Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisDecolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms.Offering contributions from scholars, educators, artists, and activists from varied disciplines, the volume highlights how arts can reveal intersectional forms of oppression, inform critical understandings, and rebuild transnational solidarities across geopolitical borders. The contributors present forms of inquiry, creative writing, art, and reflection that grapple with issues of colonialism, racism, and epistemological violence to illustrate the power of decolonial arts pedagogies in formal and informal education.Using a range of multiple and intersectional critical lenses through which readers can examine ways in which transnational feminist theorizing and art pedagogy inform, shape, and help strategize activism in various spaces, it will appeTable of Contents1. Introduction: Decolonial Arts, Pedagogies, and Activism across Borders. 2. The Black School: A Radical Space for Art, Pedagogy, and Social Transformation. 3. Ghost Rider: Performing Fugitive Indigeneity. 4. Peju Layiwola: A Multigenerational African-Centered Womanist Art, Theory, and Praxis. 5. Walking Detroit: Witnessing the Tracks of History in Place. 6. Reflejando Historias: Collective Action in Conversation with the Chicago ACT Collective. 7. Dreaming a Decolonial Praxis: Dreams, Visual Interpretations, and Decolonial Aesthetics. 8. Quiet as Refusal: Feelings in Decolonial Arts Pedagogy. 9. Imagining Otherwise and an End to Structures of Supremacy. 10. Ch’ixi Women Narratives: Walking toward a Decolonial Aesthetics. 11. Las Cartas de las Nadie/The Letters from Nobody: Poetry Workshop as a Liberatory Art Praxis, Interview with Lisa Mirella Corti

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Book SynopsisThis translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the Peruvian thinker Aníbal Quijano.Segato begins with an overview of Quijano's conceptual framework, emphasizing the power and richness of his theory and its relevance to a range of fields. Each of the seven subsequent chapters presents a scenario in which a persistent colonial structure or form of subjectivity can be identified. These essays address urgent issues of gender, sexuality, race and racism, and indigenous forms of life. They set the decolonial perspective to work, and are connected by two central preoccupations: the critical analysis of coloniality and the effort to reimagine anthropology as responsive anthropology, a practice at once answerable and useful to the communities previously regarded as the objects of ethnographic thought.The Critique of the ColonialiTrade Review"Segato’s book must be read as a vaccine against the pandemic of authoritarianism and hatred, nurtured by sexism, racism, and colonialism."Luiz Eduardo Soares, State University of Rio de JaneiroTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Introduction: The Coloniality of Power and Responsive Anthropology 1. Aníbal Quijano and the Coloniality of Power 2. Gender and Coloniality: From Communitarian to Colonial Modern Patriarchy 3. Sex and the Norm: On the State-Corporate-Media-Christian Front 4. Let Each People Weave Its Own History: The Coloniality of Law and the "Saviors" of Indigenous Children 5. Black Oedipus: Coloniality and the Foreclosure of Gender and Race 6. The Deep Rivers of the Latin American Race: A Rereading of Mestizaje 7. The Color of the Prison in Latin America: Notes on the Coloniality of Criminal Law 8. Toward a University for Our America

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Book SynopsisDespite rich archives of work on race and the global economy, most notably by scholars of colour and Global South intellectuals, the discipline of Political Economy has largely avoided an honest confrontation with how race works within the domains it studies, not least within markets. By way of corrective, this book draws together scholarship on the material function of race at various scales in the global political economy. The collective provocation of the contributors to this volume is that race has been integral to the formation of capitalism as extensively laid out by the racial capitalism literature and takes on new forms in the novel market spaces of neoliberalism. The chapters within this volume also reinforce that the current political conjuncture, marked by the ascension of neo-fascist power, cannot be defined by an exceptional intrusion of racism, nor can its racism be dismissed as epiphenomenal. Raced Markets will be of great value to scholars, stuTable of ContentsRaced Markets: Prefatory Note David RoedigerIntroduction: Raced Markets Lisa Tilley and Robbie Shilliam1. Crusoe, Friday and the Raced Market Frame of Orthodox Economics TextbooksMatthew Watson2. ‘We All Have a Responsibility to Each Other’: Valuing Racialised Bodies in the Neoliberal BioeconomySibille Merz and Ros Williams3. Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare StateGurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood4. Racism and Far Right Imaginaries Within Neo-liberal Political EconomyRichard Saull5. Detroit’s Municipal Bankruptcy: Racialised Geographies of AusteritySawyer Phinney6. Refugees as Surplus Population: Race, Migration and Capitalist Value RegimesPrem Kumar Rajaram

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.Trade Review'Going far beyond the "sociology of education" framework, the study marks a noteworthy intervention in the academic debate on India's tryst with modernity ... an important contribution.' - The Australian Journal of AnthropologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: the seductions of capital 1 Practical minds, solid builders, and sane opinions 2 The marble mirage: constructing the Orient 3 The garden of rational delights 4 Secularism, the citizen, and Hindu contextualism 5 The management of water: capitalism, class, and science 6 The order of men: sentiments of the metropolis, settlements of civil society 7 Conclusion: ‘post-coloniality’, national identity, globalisation, and the simulacra of the real

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Book SynopsisGrouped around the most salient themes, this compilation includes discussions of metropolitan politics, gender, sexuality, race, culture, nationalism and economy, and offers a comparative and interdisciplinary assessment of decolonization.The process of decolonization transformed colonial and European metropolitan societies culturally, politically and economically. Its legacy continues to affect postcolonial politics as well as cultural and intellectual life in Europe and its former colonies and overseas territories. The Decolonization Reader will provide scholars and students with a thorough understanding of the impact of decolonization on world history and cross-cultural encounters worldwide.Table of ContentsReading Decolonization: An Introduction 1. Defining Decolonization 2. Metropolitan Pand International Politics 3. Economy and Labour 4 . Nationalism and Anticolonialism 5. Race and Ethnicity 6. Gender and Sexuality 7. Culture and Contests 8. Postcolonialism: After Decolonization

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Book SynopsisTrade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600 provides an accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It explains why and how seafarers visited the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and looks at the history of the communities that lived around the ocean as they responded to the challenges and opportunities which sea trade opened for them. Historical thinking on the subject of Empire is naturally controversial as is shown by this survey of the first four stages of early Atlantic colonisation from the conquest of the Canary Islands to the creation of slave plantations in Brazil. This history of the Atlantic Empires is an authoritative introduction to an essential topic in world history.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Colonising the Atlantic islands 2. The merchandise of Africa 3. Spain and the ocean crossing 4. Portugal and the South Atlantic; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time, including the central theme of nationalism, the impact of Cold War pressures on India and the transition from colonial control to a precarious independence.How did Jawaharlal Nehru come to lead the Indian nationalist movement, and how did he sustain his leadership as the first Prime Minister of independent India? Nehru''s vision of India, its roots in Indian politics and society, as well as its viability have been central to historical and present-day views of India.Connecting the domestic and international aspects of his political life and ideology, this study provides a fascinating insight into Nehru, his times and his legacy. Trade Review'A fresh presentation.' - The Hindu'Nehru is fun to read: lively, provocative … Zachariah cares deeply about his subject and has many good ideas.' - Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, CHRONOLOGY, PREFACE, Introduction, 1 The making of a colonial intellectual, 2 The young Gandhian, 3 ‘Ineffectual angel’, 1927–39, 4 The end of the Raj, Interlude – Envisioning the new India, 5 Consolidating the state, c. 1947–55, 6 High Nehruvianism and its decline, c. 1955–63, Conclusion: death, succession, legacy, NOTES, FURTHER READING, INDEX

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Book SynopsisAn absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and Europe and American colonialism, using case studies and recent forms of interpretive analysis. Now published for the first time in paperback.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Photography, “race”, and post-colonial theory 2 Laying ghosts to rest 3 Rewriting the Nubian figure in the photograph: Maxime Du Camp’s “cultural hypochondria” 4 “A pure labor of love”: A publishing history of The People of India 5 Unmasking the colonial picturesque: Samuel Bourne’s photographs of Barrackpore Park 6 Picturing alterity: Representational strategies in Victorian type photographs of Ottoman men 7 The many lives of Beato’s “beauties” 8 Colonial collecting: French women and Algerian cartes postales 9 Photography and the emergence of the Pacific cruise: Rethinking the representational crisis in colonial photography 10 Advertising paradise: Hawai‘i in art, anthropology, and commercial photography 11 Capturing race: Anthropology and photography in German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps during World War I 12 Germaine Krull and L’Amitié noire: World War II and French colonialist film 13 “A better place to live”: Government agency photography and the transformations of the Puerto Rican Jíbaro

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Book SynopsisThe study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged the central concepts of British history. Brewer argues that the power of the British state increased dramatically when it was forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire. In An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone (himself no stranger to controversy), the leading historians of the eighteenth century put the Brewer thesis under the spotlight. Like the Sinews of Power itself, this is a major advance in the study of Britain''s first empire.Trade Review`... marvellous volume. ... This volume, however, is far more than a set of papers on the `fiscal-military state'. It is a guide to the recent thought about the pattern and structure of the British state and the British empire in jthe eighteenth century. Its importance can scarcely be exaggerated.' - History TodayTable of ContentsC.A. Bayly, Cambridge University; Thomas Ertman, Harvard University; John Brewer, UCLA; John Robertson, Oxford University; Daniel Baugh, Cornell University; E.A. Wrigley, Cambridge University; Joanna Innes, Oxford University; Kathleen Wilson, SUNY, New York; Linda Colley, Yale University; Ned C. Landsman, SUNY, New York; Nicholas Canny, University College, Galway

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic and political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera and the politics of public health policy. It makes a significant contribution to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.Trade Review"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia."- Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011Table of Contents1. Cholera in Russia 2. Saratov on the Eve of the Epidemic 3. Cholera in Saratov, 1892 4. Sanitised Politics and the Politics of Medicine 5. The Revival of Cholera: 1904-1914 Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and iconography of these seminal celebrations. The focus is therefore very much on political culture in a broad sense, and changing perceptions and presentations over time. Highlights of the book include an overview by David Cannadine relating the topic to ornamentalism, invented tradition and transitions in British culture. Although the book is mainly concerned with the British Empire, Martin Shipway â a leading historian and cultural analyst of French decolonization â contributes an acute summary of how the same âmomentâ was handled differently in the other great European empires. There are detailed and lively studies by noted specialists of the immediate coming of Independence to India/PakistanTable of Contents1. Preface Susan Williams, Robert Holland and Terry A. Barringer 2. Introduction: Independence Day Ceremonials in Historical Perspective David Cannadine 3. Independence Day and the Crown Philip Murphy 4. ‘‘At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour’’: Lord Mountbatten and the British Media at Indian Independence Chandrika Kaul 5. The Ending of an Empire: From Imagined Communities to Nation States in India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan 6. Casting ‘‘the Kingdome into another mold’’: Ghana’s Troubled Transition to Independence Richard Rathbone 7. Whose Freedom at Midnight? Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966 Clem Seecharan 8. Freedom at Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe’s Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April 1980 Sue Onslow 9. ‘Transfer of Destinies’, or Business as Usual? Republican Invented Tradition and the Problem of ‘Independence’ at the End of the French Empire Martin Shipway 10. Merdeka! Looking Back at Independence Day in Malaya, 31 August 1957 A.J. Stockwell

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Book SynopsisThe social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, the titles in The Sociology of Development set of the International Library of Sociology explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at administratores and academics, thse studies are central to Development Studies.Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Fishing Industry in Malaya and Indonesia; Chapter 2 Economics of the Industry in Two Malay States (Kelantan and Trengganu); Chapter 3 Structure of a Sample Fishing Community; Chapter 4 Planning and Organization of Fishing Activities; Chapter 5 Ownership of Equipment and Management of Capital; Chapter 6 The Credit System in Financing Production; Chapter 7 Marketing Organization; Chapter 8 The System of Distributing Earnings; Chapter 9 Output and Levels of Income; Chapter 10 Fishermen In The General Peasant Economy; Chapter 11 Fisheries Development And The Malay Peasant;

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Book SynopsisThe American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not enjoy accurate representation in the assemblies meant a complex political and social milieu throughout this turbulent time. The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens brings to light the world of the Southern backcountry that engendered its role in the Revolutionary War. With careful attention to political, social, and military history, Walker concentrates on the communities and events not typically covered in books on the Revolutionary War. Through government documents, autobiographies, correspondence, and diaries, The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens gives studTrade ReviewKings Mountain and Cowpens exemplified the extent to which the American Revolution was a civil war that divided many communities. Melissa Walker presents a lucid narrative of these pivotal battles. Her superb selection of primary sources includes both dramatic eyewitness accounts and compelling vignettes of backcountry life. Cynthia A. Kierner, author of A Perfect Temper: The Life and Times of Martha Jefferson RandolphRoutledge’s Critical Moments in American History series is designed to “give students a window into the historian’s craft through concise readable books…[that] bring together the best scholarship and engaging primary sources…” (p. viii). Melissa Walker’s The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens does exactly this in a user-friendly format that will attract undergraduates...Walker has written a book that demonstrates the complexity of the American Revolutionary War in the southern backcountry...[and those] who want a well-written synopsis of thistopic for use in a college classroom, should consider this book.Michael P. Gabriel, Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsChapter one: The Southern Backcountry Before the American RevolutionChapter two: Imperial Crisis in the SouthChapter three: Revolutionary War and the Challenge of Winning Hearts and MindsChapter four: The South’s first civil war: the fall of Charles Town and its aftermath Chapter five: Kings Mountain: "first link in a chain"Chapter six: The Battle of Cowpens: Victory for "The Flying Army"Chapter seven: DenouementDocuments

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Book SynopsisBetween 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the expansion of the Atlantic economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Until relatively recently, comparatively little attention was paid to the perspectives, daily experiences, hopes, and especially the political ideas of the enslaved who played such a central role in the making of the Atlantic world. Over the past decades, however, huge strides have been made in the study of the history of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world. This collection brings together some of the key contributions to this growing body of scholarship, showing a range of methodological approaches, that can be used to underTrade Review'This excellent set of essays gathered and introduced by Laurent Dubois and Julius Scott will become a classic of its kind -- useful to scholars, teachers, and readers of history as long as we want to understand the world of race and class we live in.'— Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History'Any course on Atlantic revolutions would benefit from this anthology. It provides an important counter-weight to more Euro-centric accounts of the Age of Revolution by showing how enslaved people understood and re-imagined their role within the societies that had enslaved them.' — John D. Garrigus, author of Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue'Laurent Dubois and Julius Scott have put together an up-to-date collection of the most interesting literature on the formation of the Black Atlantic, which could easily form the core of a course on the subject. They have been particularly careful to find literature that reveals the dynamic nature of Afro-Atlantic culture and its engagement with the political and cultural dimensions of the Americas.'— John Thornton'An extraordinarily rich and skilfully assembled collection, and well suited to classroom use, this represents a valuable contribution to an increasingly sophisticated field.' – Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContents Series Editor’s Preface Preface Introduction Part I: People and Ideas in Circulation David Barry Gaspar, "’A Dangerous Spirit of Liberty’: Slave Rebellion in the West Indies in the 1730s" Richard Sheridan, "The Jamaican Slave Insurrection Scare of 1776 and the American Revolution," Neville A.T. Hall, "Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage from the Danish West Indies," Julius Scott, "The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution" Part II: Atlantic Generations Richard Gray, "The Papacy and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Lourenço da Silva, The Capuchins, and the Decisions of the Holy Office," Ira Berlin, "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America," Emily Clark and Virginia Meacham Gould, "The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852," Part III: Africa in the Americas John Thornton, "African Soldiers in the Haitian Revolution," João Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, selections. Kenneth Bilby, "Swearing by the Past, Swearing to the Future: Sacred Oaths, Alliances, and Treaties Among the Guianese and Jamaican Maroons," Part IV: Insurrection and Emancipation in the Atlantic Matthew Childs, The 1812 Aponte Rebellion and the Struggle Against Slavery in Cuba Eric Williams, "The Slaves and Slavery," Steven Hahn, "‘Extravagant Expectations’ of Freedom: Rumour, Political Struggle, and the Christmas Insurrection Scare of 1865 in the American South," Rebecca Scott, "Reclaiming Gregoria’s Mule: The Meanings of Freedom in the Arimao and Caunao Valleys, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1880-1889," Permission Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novelsthat is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire de Duras, and Prosper Mériméecomprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. While the primary texts that come under investigation in the book are novels, close attention is paid to Romantic fiction's interdependence with naturalist treatises, travel writing, abolitionist texts, and ethnographies. Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination is one of the first books to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novel's racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, thTable of ContentsNote on Translations, Pratima Prasad; Introduction, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 1 The White Native, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 2 The Métis, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 3 The Disciplined Savage, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 4 The Black Aristocrat, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 5 The Rebellious Slave, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 102 Epilogue, Pratima Prasad;

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

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Book SynopsisThe Age of Reconnaissance, as JH Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. This book examines the inducements - political, economic, religious - to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I. The Conditions for Discovery Part II. The Story of Discovery Part III. The Fruits of Discovery Conclusion Maps Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn assessment of the impact of Spain on the Americas. It presents a picture of the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. It probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, and more.Table of ContentsIntroduction by ].H. Plumb PROLOGUE The tradition of conquest PART I THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EMPIRE I Islands and mainland in the Ocean Sea 2 Seville and the Caribbean 3 The kingdoms of the sun 4 The conquerors 5 The society of conquest 6 The maritime life-line PART II THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMPIRE 7 Rights and duties 8 The spreading of the Faith 9 The ordering of society 10 The enforcement of law PART III THE COST OF EMPIRE 11 Demographic catastrophe 12 Economic dependence 13 Peril by sea PART IV THE ENDURANCE OF EMPIRE 14 Decline and recovery 15 Caribbean conflicts 16 Growth and reorganisation PART V THE DISINTEGRATION OF EMPIRE 17 Spaniards and Americans 18 The Creole revolt CONCLUSION The aftermath of empire Bibliographical notes Index

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Book SynopsisAdopting the metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers, this title provides an original approach to understanding the development of English and Spanish America over the past 500 years.

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Book SynopsisThis text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface Acknowledgments 1 Political History from Below: Hegemony, the State, and Nationalist Discourses PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS, AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA NORTE DE PUEBLA 2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives, and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867 3 The Conflictual Construction of Community: Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony 4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU 5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation, and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos 6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance, State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the Nation in Junin 7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies and Limiting Cases PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE 8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political Cultures, Repression, and the Failure of Hegemony 9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals, Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in National Politics 10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of Community and Popular Culture Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThese two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS MAPS GLOSSARY PART ONE • TWO SUMATRAN CHILDHOOD MEMOIRS Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography Introduction The Texts and Their Authors Autobiography in Indonesian and Malay Historical Traditions Images of Self and Society Book Learning, Schools, Language, and Knowledge Portrayals of Religion Images of Time and Historical Narration Sumatran Childhood Autobiography as History A Note on Translation Notes PART TWO • THE TRANSLATIONS Aku dan Toba [Me and Toba], by P. Pospos Notes Semasa Kecil di Kampung [ Village Childhood], by Muhamad Radjab Notes REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis study discusses Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism, as well as examining colonialism and nationalism generally. It demonstrates how central the issue of the Sudan was to Egyptian nationalism and highlights ambivalence in Egyptian attitudes to empire.Trade Review"An absorbing, important book... Should stimulate reconsideration of the ambiguous role of colonial intermediaries." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Journeys from the Fantastic to the Colonial 2. Black Servants and Saviors: The Domestic Empire of Egypt 3. The Lived Experience of Contradiction: Ibrahm Fawz's Narrative of the Sudan 4. The Tools of the Master: Slavery, Family, and the Unity of the Nile Valley 5. Egyptians in Blackface: Revolution and Popular Culture, World War 1 to 1925 Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state.Trade Review"Breaks profound new scholarly ground by focusing on the ... interaction between colonialism and nationalism... Sublime." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)

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Book SynopsisPaints seven scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. This title presents a memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.Trade Review"Lost Names is not a poem of hate, but a poem of love. . . . It is elegaic. It rises to moments of considerable dramatic power, but its finest moments, as when we see the cemeteries full of Koreans apologizing to their ancestors for having lost their names, are lyrical." * New York Times *"The author's clear, evocative narrative describes a terrifying experience—foreign occupation. Its homely detail demonstrates how pervasive nationality is, and how painful any attempt to destroy it." * New Yorker *"This memorable document of courage and endurance is written with clarity and vigor, pierced with moments of poignant love and the blazing resentment of the young." * Saturday Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition Crossing Homecoming Once upon a Time, on a Sunday Lost Names An Empire for Rubber Balls "Is Someone Dying?" In the Making of History-Together Author's Note

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Book SynopsisSuburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold Warera suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations A Note on Language Introduction—Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific 1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific: Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity 2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction 3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein 4. “Mayberry by the Sea”: Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands 5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese Self-Determination 6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the “Postcolonial” Era Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisSuburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold Warera suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations A Note on Language Introduction—Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific 1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific: Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity 2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction 3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein 4. “Mayberry by the Sea”: Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands 5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese Self-Determination 6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the “Postcolonial” Era Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse. Trade Review"The book is extremely ambitious, in terms of both perspectives and geographical scope – and it does well on each. I believe it will be very useful to scholars and students in the field, and can therefore recommend it wholeheartedly." * Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development *

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Book SynopsisFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Offers an astute political analysis of colonial film's development in Britain and makes an outstanding contribution to film history. . . . a wonderfully rich resource for anyone interested in the field, an education for those who are unfamiliar with the subject and a must for historians’ shelves." * Journal of British Cinema and Television *"[T]his volume provides a sophisticated perspective on the transformations of colonial cinema through the lens of the [Colonial Film Unit] as part of a shifting context for representation and sovereignty." * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *“With this book, Rice makes the case for the importance of film to the wind-down of the empire and to independence movements of the 1960s.” * CHOICE *"Like other works on British colonial filmmaking, the narrative of the CFU [Colonial Film Unit] in Films for the Colonies explains how the simultaneous construction of the metropole and the colony through moving images was an essential process of British colonialism. What is unique about Rice’s approach is his effort to centralise colonialism within broader histories of British cinema, particularly by emphasizing the CFU’s work in relation to that of the canonical filmmaking of the British documentary movement. As such, Films for the Colonies is essential reading for scholars interested in the visual history of colonialism and the global history of documentary and other ‘useful’ genres." * Reviews in History *"The first in-depth study of the British Colonial Film Unit (CFU), it provides a meticulously researched survey of a cinema corps that has been largely neglected by historians of British film. . . . Films for the Colonies provides a sturdy foundation for future studies of the CFU, one that scholars can build upon to shed further light on the unit’s rich, underexplored body of surviving films." * Journal of Visual Culture *"This book shows the depth of available material and the kinds of media histories that can be researched and written based on that material." * Journal of Religion & Film *"Films for the Colonies will prove essential reading for the growing community of scholars interested in the history of media in European colonies. . . . this is an attractively packaged, absorbingly written history of a fascinating subject. It will prove equally valuable to scholars interested in British film history, the global history of film, or the end of the Empire." * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"This essential book, while very aware of race, seems to navigate an internal complexity between making visible the colonized subjects and the colonial agents outside the frame, and a disquiet in articulating the very violence of the racial representations within." * Screen *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Accessing Digitized Materials Timeline Introduction 1. Beginnings: The Interwar Movement of Nonfiction Film 2. Film Rules: The Governing Principles of the Colonial Film Unit 3. Mobilizing an Empire: The Colonial Film Unit in a State of War 4. Moving Overseas: “Films for Africans, with Africans, by Africans” 5. Handover: Local Units through the End of Empire Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSaving the Childrenanalyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was saving children to save the world, the vision of the world it sought to save was strictly delimited, characterized by international capitalism and colonial rule. Emily Baughan's groundbreaking analysis, across fifty years and eighteen countries, shows that Britain's desire to create an international order favorable to its imperial rule shaped international humanitarianism. In revealing that modernhumanitarianism and its conception ofchildhood are products of the early twentieth-century imperial economy, Saving the Children argues that the contemporary aid sector must reckon with its past if it is to forge a new future.Trade Review"This exceptionally comprehensive, beautifully written and ambitious book provides an intellectual history of liberal internationalism, British humanitarianism, empire and welfare in the first half of the twentieth century." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Baughan tells this story compellingly, skillfully weaving a wealth of archival sources, from over thirty archives from many different countries, while never losing a sense of the bigger picture and relevance of the research for the wider world. The result is thought-provoking and will surely be influential." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"A joy to read. . . .essential…for those interested in the history of child welfare, the history of childhood during wartime, and children’s evacuation processes in the early twentieth century." * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"Emily Baughan’s dense and fascinating Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire is an outstanding contribution…for its thorough research, its critical approach, and its geographical and chronological reach." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • British Internationalisms and Humanitarianism 2 • The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child and Stateless Children 3 • Empire, Humanitarianism, and the African Child 4 • Protecting Children in a Time of War 5 • Hearts and Minds Humanitarianism 6 • War, Development, and Decolonization Conclusion: One Hundred Years of Saving Children Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This exceptionally comprehensive, beautifully written and ambitious book provides an intellectual history of liberal internationalism, British humanitarianism, empire and welfare in the first half of the twentieth century." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Baughan tells this story compellingly, skillfully weaving a wealth of archival sources, from over thirty archives from many different countries, while never losing a sense of the bigger picture and relevance of the research for the wider world. The result is thought-provoking and will surely be influential." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"A joy to read. . . .essential…for those interested in the history of child welfare, the history of childhood during wartime, and children’s evacuation processes in the early twentieth century." * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"Emily Baughan’s dense and fascinating Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire is an outstanding contribution…for its thorough research, its critical approach, and its geographical and chronological reach." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • British Internationalisms and Humanitarianism 2 • The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child and Stateless Children 3 • Empire, Humanitarianism, and the African Child 4 • Protecting Children in a Time of War 5 • Hearts and Minds Humanitarianism 6 • War, Development, and Decolonization Conclusion: One Hundred Years of Saving Children Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary Trade Review"[Pinelandia] is a defining epilogue that will speak on multiple levels to established academics, multi-modal ethnographers, and emerging anthropologists seeking to shape (or more rigorously reinforce) the role of poetry both in the generation of knowledge as well as in the expression of ethno-encounters." * Anthro Book Forum *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments [Field Poem] Introduction: The Pins Fall through the Pines [Field Poem] 1. The Making of Human Technology [Field Poem] 2. The Iraq Warscape and the Cultural Turn [Field Poem] 3. The Theaters of War [Field Poem] 4. Left and Right Limits [Field Poem] 5. Affective Maneuvers [Field Poem] 6. Becoming Human Technology [Field Poem] Conclusion: The Pins Fall through the Pines [Field Poem] Epilogue: Field Poetry Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the nineteenth century. Officials and experts saw cooperation as a unique solution to the problems of late colonialism, one able to both improve economic conditions and defuse anticolonial politics by allowing community uplift among the empire's primarily rural inhabitants. A truly transcolonial history, this ambitious book examines the career of cooperation from South Asia to Eastern and Central Africa and finally to Britain. In tracing this history, Aaron Windel opens the door for a reconsideration of how the colonial uses of cooperation and community development influenced the reimagination of community in Europe and America from the 1960s onward.Trade Review"An electric account of the cooperative movement’s role in rural modernization. . . .an ambitious and clear-headed. . . .contribution to these literatures and to courses on colonial development, anti-colonial politics, and late imperial history." * H-Soz-Kult *"[An] original book." * Contemporary British History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cooperative Rule 2. Pedagogies of Community Development 3. Anti-empire, Development, and Emergency Rule 4. Uganda’s Anti-colonial Cooperative Movement 5. Cooperatives and Decolonization in Postwar Britain Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Departures works best as a critical manifesto ‘by and for refugees.’ Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years." * Review of International American Studies *"Departures illuminates us in a brave and stimulating way on many layers and levels. The authors of this influential book succeed in eloquently articulating how to dishonour and dismantle not only dated methodologies to understand refugee issues but also the treatment of refugees." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This compact book performs two significant functions for the field of critical refugee studies: it provides a name for a growing body of critical analyses of the forced displacement of people by conflicts, their experiences of forced migration, and the history and discourse of the humanitarian sector, and it claims a refugee-centered and critical feminist place in the scholarly literature. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities Introduction: Departures 1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution" 2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability 3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal 4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity Conclusion: In/Verse Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDepartures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.Trade Review"Departures works best as a critical manifesto ‘by and for refugees.’ Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years." * Review of International American Studies *"Departures illuminates us in a brave and stimulating way on many layers and levels. The authors of this influential book succeed in eloquently articulating how to dishonour and dismantle not only dated methodologies to understand refugee issues but also the treatment of refugees." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This compact book performs two significant functions for the field of critical refugee studies: it provides a name for a growing body of critical analyses of the forced displacement of people by conflicts, their experiences of forced migration, and the history and discourse of the humanitarian sector, and it claims a refugee-centered and critical feminist place in the scholarly literature. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities Introduction: Departures 1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution" 2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability 3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal 4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity Conclusion: In/Verse Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis expansive history of Black political thought shows us the originsand the echoesof anticolonial liberation on a global scale. On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean established theories of colonialism and racism as structures that must be understood, and resisted, on a global scale. In this richly textured book, Musab Younis gathers the work of writers and poets, journalists and editors, historians and political theorists whose insights speak urgently to contemporary movements for liberation. Bringing together literary and political texts from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, France, the United States, and elsewhere, Younis excavates a vibrant and understudied tradition of international political thought. From the British and French colonial occupations of West Africa to the struggles of African Americans,the hypocrisy of French promises of 'assimilation,'and the many-sided attacks on the sovereignties of Haiti, Liberia, and Ethiopia, On the Scale of the World shows how racialized imperialism provoked critical responses across the interwar Black Atlantic. By transcending the boundaries of any single imperial system, these counternarratives of global order enabled new ways of thinking about race, nation, and empire.Trade Review"Extremely well-documented. . . . it allow[s] the reader to come across and enjoy nuggets of history that Younis has excavated, but it also proves just how un-new current debates around class solidarity, gender, Whiteness, provincialism v internationalism actually are." * Race & Class *"A]n excellent study. The originality of the book’s construction is all the more impressive considering how many studies of Black Atlantic thought we already have at hand". * Jacobin *“In his examination of the Black Atlantic, Younis creates one of the most comprehensive treatments of postcolonialists in one text. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice Reviews *"The book is a deeply probing venture into the idea of the world from the viewpoint of pan-African emancipatory movements, asking, among other things, what it means to reject globality as a domain for the privileged." * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Map of the Atlantic, 1920 Introduction 1. The Nation and the World 2. The Structure of the World 3. The Whiteness of the World 4. The Body and the World 5. The Time of the World Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy,Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well-being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peonsa decades-long resistance that led to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by Trade Review"Disrupting the Patrón is a superb ethnography of Indigenous environmental justice as well as a nuanced account of the possibilities and challenges of land back. It deserves to be widely read by scholars and practitioners of all stripes." * Antipode *"Correia constructs a provocative ethnography which centers on the land struggles of the Enxet and Sanapaná people and offers a timely reminder of the racialized regimes and unequal geographies that mark the landscape of a rapidly changing economic frontier in Latin America." * NACLA *"Joel Correia’s timely Disrupting the Patrón has arrived at a moment of unprecedented national investment in environmental justice within the United States, and as Indigenous-led calls for the return of stolen land across North America continue to grow. Correia’s in-depth ethnographic study of the Indigenous Paraguayan communities of Enxet and Sanapaná’s decades-long fight for return of their ancestral lands adds critical insight to this movement, pushing the limits of how environmental justice is often defined and pursued within the states while still honoring its origin." * Sierra *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Otherwise Rupture 1: Open/Closed Chapter 1: “A Land in the Making” Rupture 2: Boundaries Chapter 2: Not-Quite-Neoliberal Multiculturalism Rupture 3: In/Visible Chapter 3: Biopolitics of Neglect Rupture 4: Prison Chapter 4: Restitution as Development? Rupture 5: Heart Chapter 5: Five Years of Life Rupture 6: Spectacle Conclusion: In Pursuit of Environmental Justice Postcript Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. Drawing from a range of rich but underused archives, Charles Keith explores how French colonialism extended Indochina's colonial society into France, where Indochinese subjects studied, labored, fought, and lived in imperial spaces and contexts that were profoundly different from those they had left behind. Time in France transformed these sojourners, and when they returned to Indochina, they in turn transformed colonial society. Indochinese, in short, did not simply encounter France in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves.

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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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Book SynopsisThis book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. It yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present, and explains how the imperial experience influenced Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture.Trade Review'This is an important book that provides the first scholarly study of the impact that the acquisition of the Congo had on Belgium. It is an important contribution to the history of European colonialism, but also to understanding the contemporary history of the Congo.' Martin Conway, University of Oxford'An indispensable - indeed unique - economic, social, and political history of Belgium and the Congo.' Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas, Austin'Guy Vanthemsche's exploration of the influence of the massive colony at the very center of the African continent on the small European nation that inherited it from a king with imperial ambitions is captivating. Vanthemsche, one of Belgium's leading contemporary historians, is perfectly placed to invert the traditional studies of Belgium in the Congo with his meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, subtly probing, compelling investigation of how the Congo shaped the domestic politics, foreign relations, and economic development of Belgium. Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980, rich in nuance, will be crucial reading alongside the studies ranging from the gruesome tales of King Leopold's Congo to the accounts of the politics of decolonization in France and Britain.' Janet Polasky, Presidential Professor of History, University of New Hampshire'Guy Vanthemsche provides an authoritative and detailed account of the history of Belgian linkages with the Congo, colonial and postcolonial. This invaluable and richly documented volume is an indispensable source for understanding both Belgian and Congolese history. Balanced and judicious, the book is also an invaluable guide to the published sources on this subject, which receive exhaustive coverage.' Crawford Young, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison'Having synthesized the political and economic dimensions of imperialism in Belgium, Vanthemsche has written a well-documented and fascinating work which will be a reference point for historiographical research on Congolese-Belgian relations for decades to come.' Ulrich Tiedau, European History Quarterly'Vanthemsche has produced an important study of Belgian colonial rule, which will be a useful source for future studies on this topic. It deserves a wide readership among specialists on the Congo and on European colonialism more generally.' David N. Gibbs, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of Contents1. The origin of the colonial phenomenon in Belgium and its main developments up until 1960; 2. The Congo and Belgium's domestic policy; 3. The Congo and Belgium's external position; 4. The Congo and the Belgian economy; 5. Belgium and the independent Congo.

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Book SynopsisThis study is based on research in the former Bône municipal archives, generally barred to researchers since 1962. Prochaska concentrates on the formative decades of settler society and culture between 1870 and 1920. He describes in turn the economic, social, political, and cultural history of Bône through the First World War.Table of ContentsTables; Maps and figures; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Theoretical foundations: settler colonialism and colonial urbanism; Part I. From Precolonial Annaba to Colonial Bône, 1830–1870: 2. Annaba on the eve of the French conquest; 3. Bône during the first decades of French rule, 1830–1870; Part II. Bône: The Formation of a Settler Colonial City, 1870–1920: 4. The urban economy and the regional setting; 5. The people of Bône; 6. Patronage, corruption, and the 'Boss' of Bône: Jérome Bertagna; 7. The creation of a colonial culture; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Sources and bibliography; Index.

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