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Book SynopsisIn Volume 3 of Penang Chronicles, as the 18th century draws to a close, Penang must fortify and prepare for war, and Francis Light's partner, Martinha Rozells, learns to negotiate the murky waters of colonial prejudice and corruption for the sake of her family.
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Monsoon Books Charlot
Book SynopsisCharlie Chaplin is on vacation in Asia in 1936 when Cambodians are challenging colonial exploitation. Chaplin must choose: lend his celebrity status to the anti-colonial cause or stay silent. Fictionalised around real events, this is a story about how an embittered Chaplin abandons his silent Tramp in order to find his own voice.
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Monsoon Books Legacy
Book SynopsisVolume IV in the Penang Chronicles continues the story of Penang founder Francis Light's family, including his son William Light who went on to. establish the city of Adelaide in Australia.
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Lived Places Publishing Feminist Scholars Experiences in Decolonising the Academy
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Chiselbury Publishing The Red Fort
Book SynopsisA year after the Crimean War ended, an uprising broke out in India which was to have equal impact on the balance of world power and the British Empire's role in world affairs.
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Bangsa and Umma: Development of People-Grouping
Book SynopsisHaving experienced a large-scale reorganisation of social order over the past decade, people of the Malay world have struggled to position themselves. They have been classified - and have classified themselves - with categories as bangsa (nation/ethnic group) and umma (Islamic network).In connection with these key concepts, this study explores a variety of dimensions of these and other 'people-grouping' classifications, which also include Malayu, Jawi, and Paranakan. This book examines how these categories played a significant part in the colonial and post-colonial periods in areas ranging from Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It demonstrates the extent to which shifting social conditions interact with the contours of group identity. This is a collaborative work by scholars based in the US, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia.
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Monash University Publishing Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice
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George F. Thompson Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on
Book SynopsisOccupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land is an art book that engages with history. Featuring photographs of dwellings and vernacular structures found in rural Massachusetts, the book is a meditation on the human occupation of land, with an emphasis on the long presence of Indigenous people and the waves of settlement by people from other countries that began during the early 1600s and continues today.Utilizing a muted color palette, Matthews's photographs of both structures and historical markers are subtle and haunting. They suggest the presence of histories, embedded in the landscape but often invisible. Although the book is focused on Massachusetts, it implicitly raises larger issues of settlement and nationhood. How did the United States of America come to occupy its land? How is this story told? As a longtime occupant/occupier of Massachusetts herself, Matthews aims to understand more deeply the land on which she lives.The main text of the book comes from photographs of historic markers, which were installed around the state at different times by different interest groups. The words on these markers describe early relations between Indigenous people and largely English settlers, from diverse points of view. In this way, the book explores how difficult histories are written and how they change over time. Concluding essays by Indigenous activist David Brule and poet Suzanne Gardinier provide important perspectives as well, connecting the past and future. Occupying Massachusetts is a moving story whose message will be appreciated for years to come.Trade ReviewAnother entry in the lengthening line up of publisher George F. Thompson's output, which spans decades and includes some of the best books about places out there. * The Lay of the Land Newsletter *[A]n eloquent album of images of ordinary structures and historical sites around the state—accompanied by information about the human history associated with each before the Pilgrims… All the more powerful for the modesty of the presentation. * Harvard Magazine 04/01/2023 *Your book is marvellous – great pictures and moving and poignant in concept. It provides much to think about, and I hope that many people will see and learn from it. * Keith F. Davis, author of The Origins of American Photography; former senior curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art *…a meditation on how histories are written, and how they can change over time. [Matthews] photographs a wide range of structures — crumbling old houses, woodpiles, sheds, gravestones and stone walls — as a means of looking at how Native peoples who first lived on these lands were pushed aside by white colonists. * Daily Hampshire Gazette 16/11/2022 *
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Dauphin Publications The Anglo-American Establishment - Original Edition
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Common Notions Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World
Book SynopsisMaking Abolitionist Worlds gathers key insights and interventions from today’s international abolitionist movement to pose the question: what does an abolitionist world look like? The Abolition Collective investigates the core challenges to social justice and the liberatory potential of social movements today from a range of personal, political, and analytical points of view, underscoring the urgency of an abolitionist politics that places prisons at the center of its critique and actions. In addition to centering and amplifying the continual struggles of incarcerated people who are actively working to transform prisons from the inside, Making Abolitionist Worlds animates the idea of abolitionist democracy and demands a radical re-imagining of the meaning and practice of democracy. The Abolition Collective brings us to an Israeli prison for a Palestinian feminist reflection on incarceration within settler colonialism; to protest movements in Hong Kong and elsewhere, that use “abolition democracy” to advocate for the abolition of the police; to the growing culture of “aggrieved whiteness” in the United States, which trucks in fear, anger, victimhood, and a demand for vengeance to maintain white supremacy; to the punitive landscapes that extend from the incarceration of political prisoners to the mass deportations and detentions along the U.S. southern border. Making Abolitionist Worlds shows us that the paths forged today for a world in formation are rooted in antiracism, decolonization, anticapitalism, abolitionist feminism, and queer liberation.Trade Review"This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative works of art is immensely important to the practice of committed scholars, activists, and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates, and mobilizes here." —Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. “The Abolition Collective offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze, and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.’”—James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our TimeTable of ContentsIntroductionManifesto of the Abolition JournalDis-Organizing Prisons and Building Together, Inside/Outside—Stevie WilsonIt Has to Burn Before It Can Grow: An Interview with Amanda Priebe—Brooke LoberBurn It Down: Abolition, Insurgent Political Praxis, and the Destruction of Decency—Katherine, Kelly, and AbrahamAlready Something More: Heteropatriarchy and the Limitations of Rights, Inclusion, and the Universal—J SebastianDemocracy Against Representation: A Radical Realist View—Paul RaekstadA Family Like Mine—Shana L. RedmondAbuse Thrives on Silence: The #VaughnRebellion in Context—Kim WilsonFrom the Vaughn Uprising: “For a Safer, More Secure, and More Humane Prison.” On Behalf of the Prisoners at James T. Vaughn Correctional CenterAggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation—Mike KingAbolitionist Democracy: Fear, Loathing, and Violence in the 2016 Campaign—Joy JamesThe Pitfalls of White Liberal Panic—Dylan RodríguezAs the US Oligarchy Expands Its War, Middle Class White People Must Take a Side—Robert NicholsNotes on Photography, Power, and Insurgent Looks—Stefanie FockWe Can Be Here Another Five Hundred Years: A Critical Reflection on Shiri Pasternak’s Grounded Authority—Nick EstesHow Does State Sovereignty Matter?—Shiri Pasternak’s Response to Nick EstesZionism and Native American Studies—Steven SalaitaI Will Kiss the Ground of My Cell… As It Is Part of My Homeland, Spatial Politics and Gender: Israel’s Carcerality of Palestinian Women—Nicole PrintyIs Marxism Relevant? Some Uses and Misuses—David Gilbert, political prisoner.Meeting Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Most Well-Known Political Prisoner in the US—Robyn C. Spencer Art by: Heidi Sincuba, Amanda Priebe, Nilda Brooklyn and Adrien Leavitt, Priti Gulati Cox, Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes, and Jess X. Snow
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ELM Grove Publishing Before Pearl Harbor: China, FDR and the Plot to
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Independently Published The Death That Strangled the Heart of Africa: The
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Rutgers University Press Get Involved
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Rutgers University Press Get Involved
Book SynopsisPhilanthropy is commonly depicted as a universal practice and is either valued for supporting community transformation or critiqued for limiting social justice. However, dominant definitions and even popular connotations tend to privilege wealthy Western approaches. Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas,Get Involved!uncovers the hidden and under-documented activities of philanthropy from below, revealing a broader conception of philanthropy and civil society, especially within Black and other historically marginalized populations. Kim Williams-Pulferdraws on narrative analysis from enslavement to the current post-post-colonial moment, depicting the repertoires and practices of primarily Afro-Bahamians through the stories emerging from history (including the transnational observations of Zora Neale Hurston, social movements, and political and social institution building), the arts (from Junkanoo, literature, and visu
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Simon & Schuster The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela
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Daraja Press Mau Mau From Within
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Daraja Press We Rise For Our Land
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Toronto Biennial of Art with Art Metropole Water Kinship Belief
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Boulder Books A Mixed Marriage: Conflicts, observations, and
Book SynopsisFor hundreds of years, a rich French heritage has marked the history and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Yet the contributions of French settlers and fishing communities have not received the recognition they deserve. The French presence in Newfoundland from the early 18th century to the early 20th is a story of both strife and cooperation: sovereignty over the island belonged to the British, but France enjoyed the right to fish along an extensive part of the shoreline, known as the French Treaty Shore. As with many long-term relationships, this one was marked by sharp differences, but also times of peaceful coexistence. A Mixed Marriage offers a look back at this period from the eyes of those who were there. Included are the full text of ship''s surgeon C.J.A. Carpon''s Voyage to Newfoundland and four reports from French naval officers who were part of the fisheries protection patrol, most translated for the first time. Featuring observations of fishing and hunting practices, stories of on-board surgeries, on-land festivities, and a sprinkling of curious tales, these texts together offer new insight into life on the French Shore of Newfoundland.
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Daraja Press Mutiny Of Morning: A Black Appropriation of Heart
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Massey University Press Living Between Land & Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō
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Amalion Publishing British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria,
Book SynopsisMahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.
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Amalion Publishing British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria,
Book SynopsisMahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.Trade Review"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are." - Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of Oxford, UK.
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Brepols N.V. Colonial Congo: A History in Questions
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Classiques Garnier Le Partage Des Memoires
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG How British Rule Changed India’s Economy: The
Book SynopsisThis Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with an eventual rise in life expectancy and an increase in wealth for some sectors of the population and economy, notably for much business and industry. Yet many poor people suffered badly, with agricultural stagnation and an underfunded government who were too small to effect general improvements. In this book Roy explains the paradoxical combination of wealth and poverty, looking at both sides of nineteenth century capitalism. Between 1850 and 1930, India was engaged in a globalization process not unlike the one it has seen since the 1990s. The difference between these two times is that much of the region was under British colonial rule during the first episode, while it was an independent nation state during the second. Roy's narrative has a contemporary relevance for emerging economies, where again globalization has unleashed extraordinary levels of capitalistic energy while leaving many livelihoods poor, stagnant, and discontented. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The making of British India.- Chapter 3: The business of the cities.- Chapter 4: Unyielding land.- Chapter 5: A poor state.- Chapter 6: End of famine.- Chapter 7: A different story? The princely states.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape
Book SynopsisThis book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present.Table of Contents1 IntroductionPart I: African Experts and Science in the Cape2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and TaxidermistsPart II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories4 Gender, Class and Competition5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection6 Barber’s Forging Scientific Practices and TheoriesPart III: Negotiating Belonging through Science7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers’ Supremacy and Land Rights8 Barber’s World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections10 ‘The fragments that are left behind’.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the
Book SynopsisSince the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.Trade Review“Cuéllar’s work is incisive, persuasive, and important. … Cuéllar’s task in Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century is hermeneutically-minded and immanently relevant to the shifting tides of biblical criticism in the twenty-first century.” (Erin J. Beall, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Vol. 44 (1), 2022)Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Historicizing the Master Archive 2. Mastering Biblical History in the British Museum 3. Books and Bodies in the British Museum Reading Room 4. The Biblical Critic as Collector 5. Biblical Scholar as Imperial State Agent 6. Epilogue: Contextualizing a Museum of the Bible
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century – the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962. It brings together an engaging account of its origins, course and legacies with an incisive examination of how interpretations of the conflict have shifted and why it continues to provoke intense debate. Locating the war in a century-long timeframe stretching from 1914 to the present, it multiplies the perspectives from which events can be seen. The pronouncements of politicians are explored alongside the testimony of rural women who provided logistical support for guerrillas in the National Liberation Front. The broader context of decolonisation and the Cold War is considered alongside the experiences of colonised men serving in the French army. Unpacking the historiography of the end of a colonial empire, the rise of anti-colonial nationalism and their post-colonial aftermaths, it provides an accessible insight into how history is written. Table of Contents1. Context and Historiography2. Origins, 1914-19543. The Course of the War, 1954-19624. Legacies, 1962-2020
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis Palgrave Pivot showcases new research on M.K. Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi, and the press, telegraphs, broadcasting and popular culture. Despite Gandhi being the subject of numerous books over the past century, there are few that put media centre stage. This edited collection explores both Gandhi’s own approach to the press, but also how different advocacy groups and the media, within India and overseas, engaged with Gandhi, his ideology and methodology, to further their own causes. The timeframe of the book extends from the late nineteenth century up to the present, and the case studies draw inspiration from a number of disciplinary approaches.Trade Review“This edited book brings Gandhi’s checkered relations with media to the centre-stage of analysis, thereby exploring Gandhi both in national and international contexts. The work thus virtually draws inspiration from disciplinary fields such as history, politics, literary and religious studies, media and popular culture.” (Arun Bandopadhyay, Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. 64 (2), 2022)“It is highly rich in content, many of facts presented and analysed in this book are either not known or not much talked in public space. … this book contains a wealth of authentic information about Mahatma Gandhi. It provides objective analysis of his thinking and actions, which shaped the history of that period. It has messages for all of us today and will be relevant even tomorrow. It is highly recommended across all spectrum of humanity.” (Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Indian Journal of Leprosy, Vol. 93, 2021)“The book is an exploration of Gandhi’s tryst with modernity, a world order which he apparently repudiated and was yet unable to dispense with altogether. … Chandrika Kaul’s book has been eminently successful, as promised by her, in filling in the many absent themes in the very scanty scholarly considerations of Gandhi’s utilization of media politics to negotiate the Raj, and in relocating these themes firmly in a comprehensive discursive universe shaped by the conjunction of Gandhi, media, politics and society.” (Tapan Basu, The Book Review, Vol. 45 (4), April, 2021)Table of Contents1. Brief Introductory Remarks- Chandrika Kaul2. “This cable...was not in my words”: Gandhi, the Telegraph and Political Communication in the British Empire- Amelia Bonea3. Gandhi’s Evolving Discourse on Leprosy- Sanjiv Kakar4. The Global Gandhi of the Muslim Vernacular Press: Mahatma as Monumental Peasant and the Prophetic Rose in the Urdu Pamphlets of an early 20th century Delhi Sufi- Timothy S. Dobe5. Gandhi and the Bengali Intellectuals: Perceptions and portrayal of his ideas in contemporary vernacular journals in the 1920s and 1930s- Sarvani Gooptu6. Gandhi and Broadcasting: Missing Narratives in Media, Nationalism and the Raj- Chandrika Kaul7. Gandhi and the Muslim League: The Dawn in 1947- Gopa Sabharwal8. Gandhi in 1947: Self Fashioning, Print Culture and The Republic of letters- Anjana Sharma 9. A Modern Mahatma? Use and Misuse of Gandhi in Popular Culture- Mei Li Badecker
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Introduction: ‘A Just Government’: Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622–1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640–1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661–1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ‘Amsterdam of Liberty’ .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Introduction: ‘A Just Government’: Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622–1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640–1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661–1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ‘Amsterdam of Liberty’ .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Theologies from the Pacific
Book SynopsisThis book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters. The first, Roots, explores the many roots from which theologies in and of Pasifika grow – sea and (is)land, Christian teachings and scriptures, native traditions and island ways. The second, Reads, presents theologies informed and inspired by readings of written and oral texts, missionary traps and propaganda, and teachings and practices of local churches. The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage. The ‘amanaki (hope) of this work is in keeping talanoa (dialogue) going, in pushing back tendencies to wedge the theologies in and of Pasifika, and in putting native wisdom upon the waters. As these Christian and native theologies voyage, they chart Pasifika’s sea of theologies.Table of Contents1. Sea of TheologiesPart I Roots2. A Dirtified God: A Dirt Theology from the Pacific Dirt Communities3. Ko e Mana Fakahā ‘Otua ‘o e Fakatupu: Creation as Sacrament4. Jesus Does a Haka Boogie: Tangata Whenua Theology5. Kauafua fātele for Christ’ sake: A Theological Dance for the Changing Climate6. A Pacific Theology of Celebration7. Naming the Spirit A-niu (Anew): Re(is)landing Pneumatology8. Fetuiaga Kerisiano: Church as a Moving UmuPart II Reads9. Scripturalize Indigenous References: An Invitation from Samoa10. Pasifika Churches Trapped in the Missionary Era: A Case in Samoa11. Failed Promise of Abundant Life: Revisiting 200 Years of Christianity in Oceania12. Taulaga in the Samoan Church: Is It Wise Giving?13. Unwrapping Theodicy14. Church as Feagaiga: A Fāiā Reading of Romans 13:1–715. O le pa’u a le popo uli: A Coconut Discipleship Reading of Matthew 12:46–50 and 28:16–20Part III Routes16. Vaa Culture and Theology: A Mäòhinui Moananui Invitation17. From Atutasi to Atulasi: Relational Theologizing and Why Pacific Islanders Think and Theologize Differently18. Mauli Apunamo: A Keakalo Invitation to One-Life19. Ol Woman long Vanuatu oli stap brekem bus! (Vanuatu Women Breaking New Ground!)20. Intercultural and Interfaith Encounters: A Turo’ Kalog Reading of Luke 10:25–3721. Fanua as a Diasporic Concept: Rereading James 1:2122. Weaving Liberation for West Papua23. Sex: Suicide, Shame, Signals
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. From the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it comprised small overseas colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. Exploring the rise and fall of Denmark's Kingdom, from 9 AD to the present, this textbook considers how such vast empires were kept together through ideology and symbols, military force, transport systems and networks of civil servants. The authors demonstrate how the lands under Danish rule included a variety of religious groups, social and economic structures, law systems, and ethnic and linguistic groups. They also consider the economic and ideological benefit of an empire structure in comparison to a nation state. Providing a detailed overview of the long history of the Danish Empire, whilst also confronting current debate and providing novel interpretations, this book offers an original, imperial and multi-territorial perspective on the history of the Danish state, providing essential reading for students of Danish or Scandinavian history and European or Global empires. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Empire in Himlingøje3. The Christian Empire of the North Sea4. Crusade Empires in the Baltic5. The Union Empire6. The Princely State: The Decline of Baltic Power 1536-17207. From the Conglomerate state to the Unitary State 1720-18148. 1814-64: From United Monarchy to Nation-State9. The Empire After 186410. The Empire during the Cold War, International Integration, and the Welfare State11. The Danish Empire Through the Ages12. The Danish Legacy
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and
Book SynopsisThis book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, DynastyPart I: Tudor ConsortsChapter 2: The Tudor Consorts: History and MemoryChapter 3: Elizabeth of York: Tudor Trophy WifeChapter 4: Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and Learned Queen Chapter 5: Anne Boleyn: Traditionalist and ReformerChapter 6: Jane Seymour: Saintly QueenChapter 7: Anne of Cleves: Survivor QueenChapter 8: Katherine Howard: Victim?Chapter 9: Katherine Parr: Wartime Consort and AuthorChapter 10: Philip II of Spain: King, Consort, and SonChapter 11: The Literary Afterlives of the Tudor ConsortsPart II: Stuart ConsortsChapter 12: The Stuart Consorts and Scotland, 1603–1707Chapter 13: Anna of Denmark: Daughter, Wife, Sister, and Mother of KingsChapter 14: Henrietta Maria: Dangerous ConsortChapter 15: Elizabeth and Dorothy Cromwell: InterreginasChapter 16: Catherine of Braganza: The PoliticianChapter 17: Mary Beatrice of Modena: A Queen ObservedChapter 18: George of Denmark: The Quiet Protestant Hero Chapter 19: The Stuart Consorts, 1603–1714: Representation, Agency, and Anxiety
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Springer International Publishing AG Global Plantations in the Modern World:
Book SynopsisTaking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological forms throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds spanning multiple and broad temporalities. Showcasing an expansive range of case studies across different geographies, the collection sheds light on the heterogeneity of plantations and offers insights into the afterlives, spectres and remnants of systems that have been analysed as schemes of production, extraction and authority. Focusing on the expansion of plantation systems throughout various political-economic and ecological projects, and across the modern (and post-modern) period, allows the authors to move beyond analyses that often deal with individual empires through human-centered lenses. The contributors explore resistance to the mechanisms of extraction and control that plantations and their afterlives demanded, shedding light on their excesses, contradictions, failures and deviations. Offering a comprehensive treatment of global plantations, this book provides valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the socio-political and environmental effects of colonialism and imperialism in their various guises.Chapters 1, 8 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsForeword: Cristiana Bastos.- 1. Introduction: Viewing plantations at the intersection of political ecologies and multiple space-times Irene Peano, Marta Macedo and Colette Le Petitcorps.- Part I. Revisiting the Caribbean: Genealogies for the Plantationocene.- 2. From Marrons to Kreyòl: Human-Animal Relations in early Caribbean Rodrigo C. Bulamah.- 3. The rise and fall of caporalisme agraire in Haiti (1789-1806): Labour perspectives through the plantation complex Martino Sacchi and Lorenzo Ravano.- 4. Cacos and Cotton: Unmaking Imperial Geographies on Haiti’s Central Plateau Sophie Sapp Moore.- 5. Revolutionary sovereignty as lost normality: Nostalgia for oranges in a former Plantation in Cuba Marie Aureille.- Part II. Continental and Pacific Americas: Multiple subjectivities between control and resistance.- 6. ‘[A] continual exercise of…Patience and Economy’: Plantation overseers, agricultural innovation and state formation in eighteenth-century North America Tristan Stubbs.- 7. Inside the Big House: Slavery, Rationalization of Domestic Labor and the Construction of a New Habitus on Brazilian Coffee Plantations during the Second Slavery Mariana Muaze.- 8. Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters Nicholas B. Miller.- Part III. West Africa and its diasporas: Excavating forgotten pasts and haunted presents.- 9. The materialities of Danish plantation agriculture at Dodowa, Ghana: An archaeological perspective David Abrampah.- 10. “Sweet Mother”: The Neoliberal Plantation in Sierra Leone Nile Davies.- 11. “New Slavery”, modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy Irene Peano.- Part IV. South and South-East Asia: Indigenous labour, more-than-human entanglements and the afterlives of multiple crises.- 12. The multispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua Sophie Chao.- 13. Colonial plantations and their afterlives: Legal disciplines, Indian historiographies and their lessons. An interview with Rana Behal Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps.- Afterword.- 14. Afterlives: The Recursive Plantation Deborah A. Thomas
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Springer International Publishing AG Indo-Mozambicans in Maputo, 1947-1992: Oral
Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of ‘Indo-Mozambicans,’ citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century. Drawing from ethnographic interviews, the author illustrates why migration developed as both an identity marker and a survival tool for Indo-Mozambicans living in Maputo, in response to the series of independence movements and prolonged period of geo-political uncertainty that extended from 1947 to 1992. A unique examination of post-colonialism, the book argues that four pivotal moments in history forced migratory patterns and ethnic identity formations to emerge among Indo-Mozambicans, namely, the end of the British empire in India and the subsequent partition of India and Pakistan in 1947; the end of the Portuguese empire in India, with the annexation of Goa, Daman and Diu in 1961; the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975; and the civil war of Mozambique from 1977 to 1992. Framing these historical markers as trigger points for shifts in migration and identity formation, this book demonstrates the layered experiences of people subject to Portuguese colonialism and highlights the important perspective of those ‘left behind’ in migration studies.Table of ContentsPart I. Before the Beginning.- 1. Introduction and Methodology.- 2. Who are Indo-Mozambicans? A Chronology of Shifting Geography and Terminology.- 3. Conflating Space and Time in the Process of National Myth-making.- Part II. Religion, Race and Migration, 1947-1992.- 4. A Brief Oral History of Indo-Mozambican Life from 1947-1992.- 5. Indo-Mozambican Institutions: Hindu Interactions with the State.- 6. Muslims: The Making of the Self and Others among Transnational Merchants, 1961-1992.- 7. Mixed Race Belonging in Black Majority Spaces: Mulatto, Mestiço or Misto.- Part III. Concluding Thoughts on Post-coloniality.- 8. Malleable Identities & Imagined Communities in Contemporary Africa.
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Springer International Publishing AG Policing Cities in Napoleonic Europe
Book SynopsisThis book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire. Shifting attention away from political repression, it focuses on the men who embodied this institution and made it work day-to-day. Based on extensive archival research, the book shows how the Napoleonic police were indeed an instrument of power, but also a profession and a service to the public. Traditionally associated with the image of Joseph Fouché and with political surveillance, the Napoleonic police, when studied from the local level, thus reveals itself to be much more complex and oriented simultaneously towards both the preservation of the regime and maintaining good urban order.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. The police system in the cities.- 2. The development of a professional culture.- 3. From cities to Empire: ‘imperialization’ of police structures.- 4. Police work and the people.- 5. Policing as a tool for governing and improving the city.- 7. Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Children and Youth in African History
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Age and Generation.- 3. Enslavement and Unfreedom.- 4. Race and Childhood.- 5. Schooling and Education.- 6. Work and Play.- 7. Politics and Violence.- 8. Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel
Book SynopsisThis open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Archipelagos.Chapter 3: Constructing the Self between Worlds.Chapter 4: Other tongues.Chapter 5: Conclusion...or Alternative Beginnings.
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Springer International Publishing AG Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel
Book SynopsisThis open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Archipelagos.Chapter 3: Constructing the Self between Worlds.Chapter 4: Other tongues.Chapter 5: Conclusion...or Alternative Beginnings.
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Springer International Publishing AG Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918: A
Book SynopsisIn this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa.- 1.1 Previous Scholarship and Sources.- 1.2 Historical Overview and Chapter Plan.- I. Race and Religion: Islam and the 'Arab Revolt'.- 2. Supplanting “Arabdom”: Race and Religion in the German Conquest.- 2.1 Islam and “Arabdom” in the Scramble for East Africa.- 2.2 The “Arab Revolt” in Imperial Reckoning.- 2.3 Insurgent Coalitions and “Arab” Identity.- 2.4 Islam and “Arab” Politics.- 3. Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language.- 3.1 Missionary Philology, Religion, and Romanisation.- 3.2 Kiswahili as Contested Language.- 3.3 The Christianisation of Kiswahil.- 3.4 Race and Language: Colonial Religion and the Disavowal of Hybridity.- II. Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German “Civilising Mission”.- 4. Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom.- 4.1 The Quick Rise and Fall of the German Anti-Slavery Movement.- 4.2 Islam and Christianity in the “Civilising” Regime.- 4.3 Slavery in Missionary Campaigns and Parliamentary Debates.- 4.4 Bureaucratised Manumission and Coercive Labour Regimes.- 5. Educating for Islam? The German Government Schools and “Christian Civilising”.- 5.1 A School for Muslims in Tanga.- .2 “Secular” Schools and Missionary Complaints.- 5.3 Repression and Simple Equivalences.- 5.4 Colonial Instrumentality: Islam, Made in the Image of “Civilising”.- III. Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law.- 6. Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law”.- 6.1 The Schutzgebietsgesetz of 1886.- .2 Implementing a Racial Divide.- 6.3 Defining Religious Exemptions.- 6.4 Islam in the Colonial Practice of “Native Law”.- 7. Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship.- 7.1 German Orientalism and Islamic Jurisprudence.- 7.2 “Native Law” and Islamic “Influence”.- 7.3 Coloured Justice: The Irreality of Colonial Law.- IV. Political Islam: The Making of “Islamic Danger”.- 8. Phantoms of Muslim Sedition: From Maji Maji to the “Mecca Letters”.- 8.1 Islam in the Maji Maji War.- 8.2 The “Mecca Letter” of 1908.- 8.3 The Liabilities of “Islamic Danger”.- 8.4 Sufi Piety and Government Interventions.- 9. Mainstreaming “Islamic Danger”: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance.- 9.1 German Scholars and the Geopolitics of Islam.- 9.2 Becker’s Islamwissenschaft and the Colonial Congress of 1910.- 9.3 Colonial Press and Missionary Activism.- 9.4 Surveying Islam in East Africa.- 9.5 Political Islam: The Swan Song of Wartime Propaganda.- 10. Conclusion: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion.- 10.1 Pluralising Concepts: A Genealogy of Entangled Pretensions.- 10.2 Provincialising Europe: The Force of the Unrepresented.- 10.3 Rhizomatic Topography: The Sprawling Study of Islam.
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Springer International Publishing AG People, Places, and Mathematics: A Memoir
Book SynopsisThis memoir chronicles the journey of an academic, tracing a path from primary school in Zambia to a career in higher education as a mathematician and educational leader. Set against the backdrop of the 20th century, the book explores how early influences and historical events shape an individual's life and professional trajectory. The author shares childhood experiences across three parts of Africa, providing an original perspective as a witness to the post-colonial period. Through personal reflections, the memoir delves into the emergence of ideas and collaborations in mathematics and how these shape career choices. It also offers candid observations on the major changes in British higher education since the 1980s. Intended for a general audience, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the experience of becoming a mathematician, and higher education in general.Table of Contents1 Dorset and Ghana.- 2 Lusaka.- 3 Swaziland.- 4 Dorchester.- 5 Coventry.- 6 Seattle, Shuffleboard, Vitaly.- 7 College Park, Maryland.- 8 Columbus.- 9 Norwich and Graham.- 10 Columbus Revisited.- 11 Norwich Revisited.- 12 Two New Roles in Norwich.- 13 From Sillery to the Office for Students.- 14 Durham.- 15 Leeds.- 16 Newcastle.- 17 Looking back.
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Palgrave Macmillan Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power
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Springer International Publishing AG Settler Colonialism
Book SynopsisExploring the history and politics of a powerful and long-lasting idea: the creation and maintenance of European worlds outside of Europe. This textbook provides a broad overview of settler colonialism in the modern era. The author outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced around the world, illustrating the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies. With an updated introduction and an additional chapter examining decolonisation and Indigenous recognition, this second edition brings the study of settler colonialism up to the present day.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Ndebele Frank Oates and Knowledge Production
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made?
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Colonial Switzerlands Global Entanglements
Book SynopsisSwitzerland has been globally connected and entangled with colonies established by the seafaring European nations in Africa, the Americas, and Asia since the 16th century. Colonial Switzerland's Global Entanglements offers a timely overview of this highly topical matter, placing a wide range of aspects in historical context and addressing as well questions of colonial continuities.Contributions by distinguished scholars and experts from various disciplines investigate questions such as the involvement of Swiss companies in the trade with enslaved people, Swiss mercenaries in the service of colonial powers, the colonial legacy of the country's missionary societies, and the research and collection of artefacts by Swiss scientists in former colonies. Light is shed also on the involvement of anthropological institutes at the universities of Zurich and Geneva in scientific racism.Conceived as an illustrated reader, this volume is both an invitation and a stimulus to explore and to engage critically with Switzerland's history of global interdependence.
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