France in a long time. It significantly shifts our understanding of war and society, challenging an older historiography and leveraging themes inspired by Atlantic and comparative history to say something new and definitive about the conquest, the experiences of ordinary people, and the nature of different forms of military service." Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Université de Moncton and author of Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604–1755"Louise Dechêne's empathic but unflinching regard for the lives of common people comes together with her Foucauldian interest in power relations in this study of warfare and wars." Leslie Choquette, Assumption University and author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada“People, State, and War is an indispensable resource for scholars of New France.” Ethnohistory

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Book SynopsisCovering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people.Trade Review"This is the most important book on the history of New France in a long time. It significantly shifts our understanding of war and society, challenging an older historiography and leveraging themes inspired by Atlantic and comparative history to say something new and definitive about the conquest, the experiences of ordinary people, and the nature of different forms of military service." Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Université de Moncton and author of Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604–1755"Louise Dechêne's empathic but unflinching regard for the lives of common people comes together with her Foucauldian interest in power relations in this study of warfare and wars." Leslie Choquette, Assumption University and author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada“People, State, and War is an indispensable resource for scholars of New France.” Ethnohistory

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1920s until the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspapers, and cinema screens with 'British to the core' Canadian apples, 'British to the backbone' New Zealand lamb, and 'All British' Australian butter. Selling Britishness explores the role of commodity marketing in creating "Britishness."Trade Review‘Felicity Barnes covers new ground in her study of the construction of dominion Britishness by emphasising trade and focusing the interwar period – still neglected in the historiography – as well as by bringing gender and race to the fore. The book is an invaluable contribution to debates about the British world.’ Andrew Dilley, University of Aberdeen and author of Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896–1914“This is a colourful account of how, from the mid-1920s, the Western world embraced the consumer society and how three settler colonies of the British Empire marketed their goods in the ‘Home’ country. While [the book’s] academic framework is an essential part of scholarship today, the rich detail and anecdotes from the past are a valuable contribution to wider knowledge of how New Zealand earned a living from exporting food.” *National Business Review *“Barnes takes a welcome alternative approach [and] convincingly argues that the Dominions played a leading role in developing commodity Marketing. Through a series of engaging case studies, Selling Britishness [challenges] the metropolitan focus of much of the literature that has explored the popular culture of imperial trade.” *Journal of British Studies *“Barnes provides useful insights into how commodities were implanted within the daily lives of British people. [Selling Britishness] is a significant contribution to the history of commodities in the twentieth century [and] contributes to understanding national identity in an era when high imperialism had arguably waned but had by no means completely evaporated.” New Zealand Journal of History“This is a major addition to the history of interwar British imperial marketing.” British Journal of Canadian Studies“Selling Britishness explores the advertising campaigns of the three major British Dominions [and] places Dominion commodity marketing as a significant cultural force. Barnes delivers a compelling and enjoyable book.” Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies

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Book SynopsisScholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for the betterment of all.Trade Review“Just as Orientalism spurred further anti-Orientalist research, The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization encourages further engagement with decolonial epistemology and praxis in which the politics of identity sustain an inclusive, not assimilative, discourse of allyship that is neither purist nor exclusivist.” Eid Mohamed, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and author of Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East

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Book SynopsisAgainst the historical background of slavery and colonialism, this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist, abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between colonial exploitation and female sexual oppression.

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Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Empire ranks alongside the Roman and Byzantine as one of the most powerful and long-lasting imperial systems in world history. This book aims to bring together scholars to demonstrate how the Ottoman legacy shapes patterns of behavior and perception among the people of Western Asia, Northern Africa, and Southeastern Europe.Table of Contents1. The Background: An Introduction, by L. Carl Brown Part 1: Perceptions and Parallels 2. The Meaning of Legacy: The Ottoman Case, by Halil Inalcik 3. The Problem of Perceptions, by Norman Itzkowitz Part 2: The Arab World and the Balkans 4. The Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans, by Maria Todorova 5. Yougoslavia's Disintegration and the Ottoman Past, by Dennison Rusinow 6. Memory, Heritage, and History: The Ottomans and the Arabs, by Karl K. Barbir 7. The Ottoman Legacy in Arab Political Boundaries, by Andre Raymond Part 3: The Political Dimension 8. The Ottoman Legacy and the Middle East State Tradition, by Ergun Ozbudun 9. The Ottoman Administrative Legacy and the Modern Middle East, by Carter Vaughn Findley 10. Ottoman Diplomacy and its Legacy, by Roderic H. Davison Part 4: The Imperial Language 11. The Ottoman Legacy to Contemporary Political Arabic, by Bernard Lewis 12. The Ottoman Legacy in Language, by Geoffrey Lewis Part 5: Europe, Economics and War 13. The Economic Legacy, by Charles Issaw 14. The Military Legacy, by Dankwart A. Rustow Part 6: Religion and Culture 15. Islam and the Ottoman Legacy in the Modern Middle East, by William Ochsenwald 16. The Ottoman Educational Legacy: Myth or Reality?, by Joseph Szyliowicz 17 Epilogue, by L. Carl Brown

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Book SynopsisChristina Yi investigates linguistic nationalism in the formation of literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories.Trade ReviewColonizing Language adds an important and most readable, yet sophisticated discussion to the growing body of colonial and postcolonial studies, and particularly to that in the field of Korean literature of this period. * Pacific Affairs *Christina Yi’s fascinating book narrates the prehistory of the popular Japanese-language literary works written by ethnically Korean writers today. Yi’s careful readings show how the linguistic dilemmas faced by Japan’s colonial subjects became an inheritance that could not be simply returned despite the collapse of empire. A must-read for anyone interested in questions of postcolonialism and language. -- Janet Poole, University of TorontoChristina Yi’s Colonizing Language provides a wide-ranging overview of the emergence and development of Japanese-language writings by Korean writers from the colonial through postcolonial periods. Based on meticulous archival research of Korean, Japanese, and English-language sources, and effectively weaving together historical analysis with close literary readings, it promises to be an authoritative text in the field. -- Sejii Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesBy probing into Japanese-language cultural productions by ethnic Koreans and diasporic Japanese across the 1945 divide, Colonizing Language reveals and deconstructs the multiple borders that have become naturalized and interiorized in the formation of national language and national literary canons in both Japan and Korea. The book is essential to our rethinking of ‘Japanese’ and ‘Korean’ languages and literatures, and its theoretical sophistication deserves an even wider appeal and application outside of East Asian studies. -- Jin-Kyung Lee, University of California, San DiegoYi’s nuanced analysis of primary texts proves her prowess as a literary scholar. She expertly unearths traces of the colonial past lurking in literary texts to question the dominant idea of ‘national language’ in Japan and South Korea, which is indispensable to the equally dominant idea of the homogeneous ethnic nation in the two countries. -- Serk-Bae Suh, University of California, IrvineInsightful and elegant. Her book can be recommended to all students of social studies, sociolinguistics, the history of thought, and of course literary studies. * Japan Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Names, Terminology, and TranslationsIntroduction1. National Language Ideology in the Age of Empire2. “Let Me In!”: Imperialization in Metropolitan Japan3. Envisioning a Literature of the Imperial Nation4. Coming to Terms with the Terms of the Past5. Colonial Legacies and the Divided “I” in Occupation-Period Japan6. Collaboration, Wartime Responsibility, and Colonial MemoryEpilogueAppendix: Korean Authors and Literary CriticsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation.Trade ReviewGavin Arnall’s brilliant book, Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change, is such a welcome arrival to the field. * Postmodern Culture *[A] timely book . . . This book will be especially appreciated by readers with an already solid understanding of Fanonian thought. It is an important contribution to Fanon studies, particularly relevant in the contemporary context of Black Lives Matter and other socio-political resistance movements across the world. * EuropeNow *Subterranean Fanon is a concise, yet broad overview of Frantz Fanon’s work . . . [It] is one of the most extensive overviews of commentaries on Fanon’s work to date, critically engaging with arguments from Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Cedric Robinson, Ato Sekyi-Out, Nigel Gibson to Achille Mbembe and Lewis Gordon. . . The questions raised by Subterranean Fanon are important and should be engaged with by all those who are seeking to understand Fanon today. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Frantz Fanon has reemerged as the radical thinker of the twenty-first century. We turn to Fanon to understand interminable global racism, state violence, and capitalism’s ability to weather ongoing crises. But which Fanon? The dialectical thinker who imagined a new humanity emerging from the shell of the old antagonisms? Or the nondialectical thinker who called for the complete and total destruction of colonial structures of oppression, who imagined with almost eschatological fury a new beginning from the ashes of the old world? Gavin Arnall’s provocative and superb study insists that we need not choose nor attempt to reconcile Fanon’s divided thought. But if we confront his contradictions directly, embrace his unique mode of thinking and imagination, we will surely discover the true depths of Fanon’s radical emancipatory vision. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Los AngelesArnall's Subterranean Fanon is a unique combination of close reading and theoretical sophistication. This unprecedented work of intellectual inquiry is one of the most comprehensive, consistent, and cogently argued books on Frantz Fanon. It will reset the terms of further debates on Fanon's multiple legacies. -- Achille Mbembe, author of Out of the Dark Night: Essays on DecolonizationWritten with clarity, subtlety, and purpose, Subterranean Fanon is the first book to undertake an analysis of Fanon's thought on the basis of the whole of his corpus. In this tour de force, Gavin Arnall makes a compelling case for the disjunctive and translational presence of two Fanons throughout the writings, two modalities for conceptualizing and acting upon the radical change decolonization calls for. The book is essential reading for Fanon scholars and for all those engaged in the urgency of thinking through the grounds and the ramifications of change in our times. -- Natalie Melas, Cornell UniversitySubterranean Fanon is grounded in Arnall's expertise in Fanon's writings, which he reads carefully and creatively. He develops an important argument about a central tension in Fanon's thinking between Hegelian-dialectical and Nietzschean-ruptural orientations, each of which expresses a certain kind of radical universalism. This exemplary work of scholarship should shift the ground of debate about this canonical thinker. It is also a welcome example of next-generation postcolonial and political theory. -- Gary Wilder, author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Fanons1. The Psychiatric Papers and Parallel Hands2. Black Skin, White Masks 3. Writings on the Algerian Revolution4. The Wretched of the Earth (Part I)5. The Wretched of the Earth (Part II)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation.Trade ReviewGavin Arnall’s brilliant book, Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change, is such a welcome arrival to the field. * Postmodern Culture *[A] timely book . . . This book will be especially appreciated by readers with an already solid understanding of Fanonian thought. It is an important contribution to Fanon studies, particularly relevant in the contemporary context of Black Lives Matter and other socio-political resistance movements across the world. * EuropeNow *Subterranean Fanon is a concise, yet broad overview of Frantz Fanon’s work . . . [It] is one of the most extensive overviews of commentaries on Fanon’s work to date, critically engaging with arguments from Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Cedric Robinson, Ato Sekyi-Out, Nigel Gibson to Achille Mbembe and Lewis Gordon. . . The questions raised by Subterranean Fanon are important and should be engaged with by all those who are seeking to understand Fanon today. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Frantz Fanon has reemerged as the radical thinker of the twenty-first century. We turn to Fanon to understand interminable global racism, state violence, and capitalism’s ability to weather ongoing crises. But which Fanon? The dialectical thinker who imagined a new humanity emerging from the shell of the old antagonisms? Or the nondialectical thinker who called for the complete and total destruction of colonial structures of oppression, who imagined with almost eschatological fury a new beginning from the ashes of the old world? Gavin Arnall’s provocative and superb study insists that we need not choose nor attempt to reconcile Fanon’s divided thought. But if we confront his contradictions directly, embrace his unique mode of thinking and imagination, we will surely discover the true depths of Fanon’s radical emancipatory vision. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Los AngelesArnall's Subterranean Fanon is a unique combination of close reading and theoretical sophistication. This unprecedented work of intellectual inquiry is one of the most comprehensive, consistent, and cogently argued books on Frantz Fanon. It will reset the terms of further debates on Fanon's multiple legacies. -- Achille Mbembe, author of Out of the Dark Night: Essays on DecolonizationWritten with clarity, subtlety, and purpose, Subterranean Fanon is the first book to undertake an analysis of Fanon's thought on the basis of the whole of his corpus. In this tour de force, Gavin Arnall makes a compelling case for the disjunctive and translational presence of two Fanons throughout the writings, two modalities for conceptualizing and acting upon the radical change decolonization calls for. The book is essential reading for Fanon scholars and for all those engaged in the urgency of thinking through the grounds and the ramifications of change in our times. -- Natalie Melas, Cornell UniversitySubterranean Fanon is grounded in Arnall's expertise in Fanon's writings, which he reads carefully and creatively. He develops an important argument about a central tension in Fanon's thinking between Hegelian-dialectical and Nietzschean-ruptural orientations, each of which expresses a certain kind of radical universalism. This exemplary work of scholarship should shift the ground of debate about this canonical thinker. It is also a welcome example of next-generation postcolonial and political theory. -- Gary Wilder, author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Two Fanons1. The Psychiatric Papers and Parallel Hands2. Black Skin, White Masks 3. Writings on the Algerian Revolution4. The Wretched of the Earth (Part I)5. The Wretched of the Earth (Part II)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular culture.Trade ReviewThis compelling book provokes the reader to ponder the bloody violence committed in the name of the colonial state but also of the rebels. It bears witness to the difficulties encountered by survivors and later generations to tell and remember this important story. A must read. -- Klaus Mühlhahn, author of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi JinpingThis collection brilliantly interweaves two layers of meaning of the Musha Incident for Taiwan society—a horrendous historical tragedy and a haunting collective trauma. The chapters take us on a tour with divergent tracks, frequently leading to fascinating landscapes of creative imagination. The fluid, open-ended history thus conjured up reveals how our senses of reality are shaped by evolving contemporary discourses. -- Yvonne Chang, author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from TaiwanThe Musha Incident is a pathbreaking study of the last major act of armed indigenous resistance to Japanese colonial rule. By marshalling the talents of experts in history, literature, film, and music, Michael Berry provides what will become a touchstone analysis of a tragedy that has long captured public imagination. -- Ashley Esarey, coauthor of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to PowerOffering perspectives from indigenous, Han Chinese, Japanese, American, and European sources, The Musha Incident serves as a model for understanding the complexity of history and its representations. For the editor, it is not only a labor of love but also a demonstration of intellectual and moral commitment. -- Michelle Yeh, editor of Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems of Yang MuThe complexities, nuances, and shades of interpretation that the contributors reveal in their analyses demonstrate how egregious the Musha Incident’s previous dismissal or erasure in most general narratives of Taiwan and Japan has been. The book is bold in its innovative scope—truly interdisciplinary. -- Kirsten Ziomek * H-Asia *Table of ContentsA Note on RomanizationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Approaching Musha, by Michael BerryPart I. Historical Memories of Musha1. The Discourse and Practice of Colonial “Suppression” in the Making of the Musha Rebellion and Its Aftermath, by Toulouse-Antonin Roy2. The Musha Incident and the History of Tgdaya-Japanese Relations, by Paul D. Barclay3. Relistening to Her and His Stories: On Approaching “The Musha Incident from an Indigenous Perspective,”by Kae KitamuraPart II. Literary Memories of Musha4. Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident, by Robert Tierney5. Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko’s Exceedingly Barbaric, by Leo Ching6. Satō Haruo on the Musha Incident, by Ping-hui Liao7. Untimely Meditations: The Contemporary, the Philosophy of Walking, and Related Ethical Matters in Remains of Life, by Chien-heng WuPart III. Visual and Digital Memories of Musha8. The Face of the Inbetweener: The Image of Indigenous History Researchers as Reflected in Seediq Bale, by Nakao Eki Pacidal9. Quest for Roots: Trauma and Heroism in Wu He’s Yusheng and Tang Shiang-Chu’s Yusheng: Seediq Bale, by Darryl Sterk10. Historical Representation in an Age of Wiki Writing and Digital Curation: The Musha Incident on Digital Platforms, by Kuei-fen ChiuPart IV. Musha in Cultural Dialogue11. Fiction and Fieldwork: In Conversation with Wu He on Remains of Life, by Michael Berry12. Heavy Metal Headhunt: An Interview with Chthonic’s Freddy Lim, by Michael Berry13. Televising the Musha Incident: Wan Jen on the Miniseries Dana Sakura, by Michael Berry14. No Good Guys or Bad Guys: An Interview with Wei Te-sheng, by Tony Rayns (translated by Christa Chen)ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisGayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a âœnew comparative literature,â in which the discipline is reborn.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twentieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgments1. Crossing Borders2. Collectivities3. PlanetarityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review Threads of Empire is essential reading for students of both Russian imperial history and the history of empires more broadly. * Kritika *With its solid grounding in Russian archival and printed sources and its sophisticated comparative approach, Steinwedel's work will serve as a point of departure for historians of the Russian Empire, and will become a book of reference for any future study of empires in global history. * American Historical Review *[Steinwedel's] book is both a skilful exercise in local and regional history, and an important contribution to the history of Imperial Russia as a whole. * Slavonic and East European Review *Charles Steinwedel's Threads of Empire brings the qualities of a local history and world history together and is highly valuable reading for a wide range of scholars. * Ab Imperio *Highly recommended. * Choice *Charles Steinwedel has written a well-researched study which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the way the Russian empire functioned. * European History Quarterly *Charles Steinwedel has produced an engaging and thoroughly documented history of both the Bashkirs and the multiethnic territory of Bashkiria. * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Based on outstanding research, Charles Steinwedel's impressive new book offers a study of the history of Bashkiria in the context of the Russian Empire. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Steppe Empire, 1552–17302. Absolutism and Empire, 1730–17753. Empire of Reason, 1773–18554. Participatory Empire, 1855–18815. The Empire and the Nation, 1881–19046. Empire in Crisis, 1905–19077. Empire, Nations, and Multinational Visions, 1907–1917ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *This book brings together a vast array of scholars around the question of colonial fracture. Ignoring this past has only served to further exacerbate societal tensions. As the contributors underscore, facing this past head on will assist France in the process of understanding society today. * Altermondes *The contributors to this book raise the following questions: Is there such a thing as a colonial facture? Can France overcome this identity crisis? What we have is a society that remains uncertain when it comes to its future, precisely because it has been ubale to reckon with its past. * Zurban *An intelligent, rich, carefully constructed, and thoughtful work that will prove all the more important at this time in history when the debate on colonialism occupies center stage, often at the service of political ends. This book is first and foremost an attempt to rethink the ways in which the French colonial project became integral to 19th century Republican discourse and the shape of today's reality. * Télérama *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Decade of Postcolonial Crisis: Fracture, Rupture and Apartheid (2005-2015) / Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, and Dominic ThomasPart I. Colonial Fracture / 20051.1 The Emergence of the Colonial1. The Republican Origins of the Colonial Fracture / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard2. When a (War) Memory Hides another (Colonial) / Benjamin Stora3. A Difficult History: A Brief History of the Colonial and the Postcolonial Situation / Nicolas Bancel4. Reducing the Republic's Native to the Body / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas5. Colonization and Immigration: "Blind Spots" in the History Classroom / Sandrine Lemaire6. Memory Wars: A Study of the Intersection between History and Media / Pascal Blanchard and Isabelle Veyrat-Masson 1.2 The Return of the Colonial7. The Enemy Within: The Construction of the "Arab" in the Media / Thomas Deltombe and Mathieu Rigouste8. Islam and the Republic: A Long, Uneasy History / Anna Bozzo9. The Republic, Colonization. And Beyond / Michel Wieviorka10. Colonial Natives and Indigents: from the Colonial "Civilizing Mission" to Humanitarian Action / Rony Brauman11. The Banlieues as a Colonial Theater, or the Colonial Fracture in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods / Didier Lapeyronnie12. The Pitfalls of Colonial Memory / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard13. Overseas France: A Vestige of the Republican Colonial Utopia? / Françoise VergèsPart II. Postcolonial Ruptures / 20102.1 Debating the Colonial Legacy14. Rethinking Politics in the French Overseas Departments / Jacky Dahomay15. "Race," Ethnicization, and Discrimination: Is History Repeating Itself or Is this a Postcolonial Peculiarity? / Patrick Simon16. From the Empire to the Republic: "French Islam" / Valérie Amiraux17. Immigration: From Métèques to Foreigners / Yvan Gastaut18. Inequality Between Humans: From "Race Wars" to "Cultural Hierarchy / Pascal Blanchard2.2 Postcolonial and Critical Gazes19. The Postcolonial Challenges of Teaching History: Between History and Memory / Benoît Falaize20. Postcolonial Studies in French Academia / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch21. From Slavery to the Postcolonial / Patrick Weil22. The Great Strip Show: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Burqa in France / Elsa Dorlin23. From the Red Peril to the Green Peril: The New Enemy Within / Renaud DélyPart III. Apartheid and the War of Identities in France / 20153.1 The end of the "French model"? 24. From the Dakar Speech to the Taubira Affair / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia 25. Could Islamophobia be the Start of a New Identy-Based Bond in France? / Rachid Benzine26. The Black Question and the Exhibit B Controversy / Alain Mabanckou and Dominic Thomas 27. Cultural Orientalization or Political Occidentalism? / Nicolas Lebourg 28. Faces of the National Front (1972-2015) / Sylvain Crépon29. Infiltration of Liquid Populism / Raphaël Liogier 3.2 Rejet de l'autre, radicalisation identitaire, impensé colonial30. Nanoracism and the Force of Emptiness / Achille Mbembe31. Antiracism: A Failed Fight or the End of an Era ? / Emmanuel Debono32. Closing Borders Against Fear: Europe's Response to the 2015 "Migration Crisis" / Claire Rodier33. Toward a Real History of French Colonialism / Alain Ruscio34. Is a Colonial History Museum Politically Impossible? / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard 35. After Charlie: A New Era or Unfinished Business?/ Alec HargreavesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa. * H-Africa *This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age. -- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisKafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.Trade Review"Seloua Luste Boulbina's analyses are seething with insight, brilliant in their tone, and way way beyond what "postcolonial studies" imagines it needs to do. She assaults the reader with a series of pricks to the skin and conscience that are too obvious and evident and unseen and unnoticed until she shows them to us."—Laura Ann Stoler, author of Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times"Through a series of complex and sophisticated philosophical interventions, Seloua Luste Boulbina reevaluates the history of colonialism, subjectivities in Africa, gender issues, and race relations in Africa."—Frieda Ekotto, author of Race and Sex across the French AtlanticTable of ContentsPrefaceTranslator's IntroductionPrologue: Thinking the ColonyPart I: Kafka's Monkey and Other Reflections on the Colony1. With Respect to Kafka's Monkey2. Challenging Historical Culture3. The Colony, Mirage, and Historical RealityPart II: Africa and its Phantoms: Writing the AfterwardIntroduction1. Saving One's Skin2. History, an Interior Architecture 3. Language, an Internal Politics4. Sexed Space and Gender Unveiled 5. Having a Good EarConclusionPart III: Epilogue: From Floating Territories to DisorientationBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTranslated into English for the first time, The Wretched of France contemplates the protest's lasting significance in France as well as its impact within the context of larger and comparable movements for civil rights, particularly in the US.Trade Review"In The Wretched of France, Abdellali Hajjat explores the complex interface between historical patterns of racial and social exclusion and marginalization in France and traces the challenging path to political visibility through activism, mobilization, and protest. The book is of utmost relevance to contemporary global conversations about anti-racism, diversity, inclusivity, and multiculturalism and provides invaluable insights into how ethnic mobilization continues to shape calls for individual freedom, equality, and social justice today."—Dominic Thomas, author of Black France, Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA"The March for Equality and Against Racism was a turning point in the history of France's relationship with its postcolonial immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. In this compelling study, Abdellali Hajjat produces the first rigorous empirical account of the genealogy and sociology of a too often mythicized social movement, masterfully analyzing its political meaning and illuminating its blind spots."—Didier Fassin. James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study"Abdellali Hajjat's The Wretched of France, an exhaustively researched, sharply analytical, elegantly constructed explication of the 1983 March for Equality and against Racism, was pathbreaking when it came out in French in 2013. Now with a new Afterward, sketching the posthistory of racism and revolt, it remains essential reading, in both French and English, today. Melding archival research, interviews, close readings of the press and other media, with deep knowledge of French postcolonial history and the sociological and political science literatures on race and racism, and anti-racist political mobilizations on both sides of the Atlantic, Hajjat offers a uniquely original and powerful explanation for this crucial moment and its afterlives."—Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Protest March as an Index of Social and Racial Tensions in France1. The Laboratory of Les Minguettes: The Micro-History of a Working-Class District2. Riots or Rebellions? 'Urban Youths' on the Borders of the Political3. The Fear of Rebellion4. The Unlikely Construction of an Anti-Racist National Consensus5. The Ambiguities of the Parisian Apotheosis6. Divided MemoriesConclusion: After the March: The Challenges of Postcolonial PoliticsAfterword: From 1983 to 2020: Reflections on an Enduring Problem of Racism and RevoltAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western."—Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood"This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre."—Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and Worlding the WesternTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Hervé Mayer and David RochePart I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza Salvi3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954), by Hervé Mayer4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine SoubeillePart II: European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrović, 1960), by Dragan Batančev6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryż8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús Ángel GonzálezSpotlight on the Italian Western9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by Alessandra Magrin Haas10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee BroughtonPart III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire Context11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by Mike Phillips12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le PoullennecSpotlight on the Australian Western15. "They like all pictures which remind them of their own": The 'Entangled' Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David RocheCoda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and David RocheIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This edited volume is transnational in scope, demonstrating how filmmakers have used the Western genre to confront the ideologies of imperialism and colonization in various locations and periods. It is a detailed and comparative study of individual films, and an important contribution towards understanding the continuing vitality of the Western."—Stephen Teo Kian Teck, author of Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood"This is a timely, dizzying mix of powerful and well-researched explorations of the Western as a potent, transnational and worlding genre."—Neil Campbell, author of The Rhizomatic West, Post-Westerns, and Worlding the WesternTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Hervé Mayer and David RochePart I: US-American Westerns from a Transnational Perspective1. Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924), by Patrick Adamson2. John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy (1948-1950): Caught Between US-American Imperialism and Irish Republicanism, by Costanza Salvi3. Decentering the National in Hollywood: Transnational Storytelling in the Mexico Western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954), by Hervé Mayer4. Transnational Identity on the Contemporary Texan-Mexican Border in Tejano (David Blue Garcia, 2018), by Marine SoubeillePart II: European Westerns and the Critique of Imperialism5. A Yugoslav "Lemon Tree in Siberia": The Partisan Western Kapetan Leši (Živorad Mitrović, 1960), by Dragan Batančev6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) and the Western: Reframing the Imperialist Hero, by Hadrien Fontanaud7. Unwanted Salvation: The Use of the Savior Formula in The Dark Valley (Andreas Prochaska, 2014), by Marek Paryż8. Transnational Post-Westerns in French Cinema: Adieu Gary (Nassim Amaouche, 2009) and Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015), by Jesús Ángel GonzálezSpotlight on the Italian Western9. Silent Westerns Made in Italy: The Dawn of a Transnational Genre between US Imperial Narratives and Nationalistic Appropriations, by Alessandra Magrin Haas10. Where the Classical, the Transnational and the Acid Western Meet: Matalo! (Cesare Canevari, 1970), Violence and Cultural Resistance on the Spaghetti Western Frontier, by Lee BroughtonPart III: Westerns in a Post-Colonial or Post-Empire Context11. West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil, by Mike Phillips12. (Not) John Wayne & (Not) the US-American West: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014), by Jenny Barrett13. Remaking the Western in Japanese Cinema: East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995), Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007), and Unforgiven (San-il Lee, 2013), by Vivian P. Y. Lee14. The South African Frontier in Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017), by Claire Dutriaux and Annael Le PoullennecSpotlight on the Australian Western15. "They like all pictures which remind them of their own": The 'Entangled' Development of Australian Westerns, by Emma Hamilton16. Westerns from an Aboriginal Point of View or Why the Australian Western (Still) Matters: The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) and Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017), by David RocheCoda: We Will Not Ride Off into the Sunset, by Hervé Mayer and David RocheIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Film Titles and French-Language CitationsIntroduction1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's GirlhoodConclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoDBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed contribution to scholarship on banlieue cinema. . . . Pettersen's analyses provide a thoughtful and highly informed discourse on identity politics in contemporary Western, multiracial societies that is of broad relevance, just as his overview of transnational genre theory and industrial exegeses will provide paradigms applicable to other areas of audiovisual study."—Mary Harrod, author of Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille"This compelling study revises our ideas about contemporary French cinema, foregrounding the banlieue film—from the work of Mathieu Kassovitz to Luc Besson to Céline Sciamma—and linking it the horror film, socially critical cinema, and art film. Pettersen makes judicious use of the tools of cultural history, critical theory, and film analysis in this excavation of the national and transnational character of French cinema."—Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Film Titles and French-Language CitationsIntroduction1. Suburban Cinema Between Art and Genre2. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and Parkour in the Suburbs3. Suburban Gangsters: Screen Violence and the Banlieues4. Suburbanoia and French Banlieue Horror Films5. Omar Sy: Black Superstardom in Contemporary France6. Beyond the Art/Genre Divide: Céline Sciamma's GirlhoodConclusion: Genre, Inclusive Casting, and the Suburbs in the Age of SVoDBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores what Western women did, thought, and felt in and about the colonies in Africa and India, areas that have been presented, both at the time and in subsequent scholarship, as 'no place for a white woman'. This title analyzes Western women's complicity in the cultural values dominant during an imperialist era.Trade Review"Western Women and Imperialism provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." Nancy Fix Anderson "A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs,' nurses - and feminists." Ms. "... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism... excellent essays ..." The Year's Work in Critical Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONIMAGES OF ONE ANOTHERA Women's TrekWhat Difference Does Gender Make?Susan L. BlakeThrough Each Other's EyesThe Impact on the Colonial Encounter of the Images of Egyptian, Levantine-Egyptian, and European Women, 1862-1920Mervat HatemIMPERIAL POLITICSThe Passionate Nomad ReconsideredA European Woman in L'Algerie francaise (Isabelle Eberhardt, 1877-1904)Julia Clancy-SmithCrusader for EmpireFlora Shaw/Lady LugardHelen Callaway and Dorothy O HellyChathams, Pitts, and Gladstones in PetticoatsThe Politics of Gender and Race in the Illbert Bill Controversy, 1883-1884Mrinalini SinhaALLIES, MATERNAL IMPERIALISTS, AND ACTIVISTSCultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist AlliesBritish Women Activists in India, 1865-1945Barbara N. RamusackThe White Woman's BurdenBritish Feminists and The Indian Woman 1865-1915Antoinette M. BurtonComplicity and Resistance in the Writings of Flora Annie Steel and Annie BesantNancy L. PaxtonThe White Woman's Burden in the White Man's GraveThe Introduction of British Nurses in Colonial West AfricaDea BirkettMISSIONARIESA New HumanityAmerican Missionaries' Ideals for Women in North India, 1870-1930Leslie A. FlemmingGive a Thought to AfricaBlack Women Missionaries in Southern AfricaSylvia M. JacobsWIVES AND INCORPORATED WOMENShawls, Jewelry, Curry, and Rice in Victorian Britain Nupur ChaudhuriWhite Women in a Changing WorldEmployment, Voluntary Work, and Sex in Post-World War II Northern RhodesiaKaren Tranberg HansenCONTRIBUTORSINDEX

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Book SynopsisIn The Natural Rights Republic, renowned political theorist Michael P. Zuckert examines the natural rights philosophy as expressed in sources like the Declaration of Independence and aims to counter contemporary confusion by offering an insightful study of the concept that dominated the mindset of the founding generation of the United States.Trade Review"...highly intelligent and thoughtful.... There is much to praise in this book." —International Studies in Philosophy“In this important and engaging book . . . politicial theorist Michael P. Zuckert explores the central significance of the natural rights philosophy to the era of the American Revolution.” —American Historical Review“If a ‘real’ American is one who reasons exclusively from natural rights, then all ‘real’ Americans must presumably disavow utilitarianism and perhaps Kantianism as well—a provocative thesis to say the least. A broad implication of this book is that American political theory (from Jefferson up to Rawls and Nozick) is most essentially a history of attempts to articulate what it means to be an American. Zuckert nicely explains why natural rights figure so prominently in this history.” —Ethics"Zuckert's book is a powerful exposition of the most central political principles of the American founding. Its elegant articulation of its own thesis, together with its insightful analysis and critique of a wide variety of alternative views, makes it an extremely important contribution to debates on our national origins, which all serious students of the founding and of liberalism will have to confront." —First Things"Erudite, cogently argued, and beautifully written." —Choice“Zuckert’s arguments are clear, accessible, and make effective use of some fascinating historical documents. . . It offers an interesting and valuable historical context for the analysis of natural rights and their role in political society.” —Comptes rendus philosophiques (Philosophy in Review)“This study commands attention and stimulates disagreement.” —Journal of American Studies“The Natural Rights Republic contains many provocative ideas...Anyone who reads Zuckert’s book will learn much of value about the natural rights tradition in America.” —International Journal of the Classical Tradition“This book will likely come to be regarded as a magisterial treatment of the spiritual and theoretical underpinnings of the American founding. It should be read especially by those American Christians inclined to see their country’s founding principles as more Christian than they actually were.” —Calvin Theological Journal

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Book SynopsisWho is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Ricothe United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answer on who is to blame.In this engaging and approachable book, journalist A. W. Maldonado charts the rise and fall of the Puerto Rican economy and explains how a litany of bad political and fiscal policy decisions in Washington and Puerto Rico destroyed an economic miracle.Under Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s and ''60s, the rapid transformation and industrialization of the Puerto Rican economy was considered a wonder of human history, a far cry from the economic death spiral the island's governor described in 2015. Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is the story of how the demise of an obscure tax policy that encouraged investment and economic growth led to escalating budget deficits and the government's shocking default of its $70 billion debt. Maldonado also discussTrade Review“Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico offers a fascinating account of how a misunderstanding of the meaning of self-determination is at the core of Puerto Rico’s economic and political history.” —Heidie Calero, president of H. Calero Consulting Group, Inc.“Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is an extremely important and comprehensive addition to the history, politics, and economics of the unique relationship between the governments of the United States and the island Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.” —Peter Holmes, former managing director of the Puerto Rico–USA Foundation"A. W. Maldonado makes a keen and engaging assessment of the political and economic trials Puerto Rico has faced in its twelve-decade-long relationship with the United States, paying distinct attention to the ways in which the political culture within the commonwealth has affected the outcomes. This book should fare high in the agenda of those interested in the future of Puerto Rico, as well as those interested in the future of the many non-sovereign nations that today struggle with larger political entities to accommodate their national identity, fiscal autonomy, and development objectives through mutually convenient, democratic non-traditional frameworks." —Antonio Garcia Padilla, dean emeritus, University of Puerto Rico Law School“For anyone wanting an insightful account of how Puerto Rico has ended up where it is . . . , Maldonado’s Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is a must-read.” —Global Americans"Written in a clear and comprehensive manner, this book explores a fundamental problem in the relationship, of over a century, of Puerto Rico and the United States: how to synchronize the world's most advanced economy to one of the smallest and most depressed?" —El Nuevo Día"Maldonado observes a broad consensus pointing squarely at Puerto Rico’s colonial status as the culprit for its ongoing financial woes. . . . [He] argues it is precisely this ongoing struggle over the island’s political status that is to blame for its economic death spiral. A provocative reexamination of Puerto Rico's economic history and future." —Choice"Maldonado convincingly demonstrates that, while the Bootstrap tragedy was in many ways self-inflicted, a 120-year history of ‘miscommunications and misunderstandings’ between the US and Puerto Rico compounded the island’s pain." —Survival: Global Politics and StrategyTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1. The Rise and Fall of Operation Bootstrap 2. Bootstrap and the Statehood Surge 3. The Demise of Section 936 4. The Turning Point 5. The Breakdown of the Public Corporations 6. The Demise of the Government Development Bank: The Descent into the $70 Billion Debt 7. “That is Nuts” Puerto Rico’s Labor Policy 8. Will Puerto Rico Become a State? 9. The Future of Puerto Rico 10. A “Troubled” Relation 11. A Century of Miscommunication and Misunderstanding Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Herbert has ably demonstrated how [race and gender] operated in mid-nineteenth century gold rush societies in ways that enabled the dominance of one class of men over others." * The Ormsby Review *"A compelling survey of gender, race, labour, and politics, Gold Rush Manliness should be read by scholars interested in the cultural logic of settler colonialism in western history." * BC Studies *"Herbert’s style is eminently readable and concise, while his arguments are thought-provoking and engaging. Gold Rush Manliness is an excellent read for those interested in gender and identity in nineteenth-century North America." * Journal of Arizona History *"[I]nsightful study...a major step forward." * American Historical Review *"[A] welcome addition to the still nascent field of masculinity studies. Packed with useful observations about midnineteenth-century manliness, race history, and the relationship between different western rushes, the book is written in an engaging andjargon-free style and is useful to undergraduate and graduate students as well as lay readers" * Oregon Historical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Superb passages of original and unusual research . . . [a] sweeping, polemical treatment of a century of history." * Bangkok Post *"This insightful monograph is unquestionably a tour de force worth reading by both amateurs and professional scholars whose interest lies in Thai history and the Chinese in Thailand." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"[A] path-breaking and fascinating interpretation of modern Thai history." * South East Asia Research *"[A] provocative book that promises to reopen debates about the relationship between Chineseness, Thai nationalism, and the Thai monarchy." * Southeast Asian Studies *"Wongsurawat provocatively flips the usual narrative about Thai nationalism." * Choice *"Wongsurawat’s book offers a more complete view of the nature of the Thai nation and of the triangular relation between Chinese, Thai people, and the monarchy. Her interesting book makes clear the evolution of the Thai nation and explores the fundamental role of the national educational system for the shaping of national identity." * The Middle Ground Journal *"[A]n excellent and most thoughtful contribution to the understanding of the Chinese diaspora in Thailand and Southeast Asia." * H-Net Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Superb passages of original and unusual research . . . [a] sweeping, polemical treatment of a century of history." * Bangkok Post *"This insightful monograph is unquestionably a tour de force worth reading by both amateurs and professional scholars whose interest lies in Thai history and the Chinese in Thailand." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"[A] path-breaking and fascinating interpretation of modern Thai history." * South East Asia Research *"[A] provocative book that promises to reopen debates about the relationship between Chineseness, Thai nationalism, and the Thai monarchy." * Southeast Asian Studies *"Wongsurawat provocatively flips the usual narrative about Thai nationalism." * Choice *"Wongsurawat’s book offers a more complete view of the nature of the Thai nation and of the triangular relation between Chinese, Thai people, and the monarchy. Her interesting book makes clear the evolution of the Thai nation and explores the fundamental role of the national educational system for the shaping of national identity." * The Middle Ground Journal *"[A]n excellent and most thoughtful contribution to the understanding of the Chinese diaspora in Thailand and Southeast Asia." * H-Net Reviews *

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Book SynopsisHow sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as Nature's Island, was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological recordwhich preserves traces of slave households, waterwaysTrade Review"This book is an excellent example of the application of archaeological research to a larger anthropological problem, in this case the anthropology of slavery and plantation economies in the Caribbean." * Choice *"This is a well-written book that has the added advantage of demonstrating the value of archaeology for the study of history, environmental history not least." * H-Net *"In this fine study of colonial Dominica, Mark W. Hauser brings together the history of slavery, the environment, and the growing field of histories of water. His interdisciplinary approach unveils new perspectives on known events and provides fresh insights into largely forgotten histories." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume adds[s] significantly to knowledge of colonial Korea. The essays are particularly provocative in the questions they raise about laws and policies—most notably, village consolidation, the Peace Preservation Law, and thought conversion—that were applied to both Japan and Korea but with very different results." * Choice Reviews *

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Book SynopsisExamines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology Note on Romanization Introduction Explaining Peasant Protest: An Integrated View Social change and Land Tenure in Traditional Korea Colonialism and Korean Agriculture: Growth without Development Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1920-32: Ideology or Interest? The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 1: An Overview & Critique The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 2: History from Below Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1933-39: Class and Nation Japanese Militarism and Everyday forms of Resistance, 1940-44 Historical Origins of Peasant Radicalism in Liberated Korea Conclusion: Toward Reform and Revolution Appendix 1: Main Activities of Red Peasant Unions Appendix 2: Peasant Radicalism Index in Relation to Number of Red Peasant Unions and Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Religious Variables Appendix 3: Leadership Characteristics in Selected Red Peasant Unions Appendix 4: List of Counties Analyzed Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nationTrade Review"This work is a significant contribution to the ever-growing array of studies of termination and Indian life." -- John H. Barnhill * Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources *"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on termination could be among Native groups. It shows how Native individuals played crucial and diverse roles in affecting tribal outcomes in regard to termination and expansive federal policy." -- Sam Herley * Western Historical Quarterly *"Arnold, tribal member and director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, succinctly chronicles the response of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville in all its complex detail. Recommended." * Choice *"The net effect of Arnold's narrative strategy may be that future generations of Colvilles, and future generations of scholars, will see this book not only as a valuable work of tribal history but also as a document of Colville cultural continuity." -- Thompson Smith * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The literature on termination as an Indian policy has been significantly enriched with this publication." -- Eleanor Carriker * Columbia Reviews *"Laurie Arnold, a member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes, writes thoroughly and sensitively about both sides . . ." -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. “We want to be Indians forever.” 2. “It is like giving your eagle feather away.” 3. “Soon buried in a junk pile of Cadillacs.” 4. “What is their future?” 5. “Come back from your pilgrimage to nowhere.” 6. “Not another inch, not another drop.” Conclusion: “We kept getting a little bit smarter.” Appendix: Major Legislation Affecting the Colville Confederated Tribes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nationTrade Review"This work is a significant contribution to the ever-growing array of studies of termination and Indian life." -- John H. Barnhill * Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources *"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on termination could be among Native groups. It shows how Native individuals played crucial and diverse roles in affecting tribal outcomes in regard to termination and expansive federal policy." -- Sam Herley * Western Historical Quarterly *"Arnold, tribal member and director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, succinctly chronicles the response of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville in all its complex detail. Recommended." * Choice *"The net effect of Arnold's narrative strategy may be that future generations of Colvilles, and future generations of scholars, will see this book not only as a valuable work of tribal history but also as a document of Colville cultural continuity." -- Thompson Smith * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The literature on termination as an Indian policy has been significantly enriched with this publication." -- Eleanor Carriker * Columbia Reviews *"Laurie Arnold, a member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes, writes thoroughly and sensitively about both sides . . ." -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. “We want to be Indians forever.” 2. “It is like giving your eagle feather away.” 3. “Soon buried in a junk pile of Cadillacs.” 4. “What is their future?” 5. “Come back from your pilgrimage to nowhere.” 6. “Not another inch, not another drop.” Conclusion: “We kept getting a little bit smarter.” Appendix: Major Legislation Affecting the Colville Confederated Tribes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBetween 1876 and 1946 Korea opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, and industrialization. This book examines how peasants responded to these events with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.Trade Review"A work of sterling scholarship - original, thorough, meticulous, sharply focused, cogently reasoned, and precise in expression. A weighty and groundbreaking study." -American Historical Review "Shows beautifully how ordinary people shaped history through their continuous struggles for a better life." -American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Chronology Note on Romanization Introduction Explaining Peasant Protest: An Integrated View Social change and Land Tenure in Traditional Korea Colonialism and Korean Agriculture: Growth without Development Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1920-32: Ideology or Interest? The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 1: An Overview & Critique The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 2: History from Below Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1933-39: Class and Nation Japanese Militarism and Everyday forms of Resistance, 1940-44 Historical Origins of Peasant Radicalism in Liberated Korea Conclusion: Toward Reform and Revolution Appendix 1: Main Activities of Red Peasant Unions Appendix 2: Peasant Radicalism Index in Relation to Number of Red Peasant Unions and Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Religious Variables Appendix 3: Leadership Characteristics in Selected Red Peasant Unions Appendix 4: List of Counties Analyzed Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller. In this book, the author explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Zachary Macaulay, the leading abolitionist, and his son Thomas' visions of race, nation, and empire.Trade Review“If Hall’s book inspires some readers to turn back to Macaulay’s essays and History of England, all the better.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast -- Jacob Heilbrunn * The Daily Beast *“Catherine Hall’s insightful and compelling dual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay and his father Zachary. . . is able to make the Macaulays illuminate many different historical themes and purposes. . .She confidently locates father and son within their intellectual and political milieu, emphasizing the importance of the Scottish Enlightenment and the stadial theory of human progress.”—David Arthur, Times Literary Supplement -- David Arthur * Times Literary Supplement *Catherine Hall has built a reputation as one of the preeminent historians of her generation. . . . [She] now adds to her string of seminal publications with what may well be her most polished and masterful book.”—The Journal of British Studies * The Journal of British Studies *"Catherine Hall tells the story of father and son with consummate skill. Not only is Macaulay and Son important for understanding imperial Britain, it is a beautifully crafted history. Rather than offering a strictly biographical study, Hall draws upon the two men's lives and writings in order to explore key themes.”—James Epestein, Victorian Studies -- James Epstein * Victorian Studies *

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Book SynopsisA new history of the abolition of the British slave tradeTrade Review“Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was at its peak.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade“David Richardson’s meticulous exploration of the rise and fall of the British slave trade offers a brilliant synthesis of the history and historiography of a pivotal development in world history.”—Seymour Drescher, author of Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery“The most important recent single volume study of the slave trade, this is a book that commands attention. Richardson confronts a topic of great historical importance. It is a study conceived and executed with an intellectual verve and confidence.”—James Walvin, University of York“An important and timely book that will appeal to the general reader interested in the history of the British slave trade and the abolition movement.”—Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisHow did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself?Trade Review“This very well-researched book reconnects the British empire with domestic political, economic and religious culture, successfully showing how Britons were entranced but also divided by colonial possibilities.”—Mark Knights, author of Trust and Distrust“With wide-ranging archival research and a scope that spans the Atlantic, Gabriel Glickman shows with unprecedented detail and sophistication how empire and nation made each other.”—Matthew Kruer, University of Chicago“This is an impressive study. Deeply researched, wide-ranging and elegantly written, Glickman’s exploration of how the growth of empire shaped domestic politics transforms our understanding of the period. A must-read.”—Tim Harris, Brown University“A masterful analysis of the complex interplay between domestic and foreign affairs, of the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled, and of the profoundly divisive nature of an embryonic empire.”—Jason Peacey, University College London“Gabriel Glickman’s beautifully written and deeply researched book revolutionizes the way we must think about English history and the history of all its overseas possessions.”—Steve Pincus, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisNavy Records Society Publications, Vol 167Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ........................................................................age xi Acknowledgements .....................................................................xiii Preface...........................................................................................xv General Introduction .......................................................................1 A. Choice of Documents................................................................1 B. Editorial Procedures ..................................................................2 C. Conditions under Which the Letters Were Written .................13 D. Outer Appearance of Letters ...................................................17 Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Citations .........................23 I: The Beginning of an Enduring Relationship, June 1978-December 1800........................................................... 25 II: The Baltic Campaign, January-June 1801 ..............................97 III: The Channel Campaign, July-October 1801 .......................245 IV: Settled, May 1802-August 1805..........................................337 V: The End, September-October 1805 ......................................507 Appendices..................................................................................533 1. Selected List of Previous Publications....................................535 2.Chronology of Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton ..................539 3.Items Mentioned in the Letters, Nelson's Wills and Codicils to His Wills ...................................................................557 4.Poetry Referred to in Nelson's Letters....................................563 5.Minute of a Conversation with the Prince Royal of Denmark on 3 April 1801 ...........................................................567 6.The Taking of the Swift Cutter: An Attempt to Trace the Documents Captured by l'Espérance in 1804 ......................573 7.Documentation of Flow of Letters in Chapter IV (1803-1805)581 Sources and Documents ..............................................................597 Index ...........................................................................................619

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Book SynopsisGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' account of the second and third Spanish Expeditions to the Moluccas.Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557), warden of the fortress and port of Santo Domingo on the Island of Hispaniola, also served his Emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New World. Book XX, published in 1557, concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. Only the first four chapters deal with Magellan's voyage, the remaining thirty-one detail two subsequent expeditions to the Moluccas, 1525-35, the first initially led by García Jofre de and Loaysa. The narrative offers many details of the hardships and conflict with the Portuguese endured by the Spanish. There is also much information about indigenous culture, commerce, geography and the fauna and flora of the Spice Islands.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION BOOK XX OF THE SECOND PART OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE INDIES, WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, WARDEN OF THE FORTRESS AND PORT OF SANTO DOMINGO OF THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, AND HIS MAJESTY’S CHRONICLER General Prologue Prologue CHAPTER V. Which treats of the second and infelicitous voyage to the Spicelands, with the second armada that the Emperor, our lord, sent there in the second discovery commanded by Captain-General Fray García Jofre de Loaysa, Knight of the Order of Rhodes, citizen of Ciudad Real VI. How Captain-General Fray García Jofre de Loaysa rejoined the other ships of the armada, and of other events that happened to them, and of the giants and people of the Strait of Magellanes to whom Magellanes gave the name Patagones VII. What happened to the cleric Don Joan de Areyzaga among the giant Patagones, and of the continuation of their journey in search of the ships of the armada VIII. Of some particulars of the people called the giants, and of the birds, fish and other things that those of this armada observed IX. Continuing the journey of the armada that went with Commander Fray García de Loaysa, and of some particulars of the river and harbour of Santa Cruz and of that land X. Of some particulars of the river of San Alfonso where he had been before, as reported in Chapter IV, and how the armada returned to the Strait of Fernando Magallanes XI. Of some particulars of the famous Strait of Ferdinand Magellanes XII. Of what happened to Captain Sanctiago de Guevara and to Chaplain Don Juan de Areyzaga and the other Spaniards aboard the pinnace Santiago in their journey beyond the Strait XIII. In which is the conclusion of the account of the cleric Don Juan de Areyzaga XIV. Of the Strait of Magallanes, its length and width, its notable parts, the giants that inhabit it and other particulars XV. How the third captain-general named Salazar died, and Martín Iñiquez de Carquizano was elected to fill the position and continued the voyage to the Maluco; how they came upon a rich island called Vendanao and what happened to them there XVI. How they discovered the Ladrones Islands and came upon a Christian Spaniard who had sailed in the first armada with Captain Ferdinand Magellan XVII. How the third captain-general named Salazar died, and Martín Iñiquez de Carquizano was elected to fill the position and continued the voyage to the Maluco; how they came upon a rich island called Vendanao and what happened to them there XVIII. Which treats of the province of Cebú and of the trade there with Chinese merchants and in the other islands of the Célebes archipelago, and of the voyage of this flagship XIX. Of the embassy that Captain Martín Iñiguez de Carquizano sent to the kings of Tidore and of Gilolo; and of the gracious responses and good will the emissaries received from those kings and how pleased they were at the arrival of those Castilians at their lands XX. How the Emperor’s captain determined to go see the kings of Tidore and Gilolo and departed in his ship accompanied by their emissaries in their paraos; how on the way he was given a letter from the captain-general of the king of Portugal and his response to it XXI. How the Portuguese went to fight the Castilians at Tidore with many more people than the soldiers of the Emperor; how the ones and the others fared in this encounter; and how the Portuguese returned badly damaged to their fortress of Ternate XXII. How Captain Martín Iñiguez sent a parao to determine if the two ships they saw sailing were of the armada or not; and how those who set out on this mission captured two paraos at sea and burned a town on the island of Motil that the Portuguese held XXIII. How the general sent Captain Urdaneta to search for the ships they had sighted from Camafo; and how he burned down a town on an island and killed or captured its inhabitants; and how he came upon eight paraos with Portuguese on board XXIV. How Captain-General Martín Iñiguez ordered a galleon built to send to Spain because the flagship was no longer seaworthy; how two paraos of Portuguese came and the Spaniards sallied forth against them XXV. Which treats of the arrival of Don Jorge de Meneses in India and of the subsequent differences and wars between the Portuguese and the Castilians; and how the parties agreed to a truce which was broken by the Portuguese XXVI. How Fernando de la Torre was elected captain-general on the death of Martín Iñiguez; how the fusta the Castilians were building in Gilolo was destroyed by a fire secretly set by the Portuguese; how a principal gentleman of Tidore was killed for sleeping with the queen; and of other things pertinent to the history XXVII. How Quichilhumar, governor of Machián, abandoned the Portuguese and passed over to the Castilian side and how the Portuguese destroyed the city of Machián by means of an Indian traitor; and of the intervention of the Portuguese and Castilians in support of their allies XXVIII. How, at the Emperor’s command, the governor of New Spain sent a galleon and crew to the Spicelands to learn of Captain Fray García de Loaysa’s armada, and found things in the state that has been related, and of what happened on the galleon’s arrival XXIX. How Hernando Cortés’s galleon, captained by Alvaro de Saavedra, departed the Maluco carrying some Portuguese prisoners and the despicable thing they did to the captain in stealing the ship’s boat; and how the ship returned to Tidore XXX. How …Captain Saavedra’s galleon returned to the Maluco to be cleared to return to New Spain; how the king of Gilolo and special friend of the Castilians died; how Tidore was lost as well as our fortress by the treason and mutiny of Fernando de Bustamante XXXI. How the galleon of Governor Hernando Cortés returned a second time, coming to Camafo; and how Captain Fernando de la Torre renewed the war because the Portuguese did not live up to the agreement; and how the Indians on both sides made peace among themselves and agreed to kill the Castilians and the Portuguese XXXII. How Gonzalo Pereyra came to the Maluco as the king of Portugal’s captain and arrested Don Jorge de Meneses; and how Gonzalo Pereyra and the Castilians re-established the peace between the parties; and how the Indians of Ternate rose up against the Portuguese, …and how the Portuguese recovered their fortress and … the Castilians sent to India to request passage to Spain XXXIII. How the Portuguese took the city of Gilolo where the Castilians were and how the Castilians and their captain passed over to the Portuguese and went with them to their fortress in Ternate where Captain Tristán de Atayde gave them the two thousand ducats that the Portuguese governor of India granted them for their journey XXXIV. A description of the clove islands called the Maluco, and an account of the clove gathered in each island one year to the next; and of their customs, marriages, conduct and merchandise exchanged between those people; and likewise of the Célebes Islands, the Banthán Islands XXXV. Of some customs, ceremonies, and rites of the Indians of the Spicelands; and of how the Castilians left Maluco for India, passing by way of Java; and especially of Captain Urdaneta, the one who most travelled and saw things of those parts XXXVI. Of a remarkable case of a fruit resembling almonds, and how many of them are found on a small islet without there being an almond tree or any tree that bears such a fruit on that island nor is that fruit produced where it is found; rather it comes by air APPENDIX 1. The narrative which Andres de Urdaneta submits to your Majesty of the fleet which your Majesty despatched to the Spice Islands under the Comendador Loaysa, in the year 1525 APPENDIX 2. Narrative of all that was traversed and discovered by the Captain Alvaro de Sayavedra who sailed from the port of Yacatulo in New Spain on November 1st, 1527: which fleet was despatched by Don Hernan Cortes, Marquis of Valle

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Book SynopsisIn his now classic volume Prospero and Caliban, Octave Mannoni gives his firsthand account of a 1948 revolt in Madagascar that led to one of the bloodiest episodes of colonial repression on the African continent. Anthropologist Maurice Bloch has written a powerful and critical new foreword to this English translation.

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