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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Women Against the Raj the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking history of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, part of the Indian National Army led by Bengali revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose during World War II. The Regiment, a hitherto forgotten part of 'the Forgotten Army', was composed largely of teenage volunteers from Malayan rubber estates, girls who had never seen India yet were eager to enlist to liberate India from colonial bondage. Bose, creator of the Regiment, connected a historical thread extending from the original Rani of Jhansi, killed in battle by the British in 1858, through Bengali women revolutionaries of the 1930s, to the Regiment, which he hoped would spearhead the liberation of India. ""The Rani of Jhansi Regiment"" provides a model of empowerment relevant for contemporary Indian women.Trade ReviewOne of the most distinguished American historians of Asia, Professor Joyce Lebra has written an innovative and path-breaking book on Indian women who took up arms against the British Raj during the Second World War. Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment will be warmly welcomed as a major contribution to the fields of international history, military history and women's history. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University
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NUS Press Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in
Book SynopsisThe environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals. What was the relationship between these two processes in colonial Singapore? How did various interactions with animals enable changes in interactions between people, and the expression of power in human terms.The imposition of imperial power relationships was a process that was often complex and messy, and it led to the creation of new communities throughout the world, including the colonial port city of Singapore. Through a multi-disciplinary consideration of fauna, this book weaves together a series of tales to document how animals were cherished, slaughtered, monitored, and employed in a colonial society, to provide insight into how imperial rule was imposed on an island in Southeast Asia. Fauna and their histories of interacting with humans, thus, become useful tools for understanding our past, revealing the effects of establishing a colony on the biodiversity of a region, and the institutions that quickly transformed it. All animals, including humans, have been creatures of imperialism in Singapore. Their stories teach us lessons about the structures that upheld such a society and how it developed over time.Trade Review“[D]eeply researched, well annotated... the information Prof. Barnard presents in this book is widely applicable to subjects as varied as the history of natural history, psychology, sociology, political science, cross-cultural communications, and urban planning. It is therefore strongly recommended it to all those with an interest in any of these subjects, as well as to those who are merely curious to discover a slice of the history of a time and place with which few today can be said to familiar, but from whence so significant a modern global city-state has emerged”. — The Well-Read Naturalist
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NUS Press Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer?
Book SynopsisThe name of Thomas Stamford Raffles continues to be a mark of prestige in Singapore, more than 200 years after he first established a British factory on the island. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand tall in prominent sites in Singapore's civic and heritage district. Streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use the Raffles name. Does Thomas Stamford Raffles deserve this recognition? Should we continue to celebrate him? Or like the image of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall?Those exercised by the discussion and debates around Singapore's 2019 Bicentennial should know that the question was considered at length nearly 50 years ago, in Syed Hussein Alatas' slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? While publication of the work failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles' legacy in 1970s Singapore, it was noticed by Edward Said, who later cited Alatas' essay as one example of works "set themselves the revisionist, critical task of dealing frontally with the metropolitan culture, using the techniques, discourses, and weapons of scholarship and criticism once reserved exclusively for the European."Read nearly 50 years after its original publication, this extended essay on Raffles reads as fresh and relevant. Presented here for a new audience, Schemer or Reformer sets out the key elements of the debate in understanding Raffles' own political philosophy through the record of his actions, not just in Singapore, but in Southeast Asia in the years just before and after Singapore's foundation. A new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assesses contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have or have not come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy.Trade Review“[The book] was recently reprinted by NUS Press in 2020. It makes a timely reappearance amidst increasing conversation about race, identity, and historical memory in Singaporean society…. Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer today serves as a standard-bearer for works that expand discourse on Singapore’s history. Its intervention into established colonial narratives is vital to present-day efforts to gain a broader, more critical understanding of Singapore history and society.” * Singapore Unbound *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The General Framework of Raffles' Political Philosophy 2. The Massacre of Palembang 3. Raffles' Views on the Different Communities in this Area 4. The Banjarmasin Affair 5. Raffles and the Ideology of Imperialism Notes to the Text Bibliography
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ISEAS The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial
Book SynopsisFounded in Singapore in 1893, the Straits Philosophical Society was a society for the "critical discussion of questions in Philosophy, History, Theology, Literature, Science and Art". Its membership was restricted to graduates of British and European universities, fellows of British or European learned societies and those with "distinguished merit in the opinion of the Society in any branch of knowledge". Its closed-door meetings were an important gathering place for the educated elite of the colony, comprising colonial civil servants, soldiers, missionaries, businessmen, as well as prominent Straits Chinese members. Notable members included the botanist Henry Ridley, the missionary W.G. Shellabear and Straits Chinese reformers like Lim Boon Keng and Tan Teck Soon.Throughout its years of operation, the Society left behind a collection of papers presented by its members, the vast majority of which conformed to the Society's founding rule that its geographical position should influence its work. This produced a large corpus of literature on colonial Malaya which provides important insights into the logic and dynamics of colonial thought in the period before the First World War. In reproducing a collection of these papers this volume highlights the role of the Society in the development of ideas of race, Malayness, colonial modernization, urban government and debates over the political and socio-economic future of the colony.By republishing these papers, The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial Elites in Malaya seeks to contribute to the intellectual history of colonial and post-colonial Malaysia and Singapore, and to expand our understanding of the ways in which colonial thought has shaped governing systems of the past and present.
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Information Age Publishing Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of
Book SynopsisThis is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech.A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.
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Information Age Publishing Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of
Book SynopsisThis is not a conventional book because the seed comes from the depth of the volcanic cauldron that awaits silently underneath the Lake Ilopango, the umbilical cord of our Humanity and yours. It is a scream, it is an offering, it is pain and it is love. It is a collective offering to those who are responding to a call of Liberation based on Indigenous Principles to protect and defend the land beyond theories, beyond rhetorical and metaphorical questions. This is a tiny-tiny glimpse into Lak'ech.A living testament that today, there are people buried on sand, on water, on air, on blood, among carcasses of bodies eaten by vultures—literally and metaphorically—a living testament of open wounds that heal and are traumatized again and again because you, the reader, the listener, the writer, the transcriber, the colonizer, the upholder of patriarchy and caste and class, the translator and the guardian of the door of the Master's House refuse to listen politically.
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HardPress Publishing Jamaica and the Colonial Office
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Sexto Piso Editorial La Herencia Colonial y Otras Maldiciones:
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hegemonía o supervivencia: La estrategia
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Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A. Crisis atlntica automa e independencia en la
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Oxford University Press Inc The Poisoned Well
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Oxford University Press Gender and Empire
Book SynopsisFocusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This is a more inclusive look at empire, which asks not only why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new interpretations of the British Empire offered here, will interest readers across a wide range, demonstrating the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Clarity of expression and historical specificity are keynotes of this volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion series. * THES *The book's strength is that, while the multifarious centrality of gender is shown beyond contention, there are few pages that do not provoke debate. * THES *Table of Contents1. Why Gender and Empire? ; 2. Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century ; 4. Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century ; 5. Medicine, Gender, and Empire ; 6. Sexuality, Gender, and Empire ; 7. Gender and Migration ; 8. Nations in an Imperial Crucible ; 9. Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender ; 10. Empire and Violence 1900-1939 ; 11. Childhood and Race: Growing up in the Empire ; 12. Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family ; 13. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories
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OUP USA The Rule of Empires
Book SynopsisA grand account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment, The Rule of Empires explores the historical reality of subjugation and exposes the true limits of imperial power.Trade Review"Wide ranging, richly detailed, lucidly written, this compelling history of empires stresses the subject peoples on whose back these polities were built and whose resistance often caused their collapse. With his shrewdly selected mix of case studies, Parsons provides us with an important and timely rejoinder against those who romanticize imperial rule." --Dane Kennedy, George Washington University "How refreshing to read a history of imperialism aimed at a broad audience that refuses to blur or soften the brutal effects and origins of empire.... Parsons offers a refreshing, engaging and cogently argued counterweight to the more usual neo-conservative reckoning of empire's alleged benefits." --Philippa Levine, H-Net "A lucid, cold-eyed analysis of the mechanics of imperial control. The result is a compelling critique of empires past and of their latter-day nostalgists." --Publishers Weekly "Parsons, an Africanist by training, samples instructive imperial experiences: Roman Britain, Muslim Spain, Spanish Peru, the East India Company in Italy, Napoleonic Italy, British Kenya, and Vichy France." --Charles S. Maie, Foreign Affairs "Parsons sets an ambitious agenda for his case study on empires and largely succeeds. Explicitly setting out to counter the neoimperialist historiography of the last decade, Parsons uses a series of historic imperial episodes to illustrate the limits of empire and explain why empires subsequently fall.... Students of empire, historical or otherwise, would be well advised to read this book.... Highly recommended." --Choice "Parsons deserves to be commended for tackling such a key question in imperial studies. He offers a thought-provoking interpretation of the dynamics of empire from ancient to modern manifestations. His questions touching the evolution of empires merit serious consideration by historians." --Jodie Mader, Thomas More College "Parsons aims, laudably, to correct the imbalances... apologists of empire have introduced in readers' minds." --Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Times Literary Supplement "Vigorously written and intellectually engaging...there should be little dissent from the relevancy of its anti-imperialist imperative in the twenty-first century." --David Levering Lewis, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Subjects of Empire ; 1. Roman Britain: The Myth of the Civilizing Empire ; 2. Muslim Spain: Blurring Subjecthood in Imperial Al-Andalus ; 3. Spanish Peru: Empire by Franchise ; 4. Company India: Private Empire Building ; 5. Napoleonic Italy: Empire Aborted ; 6. British Kenya: The Short Life of the New Imperialism ; 7. France Under the Nazis: Imperial Endpoint ; Conclusion: Imperial Epitaph
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Taylor & Francis Native Voices Sources in the Native American Past Volumes 12
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Taylor & Francis Colonial and Revolutionary America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Power in the Village Social Networks Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil Microhistories
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music and WorldBuilding in the Colonial City Newcastle NSW and its Townships 18601880 Music in NineteenthCentury Britain
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Taylor & Francis The Impact of Diasporas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Colonial Refugee and Allied Civilians after the First World War Immigration Restriction and Mass Repatriation Routledge Studies in First World War History
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Taylor & Francis The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia
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Taylor & Francis Unbecoming Modern Colonialism Modernity Colonial Modernities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonising Europe Popular Responses to the End of Empire Empire and the Making of the Modern World 16502000
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Afropolitanism Reboot
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Taylor & Francis Transnational Politics Citizenship and Elections The Political Engagement of Transnational Communities in National Elections Routledge Research in Transnationalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century Life Labour Latitude
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of French Colonial Policy 18701925 Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd South Asian Islam and British Multiculturalism
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Taylor & Francis NeoLiberal Strategies of Governing India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Revolt in Hindustan 1857 59
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Erasure of Arab Political Identity Colonialism and Violence Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Displaced Archives
Book SynopsisDisplaced archives have long been a problem and their existence continues to trouble archivists, historians and government officials. Displaced Archives brings together leading international experts to comprehensively explore the current state of affairs for the first time. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the authors examine displaced archives as a consequence of conflict and colonialism, analysing their impact on government administration, nation building, human rights and justice. Renewed action is advocated through considerations of the legal approaches to repatriation, the role of the international archival community, shared heritage' approaches and other solutions. The volume offers new theoretical, technical and political insights and will be essential reading for practitioners, academics and students in the field of archives, cultural property and heritage management, as well as history, politics and international relations.Trade Review"The essays range in depth and detail but all of them address their selected topic with well-referenced research and present the current state of various situations where archives are under dispute [...] This book is a very academic compilation bringing together a range of scholars with a varied range of specialisms across the world touching on Iraq, Africa, Indonesia, South Korea and Russia and their connections and contentions with Europe and America."Alex Fitzgerald, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Edinburgh, UK"The essays range in depth and detail but all of them address their selected topic with well-referenced research and present the current state of various situations where archives are under dispute [...] This book is a very academic compilation bringing together a range of scholars with a varied range of specialisms across the world touching on Iraq, Africa, Indonesia, South Korea and Russia and their connections and contentions with Europe and America."Alex Fitzgerald, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Displaced Archives James Lowry 1. Archives Seizures: The Evolution of International LawCharles Kecskeméti2. Making Sovereignty and Affirming Modernity in the Archives of Decolonisation: The Algeria–France 'Dispute' between the Post-Decolonisation French and Algerian Republics, 1962–2015Todd Shepard3. Displaced Archives in the National Archives of the United Kingdom Mandy Banton4. Indonesian National Revolution Records in the National Archives of the Netherlands Michael Karabinos5. Hiding the Colonial Past? A Comparison of European Archival PoliciesVincent Hiribarren6. Revisiting Expatriate Archives Timothy Lovering7. A Proposal for Action on African Archives in Europe Nathan Mnjama and James Lowry8. Displaced Archives in the Wake of Wars Leopold Auer9. Pan-European Displaced Archives in the Russian Federation: Still Prisoners of War on the 70th Anniversary of V-E DayPatricia Kennedy Grimsted10. Iraq and Kuwait: the Siezure and Destruction of Historical PatrimonyBruce Montgomery11. Networking Records in their Diaspora: A Reconceptualisation of 'Displaced Records' in a Postnational World Anne J. Gilliland12. Revisiting the Law and Politics of CompromiseDouglas Cox
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Taylor & Francis Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World Regulating Desire Reforming Practice Christianity and Society in the Modern World
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