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Book SynopsisProviding coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems. Within this text, carefully chosen international contributors explore how colonialism, coloniality, and colonization have impacted indigenous people's ways of knowing, feeling, behaving, valuing, being, and becoming in fundamental ways and how the West's idea of education and schooling have been used as key instruments in the project of world domination and subjugation. Beyond these key entry concepts, chapters use ideas of modernity, post-modernism, globalization, internationalization, and neo-liberalism to examine how higher education in colonial and post-colonial societies still answers to a colonial narrative and what can be done to decolonize the system.UnpTable of Contents1. The conceptual ‘jungle’ of the decolonisation of higher education: Contestations, contradictions and opportunities 2. Is Canadian higher education under attack by neoliberal policies? 3. Long road to decolonization of neoliberal and Eurocentric South African higher education 4. Cwélelep: Dissonance and new learning at the University of Victoria 5. Decolonization and internationalization of higher education in Vietnam: A historical perspective 6. The politics of knowing in African universities: A search for decolonised epistemologies 7. The Decolonization of History at the Universities of Malaysia and Singapore: Historical and Philosophical Antecedents 8. Australian higher education: God bless you if it’s good to you 9. From the ideal to non-ideal: Towards decolonized higher education in Africa 10. Colonisation and epistemic injustice revisited: A reflection on emerging themes

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Book SynopsisEvery year, thousands of young people on the run from war and persecution, or escaping poverty and chronic instability, make their way to Europe without their parents. Embarking on long and often dangerous journeys, they have either become separated from their families on the way or set out on their own. In recent years, the number of unaccompanied minors arriving in Europe has risen drastically. It has led to a major shift in perception in European countries, initiating a wealth of policies and infrastructures targeted specifically at unaccompanied child refugees. This book investigates the emergence of the unaccompanied child refugee as a crisis figure'. It shows how the sense of exceptionality attached to this figure translates into ambiguous and at times extremely contradictory social practices that have far-reaching effects on the lives of refugee youth. By bringing together ethnographically driven research on unaccompanied minors in some of the core arrival and transit Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Family project or individual choice? Exploring agency in young Eritreans’ migration 3. The border event in the everyday: hope and constraints in the lives of young unaccompanied asylum seekers in Turkey 4. Children, adults or both? Negotiating adult minors and interests in a state care facility in Malta 5. Across the threshold: negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden 6. Being inside out: the slippery slope between inclusion and exclusion in a Swiss educational project for unaccompanied refugee youth 7. The limits of freedom: migration as a space of freedom and loneliness among Afghan unaccompanied migrant youth 8. Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond 9. Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors

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Book SynopsisThis is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe. Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance. Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land. Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity's relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.Trade Review"Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction is an absolutely outstanding study that pushes the specifically literary aspects of indigenous Australian fiction into the centre of interest. By focussing on the interrelations between narrative forms and political attitudes, it also contributes to the further development of a postcolonial narratology. And the book demonstrates convincingly how the prose narratives by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright negotiate relationality. What I find particularly impressive is the sensitive ways in which Dorothee Klein reflects upon and comments on the (not at all unproblematic) reception of indigenous Australian literature by a Western reader. Klein treats the texts with caution, modesty, and respect. This is how to do it." Dr. Jan Alber, Professor of English Literature and Cognitive Studies at RWTH Aachen University and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative"This new book by Dorothee Klein takes a fresh look at Australian Aboriginal literature through a New Formalist lens. Her innovative readings of canonical writers Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch and Alexis Wright focus on the poetics and politics of relationality. They attend meticulously to the narrative techniques of each writer, analysing the ways in which the language carves out the relational space of reading.Yet this book is in no way dry. Klein links narratological analysis to historical, social and political issues and argues passionately that Aboriginal literatures address globally urgent themes such as climate change and other catastrophes. She demonstrates through her readings of the fiction that Aboriginal onto-epistemologies insist on the interconnectedness of humans, non-human actors and the environment. This book is beautifully written. Impressively erudite and well-researched it fearlessly grapples with Big Ideas but in a way that is always accessible and a great pleasure to read. It is an important book and a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous literatures."Dr. Anne Brewster, honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales"Unprecedented in scope and content, this study discovers a common aim in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction that has so far not been discussed at length: relationality. It considers how Aboriginal fictions use narrative form to create a tight knitted feeling of connectedness among its indigenous characters and a sense of relatedness to their local environment. By delving into the narrative techniques of authors like Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright, we learn how relationality offers a productive alternative to a wide-spread individualistic care of self. Although the study engages with the aesthetic qualities of these narratives in an in-depth-manner unusual in postcolonial criticism, it does not ignore the socio-political context. Indeed, its main premise lies in the theoretically advanced conceiving of form as a way of knowing. Working with the concept of a "poetics of relationality" that functions to analyse perspective-taking, plot-design and landscape description, it is able to elaborate how a broad range of narrative techniques in Aboriginal fictions creates a sense of relations that reach beyond the human to interlink all elements of the cosmos. Besides this achievement in the narratives, the study elucidates how the narratives also have the potential to engage the reader in imagined temporary communities that share its dynamic, non-hierarchical and diverse ways of knowing. At a time like today, when social distancing is the order of the day, practising an imagination of communality may constitute a key to ethical and politically sensitive awareness. Given these responsive effects, this book goes beyond most academic studies in challenging notions of human centrality and emphasising our role as care-takers of the environment."Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of StuttgartTable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Poetics and Politics of RelationalityChapter 1: Non-Human (Narrative) Authority in Bruce Pascoe’s EarthChapter 2: Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman DanceChapter 3: Precarious Relations in Tara June Winch’s Swallow the AirChapter 4: Non-Egocentric Relations and Ambiguity in Alexis Wright’s CarpentariaChapter 5: Travelling Narratives and Community in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookChapter 6: Stories, Language, and Sharing in Kim Scott’s TabooConclusion: Experiencing Relationality

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Book SynopsisThis book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20th and early 21st centuries as well as the cultural, political and institutional backgrounds against which they function. It explores the uses of the past in terms of a conscious choice to either reactivate or overlook memories as selective reference points for the promotion and legitimation of contemporary political goals. The chapters of this volume bring together theoretical discussions on the interrelationship between remembrance and purposeful oblivion as active processes that serve particular interests and ideologies in the present. By addressing the diverse meanings given to practices of memory, the contributions offer new perspectives on how institutions shape cultural memory, power relations and identity projects. Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives will be of interest to Table of ContentsIntroduction: Politics of memory and oblivion 1. Legacies of an imperial past in a small nation: patterns of postcolonialism in Belgium 2. Politics of fire: the commemorative torch rally 612 of the Finnish radical right 3. The political uses of the past in modern Russia: the images of the October revolution 1917 in the politics of memory of Russian parties 4. Highlights of national history? Constitutional memory and the preambles of post- communist constitutions 5. Reconstructing the past in a state- mandated historical memory institute: the case of Albania 6. The construction and deconstruction of national myths: a study of the transformation of Finnish history textbook narratives after World War II

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Book SynopsisFallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past which is given agency through monuments and memorials intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, thisTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Creation Life of Monuments and Memorials, Following Father’s Footsteps: Slavery, Imperialism and the William Ewart Gladstone Memorial Statue in Liverpool City Centre Problematical Benefactors and Founding Fathers: Negotiating Sculptures of MT Steyn and JH Marais at South African Universities Recasting Columbus: Local Contestations Against the Monumentalization of Settler Colonialism "Decolonizing the Streets!" of California through the Removal of Junípero Serra Monuments and Statues A Decolonial and Pedagogic Fall on Tulcan Hill: Between Recasting Public Memory and Place, and Recovering History and Commemoration The Politics of Erasure: De-Commemorating "Comfort Women" in the Philippines Saving Communist Monuments in the Context of De-Communisation in Ukraine: An Examination of Conflicting Narratives From Civil to Culture War: Confederate Statues and Statutes in Nashville, Tennessee (Re) claiming Public Memory: Confederate Monuments and Memorials as Sites of Contestation in the American South Recontextualizing a Campus Monument of George Washington through Collaborative Engagement in the Arts "The Disparity Between Us": Rochester’s Frederick Douglass Memorial and its Inscription on the 21st-Century Landscape Digital Lieux de Mémoire and Milieux de Mémoire: Josephine de Beauharnais and the Digital Afterlife of Toppled Statues Monuments Cast Shadows: Remembering and Forgetting the ‘Dead Survivors’ of Nazi Persecution in Swedish Cemeteries Sono Persone | Ata Janë Njerëz 8.8.1991: Public Mementos and the Political Agency of Absence Deliberation: The Remembrance of Things Cast

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how the predominantly national focus that characterises studies of the United States after 1783 can be integrated with global trends, as viewed from the perspective of imperial history. The book also argues that historians of European empires have much to gain by considering the United States after 1783 as a newly-decolonised country that acquired overseas territorial possessions in 1898 and remained a member of the Western imperial club' until the mid-twentieth century.The wide-ranging synthesis by A. G. Hopkins, American Empire: A Global History (2018), provides the starting point for contributions that appraise its main theme and take it in new directions. The first three chapters identify fresh approaches to U.S. history between the Revolution and the Civil War, suggesting ways in which the United States can be considered as a newly-decolonised country, examining shifting meanings of the term empire,' and reassessing the character of continenTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. American Empire in Global History Part 2: The American Revolution and The Post-Colonial Order 2. Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire 3. United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-Century 4. The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire Part 3: Insular Perspectives on Empire 5. Cuba: Context and Consequences for the American Empire 6. The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution 7. Restoring Asia to the Global Moment of 1898 Part 4: The Empire in the Twentieth Century 8. Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century 9. Informal Empire and the Cold War Part 5: Response 10. Imperial Puzzles

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Book SynopsisThis book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for. In recognising the deep-seated structural inequalities that exist within criminal justice, higher education, and the field of criminology, we offer this text as a critical pause to the reader and invite you to reflect and consider within your studies and learning experience, your teaching, and your research: whose voices dominate, and whose are marginalised or excluded within criminology and why?This edited collection offers chapters from international criminology scholars, activists, and practitioners to bring together a range of perspectives that have been marginalised or excluded from criminological discourse. It considers both obscured and marginalised criminological theorists and schools of thought, presents alternative viewpoints on traditional' criminal justice themes, and considers how margi

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Book SynopsisThe first Australian cricket tour to India possesses an inherent intrigue that, for inexplicable reasons, has fallen into obscurity. Megan Ponsford rectifies this through her investigation of the uneasy relationships between Australia, British India and Indian nationalism during the interwar period, using the 1935/36 tour as a case study. The unique liaison between the entrepreneurial tour manager Frank Tarrant and the Maharaja of Patiala, who financed the exercise, led the way.From the palaces of the Raj to the foothills of the Himalayas, the evolving racial consciousness of the ragtag team of Australia cricketers defines the tour. The cricket establishment was also challenged as the tour defied the amateur game with participation encouraged by the Maharaja's deep pockets.Employing a unique methodology, this book interprets the material culture located in the archives of the Australian and Indian cricketers. In the absence of first-hand accounts, these artefacts enablTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bhupinder and Tarrant: players of the game 3. The has- beens and never will-bes 4. Who are these Australian fellows with ‘Grim determination and astounding stamina’? 5. Neither home nor away 6. The launch of Indian- Australian cricket 7. Beer, banquets and a Patiala Peg: food and drink on tour 8. Photographic reportage and the colonial imaginary 9. The atmosphere vibrated with triumphant joy 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis essential new book presents a discussion of racial relations, Jungian psychology and politics as a dialogue between two Jungian analysts of different nationalities and ethnicities, providing insight into a previously unexplored area of Jungian psychology.Racial Legacies explores themes and historical events from the perspective of each author, and through the lens of psychology, politics and race, in the hopes of creating meaningful racial relationships. The historical ways the past has affected the authors'' ancestors and their own lives today is explored in detail through essays and dialogue, demonstrating that past racial legacies continue to bind on both conscious and unconscious levels.This book distinguishes itself from other texts as the first of its kind to present a racial dialogue in the context of Jungian psychology. It will be of great value to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students of Depth and Analytical Psychology.Trade ReviewBrewster and Morgan dare to enter this powerful conversation in exploring the assumptions and challenges about race. Dialoguing from within their own cultural, social-political context exploring European and African diaspora histories as Jungian analysts, they consider the intergenerational context and its relevance for us today. In this important text they create a rich psychological space in which to meet, reflect and share experiences finding a soulful meeting place. This important discussion invites us to re-think and critically interrogate our shared histories, collective memories, psychic disenfranchisement, through radical honesty and to encounter each other through opening dialogue. Anthea Benjamin, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Group Analyst UKCP & BACP registered This is a brilliant and creative piece of work that examines raciality from an Africanist and White perspective. It is also an act of empowerment and response to Jung excising the black experience. A self-identified Africanist, Fanny Brewster, PhD centers Africanist traditions and the healing arts in the treatment room. She takes us on a journey of mapping out her ancestral origins with imaginings of her ancestor standing on a pier. Her poem to her ancestor took my breath away. We are reminded that we are not outside of history as we live these horrors today. This is a valuable model of how to weave cultural Africanist traditions, spirituality and history in an analytic psychological treatment. Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW, Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for PsychoanalysisRacial Legacies is the poetic and scholarly outcome of a deep, courageous, transatlantic engagement with racial complex by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan. This is an essential book for 21st century Jungians, with two distinct voices to guide engagement with systems of racism and white privilege and their implications for the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology. Jane Johnson, Senior member British Psychotherapy Foundation and British Jungian Analytic Association In this unique work, Brewster and Morgan collaborate to intertwine their voices and stories - reaching across the Atlantic bringing the different UK and US cultures into the mix - in the service of exploring our relationships to race. Brewster and Morgan take the field to the cutting edge of where and how analysts need to be addressing race head on in the era following the murder of George Floyd. Their dualogue models respectful interaction while confronting history, theory and politics head on. They rightly alert us: "In our contemporary practice of psychology we must be aware of the racialized foundations of Modern Psychology". Brewster alerts us: "The voice of members of the African Diaspora when expressed says that the whiteness of psychoanalysis does not see them, cannot see them and include their cultural identity of blackness". If Jungian analysis is to dig itself out of its at times racist silo, it needs to pay attention to this book. The authors challenge us to have "sufficient confidence in the robustness of the core principles of psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic theory to trust that they can withstand some rattling". The book ends by turning back on itself to provide a meta view of the writing and process of managing the intrinsic challenges of co-writing from both a black and a white perspective which is profoundly honest, transparent and moving. A model for us all.Ruth Williams, Jungian Training and Supervising Analyst (AJA). Author of Jung: The Basics (Routledge 2019)Jungian Analysts Fanny Brewster, an African American Black and Helen Morgan, a Caucasian from England joined in a courageous endeavor to explore the complexities of racism, politics, culture and psychology. Through their trust, mistrust, struggles and openness they display a willingness and vulnerability to hold different perspectives while continuing to talk. This book is a recommended read for those who are interested in understanding how to hold different perspectives while engaging in heartfelt conversations around difficult subject matter. The authors open conversations provide a psychological model that can improve racial relationships and help create a future just society.Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, NCPsyA, President C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytic Psychology, NYI find myself between loud applause and profound sadness and tears as I finish reading Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. I am in tears of white guilt, of compassion for the years and years of personal and political struggle on the part of black people. Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan clarify a picture of how hard it is to address systemic racism without an empathic understanding of the centuries of greed, torture, white power and unconsciousness suffered by Africanist people, particularly in the south of the United States. In her book, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson talks of class consciousness as "the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that (they) look like the natural order of things". It is this cruel complacency that Jungian psychology has the potential to expose by helping to make clear the power of unconscious archetypes, such as equating whiteness with goodness and righteousness, blackness with evil and badness. How long must we wait?Elizabeth Stevenson, M.Div. Jungian PsychoanalystEvery few years, a book comes along that revitalizes, restores, renews our faith in womankind, taking us by the hand, leading us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves – which is, Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. Generous, precise and unsentimental, Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan offer a brilliant collaboration that achieves this and more. Brewster and Morgan have created a deeply personal and moving book, perfectly suited for the times we are living, the authors compare their own ethnic backgrounds with others to create a ‘sharing space’ of enlightenment . . . A thought-provoking must read book.Dianne Travis-Teague, Director, Alumni Relations, Pacifica Graduate InstituteWhat a wonderful idea to bring disparate voices together to explore how each approaches the history and experience of cultural differences within the field of psychoanalysis. Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan provides a thoughtful, fresh discussion of the presence of the Other both within and outside of the consulting room. Recounting their individual experiences of their own races in childhood, Brewster and Morgan go on to examine and compare their first notable encounters with others from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and share their "wonderment and concern" for race in analytic relationships. Beth Boardman, RN, MA, PhD, Lecturer, Mythologist, Author, Chair, PGIAA Advisory Board'Brewster and Morgan dare to enter this powerful conversation in exploring the assumptions and challenges about race. Dialoguing from within their own cultural, social-political context exploring European and African diaspora histories as Jungian analysts, they consider the intergenerational context and its relevance for us today. In this important text they create a rich psychological space in which to meet, reflect and share experiences finding a soulful meeting place. This important discussion invites us to re-think and critically interrogate our shared histories, collective memories, psychic disenfranchisement, through radical honesty and to encounter each other through opening dialogue.' Anthea Benjamin, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Group Analyst UKCP & BACP registered 'This is a brilliant and creative piece of work that examines raciality from an Africanist and White perspective. It is also an act of empowerment and response to Jung excising the black experience. A self-identified Africanist, Fanny Brewster, PhD centers Africanist traditions and the healing arts in the treatment room. She takes us on a journey of mapping out her ancestral origins with imaginings of her ancestor standing on a pier. Her poem to her ancestor took my breath away. We are reminded that we are not outside of history as we live these horrors today. This is a valuable model of how to weave cultural Africanist traditions, spirituality and history in an analytic psychological treatment.' Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW, Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis'Racial Legacies is the poetic and scholarly outcome of a deep, courageous, transatlantic engagement with racial complex by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan. This is an essential book for 21st century Jungians, with two distinct voices to guide engagement with systems of racism and white privilege and their implications for the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology.' Jane Johnson, Senior member British Psychotherapy Foundation and British Jungian Analytic Association 'In this unique work, Brewster and Morgan collaborate to intertwine their voices and stories – reaching across the Atlantic bringing the different UK and US cultures into the mix – in the service of exploring our relationships to race. Brewster and Morgan take the field to the cutting edge of where and how analysts need to be addressing race head on in the era following the murder of George Floyd. Their dialogue models respectful interaction while confronting history, theory and politics head on. They rightly alert us: "In our contemporary practice of psychology we must be aware of the racialized foundations of Modern Psychology". Brewster alerts us: "The voice of members of the African Diaspora when expressed says that the whiteness of psychoanalysis does not see them, cannot see them and include their cultural identity of blackness". If Jungian analysis is to dig itself out of its at times racist silo, it needs to pay attention to this book. The authors challenge us to have "sufficient confidence in the robustness of the core principles of psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic theory to trust that they can withstand some rattling". The book ends by turning back on itself to provide a meta view of the writing and process of managing the intrinsic challenges of co-writing from both a black and a white perspective which is profoundly honest, transparent and moving. A model for us all.'Ruth Williams, Jungian Training and Supervising Analyst (AJA). Author of Jung: The Basics 'Jungian Analysts Fanny Brewster, an African American Black and Helen Morgan, a Caucasian from England joined in a courageous endeavor to explore the complexities of racism, politics, culture and psychology. Through their trust, mistrust, struggles and openness they display a willingness and vulnerability to hold different perspectives while continuing to talk. This book is a recommended read for those who are interested in understanding how to hold different perspectives while engaging in heartfelt conversations around difficult subject matter. The authors open conversations provide a psychological model that can improve racial relationships and help create a future just society.'Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, NCPsyA, President C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytic Psychology, NY'I find myself between loud applause and profound sadness and tears as I finish reading Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. I am in tears of white guilt, of compassion for the years and years of personal and political struggle on the part of black people. Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan clarify a picture of how hard it is to address systemic racism without an empathic understanding of the centuries of greed, torture, white power and unconsciousness suffered by Africanist people, particularly in the south of the United States. In her book, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson talks of class consciousness as "the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that (they) look like the natural order of things". It is this cruel complacency that Jungian psychology has the potential to expose by helping to make clear the power of unconscious archetypes, such as equating whiteness with goodness and righteousness, blackness with evil and badness. How long must we wait?'Elizabeth Stevenson, M.Div. Jungian Psychoanalyst'Every few years, a book comes along that revitalizes, restores, renews our faith in womankind, taking us by the hand, leading us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves – which is, Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. Generous, precise and unsentimental, Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan offer a brilliant collaboration that achieves this and more. Brewster and Morgan have created a deeply personal and moving book, perfectly suited for the times we are living, the authors compare their own ethnic backgrounds with others to create a ‘sharing space’ of enlightenment . . . A thought-provoking must read book.'Dianne Travis-Teague, Director, Alumni Relations, Pacifica Graduate Institute'What a wonderful idea to bring disparate voices together to explore how each approaches the history and experience of cultural differences within the field of psychoanalysis. Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan provides a thoughtful, fresh discussion of the presence of the Other both within and outside of the consulting room. Recounting their individual experiences of their own races in childhood, Brewster and Morgan go on to examine and compare their first notable encounters with others from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and share their "wonderment and concern" for race in analytic relationships.'Beth Boardman, RN, MA, PhD, Lecturer, Mythologist, Author, Chair, PGIAA Advisory BoardTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Imagining our ancestors 3. The legacy of the Atlantic slave trade 4. The Ties that Bind: The Racial Complex 5. The creation of the ‘Other’ 6. Modern psychology and its influences 7. Colour Matters 8. The Politics of Race 9. Closing Reflections.

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.Drawing on five years of research and examples from Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, the authors analyse archives in the African context. Considering issues such as authentication, ownership and copyright, the book considers how murals and their like can be used as extended or counter archives. Arguing that extended archives can reach people in a way that traditional archives cannot and that such archives can be used to bridge the gaps identified within archival repositories, the authors also examine how such archives are managed and authenticated using traditional archival principles. Presenting case studies from organisations such as Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archives (GALA) and heritage projects such as the Makgabeng Open Cultural Museum, the authors also analyse Indigenous family praises and songsTrade ReviewThis book Draws on five years of research and examples from Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa to analyze in the African context. By considering issues such as authentication, ownership and copyright, it considers how murals and their like can be used as extended or counter-archives. argues that extended archives can reach people in a way that traditional archives cannot and that such archives can be used to bridge the gaps identified within archival repositories. The authors also examine how such archives are managed and authenticated using traditional archival principles. By presenting case studies from organisations such as Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archives (GALA) and heritage projects such as the Makgabeng Open Cultural Museum, the authors also analyse Indigenous family praises and songs and explore how such records are preserved and transmitted to the next generation. demonstrates how the voices of the marginalised can be incorporated into archives. will be essential reading for academics and students working in archival studies, library and information science, Indigenous studies, African studies, cultural heritage, history and anthropology. Table of ContentsPrologue: Reimagining Indigenous Archives1 Conceptualisation and recontextualisation of indigenous archival constructs 2 Decolonisation or (re)Africanisation of archives?3 Authentication of indigenous archives 4 Ownership, copyright, and 'copyleft' of indigenous archives5 Decolonisation and (re)Africanisation in action: a case study of community memory practices6 Sustainable structures for indigenous archives in the postcolonial contextEpilogue: Reflections and reflexivity

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Book SynopsisThis study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This book argues that the historical trajectory of these musicals has formed a canon of works that have reiterated, resisted or transformed experiences of trauma through linguistic, ritual, and geographic interventions. These traumas may be disaster-related, migrant-related, colonial or patriarchal. Bilingualism and translation, ritual action, and geographic space engage moments of trauma (natural disaster, incarceration, death) and healing (community celebration, grieving, emancipation) in these works. The musicals considered are West Side Story (1957, 2009, 2019), The Capeman (1998), In the Heights (2008), and Hamilton (2015). Central to this argument is that each of the musicals discussed is tied to Puerto Rico, either through the representation of Puerto Rican characters and stories, or through tTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Bilingualism and Translation as Caring Performance Chapter 2: Caring Performance in Public Art Chapter 3: Spaces of Care Chapter 4: Transforming Disaster through Defiant JoyAfterword Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.Thailand has always been a regional migration hub with Africans being the most recent. Sitting at the intersection of race and migration studies, this book focuses on the challenges Black and labor migrants face trying to integrate into a society that has had very limited contact with and knowledge about Black Africans. Bringing together research from African, Thai, and European scholars, this volume focuses on forced migrants, such as Somali asylum seekers, and labor migrants, largely African men seeking better livelihoods in niche economies such as gem trading, garment wholesale, and football playing and coaching. The book also includes theoretical contributions to the understanding of precarity and human security, the concept of in/visibility to analyze the challenges African migrants face in Thailand as well as the concept of othering to understand discriminatio

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans'' experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden administration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women.This book provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearances in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and experiences. Contrasting the misconception that Native Americans were consistently victims without power, native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the vitality of native peoples and cultures in the context of regional, continental, and global developments. The new edition highlights the role of Native Americans as agents of resistance and progress, rooted in the perspective that their activism has been instrumental throughout history and in the present day. To enrich student understanding, the book also Table of Contents1. Native North America before European Contact 2. Native Peoples and European Newcomers 982–1585 3. Spanish Borderlands, 1527–1758 4. Europeans and the Eastern Woodlands to 1689 5. Native Americans and European Empire, 1700–1763 6. The Indians’ Revolution, 1763–1814 7. Removal, 1801–1846 8. Western Indians and the United States, 1800–1850 9. The Civil War Years, 1861–1865 10. Conflicting Postwar Directions, 1865–1877 11. The Struggle for Cultural Identity, 1877–1910 12. Progressivism and World War I: Charting Their Own Course in the Twentieth Century, 1900–1920 13. Postwar Directions for Native Americans, 1918–1929 14. The Great Depression, 1929–1940 15. American Indians Join the War Effort, 1940–1945 16. Redefining the Status of Native Americans in Post-World War II America, 1943–1962 17. Indian Activism in the Age of Liberalism, 1961–1980 18. Self-Determination to Decolonization: Native Americans into the Twenty-First Century 19. "We're Still Here"

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Book SynopsisImagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 is a powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Exploring the legacy of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization after 1945, it is has become one of the outstanding books about the relationship between gender, race and national identity.Analyzing the role of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domesticity, it brilliantly traces the way in which Englishness became associated with domestic order and the very idea of home became white, exploring themes that reverberate strongly today as arguments around gender, race and feminism occupy the headlines.Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing of politicians, journalists, churchmen, health professionals, novelists and film-makers, Wendy Webster examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narrativeTrade Review'A riveting study of gender, race and national identity.' - Guardian'Highly readable and authoratative, introducing readers to potentially difficult ideas in a thoroughly accessible way.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies'This is an interesting and important book and should stand as a landmark study for this formative period of contemporary British history.' - Professor Mary Chamberlain, Women's History ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Routledge Classics Edition Introduction 1. Homecomings 2. Unbelongings 3. Home and Colonialism 4. This New England 5. Good Homes 6. Home and Work 7. Domestic Identities. Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomyâs engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste. The Coloniality of Modern Taste provides an understanding of gastronomy that moves away from the usual celebratory approach. Through a discussion of nineteenth-century gastronomic publications, this book illustrates how the gastronomic notion of taste was shaped by a number of specifically modern constraints. It compares the gastronomic approach to taste to conceptualizations of taste that emerged in other geographical and philosophical contexts to illustrate that the gastronomic approach stands out as particularly bereft of affect. The book argues that the understanding of taste constructed by gastronomic texts continues to burden the affective experience of taste, while encouraging patterns of food consumption that rely on an exploitative and unsustainable global food system. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, decoloniality, affect theory, sensory studies, gastronomy and food studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Gastronomy?1. The Narrative of Gastronomic Progress2. Desensualizing Taste3. Bureaucratizing Taste4. Racializing Taste5. Taste, OtherwiseConclusion: The Gustatory Logic of Consumer Capitalism

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Land and Labour: Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land, Sara Berry; Sugar factory workers and the emergence of ’free labour’ in 19th-century Java, R.E. Elson; Peasants at work: forced cotton cultivation in northern Mozambique, 1938-1961, Allen Isaacman and Arlindo Chilundo; Reinterpreting a colonial rebellion: forestry and social control in German East Africa, 1874-1915, Thaddeus Sunseri; Geography, race and nation: remapping ’tropical’ Australia, 1890-1930, Warwick Anderson; Between fixity and fantasy: assessing the spatial impact of colonial urban dualism, William Cunningham Bissell; The control of ’sacred’ space: conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore, 1880-1930, Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Part II Mechanisms of Rule: Bringing the state back: the limits of Ottoman rule in Jordan, 1840-1910, Eugene L. Rogan; State, enterprise, and the alcohol monopoly in colonial Vietnam, Gerard Sasges; ’Martial races’: ethnicity and security in colonial India, 1858-1939, David Omissi; ’Circle of iron’: African colonial employees and the interpretation of colonial rule in French West Africa, Emily Lynn Osborn; Negotiated spaces and contested terrain: men, women, and the law in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1939, Elizabeth Schmidt; The colonial development of concentration camps (1868-1902), Iain R. Smith and Andreas Stucki; Sleeping sickness epidemics and public health in the Belgian Congo, Maryinez Lyons; Sanitation and security: the imperial powers and the 19th-century Hajj, William R. Roff. Part III The Social World of Empire: The making of race in colonial Malaya: political economy and racial ideology, Charles Hirschman; Making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th-century colonial cultures, Ann L. Stoler; Cultural missionaries, maternal imperialists, feminist allies: British women activists in India, 1865-1945, Barbara Ramusack; Empire and the confessio

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Book SynopsisThis volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges'. The use of the adjective ''colonial'' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, 'knowledges' indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier's notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume, and there are four sub-themes: language and texts, categorical knowledge, the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today, even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Colonial Situation: The colonial situation: a theoretical approach, G. Balandier; Social theory and the study of Christian missions in Africa, T.O. Biedelman. Part II Language and Control: The command of language and the language of command, Bernard S. Cohn; Knowing the country: empire and information in India, C.A. Bayly; The prose of counter-insurgency, Ranajit Guha. Part III Categorical Knowledge: Two European images of non-European rule, Talal Asad; The ideology of ’tribalism’, Archie Mafeje; Race and the webs of empire: Aryanism from India to the Pacific, Tony Ballantyne. Part IV Measurement and Mapping: Number in the colonial imagination, Arjun Appadurai; ’Kafir time’: preindustrial temporal concepts and labour discipline in 19th-century colonial Natal, Keletso E. Atkins; Mapping an empire: cartographic and colonial rivalry in 17th-century Dutch and English North America, Benjamin Schmidt; Scientific exploration and empire, Robert A. Stafford. Part V Indigenous Knowledge: Environment, Medicine, Landscape: Introduction: disease, medicine and empire, David Arnold; Natural sciences, Patrick Harries; Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance: towards a global synthesis, Richard H. Grove; Beyond the colonial paradigm: African history and environmental history in large-scale perspective, William Beinart; Cars out of place: vampires, technology and labour in east and central Africa, Luise White. Part VI The Circulation of Knowledge: Global knowledge on the move: itineraries, Amerindian narratives, and deep histories of science, Neil Safier; A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1907 and 1929, Saul Dubow; Visible empire: scientific expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, Daniela Bleichmar; Name index.

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Book SynopsisHeritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond.Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games' players.Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Board Games in Postcolonial Game Studies; 2. "Two, Three… Many Vietnams". Anti-Colonial Struggle, Postcolonialism and Counterinsurgency in Historical Board Games; 3. Design Elements in Postcolonial Commercial Historical Board Wargames; 4. Colonialist and Anti-Colonialist Play in Spirit Island: A Ludo-Textual Analysis; 5. Unearthing Ancient Roots? Recognizing and Redefining Mexican Identity through Board Games; 6. The Brazilian (Gamer) Culture through the Lenses of Nostalgia: An Analysis of Brazil: Imperial; 7. Heritagisation and Heritage Conflict: The Finnish Afrikan tähti Board Game and its Change to Contested Heritage, 1951–2021; 8. No Meeples for Scramble for Africa. Online Debates on Playing Historical Trauma

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Book SynopsisDecolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. It is a book that points to why and how Sweden is to be included in global decolonial struggles.Sweden is often displayed as an ethnoracially homogenous country without any colonial history: an open and tolerant human rights champion, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and in solidarity with the Global South. For over twenty years, authors Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye have been challenging this account, pointing to Swedenâs involvement in colonial histories and legacies, its racialized nationhood, and embedded colonial structures. This important new book reflects a decolonial turn in research, emphasizing that coloniality is far from over, and that challenging global injustices remains an unfinished and open-ended process. Chapters in the book consider the resistance of the SÃmi people to Swedish colonialism, whether Sweden owes the Caribbean reparat

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first of its kind to showcase a range of fresh and expert perspectives on decolonising history education in Australia. The research-informed chapters by First Nations and non-Indigenous educators and scholars provide guidance on applying practical strategies for decolonising learning and teaching, and moving beyond the history wars'.History has long been the most contentious area of education in Australia. This book tackles the narrow and overtly politicised history wars' debates and foregrounds the need to re-examine impacts of settler-colonialism on Australia's history. First-hand knowledge and much-needed teaching practices are presented, demonstrating how decolonisation can be put into action through Australian history education. The chapters present a range of perspectives from the early years right through to higher education settings and argues that there is an increased need for greater awareness, appreciation, and willingness to explore and engage wi

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a general survey of the history of Jordan from ancient times to the present.The author covers the major events that took place in this region since ancient times. Starting with the history of the region in Biblical times, the author discusses the major developments in the ancient kingdoms of Edom, Moab, and Amon, which shared common borders with the Hebrew kingdoms. He then provides a detailed coverage of the events that took place during the Nabatean period.The author demonstrates how the character of this region had changed with the rise of Islam and the expansion of the Arabs and their encounter with the Byzantines. In addition, the author demonstrates how the rise of the Mamluk Sultanate affected the region. The author provides a detailed analysis explaining how the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan emerged and how the Ottomans and the British contributed to its rise. In addition to the political developments that took place in this region, the reader will be

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.Primarily focused on the Atlantic Slave Trade, this study places slavery within a broader world context and includes significant detailed coverage of Africa. With a chronological approach, it guides students through the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade to its expansion and eventual abolition. Its final chapters explore the legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade by comparing it to other systems of slavery outside of the Atlantic region, and analyze the persistence of modern-day slavery. As well as offering an analysis of historiography, the updated bibliography and conclusion, which considers the recent Black Lives Matter protests and their aftermath, provide a fresh account of how slavery has shaped our understanding of the modern world.<Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade 3. The Slave Trade Expands Greatly 4. The Slave Trade at its Height 5. Abolitionism 6. After Slavery? 7. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level. The aim of this book is to identify the underlying motivations for the individual aggressive and collective antisocial behaviour that we witness in democratic society today and offer changes to the orientation of the current community change practice in order to build a system that can better address the present needs of society.This work identifies the factors that are moving society toward extremism and authoritarianism focusing particularly on the community level. Given the turmoil in communities that is degrading democracy and leading to authoritarianism today, the issues of Community Solidarity and Pluralism (CS&P) must be attended to before the traditional political, economic, and mat

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day-by-day account of the explorer's travels and activities, richly illustrated with thematic maps.This work expands our understanding of Columbus's first voyage by mapping his sea and land experiences, offering both a historical and geographical exploration of his first voyage. Traveling chronologically through events, the reader builds a spatial insight into Columbus's perspectives that confused and confirmed his pre-existing notions of Asia and the Indies, driving him onward in search of new geographic evidence. Drawing from a diverse range of primary and secondary historical resources, this book is beautifully adorned with illustrations that facilitate an in-depth exploration of the connections between the places Columbus encountered and his subsequent social interactions with Indigenous people. This methodology allows the reader

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Book SynopsisInitially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism. The civil rights movement and the legislation it inspired suggested an end to institutionalized racism in the United States; while in the Global South, the emergence of independent states anticipated political liberation and increased prosperity. So, when racial discrimination, entrenched privilege, cold war politics, and fiscal reality dashed these hopes later in the decade, the world experienced a wave of protest. Conventional narratives of 1968 focus on student strikes, revolutions and coups, assassinations, and the reactionary backlash that they inspired.The chapters of Black 1968 reveal the imperfectly documented and heretofore unrecognized bonds that led peoples of African descent around the world to articulate new global conceptions of Blackness as a way to mount local challenges to racism, segregation, colonialism, economic exploitation, generational authority, and cultural chauvinism.This book

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1935, Modern Production Among Backward Peoples (now with a new foreword by Barbara Ingham) stands as a groundbreaking early contribution to development economics. In this pioneering work, the author challenges prevailing colonial assumptions about indigenous economic systems, rejecting the conventional wisdom that labelled tropical populations as primitiveâ. Instead, she presents a sophisticated analysis of labour dynamics in plantation economies and smallholdings across colonial territories.The author integrates political economy, classical theory, and institutional perspectives to demonstrate how labour supply responded to complex historical, social, and legal influences rather than inherent cultural limitations. Her examination of tropical development within the context of European colonial expansion offers remarkable perspectives that remain relevant to contemporary discussions of economic inequality and development. This book is a must-read for researchers of development economics and economic history to understand the intellectual foundations of their fields.

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.Table of ContentsPart I History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque; Chapter I A Peep Behind the Scenes—the Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant; Chapter II The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim the Armenian Captive; Chapter III Privateers of the Seven Years’ War; Chapter IV Privateers of the American War of Independence; Chapter V Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque Ships during the Wars of the French Revolution; Chapter VI Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America; Part II The Liverpool Slave Trade; Chapter VII How It Originated and Thrived; Chapter VIII Captain John Newton; Chapter IX The Massacre at Old Calabar; Chapter X The Abolition Movement; Chapter XI Horrors of the Middle Passage; Chapter XII Emoluments of the Traffic—A Millionaire’s Ventures; Chapter XIII The Corporation and the Slave Trade; Chapter XIV Captain Hugh Crow;

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Book SynopsisWhile scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temporarily to destinations beyond âthe Westâ. Such migrants are marginalised and depoliticised by debates on immigration policy, and thus there is an urgent need to develop nuanced understanding of these more privileged movements. In many ways, these are the modern-day equivalents of colonial settlers and expatriates, yet the continuities in their migration practices have rarely been considered.The New Expatriates advances our understanding of contemporary mobile professionals by engaging with postcolonial theories of race, culture and identity. The volume brings together authors and research from across a wide range of disciplines, seeking to evaluate the significance of the past in shaping contemporary expatriate mobilities and highlighting postcolonial continuities in relation to people, practices and imaginations. AcknowlTable of ContentsForeword Alan Lester 1. Examining ‘Expatriate’ Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals Anne-Meike Fechter and Katie Walsh 2. ‘New Shanghailanders’ or ‘New Shanghainese’: Western Expatriates’ Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai James Farrer 3. ‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster 4. Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong Pauline Leonard 5. Institutionalising the Colonial Imagination: Chinese Middlemen and the Transnational Corporate Office in Jakarta, Indonesia William H. Leggett 6. Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and Corporate Expatriate Wives Anne-Meike Fechter 7. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India Mari Korpela 8. From ‘Trucial State’ to ‘Postcolonial’ City? The Imaginative Geographies of British Expatriates in Dubai Anne Coles and Katie Walsh 9. ‘They Called Them Communists Then. . ./ What D’You Call ’Em Now?. . ./ Insurgents?’ Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twentieth century while providing insightful introductions to such conflicts as: African rebellions against colonial regimes in the early twentieth century, including the rebellion and infamous genocide of the Herero and Nama people in present-day Namibia; The African fronts of World War I and World War II, and the involvement of colonized African peoples in these global conflicts; Conflict surrounding the widespread decolonization of Africa in the 1950s and 1960s; Rebellion and civil war in Africa during the Cold War, when American and Soviet elements often intervened in efforts to turn African battlegrounds into Cold War Table of ContentsPart One: Introduction Part Two: War and Conflict in Africa (1900-1945) Chapter 1: Wars of Colonial Conquest (1900-36) Chapter 2: Africa and the World Wars (1914-18 and 1939-45) Part Three: War and Conflict in Africa (1945-2000) Chapter 3: Decolonization Wars (1947-90) Chapter 4: Civil Wars (1955-2000) Chapter 5: Inter-state Wars (1960-2000) Part Four: Documents Timeline Glossary Who’s who? Select Documents Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the foreign and foreigner from multiple perspectives and explores how Jung and Freud were more interested in the wide phenomenon of the foreign in the unconscious rather than in their own personal lives. She analyses cultural approaches to the archetype of the foreigner throughout history using literary, cultural (as seen in mythological texts and fairy tales) and psychological references, and interprets the scapegoating of foreign minorities as a projection of the monster onto the foreigner. The book includes contemporary perspectives on immigration and displacement throughout, from analysing patient case material, the archetypal needs of people who join terrorist groups, feelings of alienation, and the work of Palestinian-German psychologist Ahmad Mansour. Throughout this personal and highly topical study, Wieland-Burston questions and Trade Review"Joanne Wieland-Burston offers us a book that is quite clear, profound, and excellently documented, on our relationship with the foreigner within us, around us, and afar. It provides observation, investigation, analysis, and personal experience that are of practical use to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, researchers in the social sciences, and each one of us." - Christian Gaillard, Dr. Psy., training psychoanalyst and supervisor; former President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, former Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and author of The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation, Texas AM University Press"In this impressive and thoughtful book, Joanne Wieland-Burston helps us come to terms with the "other" in ourselves and in the world around us. This is a most timely and useful book, full of essential insights into the times we live in." - Murray Stein, PhD, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul"Joanne Wieland-Burston having been herself involved with migration and alienation explores the theme of the foreigner from manifold angles based on her background as a Jungian analyst and her studies in literature and art history. Her fascinating and differentiated work centers mainly on the modern faces of the foreigner. Giving deep insight in the dominant topic of our culture she deals with the archetypal roots, cultural complexes, scapegoating, alienation of the self and brings all the aspects down to the practical work in psychotherapy. A truly wonderful and inspiring book!" -Kathrin Asper, PhD, supervisor, training analyst and lecturer at ISAPZURICH"Joanne Wieland-Burston offers us a book that is quite clear, profound, and excellently documented, on our relationship with the foreigner within us, around us, and afar. It provides observation, investigation, analysis, and personal experience that are of practical use to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, researchers in the social sciences, and each one of us." - Christian Gaillard, Dr. Psy., training psychoanalyst and supervisor; former President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, former Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, and author of The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation"In this impressive and thoughtful book, Joanne Wieland-Burston helps us come to terms with the 'other' in ourselves and in the world around us. This is a most timely and useful book, full of essential insights into the times we live in." - Murray Stein, PhD, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul"Joanne Wieland-Burston having been herself involved with migration and alienation explores the theme of the foreigner from manifold angles based on her background as a Jungian analyst and her studies in literature and art history. Her fascinating and differentiated work centers mainly on the modern faces of the foreigner. Giving deep insight in the dominant topic of our culture she deals with the archetypal roots, cultural complexes, scapegoating, alienation of the self and brings all the aspects down to the practical work in psychotherapy. A truly wonderful and inspiring book!" -Kathrin Asper, PhD, supervisor, training analyst and lecturer at ISAPZURICHTable of ContentsList of figuresPreface Introduction 1. Deconstructing the archetype of the foreigner 2. The archetypal experience of meeting the foreigner and being one in early cultures, mythologies and literary texts 3. Monster making/scapegoating: one way of dealing with the foreigner 4. Alienation in the modern world: feeling foreign 5. The encounter with the foreigner in the psychotherapeutic context PostscriptIndex

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Book SynopsisIndia's partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region's population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle East, North America and Europe.Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to migration and diaspora this book explores the experiences of Bengali Muslim migrants through this period of upheaval and transformation. It draws on over 200 interviews conducted in Britain, India, and Bangladesh, tracing migration and settlement within, and from, the Bengal delta region in the period after 1947. Focussing on migration and diaspora from below', it teases out fascinating hidden' migrant stories, including those of women, Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pre-histories of Mobility and Immobility: The Bengal delta and the ‘eastern zone’, 1857-1947 2. Dispositions and Destinations in the Bengal Muslim Diaspora, 1947-2007 3. Belonging, Status, and Religion: Migrants on the ‘peripheries’ 4. Making Home: Claiming and contesting diasporic space in Britain 5. ‘Always/already migrants’: Brides, marriage, and migration 6. Building a tazia, Becoming a paik: ‘Bihari’ identity amid a hostile Bengali universe 7. Rituals of Diaspora: The Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space 8. Narrating Diaspora: Community histories and the politics of assimilation. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisChallenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe.Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment.Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, thisTrade Review'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'Simonton ... presents an exciting body of work that simultaneously offers broad overviews and detailed microâ-studies.'Jennifer Aston, The Economic History Review'Overall, the Handbook is a vast and empirically rich collection of essays, which is a valuable resource for researchers, and will undoubtedly be informative for both scholarship and teaching. Students interested in gender, urban history and their relationship will also find much here, and will particularly benefit from the helpful advice for further reading included at the end of the book. The collection makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the gendering of urban experiences, spaces, and places, and what ultimately resonates throughout the volume is the exciting range and variety of current work on gender in an urban context.'Laura Harrison, Women's History ReviewTable of ContentsGender and the Urban Experience – Introduction PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction Anne Montenach1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters Anna Bellavitis2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns Cathryn Spence3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns Deborah Simonton4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution Hannah Barker5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender ApproachMontserrat Carbonell-Esteller6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuela MartiniPART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction Elaine Chalus7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England Amanda Flather8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City inEarly Nineteenth-Century Britain Katie Barclay9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study Kemille S. Moore10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa Rebecca M. Bender11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku Riitta Laitinen12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Sanne Muurling and Marion PluskotaPART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction Nina Javette Koefoed13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York Sarah Rees Jones14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian TownsEleonora Canepari15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 My Hellsing16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 Jane Rendall17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen Niels Nyegaard18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 Åsa Karlsson SjögrenPART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction Marjo Kaartinen19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome Renata Ago20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian ConfraternityAna Marinković21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities Anne Carol22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces Despina Stratigakos23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789 Kimberly Alexander24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930 Teija Försti PART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction Katie Barclay25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery Merridee L. Bailey26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico CitySonya Lipsett-Rivera28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns Heikki Lempa29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair Mark D. Steinberg30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century ScotlandJeff MeekPART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction Nigel Worden31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800 Leo J. Garofalo32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company TownJean Gelman Taylor33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta Clare A. Lyons34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India Mary Hancock35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns Penny Russell36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Vivian Bickford-Smith

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Book SynopsisA milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of ''gentlemanly capitalism'', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and how these ties were undone to produce the post-colonial world of today. Containing a significantly expanded and updated Foreword and Afterword, this third edition assesses the development of the debate since the book's original publication, discusses the imperial era in the context of the controversy over globalization, and shows how the study of the age of empires remains relevant to understanding the post-colonial world. Covering the full extent of the British empire from China to South America and taking a broad chronological view Trade Review"Cain and Hopkins’ British Imperialism reinvigorated the debate about the ‘Expansion of England’ over twenty years ago, and today its argument is as ambitious, intriguing, and provocative as ever. A triumph of scholarly synthesis that spans centuries and continents, it remains one of the truly indispensable texts for understanding the origins of empire."Allan Allport, Syracuse University, USA"British Imperialism still stands as expansive imperial history at its best: simultaneously methodical yet bold, detailed yet clear, its main arguments sparkle with a subversive revisionism that makes it fully deserving of its continuing position as essential reading on Britain’s global relationships in the modern age."Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UK"The work of Cain and Hopkins is essential for understanding the scope and strength of the British Empire. While no one frame of analysis is sufficient to encompass the full complexity of the British Empire, finance capital was critical to its influence, expansion, and power relative to other contemporary states and empires. No work explains the scope of British financial power or its role in determining global relationships in the modern period better than British Imperialism."Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, USA"Cain and Hopkins’ British Imperialism reinvigorated the debate about the ‘Expansion of England’ over twenty years ago, and today its argument is as ambitious, intriguing, and provocative as ever. A triumph of scholarly synthesis that spans centuries and continents, it remains one of the truly indispensable texts for understanding the origins of empire."Allan Allport, Syracuse University, USA"British Imperialism still stands as expansive imperial history at its best: simultaneously methodical yet bold, detailed yet clear, its main arguments sparkle with a subversive revisionism that makes it fully deserving of its continuing position as essential reading on Britain’s global relationships in the modern age."Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, UK"The work of Cain and Hopkins is essential for understanding the scope and strength of the British Empire. While no one frame of analysis is sufficient to encompass the full complexity of the British Empire, finance capital was critical to its influence, expansion, and power relative to other contemporary states and empires. No work explains the scope of British financial power or its role in determining global relationships in the modern period better than British Imperialism."Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, USAPraise for previous editions:"A magisterial account of 300 years of British history, properly putting the empire right at the centre." Will Hutton, The Guardian "A stunning mixture of narrative, analysis and brillian historiographical deconstruction." Denis MacShane, New Statesman "As erudite as it is stimulating."Le Monde Diplomatique "Essential reading for anyone working in the City." Sunday TelegraphTable of ContentsForeword: The Continuing Debate on Empire. Part 1. 1. Introduction: 1688-1914. 1. The Problem and Context 2. Prospective: Aristocracy, Finance and Empire, 1688-1850 Part 2. The Gentlemanly Order: 1850-1914.. 3. ‘Something Peculiar to England’: The Service Sector, Wealth and Power, 1850-1914 4. Gentlmanly Capitalism and Economic Policy: City, Government and the ‘National Interest’, 1850-1914 5. ‘The Great Emporium’: Foreign Trade and Invisible Earnings, 1850-1914 6. Two Nations? Foreign Investment and the Domestic Economy. 1850-1914 7. Challenging Cosmopolitanism: The Tariff Problem and Imperial Unity, 1880-1914 Part 3. The Wider World: 1850-1914. 8. ‘An Extension of the Old Society’: Britain and the Colonies of Settlement, 1850-1914 9. Calling the New World into Existence: South America, 1815-1914 10. ‘Meeting her Obligations to her English Creditors’: India, 1858-1914 11. ‘The Imperious and Irresistable Necessity’: Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1882-1902 12. ‘We Offer Ourselves as Supporters’: The Ottoman Empire and Persia, 1838-1914 13. ‘Maintaining the Credit-Worthiness of the Chinese Governmant’: China, 1839-1911 Part 4. Redividing the World. 14. Britain, Germany and ‘Imperialist’ War, 1900-1914 15. Retrospect: 1688-1914 Part 5. The Empire in the Twentieth Century 16. The Imperialist Dynamic: From World War I to Decolonisation Part 6. The Gentlemanly Order, 1914-39. 17. ‘The Power of Constant Renewal’: Services, Finance and the Gentlemanly Elite, 1914-39 18. Industry, the City and the Decline of the International Economy, 1914-39 19. Upholding Gentlemanly Values: The American Challenge, 1914-31 20. ‘A Latter-Day Expression of Finanial Imperialism’: TheOrigins of the Sterling Area, 1931-39 Part 7. The Wider World, 1914-49 21. Maintaining Financial Discipline: The Dominions, 1914-39 22. ‘A New Era of Colonial Ambitions’: South America, 1914-39 23. ‘Financial Stability and Good Government’: India, 1914-47 24. ‘Playing the Game’ in Tropical Africa, 1914-40 25. ‘The only Great Undeveloped Market in the World’: China, 1911-49 Part 8. Losing an Empire and Finding a Role, 1939-2000 26. The City, the Sterling Area and Decolonisation 27. Conclusion: 1688-2000 Afterword:Empires and Globalization. Maps. Further Reading. 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Book SynopsisWhat were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? How did political expansion, cross-cultural trade, scientific exploration and discrete religious practices require new ways of rendering the unknown visible, and of making what was seen knowable? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures argues that distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had epistemic consequences: in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. The essays here consider prints and panoramas, sculpted works of stone and corn pith cane - and their physical presence in the lived world - calling attention to the materiality and sensuality of visual experience. Anchored in writings on art history and visual culture, Seeing Across Cultures also engages histories of transcultural encounters and vision.Trade Review'Ranging from viceregal Mexico to Akbar's India, the authors of this timely and diverse collection practice what theorists of early modern globalization have only lately preached: that the world was understood to be connected and mutually intelligible in the age of sail and gunpowder. There was plenty of wonder, mutual discovery, and violent misunderstanding, but the hard nationalist and regionalist divisions came later, and for too long they clouded scholars' vision of the early modern past. In addition to their efforts to reveal early modern worlds in their own terms, the authors offer new insights to scholars beyond art history both by rigorous comparisons and through re-examination of venerable theoretical models and disciplinary boundaries. It is sure to provoke considerable discussion, and likely some controversy.' Kris Lane, Tulane University, USA 'The latest entry from Ashgate in one of the most innovative and stimulating new art history publication series, 'Transculturalisms 1400-1700,' this collection of essays takes up the complex issue of what some scholars are calling 'visuality,' a conception of vision itself in a given culture... a fascinating collection...' Cassone 'The most important question these essays raise ... especially from the perspective of early modern scholars not in the field of art history, is the problem of commensurability. Commensurability has become a central theme of early modern studies as the field has moved away from its European roots and become increasingly global. The study of encounters in the early modern world inevitably raises the question of how culture translates across racial, ethnic, and geographic divides, and this issue becomes more urgent as scholars abandon their Eurocentric focus and binary categories of European versus other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... thought-provoking ...' Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: geographies of sight, Dana Leibsohn; Part I Perspective and Mimesis: Perspective and its discontents or St Lucy's eyes, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia M. Mochizuki; Perceiving blackness, envisioning power: Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico, Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and complementary visions of the court of the Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II Blindness and Memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness, Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease, decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman. Part III Colonial Visualities: Without a face: voicing Moctezuma II's image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen; Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India, ca.1750-1858, Natasha Eaton. Part IV Seeing Across Time: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago; Index.

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Book SynopsisGermany''s imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an ''extraordinary body of historical scholarship'', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to refTrade Review’This volume is an extraordinary achievement. Written by leading authorities in the field of modern German history, it provides a rich and up-to-date survey of the vast historiography of Imperial Germany. Without doubt, this latest Ashgate Companion will become an indispensable reference work for students and researchers alike.’ Stefan Goebel, University of Kent, UK ’What distinguished the German Second Empire from other nation-states and what does this mean for subsequent German history? Such concerns have stimulated innovative research and fierce debates. The contributors to this volume analyse this historiography in a wide-ranging, up-to-date and accessible way. This is a valuable resource for anyone studying this complex and dynamic period of German history.’ John Breuilly, London School of Economics, UK ’As Matthew Jefferies reminds us, German history remains as highly charged with relevance as ever. Students can find no better guide to current research, new departures, and grounds of debate than this comprehensive and carefully judged Companion.’ Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA ’This scintillating collection presents the state of the art on the German Empire - what made it tick, how it fits within the larger sweep of history, why scholars disagree about its problems and prospects. The chapters expand the limits of the genre, offering remarkable breadth and unique depth. With its vivid prose and judicious analysis, this book will be indispensable to novices and experts alike.’ James Retallack, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Matthew Jefferies. Part I State and Monarchy: Imperial governance, Katharine Anne Lerman; Prussian governance, Hartwin Spenkuch; The German monarchies, Frank Lorenz Müller. Part II Politics and Society: Elections, Thomas Kühne; Liberalism, Eric Kurlander; Conservatism, Oded Heilbronner; Nationalism, Mark Hewitson; Antisemitism, Lars Fischer; Political Catholicism, Jeffrey T. Zalar; Socialism, Stefan Berger and Stefan Braun. Part III Culture and Identity: Particularism and localism, Jennifer Jenkins; Popular culture, Kaspar Maase; Gender, Ann Taylor Allen; Religion, James E. Bjork; Class, Dennis Sweeney. Part IV Economy and Environment: Trade policy and globalization, Cornelius Torp; Agriculture labour, Simon Constantine; The environment and environmentalism, Thomas Rohkrämer; Population: demography and mobility, Steve Hochstadt. Part V International Relations, Militarism and War: International relations, Andreas Rose; Militarism, Benjamin Ziemann; The army, William Mulligan; The navy and the sea, Jan Rüger; Germany and the origins of the First World War, Annika Mombauer; Colonialism and genocide, Jürgen Zimmerer. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering collection of essays charts an exciting new field in British studies, 'the new imperial history'. Leading scholars from history, literature and cultural studies tackle problems of identity, modernity and difference in eighteenth-century Britain and the empire. They examine, from interdisciplinary perspectives, the reciprocal influences of empire and culture, the movements of peoples, practices and ideas effected by slavery, diaspora and British dominance, and ways in which subaltern, non-western and non-elite people shaped British power and knowledge. The essays move through Britain, America, India, Africa and the South Pacific in testament to the networks of people, commodities and entangled pasts forged by Britain's imperial adventures. Based on ground-breaking research, these analyses of the imperial dimensions of British culture and identities in global contexts will challenge the notion that empire was something that happened 'out there', and they demonstrate its lTrade Review" A New Imperial History will appeal not only to scholars in British Imperial history, but also to an interdisciplinary audience. Scholars in other areas, such as women's studies, English and Asian literature, anthropology, and linguistics will find it enlightening as well." History"...this collection offers several stimulating starting points for further study and especially for comparative work with other imperial and colonial places." - William and Mary Quarterly, Allison Games, Georgetown University"There is a formulaic quality to the collection: one essay innovatively addressing race, class, and gender is followed by another daringly flouting hidebound convention in an exploratory study of class, gender, and race, and is followed in turn by a chapter fearlessly controverting orthodoxies on gender race, and class." The International History Review J.C.D. Clark, University of KansasTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: histories, empires, modernities Kathleen Wilson; Part I. Empire at Home: Difference, Representation, Experience: 1. Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Margaret Hunt; 2. An 'entertainment of oddities': fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s Gillian Russell; 3. The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism Felicity A. Nussbaum; 4. Asians in Britain: negotiations of identity through self-representation Michael H. Fisher; Part II. Promised Lands: Imperial Aspirations and Practice: 5. 'Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance': gentility, knowledge, and the British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century Philip J. Stern; 6. Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of 'responsible government' in early British India Sudipta Sen; 7. 'Green and pleasant lands': England and the Holy Land in plebeian millenarian culture, c. 1790–1820 Eitan Bar-Yosef; 8. Protestant evangelicalism, British imperialism and Crusonian identity Hans Turley; Part III. Time, Identity, and Atlantic Interculture: 9. Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery Walter Johnson; 10. The Green Atlantic: radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century Kevin Whelan; 11. Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero Nicholas Rogers; 12. Ethnicity in the British Atlantic world, 1688–1830 Colin Kidd; Part IV. Englishness, Gender, and the Arts of Discovery: 13. Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770–1775 Kate Teltscher; 14. Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India Durba Ghosh; 15. Ornament and use: Mai and Cook in London Harriet Guest; Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages Kathleen Wilson; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the Anglo-Maratha Campaigns of 1803 which represented the last serious indigenous obstacle to the formation of the British Raj. It re-examines the campaigns and assumptions concerning 'the Military Revolution' and shows that British victory hinged on economics and military intelligence, not superior discipline, drill and technology.Trade Review'… it is unlikely that the author's analysis of that fascinating and turbulent period at the turn of the 19th century will be bettered for some considerable time … first modern analysis of the Anglo-Maratha wars … highly recommended.' Chowkidar'Randolf Cooper's study of the Anglo-Maratha conflict of 1803 makes a valuable contribution to the new military history that examines not simply the development of warfare, but its complex interaction with wider technological, political, socio-economic and cultural factors.' Rusi Journal'In short, drawing on a wide reading of British and Indian material, and displaying a commendable ability to understand the different military cultures of the combatants, this important book will not only be the leading work on its subject, but also one of more general interest.' The Journal of Military History'In all this, Cooper skilfully combines his military scholarship with his insights into wider issues and into the unique features of the Indian polity, heavily dependent as it was on the dynamics of the South Asian military economy. … this is no less than a revolutionary book. By convincingly explaining the E.I.C.'s conquest of India in the broader context of the South Asian military economy, it aims at the hard core of old imperial historiography and thus prepares the road to re-interpretations in the field of colonial history that are bound to do far more justice to the internal dynamics of Indian society than we have been able to do so far.' Itinerario'… lucid and culturally-nuanced account of the key battles which comprised the Anglo-Maratha War of 1803–1805 … anyone interested in how the British succeeded on Indian battlefields would be well advised to consult this work …' Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'… brings out very interesting and revealing conclusions regarding the misconceptions perpetuated by the British authors about the Marathas … The book is a refreshing attempt at objective analysis of convenient stereotypes … highly recommended …' U.S.I. Journal'The book constructs a useful model of the political economy of the Maratha wars to question the ethnocentric assumptions of British military superiority as well as the nationalistic explanations of the Maratha effect … He matches the rich details for almost every important battle in the period by an equally rigourous attempt to engage with the mooted issues of the transition to colonialism … In other words, whereas the book brings out the complexity of the Maratha military culture with remarkable insight, it essentialises and simplifies that of the British … The dexterous handling of the military archives that has enriched our understanding of the Maratha political culture.' Journal of Modern Asian StudiesTable of ContentsList of maps; Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration and references; List of abbreviations used in the references; Introduction; 1. Maratha military culture; 2. British perceptions and the road to war in 1803; 3. The Deccan campaign of 1803; 4. The Hindustan campaign of 1803; 5. 'Coming in'; 6. The anatomy of victory; Appendix I: chronology of Anglo-South Asian wars; Appendix II: British troop strengths and casualties for the Hindustan and Deccan campaigns 1803; Appendix III: Governor-General Wellesley's 'Maratha' proclamation of 1803; Appendix IV: mercenary pension records; Appendix V: the Marathas' employment of mercenaries in historic perspective; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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