Colonialism and imperialism Books
Princeton University Press The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
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Princeton University Press Settling for Less
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modern and multidisciplinary. . . . Settling for Less provides the most comprehensive analysis of settler colonialism."---Kyosuke Kikuta, The Developing Economies"Prodigious research and presentation." * Choice *"McNamee’s book is mandatory reading for scholars interested in both the causes and consequences of colonization. . . . Charles Tilly once warned us not to crow too loudly about the death of empires. But Lachlan McNamee’s excellent, accessible, and well-written book has given us reason to crow. Slowly but surely, the structural force of modernization works against the strategic goals of empire."---Jacob Gerner, Perspectives on Politics"McNamee asks big questions, constructs an original and provocative theory, unearths previously unused, indeed, unknown data, and compiles persuasive evidence to support his hypotheses . . . Settling for Less is an extraordinary first book of the sort to which authors aspire."---David A. Lake, Political Science Quarterly
£27.00
Princeton University Press America before 1787
Book SynopsisAn original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their seemingly deep internal antagonisms. Elster documents the importance of the radical uncertainty about their opponents that characterized both British and American elites and reveals the often neglected force of enthusiasm, and of emotions more generally, in shaping beliefs and in motivating actions. He provides the first detailed examinations of divide and rule as a strategy used on both sides of the Atlantic and of the rise and fall of collective action movements among the Americans. Elster also explains how the gradual undermining in A
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American
Book SynopsisWhen the US took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam following the Spanish-American War, it was unclear to what degree these islands were actually part of the US. By looking at what became known as the Insular Cases, this work reveals how America resolved to govern these territories.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Peace Pact
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA complex and remarkable book that may well make an important paradigm shift in early American history.... Deftly combining intellectual, constitutional, and diplomatic history, Hendrickson significantly reorients our understanding of the creation of the American republic." —American Historical Review"Hendrickson's masterly work immediately joins Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas G. Onuf's Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions as one of the leading attempts to view the making of America in international perspective." —Journal of American History"An exemplary contribution to our understanding of the early republic." —William and Mary Quarterly"A remarkable book - engaging, learned, and well-written.... Highly recommended." —Choice"A splendid and important book." —International History Review"An extrordinary achievement." —Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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University Press of Kansas The Counterrevolutionary Shadow
£72.00
LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Monde am233rindien au miroir des Lettres 233difiantes et curieuses
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£98.30
Pluto Press Black And Green The Fight For Civil Rights In
Book SynopsisExamines the historic links between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical Links 2. Second class citizens 3. On the march 4. Irish America 5. Backlash 6. Heirs apparent Biographies of key Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Caribbean Transnational Experience
Book SynopsisA study of the creolisation process which has shaped the CaribbeanTrade Review'Finally, a detailed study of Caribean people and their transnational experiences ... a fascinating collection of essays' -- Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law'A timely account and analysis of the lived reality of the hundreds of thousands of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain. A welcome addition to the growing literature on the creolisation process which has shaped the Caribbean over centuries' -- Professor Rex Nettleford, Vice Chancellor, University of the West IndiesTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface & Acknowledgements 1. Questions of theory, definition, purpose 2. A common trans-Atlantic heritage 3. Contemporary social and political dimensions of British-Caribbean transnationality 4. Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean consciousness and action in Britain 5. Black America in Caribbean public discourse in Britain: Uncle Tom, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis 6. Having a voice: Caribbean publishers and diasporic communication References Index
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Pluto Press Empire Law
Book SynopsisWhat was the legacy of the war in Iraq?Trade Review'Right now there can't be enough discussion of America's role in world politics ... This is a much-needed collection from leading scholars' -- Neil Stammers, Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex'A first rate essay collection and a 'must read' for students of international law, politics and ethics' -- Jean L. Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University'It is extremely relevant ... the coverage is excellent' -- Professor Bob Fine, Director, Social Theory Centre, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsDedication Acknoweldegements Amy Bartholomew: Introduction Part I. The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World' 1. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Theorising American Empire 2. Jurgen Habermas: Interpreting the Fall of a Monument 3. Ulrich Preuss: The Iraq War – Critical Reflections from 'Old Europe' Part II. Empire's Law: War, Human Rights, and International Law 4. Hans von Sponeck: The Conduct of the UN Before and After the 2003 Invasion 5. Denis Halliday: The UN and its Conduct During the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq 6. Doris E. Buss: Keeping its Promise: Use of Force and the New Man of International Law 7. Trevor Purvis: Looking for Life Signs in an International Rule of Law 8. Peter Swan: American Empire or Empires? Alternative Juridifications of the New World Order 9. Amy Bartholomew: Empire's Law and the Contradictory Politics of Human Rights Part III. Occupation, Democracy and Contradictions of Empire in Iraq 10. Nehal Bhuta: A New Bonapartism? 11. Andrew Arato: Empire's Democracy, Ours and Theirs 12. Haifa Zangana: Three Cyclops of Empire Building: Targeting the Fabric of Iraqi Society Part IV. Resisting Empire: Room for Manoeuvre? 13. Reg Whitaker: Drifting Away from the Edge of Empire: Canada in the Age of George W. Bush 14. David Coates: A 'Just War', or Just another of Tony Blair's Wars? 15. Fuyuki Kurasawa: The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire 16. Jayan Nayar: Taking Empire Seriously: Empire's Law, People's Law, and the World Tribunal in Iraq 17. Samir Amin: Whither the United Nations? Index
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Pluto Press Outsourced Empire
Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016) 'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster 'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. US Empire: Statecraft in the Global South and Para-State Networks 2. Cold War Statecraft and the Covert Principle: ''Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government?" 3. US Counterinsurgency: The Growing Paramilitary Movement 4. The Institutionalization of Para-State Networks: Nicaraguan Contras and Beyond 5. Continuity After the Cold War: the Evolution of Para-State Networks 6. The Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror: Consolidation into the Future Conclusion
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Pluto Press Outsourced Empire How Militias Mercenaries and
Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces 2. Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: 'Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government' 3. Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries and Contractors 4. Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft 5. Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes 6. The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare and the Global Projection of Force Conclusions Notes Index
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Pluto Press Postcolonial France
Book SynopsisUrban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in modern FranceTrade Review'In this sweeping and erudite account, Paul Silverstein takes us a hundred years back to the colonial days before bringing us forward to the current era of La Haine, La Fouine, Zidane and Charlie Hebdo... a terrific introduction to French youth culture and the republic's unfinished struggle for egalite' -- Hisham Aidi, author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon), Winner of the American Book Award in 2015'Paul Silverstein is one of the foremost living exponents of historical anthropology, and this is his masterpiece.' -- Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford, Author of Being Jewish and Doing Justice'Few people writing in English understand the complex situations - and the urgent stakes - of being Muslim in France today better than Paul Silverstein' -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin)'What Paul Silverstein offers here is an insightful analysis of French contemporary postcoloniality, which is group-based as well as individual-based ... his empirical and theoretical approach makes this very recommended reading to scholars and students of France alike' -- Olivier Esteves, Assistant Professor in British Studies, Lille III universityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction: Whither Postcolonial France? 1. Mobile Subjects 2. How Does It Feel to Be the Crisis? 3. The Muslim and the Jew 4. Dangerous Signs: Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonne 5. Anxious Football 6. Tracing Places: Parkour and Urban Space 7. Hip-Hop Nations Conclusion: Postcolonial Love Notes References Index
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Pluto Press Postcolonial France Race Islam and the Future of
Book SynopsisUrban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in modern FranceTrade Review'In this sweeping and erudite account, Paul Silverstein takes us a hundred years back to the colonial days before bringing us forward to the current era of La Haine, La Fouine, Zidane and Charlie Hebdo... a terrific introduction to French youth culture and the republic's unfinished struggle for egalite' -- Hisham Aidi, author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon), Winner of the American Book Award in 2015'Paul Silverstein is one of the foremost living exponents of historical anthropology, and this is his masterpiece.' -- Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford, Author of Being Jewish and Doing Justice'Few people writing in English understand the complex situations - and the urgent stakes - of being Muslim in France today better than Paul Silverstein' -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin)'What Paul Silverstein offers here is an insightful analysis of French contemporary postcoloniality, which is group-based as well as individual-based ... his empirical and theoretical approach makes this very recommended reading to scholars and students of France alike' -- Olivier Esteves, Assistant Professor in British Studies, Lille III universityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction: Whither Postcolonial France? 1. Mobile Subjects 2. How Does It Feel to Be the Crisis? 3. The Muslim and the Jew 4. Dangerous Signs: Charlie Hebdo and Dieudonne 5. Anxious Football 6. Tracing Places: Parkour and Urban Space 7. Hip-Hop Nations Conclusion: Postcolonial Love Notes References Index
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Pluto Press Decolonising the University
Book SynopsisUnderstanding and transforming the universities' colonial foundations.Trade Review'A very well-researched and highly readable book that I feel compelled to highly recommend' -- Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching'A fine collection of knowledgeable yet readable essays which address a host of vital issues for our times: Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, free speech, inclusion and exclusion, and public higher education... A must-read for anyone interested in enhancing a historical understanding of our present through a consideration of what it means to decolonise' -- Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures, University of Cambridge'As Robbie Shilliam notes astutely in this timely volume, criticism of decolonising the university often overshadows the project itself. These collected reflections provide a much-needed analysis of the global movement to unsettle the Eurocentric white academy' -- Alana Lentin, Western Sydney UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Decolonising the University? - Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu PART I - CONTEXTS: HISTORICAL AND DISCIPLINARY 2. Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change - Dalia Gebrial 3. Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University - John Holmwood 4. Black/Academia - Robbie Shilliam 5. Decolonising Philosophy - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace and Jeong Eun Annabel We PART II - INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES 6. Asylum University: Re-situating Knowledge-exchange along Cross-border Positionalities - Kolar Aparna and Olivier Kramsch 7. Diversity or Decolonisation? Researching Diversity at the University of Amsterdam - Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez 8. The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University - Kehinde Andrews 9. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum - Pat Lockley PART III - DECOLONIAL REFLECTIONS 10. Meschachakanis, a Coyote Narrative: Decolonising Higher Education - Shauneen Pete 11. Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention - Carol Azumah Dennis 12. Internationalisation and Interdisciplinarity: Sharing acrossBoundaries? - Angela Last 13. Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science - William Jamal Richardson Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press The Wealth of Some Nations Imperialism and the
Book SynopsisA taboo-busting critique of the transfer of wealth from the global South to the global North, which props up our 'progressive, developed' nations. A text that is set to become a standard reference work on imperialism for years to come, by a groundbreaking academic who is the only serious scholar in this subject.Trade Review'This is simply the most significant book published on the political economy of imperialism in the 21st Century, written by the foremost scholar of global imperialism today. Cope lays bare the fundamental structural contradiction in contemporary global capitalism: the pervasive class divisions which divide the Global North from South and are indelibly imprinted in the historical legacy of Western imperialism' -- Immanuel Ness, author of 'Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class' 'Global inequality isn't natural; it's created. Zak Cope explains how the rules of the international economy have been designed to benefit a few powerful nations in the Global North at the expense of most of the rest of the world. This is a brilliant intervention from one of the best scholars in the field' -- Jason Hickel, Goldsmiths, University of London 'Highly important and timely. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the nature of current global capitalism, rather than remaining hoodwinked by the mythology of equality and liberty' -- Amiya Bagchi, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: The Mechanics of Imperialism 1. Value Transfer 2. Colonial Tribute 3. Monopoly Rent 4. Unequal Exchange Part II: The Econometrics of Imperialism 5. Imperialism and its Denial 6. Measuring Imperialist Value Transfer 7. Measuring Colonial Value Transfer 8. Comparing Value Transfer to Profits, Wages and Capital Part III: Foundations of the Labour Aristocracy 9. Anti-Imperialist Marxism and the Wages of Imperialism 10. The Metropolitan Labour Aristocracy 11. The Native Labour Aristocracy Part IV: Social Imperialism Past and Present 12. Social Imperialism before WWI 13. Social Imperialism after WWI 14. Social Imperialist Marxism Conclusion: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today
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Pluto Press The Empire at Home
Book SynopsisHow is Britain enacting colonialism at home?Trade Review'Forceful ... Re-centres coloniality in Britain's past and present in a way that articulates what so many of us experience as the embodied reality of being in Britain, but so rarely get space to voice: that colonialism and its continued methods of control' -- Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, poet and author of 'Postcolonial Banter' (Verve Poetry Press, 2019)'An excellent and intelligently argued book. It neatly charts the transformation of colonial techniques 'at home' and how Britain was reconfigured in postcolonial terms' -- Gurminder K Bhambra, author of 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)'An indispensable read for those who want to both understand and put aside the at once Eurocentric and nationalist lens of Brexit debates' -- Angela Mitropoulos, author of 'Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia' (Minor Compositions, 2012) and 'Pandemonium Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve' (Pluto, 2020)'A must-read for understanding Britain today. Britain is colonial, and the beauty of Trafford's riveting book is to show just how much this simple fact explains of recent British history' -- Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work' (Polity Press, 2016)'Evocative ... unflinchingly unveils the workings of race as a 'technology that forms part of the machinery of colonialism'. Essential reading for an understanding of how and why white Britishness negates those who are 'in, but not of' it' -- Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University and author of 'Why Race Still Matters' (Polity, 2020)'A fascinating exposé of Britain as an ongoing colonial project. Deftly provides us with the counternarratives we need to think imaginatively about how to dismantle and ultimately end British colonialism' -- Dr Nadine El-Enany, Co-Director, Centre for Research on Race and Law and author of '(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire' (MUP, 2019)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. The Mouth of a Shark 2. Extractive Entanglements Across Alien Territories 3. Policing Empire after Empire 4. Homeland Warfare and Differential Racism 5. Extinction Politics 6. The End of Britain Notes Indicative Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press A Decolonial Feminism
Book SynopsisA vital feminist manifesto from one of our most inspiring political voicesTrade Review'Essential for highlighting the current divisions within feminist political agendas, and for collective reflection on a profound, radical transformation of society... Necessary reading.' -- 'Axelle n Degrees219' 'Develops a critical perspective on feminism to reconsider the conditions of possibility and purpose... resituates feminism in a truly political, emancipatory and critical dimension' -- Jean-Philippe Cazier, 'Diacritik' 'A powerful work' -- 'Les Inrocks' 'Incisive... an invitation to reconnect with the utopian power of feminism' -- Aurelien Maignant, 'Fabula'Table of ContentsPreface to the English edition Introduction: Invisible, They 'Open the City' 1. Taking Sides: Decolonial Feminism 2. Evolution of a 'Civilising' Feminism in the 21st Century Notes
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Pluto Press Africas Last Colonial Currency
Book SynopsisHow the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in AfricaTrade Review'For decades, the CFA Franc question has been, for the elite of Francophone Africa, more than a mere taboo subject, a sort of shameful wound. Tongues are starting to loosen, and this book comes at a perfect time' -- Boubacar Boris Diop, Senegalese novelist and essayist'A masterpiece that uncovers, in wonderful detail, the neo-colonial politics behind the CFA Franc. It makes a passionate, convincing case for dismantling the CFA Franc, and will become a classic study in how monetary relationships are intertwined with power and national interest' -- Professor Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance, University of the West of England'An impressive read' -- Arndt Hopfmann, Senior Advisor on Economic and Trade Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation'This book makes the CFA Franc's role in the perpetuation of French neo-colonialism in Africa all too visible - thereby adding to the arsenal of knowledge for the decolonization of Africa and African development' -- Anthony Victor Obeng, author of 'Decolonizing Africa and African Development: The Twenty-First Century Pan Africanist Challenge' (Peter Lang AG, 2016)'A fascinating inquiry' -- Olivette Otele, historian, author of 'African Europeans: An Untold History' (Hurst, 2020)'A must read that engages the political economy of the post-colony by taking us back to where it all started: from De Gaulle's neo-colonial independence to Macron's fake colonial currency, showing that the transition is simply imperial domination par excellence' -- Ibrahim Abdullah, Professor of History at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone'Excellent ... it exposes the reality behind that 'invisible weapon' used by France to continue to influence the fate of its former colonies' -- Demba Moussa Dembele, economist and co-author of 'Ending Africa's Monetary Servitude: Who Profits from the CFA Franc?''An excellent book showing that a common currency area between an advanced and a backward region is a mechanism for perpetuating the latter's backwardness and making its products available cheap for the former. A must read for students of development' -- Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University'A brilliant book which will be a highly efficient weapon in the fight for the financial sovereignty of the African States and the complete abolition of the CFA' -- Jean Ziegler, Former Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris and former Vice-President of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council'A scathing critique of France's most powerful colonial tool in Africa, revealing a radical, yet practical alternative path for African economic and monetary sovereignty' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity‘Addresses one factor most experts overlook … Pigeaud and Sylla make the case that preservation of the CFA has been an overlooked but crucial motivation for France’ -- ‘The New York Review of Books’‘A crystal-clear dissection of a purposefully opaque economic system … at once exposé, history, and economics explainer’ -- ‘Society and Space’‘An immensely important contribution’ -- ‘Brave New Europe’‘Demolishing the shallow rhetoric surrounding the CFA system, the authors are excellent guides to its political, diplomatic and technical history … offering a book that will be particularly of interest to economic historians, postcolonial theorists and political scientists’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsForeword by William F. Mitchell Map Introduction 1. A Currency at the Service of the ‘Colonial Pact’ 2. The CFA System 3. Resistance and Reprisal 4. France in Command 5. At the Service of the Françafrique 6. An Obstacle to Development 7. An Unsustainable Status Quo Epilogue Postface Notes Index
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Pluto Press Black People in the British Empire
Book SynopsisThe follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying PowerTrade Review'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ -- Akala, author of 'Natives' (Two Reads, 2018)'As this sequel to Staying Power demonstrates so succinctly, there is no separate entity called 'black history’, just versions and perspectives that have been air-brushed out of the official narrative. Britain's history is littered with gaping holes - hidden histories and her-stories that have yet to be told or unearthed. In drawing our attention to the experience of countless subjugated people who were deemed part of its sprawling empire, Peter Fryer has shown, once again, that he has earned his credentials' -- Stella Dadzie, co-author of 'The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain' (Virago, 1985), and winner of the the Martin Luther King Award for Literature'An inspiring account of brutal repression and resistance ... Fryer throws the darker side of the empire into graphic relief' -- New Statesman'An important contribution to the struggle against racism' -- Race & Class'A stimulating book which raises important and often uncomfortable questions' -- International AffairsTable of ContentsForeword by Stella Dadzie Preface Introduction Part I: How Britain Became ‘Great Britain’ 1. Britain and its Empire 2. The Triangular Trade 3. India Plunder De-industrialization 4. The Caribbean from 1834 The Abolition of Slavery Indentured Labour Apprenticeship Britain’s ‘Tropical Farms’ 5. Africa (Other Than Southern Africa) 6. Territories of White Settlement Tasmania Australia New Zealand Southern Africa Indentured Labour 7. Profits of Empire 8. How Black People were Ruled 9. The Empire and the British Working Class Part II: Racism 10. The Concept of ‘Race’ 11. Racism and Slavery 12. Racism and Empire 13. The Reproduction of Racism Historiography Children’s Books Part III: Resistance 14. The Struggle against Slavery 15. The Caribbean after Emancipation 16. India Conclusion Notes and References Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Pluto Press Settler Colonialism
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the history and characteristics of settler colonialismTrade Review‘A brilliant introduction to settler colonialism … Offers a practical politics that seeks to link indigenous struggles to struggles against capitalism as a whole.’ -- ‘Red Pepper’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Settling the World 2. Indigenous Dispossession, Indigenous Resistance 3. The Birth of Race 4. Settler Class Struggle 5. Indigenous Resistance in the Present Conclusion
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Pluto Press Border Abolition Now
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University of British Columbia Press Insiders and Outsiders Alan Cairns and the
Book SynopsisInsiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction / Gerald Kernerman and Philip ResnickPart 1: Methods and Approaches2 Alan Cairns: Public Intellectual / John Meisel3 The Political Scientist as Hedgefox: Key Themes in Cairns’ Approach to Institutions / Leslie A. PalPart 2: Citizen-Shaping InstitutionsThe Electoral System4 Early Warning, No Response: Alan Cairns and Electoral Reform / Roger Gibbins5 The Electoral System and the Party System Revisited / Richard JohnstonThe Institutions of Canadian Federalism6 The Legacy of the Privy Council in Canadian Federalism / Peter W. Hogg7 Unnatural Loyalties or Naïve Collaborationists? The Governments and Citizens of Canadian Federalism / Fred Cutler and Matthew Mendelsohn8 Institutions, Citizenship, and Federalism: Contrasting Models of Redistribution in the Twenty-First Century / Robert G. FinbowThe Charter of Rights and Freedoms9 Some Implications of the Embedded State in Canada / Barry Cooper10 Morton and Knopff’s The Charter Revolution and the Court Party: A Legal Critique / Robin Elliot11 The Politics of Honourable Constitutional Inclusion and the Citizens’ Constitution Theory / Matt James12 Charters and Constitution Making: Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights / John E. FossumPart 3: Citizenship, Diversity, and Unity Quebec and Canadian Unity13 The Anatomy of Cairns’ Constitutional Criticism: French Canadians, Quebec, and the Canadian Constitution / Ramsay Cook14 Alan C. Cairns on Canadians’ Right to Their Country / Stéphane Dion15 Plan C? Alan Cairns and English Canada Confront the Challenge of Quebec Sovereignty / Reg Whitaker16 Canada’s Mismatching Federations / Jean LaponceAboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations17 Belonging in the New World: Imperialism, Property, and Citizenship / Frances Abele18 Toward Conceptual Precision: Citizenship and Rightsm Talk for Aboriginal Canadians / Joyce A. Green19 Parallel or Embedded? Aboriginal Self-Government and the Changing Nature of Citizenship in Canada / Marc Hanvelt and Martin Papillon20 First Nations, Citizenship, and Democratic Reform / Kathy L. BrockDiversity and Unity21 Citizenship in a Multinational Democracy / Peter H. Russell22 Citizenship Complexities in Canada and Australia: A Challenge for the Hedgefox / Brian Galligan23 Of Cairns and Cages? Identity, Democracy, and Alan Cairns / Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Richard F. Devlin24 Multiculturalism, Gender, and Social Cohesion: Reflections on Intersectionality and Urban Citizenship in Canada / Caroline AndrewConclusion25 My Academic Career: The Pleasures and Risks of Introspection / Alan C. CairnsContributorsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Storied Communities
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.Trade ReviewThe book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states. -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy WebberPart 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward ChamberlinPart 4: Contact and Its Narratives9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places / Jacinta RuruPart 5: Arrival and Its Narratives13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler CoutinPart 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack17 Proof and Narrative: “Reproducing the Facts” in Refugee Claims / Donald GallowayPart 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here?18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha NandorfyContributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Webs of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWebs of Empire demonstrates Tony Ballantyne’s archival richness and mastery of his profession, provoking new interpretations of history and historians. This is compelling and essential reading. -- Lydia Wevers is a professor and director of the Stout Research Centre at the Victoria University of WellingtonTable of ContentsPreface: Connections, Comparisons and CommonalitiesNote on Language and UsageIntroduction: Relocating Colonial HistoriesReframing Colonialism1 Race and the Webs of EmpireConnections2 Writing Out Asia3 Teaching Maori About Asia4 India in New Zealand5 Te Anu's StoryEmpire6 Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire7 Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication8 War, Knowledge and the Crisis of EmpireWriting9 Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism10 Mr. Peal's Archive11 Paper, Pen and Print12 Writing and the Culture of ColonisationPlace13 Thinking Local14 On Place, Space and MobilityConclusion: Writing the Colonial PastEditorial NoteEndnotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Laws and the Land
Book SynopsisAs the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien'kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralisTrade ReviewAs someone who has been teaching Indigenous studies courses for almost a decade... I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Indigenous history of Canada... I have no doubt that it will become a regularly cited work, but it is also written in such a away that members of the general public should find it not only accessible, but also interesting. -- Daniel Sims, University of Northern British Columbia * Canadian Journal of History *Daniel Rück presents a richly detailed and sophisticated history of land use rights and ownership on the Kahnawa:ke reserve over the course of a century. He is thoroughly impressive in his articulation of the many ways in which Indigenous and European laws are both at odds and, at times, complimentary. -- Bill Parenteau, University of New Brunswick * NiCHE *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Kahnawà:ke and Canada: Relationships of Laws and Lands2 “Whereas the Seigniory of Sault St. Louis Is the Property of the Iroquois Nation”: Dissidents, Property, and Power, 1790–18153 “Out of the beaten track”: Before the Railroad, 1815–504 “In What Legal Anarchy Will Questions of Property Soon Find Themselves”: The Era of Confederation, 1850–755 “The Consequences of This Promiscuous Ownership”: Wood and the Indian Act, 1867–18836 “Equal to an Ordnance Map of the Old Country”: The Walbank Survey, 1880–937 “It is Necessary to Follow the Custom of the Reserve Which is Contrary to Law”: Rupture and Continuity, 1885–1900ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Cornell University Press Empires
Book SynopsisCombining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines.Trade ReviewAs a contribution to multicausal analysis of social change, this is a major work. And, as a general introduction to European imperialism, its theoretical sophistication, broad sweep, and the clear presentation and organization of historical detail leave it with few peers. * American Journal of Sociology *Ranging from the Athenian empire to the nineteenth century, Michael W. Doyle attempts to construct a historical sociology of empires that will encompass imperialism's infinite variety.... He recognizes the diversity of empires and imperial motivation, the French 'civilizing mission,' Spanish Catholicism and, implicitly, British 'muscular Christianity.'... The overall argument... has a persuasive simplicity and symmetry.... Empires is an excellent introduction to current theories of imperialism, and an interesting attempt at a new synthesis. * Times Literary Supplement *The analysis of the causes and patterns of imperialism has long been a difficult academic exercise.... To structure this far-ranging phenomenon and arrange its course in a concise, interpretive essay takes pluck, if a good adjective from the derring-do novels of empire may be used here. Michael W. Doyle had that pluck and has succeeded remarkably well in his task. This is a splendid essay, an effective combination of broad historical analysis and well-presented theoretical assessments derived from the social sciences. The book will no doubt stand as one of the best contemporary syntheses of the progress of imperialism.... Doyle has read widely and well. He has mastered his material and has done with it something masterly: he has made the whole more than the sum of the parts. What follows next from the lively mind of this scholar will be pleasantly anticipated. * American Historical Review *
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MB - Cornell University Press Myths of Empire Domestic Politics and International Ambition
Book SynopsisOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.Trade ReviewMyths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict. * American Political Science Review *In support of his case, Snyder draws upon recent research into the determinant of foreign policy of the leading powers since the mid-19th century.... Historians and still more international relations specialists will find much of interest in this analysis. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of Contents1. The Myth of Security through Expansion2. Three Theories of Overexpansion3. Germany and the Pattern of Late Development4. Japan's Bid for Autarky5. Social Imperialism in Victorian Britain6. Soviet Politics and Strategic Learning7. America’s Cold War Consensus8. Overexpansion: Origins and AntidotesIndex
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Cornell University Press The Transfigured Kingdom Sacred Parody and
Book SynopsisIn this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great.Trade ReviewZitser argues that 'the Drunken Council was not an institution at all, parodic or otherwise; it was a discourse, that is, a way of speaking about royal authority that was constitutive of political relations as much as a reflection of the way power was distributed and organized at the court of Peter the Great.' It is this insight or thesis that allows Zitser to seek a harmonious integration of seemingly disparate elements in the culture of Peter's reign and to provide both a contemporary European context as well as a modern theoretical dimension by his wide-ranging reference to primary and secondary sources. The book offers a remarkably sustained and for the most part convincing demonstration of what Zitser calls 'a heretofore neglected aspect of Petrine political theology' (p. 169). It is a study which all students of Peter and his period will neglect at their peril. * Journal of European Studies *Some of the strangest and most puzzling aspects of the reign of Peter the Great of Russia involve the play armies, mock religious processions, and other carnivalesque spectacles staged at the royal court throughout Peter's long reign.... Zitser argues that the activities of institutions such as the Most Comical All-Drunken Council were crucial elements in an attempt to elevate the tsar's persona above court factions and clan politics, as well as to establish his domination over ecclesiastical affairs. Zitser focuses his attention on the language used by the tsar and his entourage to transform a medieval Muscovy into a modern, imperial Russia, while also emphasizing the connections of the spectacles and rhetoric with the pan-European baroque court culture of early modern Europe. * Choice *Zitser's study is based on a range of sources impressive for both its variety and breadth: hitherto unprocessed personal and state archives; dispatches and accounts of foreign diplomats; publications of official government papers; monographic studies in many languages; contemporary engravings and illustrations. All the forms of evidence, facts, and events are subjected to thorough-going analysis in order to reveal their communicative and symbolic content.... Zitser's book is extraordinarily interesting and results in original reflections about the reign of Peter I and his contemporary cultural world. * The New Review/Novyi Zhurnal *Ernest Zitser has produced an innovative new study of the transformation of political discourse during the reign of Peter the Great... Zitser's study relies on the personal letters of Peter the Great, eyewitness accounts, official administrative documents, and visual representations, such as engravings, paintings, and drawings. These rich sources allow Zitser to present a more nuanced understanding of Petrine political discourse and the use of 'self-conscious and ironic wordplay' by Peter and his courtiers. The result is a fascinating, well-written, creative new interpretation of Peter's parodies and spectacles, one that is both accessible to an undergraduate audience and essential reading for Russian history scholars. * Russian Review *The Transfigured Kingdom... is a highly original effort to decrypt the coded messages conveyed by ceremonial events at Peter's court.... Ernest Zitser takes us on an enjoyable romp through the arcane mysteries of Imperial merrymaking. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press Trading Places
Book SynopsisIn Trading Places, Madeleine Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment. She shows that until a turning point in the late 1760s questions of colonization and slavery occupied a very marginal position in literature, philosophy, and material and visual culture. In an exploration of the causes and modalities of this silence, Dobie traces the displacement of colonial questions onto two more familiarand less ethically challengingaspects of Enlightenment thought: exoticization of the Orient and fascination with indigenous Amerindian cultures. Expanding the critical analysis of the cultural imprint of colonization to encompass commodities as well as texts, Dobie considers how tropical raw materials were integrated into French material culture. In an original exploration of the textile and furniture industries Dobie considers consumer goods both as sites of representation and as vestiges of the labor of the enslaved. Turning to the closiTrade Review"Trading Places is both hugely ambitious and carried off brilliantly. Madeleine Dobie shows how the theme of slavery is displaced into an Orientalist context and explains why Atlantic slavery was unrepresentable until the 1770s, when economic theories were developed to frame it in acceptable ways. By going beyond text and image to explore the material culture of textiles and furnishings, Dobie demonstrates that cultural studies can be both historical and humane."—Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, author of Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters"Trading Places deals with an epochal cultural repression—the absence, in the early period of French colonialism, of depictions of conquest and its consequences. Madeleine Dobie reads this absence through the contradictions, displacements, denegations, and maskings that surround its seeming silence. Trading Places restores a fundamental element to French literary history, and to the history of colonialism's economic and social effects and its material culture. It helps us to understand economic, geopolitical, and racial domination in a period when such domination suppressed its own representations. This is a pathbreaking book of literary, cultural, and historical analysis."—Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsIntroduction: Trading PlacesPart I: East Meets West 1. Reorienting Slavery 2. Oriental Veneers 3. The "Fabric of Two Worlds"Part II: Savages and Slaves 4. The Trope of Colonial Encounter 5. Slaves and the Noble SavagePart III: Liberty, Equality, Economy 6. Colonial Political Economy 7. Economic SentimentsConclusion: Slavery and Postcolonial MemoryAppendix: The Colonies and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Literature Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press By Sword and Plow France and the Conquest of
Book SynopsisGenerously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern...Trade ReviewJennifer E. Sessions argues that the contested political culture of the post-revolutionary period was at the origins of French Algeria. The dualism that structures the book's title, By Sword and Plow, frames an alternative narrative of nineteenth-century French history. Sessions presents the conquest and settlement of Algeria as one of the nineteenth century’s major events, one in which issues of sovereignty, citizenship, and political power were played out. This book will be read with fascination by readers with widely different interests. * Journal of Modern History *Sessions offers up a fine and illuminating study of the early years of Algérie française and makes an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century political culture.... By Sword and Plow is an impressive, highly readable, and meticulously-researched piece of scholarship that deserves the attention of all historians of France overseas and France in the first half of the nineteenth century.... It shows French imperialism in a new and (sometimes radically) different light. -- John Strachan * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Cultural Origins of French AlgeriaPart I: By the Sword 1. A Tale of Two Despots: The Invasion of Algeria and the Revolution of 1830 2. Empire of Merit: The July Monarchy and the Algerian War 3. The Blood of Brothers: Bonapartism and the Popular Culture of ConquestPart II. By the Plow 4. The Empire of Virtue: Colonialism in the Age of Abolition 5. Selling Algeria: Speculation and the Colonial Landscape 6. Settling Algeria: Labor, Emigration, and CitizenshipConclusion: Politics and Empire in Nineteenth-Century FranceSelected Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
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Cornell University Press The Captive and the Gift Cultural Histories of
Book SynopsisBruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area.Trade ReviewThe Captive and the Gift is one of a very few recent anthropological works that explores the gift as a form of state ideology. History, where the study of gift giving is a burgeoning field, has produced a considerable body of work on gift practices in state and empire building, interstate relations, and diplomacy. The main contribution of Grant's rich and innovative research on Russian and Soviet rule in the Caucasus is to shift the scale radically and discuss how empire 'works through altruism and not just force’ and, specifically, how the taking of lives, lands, and resources was narrated as forms of imperial giving. -- Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov * Slavic Review *Grant draws on several centuries of historical writing, literature, political commentary, and film to explore both Russian claims about the implications of their 'gift of empire' as well as efforts from the peoples of the Caucasus to contest this binding generosity. He even interviews contemporary academics and cultural figures in Moscow and Baku and shares experiences from life in a small Azerbaijani village. -- Austin Jersild * Russian Review *This is an important and groundbreaking book, and it is especially necessary at this time of ongoing tension between Russia and the Caucasus. Grant squarely challenges the dangerous and persistent stereotypes of the Caucasus as 'naturally' criminal, arguing that idioms and practices of violence between Russia and the Caucasus have developed over time in a mutually constituted relationship. He also forces us to question the destructive potential of gifts of noble self-sacrifice given to unwilling subjects, wherever they occur. As an interdisciplinary and open-ended work, it invites discussion and exploration, and it will be of interest to scholars across literature and the social sciences as well as to graduate students in the Slavic fields. -- Anna C. Oldfield * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of Contents1. Promethean Beginnings2. Histories of Encounter, Raidings, and Trade3. Noble Giving, Noble Taking4. Rites of Encounter: Brides, Brigands, and Fire Bringers5. Captive Russians6. Caucasian Reflections7. From Prometheus to the PresentGlossary References Index
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Cornell University Press The Right Kind of Revolution
Book SynopsisAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present.The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing Trade ReviewThe Right Kind of Revolution opens a window on the variety of new scholarship on the issue in this excellent primer on the place of modernization in U.S. foreign relations. Writing with clarity and verve, Latham makes complicated topics accessible and diverse situations comparable. His précis of the origins of modernization theory and its rapid spread across the American social sciences is fluent and does much to explicate why the concepted seemed like an attractive solution to so many problems for policymakers and scholars alike. He makes clear that modernization was not just an activity conducted by the American state. It had considerable support from a collection of nongovernmental advocates that included universities, foundations, and missionary groups. Latham also gives room to the governments and leaders of those countries the United States sought to modernize, reminding readers of their agency. Latham has captured and synthesized the fresh and exciting scholarship on this rich issue while adding to it in a manner accessible to students and stimulating for scholars. -- David Ekbladh * American Historical Review *Michael E. Latham has provided a very interesting and useful synthesis of the rise and decline (and eventual reappearance) of modernization theory in the United States, exploring both its intellectual roots and its deep connections to the country's foreign policy. -- Michele Alacevich * Technology and Culture *Michael Latham's The Right Kind of Revolution will for the foreseeable future be the textbook synthesis on the impact of ideas of modernization on American foreign affairs during the twentieth century.... It toggles artfully between discussions of U.S. foreign policy in the Global South, how ideas of modernization were used both to understand and to guide those policies, and how these policies and ideas were received by political elites in target countries. -- Nils Gilman * H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews *Since the end of the Cold War there has been an enormous increase in scholarship by historians of U.S. foreign relations on American efforts to 'modernize' or develop the poorest areas of the world after World War II. Michael E. Latham has been at the forefront of this research.... This is an exceptionally well-written synthesis that will become a staple in college and graduate classrooms for years to come.... Latham has provided an excellent book on an important topic. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Setting the Foundations: Imperial Ideals, Global War, and Decolonization 2. Take-Off: Modernization and Cold War America 3. Nationalist Encounters: Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana 4. Technocratic Faith: From Birth Control to the Green Revolution 5. Counterinsurgency and Repression: Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran 6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn 7. The Ghosts of Modernization: From Cold War Victory to Afghanistan and IraqBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Myths of Empire
Book SynopsisOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.He tests three competing theoriesrealism, misperception, and domestic coalition politicsagainst five detailed case studies: early twentieth-century Germany, Japan in the interwar period, Great Britain in the Victorian era, the Soviet Union after World War II, and the United States during the Cold War. The resulting insights run counter to much that has been written about these apparently familiar instances of empire building.Trade ReviewMyths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict. * American Political Science Review *In support of his case, Snyder draws upon recent research into the determinant of foreign policy of the leading powers since the mid-19th century.... Historians and still more international relations specialists will find much of interest in this analysis. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of Contents1. The Myth of Security through Expansion2. Three Theories of Overexpansion3. Germany and the Pattern of Late Development4. Japan's Bid for Autarky5. Social Imperialism in Victorian Britain6. Soviet Politics and Strategic Learning7. America’s Cold War Consensus8. Overexpansion: Origins and AntidotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing and the particular world it belonged to. Focusing on the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and their relationship with British colonialism, Hawkins describes colonialism as an encounter between a world of experience – a world of knowledge, practice, and speech – and 'the world on paper' – a world of writing, rules, and a linear concept of history. The various ways in which 'the world on paper' affected the LoDagaa are examined thematically. The first four chapters explore how writing imposed a form of historical consciousness on different aspects of LoDagaa culture – identity, politics, and religion – that was alien to them. The second half of t
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University of Toronto Press Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island
Book SynopsisWho has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants? This question of property rights, and their construction, was at the heart of rural protest on Prince Edward Island for a century. Tenants resisted landlord claims by squatting and refusing to pay rent. They fought for their vision of a just rural order through petitions, meetings, rallies, electoral campaigns, and direct action. Landlords responded with their own collective action to protect their interests. In Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s.The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic Worl
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University of Nebraska Press Soldiers of the Nation
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of Puerto Rican society as the island transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule. Trade Review“One of this book’s greatest merits is that it eludes the identitarian Manicheism that has weakened much of Puerto Rican historiography since the U.S. invasion in 1898 and whose interpretive key is the confrontation between master and subject. Instead, the author travels through the quicksand—misunderstood or discarded by certain patriotic morals—of 'colonial collaborations,' contact zones between the inside of what is indigenous and the foreign yet indispensable outside of the empire.”—Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, Reviews in American History"Soldiers of the Nation offers an important new history of Puerto Rico and its relationship with the United States."—Robert C. McGreevey, Journal of American History"Soldiers of the Nation is a well-written, tightly argued work of social history that constitutes a valuable contribution. The book should be required reading not only for students of Puerto Rican and American military history, but also for scholars in related fields such as colonialism and decolonization, diplomatic history, and the interrelationship between the military and society. It is a worthy addition to the University of Nebraska’s Studies in War, Society, and the Military publications."—Prisco Hernández-Ríos, Journal of Military History“Sheds light on the relationship between militarism and society and the attempt to culminate the political status of Puerto Rico after the approval of the Constitution of the Commonwealth.”—Carlos I. Hernández, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies“A clear-eyed scholarly analysis of the complex entanglements binding Puerto Ricans and Latinas/os with militaries and militarism. . . . Both provocative and refreshing. . . . [This book offers us] a roadmap for understanding how we have arrived at this place of continued reliance on the military as a vehicle for social mobility and social standing that is increasingly hard to achieve. It is also an invitation to reflect on the limits and costs of this kind of inclusion.”—Gina Pérez, Latino Studies"This study has much to recommend it. Franqui’s archival research is exemplary, as evidenced by the wealth of materials gleaned from rarely cited collections on the island and mainland. Above all, he is successful in demonstrating the extent to which military service shaped modern Puerto Rico. Soldiers of the Nation should be of interest to scholars of the island, and colonial military service more broadly."—Micah W. Wright, H-War“Soldiers of the Nation offers new and refreshing perspectives on the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States, presenting a strong case for military service as a pathway toward both establishing Puerto Rican civic identity and as part of a broader process of Americanizing the population. In the process, Harry Franqui-Rivera establishes a new standard for examining civil-military relations. . . . Soldiers of the Nation is the next stage in better understanding the American military as an agent of social transformation and its immediate and close relationship to the Puerto Rican people—an immediate classic.”—Bobby Wintermute, co-host of New Books in Military History and author of Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818–1917"Franqui-Rivera . . . has written the most useful military history of Puerto Rico in English, while discussing the importance of military service to the evolution of a Puerto Rican national identity. . . . A good read for anyone interested in the history of modern Puerto Rico, American colonial policy, or national military policy."—A. A. Nofi, Strategy Page"A superb text, solidly researched, and painstakingly argued. . . . [Franqui-Rivera] has shown that it is possible to write a history of the paradoxical effects of the military and modernity projects without negating, or being apologetic of, the imperial rule of the United States over Puerto Rico. Scholars in Latin American and Caribbean history/studies, geographies with difficult and tense entanglements with the United States and its military apparatuses, would benefit greatly from his book."—Antonio Hernández-Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies“Soldiers of the Nation is the first book to make a coherent case for the significance of military bodies in the formation of Puerto Rico’s colonial history. The book’s real contribution is to show how, with every war and military mobilization, the United States and Puerto Rico wove a complex web of connections, agreements, and participatory hierarchies. Franqui-Rivera helps us understand how the class contradictions that Puerto Rican men in the military brought to anticolonial politics helped seal Puerto Rico’s fate in the mid-twentieth century.”—Aldo Lauria-Santiago, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Birth of a Nation: A Labor of Thirty Years, 1868–1898 2. Puerto Rican a la Americana: A Hearts and Minds Campaign, 1898–1914 3. A New Day Has Dawned: World War I and Mobilization of the Peasant 4. War against the Yankees! Prelude to the Battle over Modern Puerto Rico 5. Education, Industrialization, and Decolonization: The Battlefields of World War II 6. Fighting for the “Nation”? War at Home and Abroad Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Paradise Destroyed Catastrophe and Citizenship
Book SynopsisExplores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest.Trade Review"Church’s study is a nuanced and rich addition to a growing body of work that demonstrates the relationship between nature- and human-induced disasters set against the backdrop of government management."—Caroline Grego, Environmental History"Christopher M. Church shows us that disasters do indeed reveal some significant facts about the risks and stresses of life in the French colonial Caribbean. . . . Church's book is well-researched, highly detailed, and tightly argued using a wide range of primary sources, including some illuminating statistical data. It introduces new insight into the story of the French Caribbean by shifting the focus towards the human/nature interaction while also showing how environmental concerns were deeply intertwined with political economy, race, and colonial/metropolitan relationships. . . . The book makes a significant historiographical intervention at the intersection of French colonial studies and environmental studies and should become a model for future work in this area."—Jeffrey H. Jackson, H-France Review"This well-researched book moves beyond being simply an analysis of the issues surrounding race, citizenship, and colonialism by incorporating the theoretical and methodological models of disaster studies. . . . Scholars interested in historical disasters will find this work useful for its comparative utility, especially if viewed alongside studies about the effects of disaster and colonialism in other parts of the world."—Sherry Johnson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean, constitutes a valuable addition to considerations on the history of disasters, both natural and man-made, in the French Antilles during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Thanks to Church's original, insightful, and well-argued new work, researchers can now consider France's old colonies in the Caribbean, with their environmental disasters, civil discord, and political intrigue, as influencing factors in historical and ideological developments within the metropole. With its Francophone focus, this new work situates itself as an innovative contribution to the burgeoning field of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, which has, heretofore, concentrated primarily on an Anglophone context. . . . Church keeps his content clear and coherent, making it accessible to scholars in a broad range of fields, including Caribbean History, Environmental Studies, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and Political Science."—Shanaaz Mohammed, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"Church demonstrates that, from 1870 to 1902, the Third Republic's responses to cataclysmic natural calamities,man-made catastrophes, and subsequent civil unrests led to the reshaping of its political and economic relationship with these islands that were already on the brink of economic disaster due to a failing sugar industry."—Séverine Bates, French Review“With a timely focus on environmental disaster and its political ramifications, Christopher Church has given us a highly original and multidisciplinary view of an understudied period in Caribbean history.”—David Geggus, professor of history at the University of Florida and editor and translator of The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History “Christopher M. Church offers compelling short narratives of the various disasters that struck the colonies, and his analysis of the politics of relief is sophisticated and informative. . . . It is a book that will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, including French imperial studies and Caribbean history. It is also a welcome and significant contribution to the history of disasters.”—Matthew Mulcahy, professor of history at Loyola University at Maryland and author of Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean “Christopher Church offers a richly researched, well-told, and insightful account of the political, economic, and social impact of natural disaster in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French Antilles, profoundly deepening our understanding of these societies.”—Laurent Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History “Trouble in paradise! In this engaging, innovative, and well-researched study, Christopher Church uses the history of disasters to explore interactions between environmental, colonial, and political history in the French West Indies. . . . Paradise Destroyed adds an important new dimension to the history of modern empire, showing how France’s ‘colonies of citizens’ could be both exotic and familiar, colonial and French at the same time.”—Tyler Stovall, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal NationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration 1. French Race, Tropical Space: The French Caribbean during the Third Republic 2. The Language of Citizenship: Compatriotism and the Great Antillean Fires of 1890 3. The Calculus of Disaster: Sugar and the Hurricane of 18 August 1891 4. The Political Summation: Incendiarism, Civil Unrest, and Legislative Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century 5. Marianne Decapitated: The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelée Epilogue: National Identity and Integration after the First World War Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India
Book SynopsisThe neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer''s residents rioted while Jaipur''s citizens stayed calm. What explains these divergent patterns of ethnic conflict across multiethnic states? Using archival research and elite interviews in five case studies spanning north, south, and east India, as well as a quantitative analysis of 589 districts, Ajay Verghese shows that the legacies of British colonialism drive contemporary conflict.Because India served as a model for British colonial expansion into parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, this project links Indian ethnic conflict to violent outcomes across an array of multiethnic states, including cases as diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia. The Colonial OriTrade Review"This is a truly excellent and original book, deeply researched, carefully argued, and offering a powerful new understanding of caste and religious cleavages and violence in India. Unlike most previous studies, Verghese combines religious and caste violence within a single framework. A model book for comparative historical research in political science." -- David D. Laitin, Watkins Professor of Political Science * Stanford University *"This outstanding book is a model of both theory generation and theory testing. Verghese offers fresh hypotheses about the sources of different types of ethnic violence across India, which he rigorously evaluates using a sophisticated comparative case study design that is supplemented by a meaningful statistical test. A major contribution to our understanding of colonialism and ethnic violence." -- James Mahoney * Northwestern University *"In this clearly written and closely argued work, Verghese proposes that religious or communal violence is associated with the former princely states, while tribal and caste violence is associated with British colonial rule. This important book challenges prevailing ideas about ethnic violence, and will further research on India and other formerly British colonial states." -- Karen Leonard * UC Irvine *"In this bold and innovative analysis, Verghese argues that the seemingly endemic problem of ethno-religious violence in India is fundamentally shaped by the different historical traditions of governance and sovereignty in different parts of the country. The breadth and historical depth of data and context makes this a compelling contribution to the literature." -- Thomas Blom Hansen, Center for South Asia * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter lays out the puzzle driving this book: why does ethnic violence in multi-ethnic states revolve around one identity rather than another? The origins of patterns of ethnic conflict in India, one of the most diverse countries in the world, lie in the era of British colonialism. Three-fourths of India's population was governed by colonial officials, but the remainder lived under largely autonomous native 'princes'. These two sets of rulers had different ways of thinking about ethnicity, stratifying ethnic groups, and their disparate policies led to different fault lines of conflict. Former British provinces experience more caste and tribal violence in contemporary India, but former princely states experience more religious conflict. This chapter details the book's multi-method research design, and concludes by discussing how this project contributes to important social science debates on Hindu-Muslim riots, ethnic salience, and the impact of colonialism on ethnic violence. 1Colonialism, Institutions, and Ethnic Violence in India chapter abstractThis chapter offers a new interpretation of British Indian history and its effect on modern ethnic conflict. It begins with a discussion of pre-colonial India, where religious conflict occurred extensively but caste and tribal violence was less prevalent. British influence began in the 17th century and increased until the Rebellion of 1857, a revolt that left a quarter of the population under the control of native princes. British administrators promoted caste as the central organizing principle of their territories, but princes continued to emphasize religion. These rulers then instituted different policies of ethnic stratification: the British favored high castes, discriminated against low castes and tribals, but protected religious minorities. Princes did the opposite: they favored coreligionists, discriminated against non-coreligionists, but protected low castes and adivasis. Colonial patterns of violence were reinforced in post-independence India through formal and informal institutions, as well as the failure of reform efforts. 2Violence in North India: Jaipur and Ajmer chapter abstractThis chapter examines ethnic conflict in a controlled historical comparison of Jaipur and Ajmer districts in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. These two areas are similar except for their colonial history: Jaipur was ruled by a Hindu dynasty whereas Ajmer came under British control. Drawing on primary source research from a variety of archives, this chapter begins by showing that the Hindu rajas of Jaipur discriminated against Muslims, creating a long legacy of religious violence, but protected low castes and adivasis, stunting the development of caste and tribal conflict. In Ajmer, on the other hand, discriminatory British policies against low castes and tribals generated conflict in the countryside, but protective policies for religious minorities prevented Hindu-Muslim discord. Utilizing elite interviews and a variety of data sources on local conflict, this chapter then shows that this pattern of violence became embedded in formal and informal institutions in modern Rajasthan. 3Violence in South India: Malabar and Travancore chapter abstractThis chapter examines ethnic conflict in a controlled historical comparison from the south Indian state of Kerala. The northern region of Malabar, which came under British rule, is compared with the southern princely kingdom of Travancore. This comparison has strong analytical leverage because there is evidence that the British wanted to conquer all of Kerala, but – for various historical reasons – they were unable to annex the south. Although Kerala is not an extremely violent state, this chapter highlights that even in this largely tranquil territory there is a pattern of ethnic discord that stems from the colonial era. British rule in Malabar created a long history of caste antagonism, but princely rule in Travancore generated communal conflict among the state's Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Kerala is also a noteworthy case because post-colonial reforms here, unlike elsewhere in India, successfully reduced the total amount of ethnic violence in the state. 4Explaining Violence in East India: Bastar chapter abstractThis chapter examines the largest deviant case for the theory of ethnic violence proposed in this book: the tiny Hindu kingdom of Bastar, located in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh. Since the mid-19th century, this remote princely state has been the bloodiest battleground for tribal violence in India. Drawing on a variety of archival sources, this chapter shows that tribal rebellions began in Bastar precisely because the British interfered repeatedly in the politics of the kingdom, a level of intervention that was unique compared to other princely states in India. After independence, the post-colonial government continued most of the same British policies that had initially sparked tribal rebellion. This led to the extraordinary growth of the adivasi-led Naxalite movement in the region. This chapter therefore confirms one of the major arguments of this book: wherever the British ruled, tribal revolts subsequently followed. 5Patterns of Ethnic Violence Across Contemporary India chapter abstractThis chapter builds on the qualitative research from Chapters 2-4 by presenting the results of a quantitative study of colonialism and ethnic violence across 589 contemporary Indian districts. This large-n analysis draws on new sources of data on ethnic conflict in India, as well as information aggregated from various British government reports, the census, and private statistical firms. This study shows that former British districts experience significantly more caste and tribal violence in contemporary India, but former princely districts experience significantly more religious conflict. These results confirm that the patterns of ethnic violence evident at the case study level are also visible across the entire country. These results are significant even when controlling for a number of alternative explanations of violence that focus on poverty, geography, and demographic factors. They are also sensitive to robustness checks for endogeneity concerns: a propensity score matching design and an instrumental variable analysis. 6The Indian Model of Colonialism chapter abstractThis chapter uses colonialism in India as a foundation for examining patterns of ethnic conflict in three other British post-colonial states: Myanmar, Malaysia, and Nigeria. While the Rebellion of 1857 upended British plans to control the entire subcontinent, colonial officials over time came to realize the value of combining direct and indirect rule in a colony, most of all because it prevented further uprisings. Administrators began extoling the virtues of this 'Indian model' of colonialism. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the British exported this model to other territories across the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. In Burma, Malaya, and Nigeria, British officials shared power with the sawbwa, sultans, and emirs. Through analyzing these cases, this chapter shows that the exporting of the Indian model led to discernible patterns of ethnic conflict abroad, patterns that are still evident in the contemporary politics of these three countries. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter offers a complete summary of the book, its relevance for several academic debates within the social sciences, and some social policy implications. It first recaps the book's central argument, and then details the extensive archival and interview evidence marshalled in support of this theory in Chapters 2-4. Former British provinces like Ajmer and Malabar primarily experience caste and tribal violence today, but former princely states like Jaipur and Travancore tend to experience religious conflict. The statistical analysis in Chapter 5 showed that these patterns of violence are evident across 589 contemporary Indian districts, and the comparative analysis in Chapter 6 highlighted that India served as a model for the colonization of other states in Asia and Africa. This chapter concludes by detailing the contributions this project makes to several academic debates – above all, this book emphasizes the key role of historical legacies in driving modern ethnic violence.
£81.90
Stanford University Press The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India
Book SynopsisThe neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer''s residents rioted while Jaipur''s citizens stayed calm. What explains these divergent patterns of ethnic conflict across multiethnic states? Using archival research and elite interviews in five case studies spanning north, south, and east India, as well as a quantitative analysis of 589 districts, Ajay Verghese shows that the legacies of British colonialism drive contemporary conflict.Because India served as a model for British colonial expansion into parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, this project links Indian ethnic conflict to violent outcomes across an array of multiethnic states, including cases as diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia. The Colonial OriTrade Review"This is a truly excellent and original book, deeply researched, carefully argued, and offering a powerful new understanding of caste and religious cleavages and violence in India. Unlike most previous studies, Verghese combines religious and caste violence within a single framework. A model book for comparative historical research in political science." -- David D. Laitin, Watkins Professor of Political Science * Stanford University *"This outstanding book is a model of both theory generation and theory testing. Verghese offers fresh hypotheses about the sources of different types of ethnic violence across India, which he rigorously evaluates using a sophisticated comparative case study design that is supplemented by a meaningful statistical test. A major contribution to our understanding of colonialism and ethnic violence." -- James Mahoney * Northwestern University *"In this clearly written and closely argued work, Verghese proposes that religious or communal violence is associated with the former princely states, while tribal and caste violence is associated with British colonial rule. This important book challenges prevailing ideas about ethnic violence, and will further research on India and other formerly British colonial states." -- Karen Leonard * UC Irvine *"In this bold and innovative analysis, Verghese argues that the seemingly endemic problem of ethno-religious violence in India is fundamentally shaped by the different historical traditions of governance and sovereignty in different parts of the country. The breadth and historical depth of data and context makes this a compelling contribution to the literature." -- Thomas Blom Hansen, Center for South Asia * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter lays out the puzzle driving this book: why does ethnic violence in multi-ethnic states revolve around one identity rather than another? The origins of patterns of ethnic conflict in India, one of the most diverse countries in the world, lie in the era of British colonialism. Three-fourths of India's population was governed by colonial officials, but the remainder lived under largely autonomous native 'princes'. These two sets of rulers had different ways of thinking about ethnicity, stratifying ethnic groups, and their disparate policies led to different fault lines of conflict. Former British provinces experience more caste and tribal violence in contemporary India, but former princely states experience more religious conflict. This chapter details the book's multi-method research design, and concludes by discussing how this project contributes to important social science debates on Hindu-Muslim riots, ethnic salience, and the impact of colonialism on ethnic violence. 1Colonialism, Institutions, and Ethnic Violence in India chapter abstractThis chapter offers a new interpretation of British Indian history and its effect on modern ethnic conflict. It begins with a discussion of pre-colonial India, where religious conflict occurred extensively but caste and tribal violence was less prevalent. British influence began in the 17th century and increased until the Rebellion of 1857, a revolt that left a quarter of the population under the control of native princes. British administrators promoted caste as the central organizing principle of their territories, but princes continued to emphasize religion. These rulers then instituted different policies of ethnic stratification: the British favored high castes, discriminated against low castes and tribals, but protected religious minorities. Princes did the opposite: they favored coreligionists, discriminated against non-coreligionists, but protected low castes and adivasis. Colonial patterns of violence were reinforced in post-independence India through formal and informal institutions, as well as the failure of reform efforts. 2Violence in North India: Jaipur and Ajmer chapter abstractThis chapter examines ethnic conflict in a controlled historical comparison of Jaipur and Ajmer districts in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. These two areas are similar except for their colonial history: Jaipur was ruled by a Hindu dynasty whereas Ajmer came under British control. Drawing on primary source research from a variety of archives, this chapter begins by showing that the Hindu rajas of Jaipur discriminated against Muslims, creating a long legacy of religious violence, but protected low castes and adivasis, stunting the development of caste and tribal conflict. In Ajmer, on the other hand, discriminatory British policies against low castes and tribals generated conflict in the countryside, but protective policies for religious minorities prevented Hindu-Muslim discord. Utilizing elite interviews and a variety of data sources on local conflict, this chapter then shows that this pattern of violence became embedded in formal and informal institutions in modern Rajasthan. 3Violence in South India: Malabar and Travancore chapter abstractThis chapter examines ethnic conflict in a controlled historical comparison from the south Indian state of Kerala. The northern region of Malabar, which came under British rule, is compared with the southern princely kingdom of Travancore. This comparison has strong analytical leverage because there is evidence that the British wanted to conquer all of Kerala, but – for various historical reasons – they were unable to annex the south. Although Kerala is not an extremely violent state, this chapter highlights that even in this largely tranquil territory there is a pattern of ethnic discord that stems from the colonial era. British rule in Malabar created a long history of caste antagonism, but princely rule in Travancore generated communal conflict among the state's Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Kerala is also a noteworthy case because post-colonial reforms here, unlike elsewhere in India, successfully reduced the total amount of ethnic violence in the state. 4Explaining Violence in East India: Bastar chapter abstractThis chapter examines the largest deviant case for the theory of ethnic violence proposed in this book: the tiny Hindu kingdom of Bastar, located in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh. Since the mid-19th century, this remote princely state has been the bloodiest battleground for tribal violence in India. Drawing on a variety of archival sources, this chapter shows that tribal rebellions began in Bastar precisely because the British interfered repeatedly in the politics of the kingdom, a level of intervention that was unique compared to other princely states in India. After independence, the post-colonial government continued most of the same British policies that had initially sparked tribal rebellion. This led to the extraordinary growth of the adivasi-led Naxalite movement in the region. This chapter therefore confirms one of the major arguments of this book: wherever the British ruled, tribal revolts subsequently followed. 5Patterns of Ethnic Violence Across Contemporary India chapter abstractThis chapter builds on the qualitative research from Chapters 2-4 by presenting the results of a quantitative study of colonialism and ethnic violence across 589 contemporary Indian districts. This large-n analysis draws on new sources of data on ethnic conflict in India, as well as information aggregated from various British government reports, the census, and private statistical firms. This study shows that former British districts experience significantly more caste and tribal violence in contemporary India, but former princely districts experience significantly more religious conflict. These results confirm that the patterns of ethnic violence evident at the case study level are also visible across the entire country. These results are significant even when controlling for a number of alternative explanations of violence that focus on poverty, geography, and demographic factors. They are also sensitive to robustness checks for endogeneity concerns: a propensity score matching design and an instrumental variable analysis. 6The Indian Model of Colonialism chapter abstractThis chapter uses colonialism in India as a foundation for examining patterns of ethnic conflict in three other British post-colonial states: Myanmar, Malaysia, and Nigeria. While the Rebellion of 1857 upended British plans to control the entire subcontinent, colonial officials over time came to realize the value of combining direct and indirect rule in a colony, most of all because it prevented further uprisings. Administrators began extoling the virtues of this 'Indian model' of colonialism. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the British exported this model to other territories across the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. In Burma, Malaya, and Nigeria, British officials shared power with the sawbwa, sultans, and emirs. Through analyzing these cases, this chapter shows that the exporting of the Indian model led to discernible patterns of ethnic conflict abroad, patterns that are still evident in the contemporary politics of these three countries. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter offers a complete summary of the book, its relevance for several academic debates within the social sciences, and some social policy implications. It first recaps the book's central argument, and then details the extensive archival and interview evidence marshalled in support of this theory in Chapters 2-4. Former British provinces like Ajmer and Malabar primarily experience caste and tribal violence today, but former princely states like Jaipur and Travancore tend to experience religious conflict. The statistical analysis in Chapter 5 showed that these patterns of violence are evident across 589 contemporary Indian districts, and the comparative analysis in Chapter 6 highlighted that India served as a model for the colonization of other states in Asia and Africa. This chapter concludes by detailing the contributions this project makes to several academic debates – above all, this book emphasizes the key role of historical legacies in driving modern ethnic violence.
£19.79
John Wiley & Sons Strange Lands and Different Peoples
Book SynopsisGuatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these ‘rich and strange lands’, as Hernán Cortés called them, and their ‘many different peoples’ was brutal and prolonged. This book examines the ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it.Trade ReviewDrawn from several decades of research in both Maya and Spanish sources, Strange Lands and Different Peoples brings us a sensitive and beautifully written account of the Spanish conquest and colonization of Guatemala and its indigenous people. The authors do a splendid job of explaining not only the conquest period but also the survival of Maya people and their culture."" - Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., author of A Short History of Guatemala and Central America: A Nation Divided
£19.76
Louisiana State University Press Africans In Colonial Louisiana The Development of
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region.
£19.90
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Colonial Ste. Genevieve An Adventure on the
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£27.71
University of Pennsylvania Press The Settlers Empire
Book SynopsisThe 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers'' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial differencTrade Review"From its inception, the United States has been both a settler republic and a continental empire, and this intriguing combination provides the departure point of Bethel Saler's ambitious, careful, and nuanced book. The Settlers' Empire moves seamlessly between culture and politics to reveal a complicated world of Anglo American settlers, Indian peoples, French habitants, and Christian missionaries." * Richard White, Stanford University *"The Settlers' Empire richly reveals the development of the United States through westward settlement and the formation of new territories. Best of all, Bethel Saler nicely illuminates the complex conflicts of a multicultural world uneasily absorbed by the expanding United States." * Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 *"Bethel Saler's authoritative study of the origins of Wisconsin is an important contribution to the history of state-building. Informed by work on postcolonialism and the informal structures of empire, Saler expertly narrates a contingent, contested, and multidimensional story of possession that is as much about family, race, religion, and commerce as it is about warfare and politics." * Andrew Cayton, Miami University *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Intimate Bonds
Book SynopsisFollowing the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender.Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Trade Review"Intimate Bonds illuminates how slaves and free people of color challenged the hardening racial and social hierarchies of the eighteenth century. . . . The well-crafted blend of deep archival research and insightful prose makes Intimate Bonds a terrific addition to seminars on race, colonialism, and gender, as well as the Atlantic World, early America, early Latin America, and France." * Journal of Social History *"A striking and original study that will engage both scholars and students in its vivid exploration of families and people in eighteenth-century Atlantic France. Extensive and detailed archival research undergirds each narrative gem. The prose is simple and lively, hiding the author's hard work of empirically verifying familial and historical connections." * Sue Peabody, Washington State University *"Intimate Bonds is a deeply-researched book that offers an important intervention in the fields of early modern French and French Atlantic history. Analyzing a broader range of actors than previous historians, Jennifer L. Palmer sheds important new light on the contested, constructed, and shifting meanings of 'race' in the French Atlantic world." * Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon *
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press The Bishops Utopia
Book SynopsisIn December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón stood surrounded by twenty-four large wooden crates, each numbered and marked with its final destination of Madrid. The crates contained carefully preserved zoological, botanical, and mineral specimens collected from Trujillo''s steamy rainforests, agricultural valleys, rocky sierra, and coastal desert. To accompany this collection, the Bishop had also commissioned from Indian artisans nine volumes of hand-painted images portraying the people, plants, and animals of Trujillo. He imagined that the collection and the watercolors not only would contribute to his quest to study the native cultures of Northern Peru but also would supply valuable information for his plans to transform Trujillo into an orderly, profitable slice of the Spanish Empire.Based on intensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Colombia and the unique visual dTrade Review"Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-breaking study of the monumental work of Bishop Martínez Compañón, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history. This is cultural, intellectual, and art historical writing at the very highest level." * Gary Urton, Harvard University *"A deeply researched, beautifully written account of a fascinating man. Bishop Martínez Compañón was a brilliant iconoclast who saw the need for change and did everything he possibly could to promote it. Emily Berquist Soule's impressive archival work and fine pen brought him to life." * Charles Walker, University of California, Davis *"A superb study of a neglected figure of the Spanish-American Catholic Enlightenment whose capacious mind and broad cultural, political, and social reforming agenda here expertly come alive. Berquist Soule casts her net widely, utilizing documentation from over a dozen archives, to reconstruct the bishop's agenda and struggles. Her work marvelously reminds readers that his utopia was disciplined by reality: competing and conflicting agendas of the locals taught the eager bishop the limits of his vision." * Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Utopias in the New World Chapter 1. The Books of a Bishop Chapter 2. Parish Priests and Useful Information Chapter 3. Imagining Towns in Trujillo Chapter 4. Improvement Through Education Chapter 5. The Hualgayoc Silver Mine Chapter 6. Local Botany: The Products of Utopia Chapter 7. The Legacy of Martínez Compañón Conclusion. Martínez Compañón's Native Utopia Afterword Sources and Methods Appendix 1. Ecclesiastical Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party's Arrival Appendix 2. Natural History Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party's Arrival Notes Archives and Special Collections Consulted Index Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Intimate Bonds
Book SynopsisFollowing the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender.Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Trade Review"Intimate Bonds illuminates how slaves and free people of color challenged the hardening racial and social hierarchies of the eighteenth century. . . . The well-crafted blend of deep archival research and insightful prose makes Intimate Bonds a terrific addition to seminars on race, colonialism, and gender, as well as the Atlantic World, early America, early Latin America, and France." * Journal of Social History *"A striking and original study that will engage both scholars and students in its vivid exploration of families and people in eighteenth-century Atlantic France. Extensive and detailed archival research undergirds each narrative gem. The prose is simple and lively, hiding the author's hard work of empirically verifying familial and historical connections." * Sue Peabody, Washington State University *"Intimate Bonds is a deeply-researched book that offers an important intervention in the fields of early modern French and French Atlantic history. Analyzing a broader range of actors than previous historians, Jennifer L. Palmer sheds important new light on the contested, constructed, and shifting meanings of 'race' in the French Atlantic world." * Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon *
£70.55
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida War on the Gulf Coast
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books about the Spanish period in West Florida (1797-1805) written from the Spanish point of view. Using Spanish archival sources, Gilbert Din is able to shed new light on the machinations of William Augustus Bowles, an adventurer who sought to introduce goods, subvert the Creek Indians, and deprive the Spaniards of territory.Trade Review“Using a plethora of previously unexamined documents from a number of archives, this work provides the first clear understanding of William Augustus Bowles and his exploits along the Spanish Gulf Coast and among the Creek Indians, demonstrating unequivocally that the glory-seeking adventurer was not the tragic heroic figure that he and previous historians have claimed.” — F. Todd Smith, University of North Texas
£49.30
