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Transcript Verlag Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development –
Book SynopsisIn present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are structured and executed. Sara Dehkordi shows that these doctrines are being legitimized and legalized as part of a discursive practice and that the criminalization of lower-class members are part of that practice, not as random policing techniques of individual security forces, but as a technology of power that attends to the body, zooms in on it, screens it, and interrogates it.
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Transcript Verlag Contemporary PerforMemory – Dancing through
Book SynopsisContemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas such as the Shoah and the Maafa to reimagine how the past is remembered and how the future is anticipated. The new idea of perforMemory arises within a lively blend of interdisciplinary theory, interviews, performance analysis, and personal storytelling. Scholar and artist Layla Zami traces unexpected pathways, inviting the reader to move gracefully across disciplines, geographies, and histories.Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.
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Transcript Verlag Traditions Can Be Changed: Tanzanian Nationalist
Book SynopsisWhether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue. Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested. Pervasive images rooted in colonialism were thus challenged and in some cases fundamentally transformed by journalists, students, (inter)national scholars, (inter)national events and the promise of an egalitarian socialist state.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Concurrences in Postcolonial Research –
Book SynopsisThe concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant Western narrations about colonial power relationships are challenged by alternative sources such as heritage objects and oral traditions, enabling the voice of minorities or subaltern groups to be heard. Concurrences is about capturing multiple voices and multiple temporalities. As such, it is both a relational and dynamic methodology and a theoretical perspective that undergirds the multiple workings of power, uncovering asymmetrical power relations. Interdisciplinary in nature, this anthology is the outcome of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the multiple temporality of postcolonial issues and engagements in various places across the world.Trade ReviewIf you have been asking yourself where the contributions from the humanities and the social sciences to understand the complexities of the troubled times we live in are, you may want to read this book. Revitalizing terms such as culture or history for their multiple, conflicting, contradictory, and messing meanings; by putting us in the midst of the interplay of multiple voices, agencies, and desires which make up social relations; by refining the notion that societies and histories are complex and must be analyzed in their concurrent dimensions, the essays in the anthology provide a unique operational tool to think of the present, to rethink and re-write distinct pasts that we have taken for granted, and in sum to decolonize our ways of thinking.Dr. Nuno Porto, CuratorAfrica and Latin AmericaMuseum of Anthropology, Associate, Department of Art History and Visual Art & Theory, University of British Columbia
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Analytical History of India: From the Earliest
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Cosmo Publications Dictionary of British-Indian Dates
Book SynopsisDictionary of British-Indian Dates The book is a compendium of all the dates which are essential to the study of the history of British rule in India. It is a unique compilation of facts and important historical data. The reference book would a useful companion for students of Indian history, especially the British period.
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Academic Foundation Indian Independence
Book SynopsisThis book is essentially a collection of select articles by some of India's topmost economist and experts. It is supported with editorial notes and excerpts
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Village Communities and Land Tenures in Western
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Zubaan Organizing Empire Individualism, Collective
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Broken Script: Delhi under the East India
Book SynopsisCombining immaculate scholarship with extraordinary storytelling, Swapna Liddle has produced an outstanding book of narrative historyâon a great city in transition, and on early modern Indiaâthat will be read and discussed for decades.
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HarperCollins India Krantikari: Bharat ke Swatantrata Sangram ki Ek
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Uprising of 1857
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Seeta: Ordeals and Tribulations of a Widow in 1857 Mutiny
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Salem Witch Judge
Book SynopsisIn 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and Arthur Miller. The trials might have doomed Sewall to infamy except for a courageous act of contrition now commemorated in a mural that hangs beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House picturing Sewall''s public repentance. He was the only Salem witch judge to make amends.But, remarkably, the judge''s story didn''t end there. Once he realized his error, Sewall turned his attention to other pressing social issues. Struck by the injustice of the New England slave trade, a commerce in which his own relatives and neighbors were engaged, he authored The Selling of Joseph, America''s first antislavery tract. While his peers viewed Native Americans as savages, Sewall advocated
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Oxford University Press Inc Devouring Japan
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Oxford University Press Inc Subjects and Sovereign
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Oxford University Press REVENANTS OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE C Colonial Germans Imperialism and the League of Nations
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Oxford University Press A Diplomatic Revolution
Book SynopsisAlgeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab and African worlds. Yet, unlike the colonial wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Algerian war for independence has rarely been viewed as a primarily international conflict. Rather, prevailing accounts of the war interpret it as a domestic French crisis that was resolved when Charles de Gaulle granted Algeria independence. Yet, as Matthew Connelly here demonstrates, from the very start of the bloody eight year struggle, the Front de Liberation Nationale pursued self-rule on the world stage. Exploiting Cold War competition and regional rivalries, the spread of mass communications, and international and non-governmental organisations, such as human rights groups, foreign press conferences, and the United Nations, the rebels harnessed international forces to bring pressure to bear on the French government, which became obsessed with the conflict''s impact on its reputation. By winning rights and recognition from the global communityTrade Review... indispensable for any detailed study of the Algerian war. * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *This book must rate as one of the most important works not only on Algeria but also on decolonisation that has appeared in recent years. It is fully and meticulously researched, the chapter sequence admirably structured, and the writing, despite the complexities of the argument, clear and effective. * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *The book is well-written, thought provoking, thoroughly documented (67 pages of notes, 25 of bibliography), and altogether a welcome contribution to the literature on the Algerian war. Coming at a moment of re-examination of the war in France, with the recent confirmations of the practice of torture put forward by General Aussaresses and other participants in this great human drama, it is timely as well. * The Journal of North African Studies *... a well-researched and provocatively fresh account of one of the great episodes of twentieth-century decolonisation. * The Journal of North African Studies *Connelly offers a novel interpretation of the struggle between France and the Algerian nationalists, seeing it as a harbinger of the post-Cold War international system. * The Journal of North African Studies *[Connelly's] multiarchival research is impressive, especially his pioneering work in the recently available Algerian records. Above all, he has taken an innovative analytical approach, and engaging alternative to traditional diplomatic historiography. * The International History Review *
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Oxford University Press, USA To Try Her Fortune in London Australian Women Colonialism and Modernity
Book Synopsis'To Try Her Fortune in London' considers white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London. This title explores previously unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.Trade ReviewWoollacott's comprehensive study provides rich evidence that a newfound freedom and mobility allowed ambitious Australian women to have an influence in London disproportionate to their number, and this work will prove an influential contribution to our understanding of London, imperialism and the Australian abroad. * Urban History *This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on the international dimensions of the Australian women's movement, as well as the recent interest in relationships within the British Empire/Commonwealth. * American Historical Review *
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Oxford University Press, USA The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire 16501831
Book SynopsisAt its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government from Moscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman and Persian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather Trade ReviewA fascinating fusion of geopolitics and military history. * Jeremy Black, Times Higher Education *does contain some interesting ideas * Robert I Frost, The English Historical Review *his work alters the way we think about grand strategy and presents Russia more systematically than one normally expects; and for this achievement LeDonne deserves praise. * Ab Imperio *[a] detailed analytical exposition. * British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies *
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British Academy China Trade and Empire
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Oxford University Press Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing Cesaire Glissant Conde
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, she illuminates how the development of French Caribbean literature and debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to theories of in-betweenness and incompleteness central to postcolonial modes. In each chapter, lively and detailed analyses of literary and critical texts reveal connections between key thematic, conceptual, rhetorical, and psychic issues that form the interface of Caribbean and postcolonial concerns. The first part paves theoretical ground, fTrade Review... engages adroitly with the relations between theory, fiction and politics, showing how they have taken quite a distinctive shape in Caribbean culture. * Journal of Romance Studies *... offers an important and original contribution to the study of French Antillean literature ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and compellingly argued, it places this literature within the context of deconstructive, poststructuralist thought with ease and sophistication, while offering substantive close-readings of canonical texts that markedly extend our awareness of the subtle workings of these materials. * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English. * Modern Language Review *Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing. * Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings *Table of ContentsPOSTCOLONIALITY, ALLEGORY, AND THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Migration and Empire
Book SynopsisMigration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained high. These migrants included so-called ''surplus women'' and ''children in need'', shipped overseas to ease perceived social problems at home. Empire migrants also included entrepreneurs and indentured labourers from south Asia, Africa, and the Pacific (together with others from the Far East, outside the empire), who relocated in huge numbers with equally transformative effects in, for example, central and southern Africa, the Caribbean, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Fiji. The UK at the core of empire was also the recipient of empire migrants, especially from the ''New Commonwealth'' after 1945.These several migration flows are analysed with a strong appreciation of the commonality and thTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Migration and Empire is both thoroughly engaging and very readable. I recommend it to anyone wanting, not only to understand a central element of our heritage, but also the current migration streams to this country. * Michael Drake, Family and Community History *This study, in addition to being a major work of historical scholarship, also taps our contemporary consciousness. * Donald M. MacRaild, Times Higher Education *The scholarship is splendid, with wide-ranging temporal and spatial coverage and original research. * David Northrup, English Historical Review *This book marks something of a landmark in surveys of migration within the British Empire ... a quite staggering scope and depth of research ... a model for survey texts, innovative in its own right; it should be indispensable for teachers, students and scholars for years to come. * A. James Hammerton, H-Soz-u-Kult *Migration and Empire is the result of an enormous amount of work conducted by two well-respected scholars in the field of British emigration history. The depth and breadth of their combined knowledge is clearly evident in this book. * Lisa Chilton, Victorian Studies *an important addition to the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series ... a narrative that awes us with the scope of movement through the British imperial world but also touches us with the diverse human stories behind the demographic trends. * Tilman W. Nechtman, History *[a] comprehensive overview ... Both authors approach the subject having already published a large number of books and articles on emigration from the British Isles. They bring this expertise to the present volume in the form of highly detailed statistical data and a familiarity with the wider literature that makes possible a survey of such scope and ambition. * Bryan Glass, British Scholar Society *It is a highly readable and deeply researched introduction to the topic that ought to be within arm's reach of anyone working on the subject ... Migration and Empire is a meaningful contribution to the series, full of useful statistics for the teacher and researcher and fascinating anecdotes about the experience of the British migrant. * Charles V. Reed, H-Net *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The British Empire and Empire Migration, 1815 to the 1960s ; 2. Crossing the Atlantic: Migrants and Settlers in Canada ; 3. A Land of Perpetual Summer: Australian Experiences ; 4. Sheep and Sunshine: New Zealand ; 5. Africa South of the Sahara ; 6. Exile into Bondage? Non-White Migrants and Settlers ; 7. Immigration and the Heart of Empire ; 8. A Civilizing Influence? The Female Migrant ; 9. Children of the Poor: Child and Juvenile Migration ; 10. The Emigration Business ; 11. The Homecoming Migrant ; 12. Afterword: The Politics of Migration and the End of Empire
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Oxford University Press British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Book SynopsisUntil relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between settlers, the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants.The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempts to demonstrate thTrade Reviewthis collection is a joy and a wonder ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *will be a stock feature of undergraduate and graduate reading lists for some time to come. * Simon Middleton, English Historical Review *every essay is excellent * Steven Sarson, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps ; List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume ; 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview ; 3. 'Bound by Our Regal Office': Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century ; 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism ; 5. 'Establishment' and 'Dissent' in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World ; 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765 ; 7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies ; 8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1783 ; 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration ; 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances ; 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Book SynopsisThe Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain''s Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain''s relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in both the Gulf and Britain, this book examines how Britain''s Political Resident in the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf, protected British interests throughout the region, and managed political relations with the dozens of Arab rulers and governors on both shores of the Gulf. James Onley looks at the secret to the Gulf Residency''s effectiveness - the extent to which the British worked within the indigenous political systems of the Gulf. He examines the way in which Arab rulers in need of protection collaborated with the Resident to maintain the Pax BrTrade Review[an] illuminating book... * Peter Clark, Asian Affairs *Conveys a great sense of intellectual excitement in its confident, but careful, rethinking of the British Indian Empire... Onley has the enviable ability to convey a world that has passed to a modern reader. As I read, I felt that I was with these resilient merchant families (enduring the heat!) as they offered their services to the British, generation after generation after generation. * 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award Committee *Through the meticulous use of family archives and local as well as British sources, this study succeeds in rescuing from obscurity key local actors in the British imperial system. * 2002 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Committee *Meticulously researched, James Onley's work provides an excellent introduction to the informal structures of British imperial rule. The first part, in particular, should be essential reading for any student of British imperial history; it radically readjusts the focus from British imperialists on to the indigenous agents of empire, largely unstudied by historians. * James Canton, Times Literary Supplement *A first-rate study that is of crucial importance not only for work on the Middle East, but also for more general studies of imperialism and, in particular, of informal empire... Onley's study of the indigenous side of informal empire is an important contribution to work on imperialism and deserves widespread attention. * Jeremy Black, History: *well-written and thoroughly researched book ... an engaging and accomplished work * Hala Fattah, Enterprise and Society *[James Onley] has made a major contribution to our understanding of the functioning of the British Empire, as exemplified by the situation in the Persian Gulf in general and in the Bahrain Agency in particular. At the same time, he has given us a much better understanding of Gulf society and culture, which, as in previous centuries, differed from that of the adjacent mainland nations. * Willem Floor, Middle East Journal *James Onley's book is especially welcome. His work, founded on extensive research in both Britain and the Gulf itself, produces incisive conclusions which add greatly to our understanding of British methods of control in the informal empire. * Simon C. Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *a new and exciting departure in the historiography of the [Persian Gulf] region. In an equally stimulating fashion this book prompts the reader to re-think the historical roots of the contemporary political geography of the region which is usually considered the preserve of Middle Eastern specialists. Onley's book is a remarkable display of bibliographical erudition and knowledge of the subject matter. This study is clearly brilliantly researched...its approach is original and timely and likely to inspire other scholars in the field of regional and imperial history. * Nelida Fuccaro, Reviews in History Online *This is, all told, a very nice book making a very nice point. With enviable resourcefulness, Onley plumbs a range of official and private, metropolitan and colonial archives and a precious set of oral histories to reconstruct the lives and work of his 'invisible agents of empire' (223), generously illuminating the fascinating workings of the Indian empire-within-the-empire along the way." "Onley deserves immense credit for the many useful and convincing findings he has unearthed with his island tale. His most signal achievement remains his painstaking restoration of the full cast and crew behind the illusionary solitary British officer in the Persian Gulf. * Priya Satia, Journal of British Studies *Another superior work of scholarship * Keith Simpson, MP *James Onley's well-researched study maps in great detail and with exemplary clarity how this collaboration [of indigenous elites with the British Indian Empire] came into being in the early modern Persian Gulf. . [It represents] a major step on the path toward integrating Middle Eastern studies into wider theoretical debates. * Rudi Matthee, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *this book is an excellent resource for scholars studying the Gulf region and for those interested in British imperialism. Onley has provided us with a unique view of the nineteenth-century Gulf. * Miriam Joyce, American Historical Review *James Onley's painstakingly researched monograph constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the British Empire in the Persian Gulf and beyond...The book contains much fascinating detail...Onley is to be congratulated for a very well-researched and immensely readable book which will benefit both imperial historians as well as those concerned with the Gulf Area. * Ulrike Freitag, H-Net *a brilliant book by James Onley, which I consider the best piece of Gulf scholarship to appear in many, many years. * Paul Rich, Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf (2009) *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa ; 3. British India's Native Agency System in Asia ; 4. The Operation of British India's Native Agency in Bahrain ; 5. British India's Native Agents in Bahrain ; 6. The Decline of British India's Native Agency System in Bahrain and the Gulf ; 7. Conclusion: The Arabian Frontier of the Indian Empire
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume V Historiography
Book SynopsisThe volumes that comprise this set assess the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship, showing the creation of the empire in relation to its end. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed over imperialism generally and the British Empire in particular.Trade ReviewOxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking. * Contemporary Review *Review from other book by this author concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide. * R. Fritze, Choice *Table of ContentsList of Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The First British Empire ; 3. The Second British Empire ; 4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; 5. The American Revolution ; 6. Ireland ; 7. The British West Indies ; 8. Canada and the Empire ; 9. Australia and the Empire ; 10. Colonization and History in New Zealand ; 11. India to 1858 ; 12. India, 1858-1937 ; 13. India in the 1940s ; 14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ; 15. Pakistan's Emergence ; 16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire ; 17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire ; 18. Exploration and Empire ; 19. Missions and Empire ; 20. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition ; 21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire ; 22. Imperial Defence ; 23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars ; 24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands ; 25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia ; 26. The British Empire in South-East Asia ; 27. Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East ; 28. Informal Empire in Latin America ; 29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa ; 30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s ; 31. West Africa ; 32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative ; 33. Central and Southern Africa ; 34. Decolonization and the End of Empire ; 35. The Commonwealth ; 36. Art and Empire ; 37. Architecture in the British Empire ; 38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire ; 39. The Shaping of Imperial History ; 40. The Future of Imperial History ; 41. The Way Forward ; Chronology, Index
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Oxford University Press Making Ireland British 15801650
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland. The book opens with an analysis of the complete works of Edmund Spenser who was the most articulate ideologue for plantation. The author argues that all subsequent advocates of plantation, ranging from King James VI and I, to Strafford, to Oliver Cromwell, were guided by Spenser''s opinions, and that discrepancies between plantation in theory and practice were measured against this yardstick. The book culminates with a close analysis of the 1641 insurrection throughout Ireland, which, it is argued, steeled Cromwell to engage in one last effort to make Ireland British.Trade Review... for many years it will be compulsory reading for anyone wishing to understand English colonial policy and its impact on native society. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Canny's knowledge of literary as well as official sources is exemplary. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *No other work reveals so much about the transformation of life across the island through the remorseless colonial process that began in Elizabethan times. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Let there be no mistake: Making Ireland British is an extraordinary book, a major feat of scholarship, and probably the single most important study of early modern Ireland to appear for a generation or more. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *wonderful work, richly layered and contextualised ... a masterly study and an unmitigated triumph ... a masterpiece of painstaking research ... [a] splendid volume. * History Today *Table of Contents1. Spenser Sets the Agenda ; 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland ; 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice ; 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice ; 5. The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641 ; 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland ; 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response ; 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641
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Oxford University Press India and the British Empire
Book SynopsisSouth Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attention is paid to a cluster of binary oppositions that have hitherto framed South Asian history, namely colonizer/colonized, imperialism/nationalism, and modernity/tradition, and how new analytical frameworks are emerging which enable us to think beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics as well as to wider Trade ReviewThe fact that many of the contributors to this book are highly regarded, well-established scholars of Britain's occupation of India immediately guarantees the book's importance for other scholars in the field. It does not fail to deliver, because many of the essays provide original arguments thoroughly taking account of the strengths and weaknesses of the past thirty years of historical scholarship ... India and the British Empire therefore makes a valuable contribution to the field of its title by presenting up-to-date assessments of the wide variety of scholarly approaches used to understand the impact of India's period of British occupation on both the occupied and the occupier * A. Martin Wainwright, Journal of British Studies *... this compilation provides a good introduction to the areas covered, as well as offering an interesting and challenging interpretation of the areas that should interest scholars already working in the field ... Overall, this is an interesting and valuable contribution to the field of Empire and Indian history * Lindsay Henderson, Australian Journal of Politics and History *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. State, Power, and Colonialism ; 3. The Indian Economy and the British Empire ; 4. Knowledge Formation in Colonial India ; 5. Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community ; 6. Nationalisms in India ; 7. Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule ; 8. Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India ; 9. Environment and Ecology under British Rule ; 10. Material and Visual Culture of British India ; 11. Literary Modernity in South Asia ; 12. Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times ; 13. The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism ; 14. The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia
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Oxford University Press Empires Without Imperialism
Book SynopsisThe end of the Cold War ushered in a moment of nearly pure American dominance on the world stage, yet that era now seems ages ago. Since 9/11 many informed commentators have focused on the relative decline of American power in the global system. While some have welcomed this as a salutary development, outspoken proponents of American power--particularly neoconservatives--have lamented this turn of events. As Jeanne Morefield argues in Empires Without Imperialism, the defenders of a liberal international order steered by the US have both invoked nostalgia for a golden liberal past and succumbed to amnesia, forgetting the decidedly illiberal trajectory of US continental and global expansion. Yet as she shows, the US is not the first liberal hegemon to experience a wave of misguided nostalgia for a bygone liberal order; England had a remarkably similar experience in the early part of the twentieth century. The empires of the US and the United Kingdom were different in character--the UK''sTrade ReviewThis study will surely be widely read and be a useful resource for university students who are interested in such topics, and they offer scholars, researchers and policy makers ways of moving beyond conventional explanations through their rigorous intellectual dedication and research. * Nikos Christofis, Political Studies Review *Jeanne Morefield's Empires without Imperialism: The Late Modern Politics of Deflection makes a singularly inspired contribution to the field, richly complex in its historical scholarship, sharply polemical (without being uncharitable), and most importantly, highly original in its subject, approach and tenor. * Inder S. Marwah, Contemporary Political Theory *Morefield offers an original, thought-provoking and century-spanning account of Anglo-American international thought. Her book deserves a wide readership among intellectual and international historians, political theorists and scholars of foreign policy, as well as anyone interested in contemporary international relations. * Tomohito Baji, International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part One: Strategies of Antiquity ; Chapter One: Alfred Zimmern's <"Oxford Paradox>": Displacement and Athenian Nostalgia ; Chapter Two:Falling in Love With Athens: Donald Kagan on America and Thucydides' Revisionism. ; Part Two: Metanarrative Strategies ; Chapter Three: The Round Table's Story of Commonwealth. ; Chapter Four: The Empire Whisperer: Niall Ferguson's Misdirection, Disavowal and the Perilousness of Neoliberal Time. ; Part Three: Strategies of Character ; Chapter Five: Empire's Handyman: Jan Smuts and the Politics of International Holism. ; Chapter Six: Michael Ignatieff's Tragedy: Just As We Are, Here and Now. ; Conclusion: Conceptual Horizons and Conditions of Possibility: Is This the Swaraj That We Want?
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Oxford University Press, USA Empire by Treaty Negotiating European Expansion 16001900
Book SynopsisMost histories of European appropriation of indigenous territories have, until recently, focused on conquest and occupation, while relatively little attention has been paid to the history of treaty-making. Yet treaties were also a means of extending empire. To grasp the extent of European legal engagement with indigenous peoples, Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 looks at the history of treaty-making in European empires (Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French and British) from the early 17th to the late 19th century, that is, during both stages of European imperialism. While scholars have often dismissed treaties assuming that they would have been fraudulent or unequal, this book argues that there was more to the practice of treaty-making than mere commercial and political opportunism. Indeed, treaty-making was also promoted by Europeans as a more legitimate means of appropriating indigenous sovereignties and acquiring land than were conquest or occupation, and therefore as a way to reconcile expansion with moral and juridical legitimacy. As for indigenous peoples, they engaged in treaty-making as a way to further their interests even if, on the whole, they gained far less than the Europeans from those agreements and often less than they bargained for. The vexed history of treaty-making presents particular challenges for the great expectations placed in treaties for the resolution of conflicts over indigenous rights in post-colonial societies. These hopes are held by both indigenous peoples and representatives of the post-colonial state and yet, both must come to terms with the complex and troubled history of treaty-making over 400 years of empire. Empire by Treaty looks at treaty-making in Dutch Colonial Expansion, Spanish-Portuguese border in the Americas, Aboriginal Land in Canada, French Colonial West Africa, and British India.Trade ReviewRecommended. * M. H. Markus, CHOICE *The ten essays in this collection are refreshing for their genuinely inter-disciplinary approach to law and history ... Empire by Treaty is an excellent contribution to the study of indigenous rights, international law, and European imperialism in a global context. * Alecia Simmonds, Journal of Historical Geography *this edited volume can be recommended for its valor, its imagination, and its importance, and for the high quality of the essays. * Josep M. Fradera, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; List of maps and illustrations ; 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty ; Saliha Belmessous ; 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion ; Arthur Weststeijn ; 3. To <"Clear the King's and Indians' Title>": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties ; Daniel Richter ; 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) ; Tamar Herzog ; 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) ; Alain Beaulieu ; 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India ; Robert Travers ; 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) ; Rebecca Shumway ; 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History ; Saliha Belmessous ; 9. <"A text for every agitator amongst the natives>": M?ori property, settler politics and the M?ori franchise in the 1850s ; Damen Ward ; 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies ; Paul Patton ; Contributors ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Taxing Colonial Africa
Book SynopsisHow much did the British Empire cost, and how did Britain pay for it? Taxing Colonial Africa explores a source of funds much neglected in research on the financial structure of the Empire, namely revenue raised in the colonies themselves. Requiring colonies to be financially self-sufficient was one of a range of strategies the British government used to lower the cost of imperial expansion to its own Treasury. Focusing on British colonies in Africa, Leigh Gardner examines how their efforts to balance their budgets influenced their relationships with local political stakeholders as well as the imperial government. She finds that efforts to balance the budget shaped colonial public policy at every level, and that compromises made in the face of financial constraints shaped the political and economic institutions that were established by colonial administrations and inherited by the former colonies at independence.Using both quantitative data on public revenue and expenditure as well as aTrade ReviewIt is rare to come across a book of such high quality, especially for an author's first monograph. Colonial fiscal policy is not the most glamorous of topics. But Gardner convincingly argues that taxation tells us much about the nature and purpose of Britain's African empire. * Nicholas J. White, The Economic History Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. An Introduction to the Problem of Colonial Taxation ; PART I: BUILDING A SELF-SUFFICIENT EMPIRE IN AFRICA, 1885-1913 ; 2. Building Colonial States in Africa ; 3. Fiscal Foundations of the African Colonial State ; PART II: CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN COLONIAL PUBLIC FINANCE ; 4. From Complement to Conflict: Trade Taxes, 1914-38 ; 5. Collective Action and Direct Taxation, 1918-1938 ; 6. The Failure of Africa's 'New Deal'? ; PART III: FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY TO NATION-BUILDING ; 7. 'Cash, Competence and Consent': Building Local Governments ; 8. Fiscal Policy and Regional Integration, 1945-63 ; 9. Fiscal Consequences of Decolonization ; Bibliography
£123.50
Oxford University Press Spies in Arabia
Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical importance spanning present-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They were drawn by the twin objectives of securing the land route to India and finding adventure and spiritualism in a mysterious and ancient land. But these competing desires created a dilemma: how were they to discreetly and patriotically gather facts in a region they were drawn to for its legendary inscrutability and by the promise of fame and escape from Britain? In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community''s tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War. She tells the story of how an imperial state in thrall to the cultural notions of equivocal agents and beset by an equally captivated Trade Review[...] a significant edition to the historiography of the First World War beyond Europe... [An] impressive study... * Nadia Atia, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2011 *[An] impressive work which ambitiously seeks to explore the cultural space within which political, military and intelligence personnel operated. * Keith Jeffery, Asian Affairs. *This book is nuanced, challenging, nicely written, interesting and thought-provoking... rich and rewarding... It is a book that is sure to be well received and it will further our understanding of Britain and the Middle East. * Matthew Hughes, History *
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought Transpositions and Empire Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Book SynopsisA collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.Table of ContentsPART I: EUROPEAN LAW AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations; I.Hunter Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard; D.Ivison PART II: TRANSPOSITIONS OF EMPIRE The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, ca. 1490-1830; C.Tomlins The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century; J.McLaren 'Your Sovereign and Our Father': The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory; M.D.Walters The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss; A.Fitzmaurice PART III: FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE Samuel Marsden's Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia; A.Sharp The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia; M.Finnane The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney; L.Ford William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian and 'Rough Architect' of the New Zealand State; P.G.McHugh PART IV: THE CROWN IN COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; S.Dorsett Imperial Policy, Colonial Government and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; D.Ward Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; M.Hickford
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Cosmopolitan Thought Zones South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Book SynopsisExamines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.Table of ContentsIntroduction; K.Manjapra PART I: THEORY AND METHODS Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?; A.Sen Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy; S.Tagore Said and the History of Ideas; S.Kaviraj PART II: DIFFERENT UNIVERSALISMS Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue; A.Jalal Different Universalisms, Colorful Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized; S.Bose Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanims; I.Hofmeyr PART III: MODERNIST THOUGHT ZONES A Local Cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for a Modern Kerala; D.Menon The Communist Ecumene and Transcolonial Recognition; K.Manjapra Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-1945; B.Zachariah PART IV: HISTORIES OF CONNECTION A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's Reading of the Afro-Asian World; N.Slate Creative India and the World: Bengali Internationalism and Italy in the Interwar Period; M.Prayer On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship's Challenge to the Saidian Model; S.Marchand
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Palgrave Macmillan Language Policy and Language Planning From Nationalism to Globalisation
Book Synopsis1. Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE 2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States 4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING 5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas 6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca 7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation 8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES 10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages11 . New Polities and New Nation Building12 . Endangered Languages 13. Conclusion: Community and TrTrade Review“The intended readership of the book is broad, and may include sociolinguists, diachronic linguistics researchers, general language researchers, and anyone who shows an interest in investigations into language problems, language policy, and language planning. … the book remains a great contribution to the area of language policy and language planning and deserves my wholehearted recommendation.” (Haoda Feng, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (2), April, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE 2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States 4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING 5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas 6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca 7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation 8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES 10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages11 . New Polities and New Nation Building12 . Endangered Languages 13. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Pax Britannica Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon Britain and the World
Book SynopsisThis book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica , in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges.Trade Review“This book takes as its essential theme the intersection of British imperial and naval history during the post-Napoleonic nineteenth century. … Pax Britannica is written fluently and with great charm. … it is entertaining and elucidating in equal measure and is highly recommended.” (Matthew S. Seligmann, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vol. 26, September, 2015)“This is an essential addition to the literature and a very useful starting point for further studies in a variety of directions. Gough is a first-class historian and in many ways this represents his best work yet.” (Howard J. Fuller, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 27 (3), 2015)Honourable Mention in the Canadian Nautical Research Society's Keith Matthews Award 2014. "One committee member noted that what he had "regarded as a brilliant synthesis of a bunch of literature ... [was] considerably more than that. Gough book is something bigger - a substantial essay of globalism in the 19th-early 20th century." In it, he really addresses all of the big historiographical issues in studies of British imperialism for the past 50 years, ... including the superb chapters on controlling the slave trade. Along the same lines, another member noted, "It is balanced, judicial and comprehensive. It also covers a vast topic." In sum, the committee agreed that Gough's book is 'life's work' in the sense that it brings together his reading and reflections over a whole career. It will rank up there with such scholars as Arthur Marder and Gerald Graham." - Canadian Nautical Research Society 'The history of the British Empire, which was once the preserve of either misplaced nostalgia or misdirected derision, has been reinvigorated in recent years by a number of wide-ranging books. Here is a significant new contribution to this literature, enlisting Barry Gough's expertise as a naval historian in restoring a neglected dimension to the story of the Pax Britannica. In its Victorian heyday, he argues, the Pax was underpinned by the Royal Navy, as 'a hoped-for state of affairs' that was to be crucially challenged by the ambitions of Germany - but ultimately displaced by the global reach of the United States.' - Peter Clarke, Professor Emeritus of Modern British History, Cambridge University, and author of The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, 1944-47 'Attractively written, it is an absorbing, accessible, interesting and enlightening work and deserves a wide readership.' - Navy NewsTable of Contents1. Defining Pax Britannica 2. Empire of the Seas 3. Anchors of Empire 4. Surveying the Seas, Expanding the Empire of Science 5. Informal and Formal Empires in the Americas 6. Challenges of Europe, the Mediterrarnean, and the Black Sea 7. Indian Ocean, Singapore and the China Seas 8. Imperial Web in the South Pacific 9. Send a Gunboat! 10. Anti-Slaver: West Affrica and the Americas 11. Treaty Making and Dhow Chasing in the Indian Ocean 12. Darkening Horizons 13. The Lion and the Eagle 14. Trident Bearers: The Navy as Britannia's Instrument 15. Recessional: End of Pax Britannica and the American Inheritance
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya The Legitimization of Coercion 19121930
Book SynopsisThis book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention.Table of ContentsWerengeka's Anxiety Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa The Juridical Foundation of Government Forced Labor 'Making the Lazy Nigger Work:' European Settlers, the State and Forced Labor, 1895-1919 The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1919-1921 Interlude: Forced Labor Bounded, 1921-1925 Normalizing Force: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Labor, 1920-1930
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Another Global City Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment 18502000
Book SynopsisThis collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.Table of ContentsIn the Precincts of the Global City: The Transnational Network of Municipal Affairs in Mebourne, Australia at the End of the Nineteenth Century; A. Brown-May Mediterranean Connections: The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices at the Time of the Ottoman Reforms, c. 1830-1910; N. Lafi Pacific Crossings: Transnational Urban Progressivism in the Twentieth Century; J. Hanes A City in a World of Cities: The Involvement of Lyon in the International Union of Local Authorities (1913-1940) and in Eurocities (1986-2006); R. Payre and P. Y. Saunier Selling the City-State: Planning and Housing in Singapore, 1945-1990; N. H. Kwak "Transnational Municipalism" in a Europe of Second Cities: Rebuilding Birmingham with Municipal Networks; S. Ewen Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York's Municipal Foreign Policy 1977-1990; J. Soffer The Municipal Making of Transnational Networks: A Case Study of Montreal's Twinning with Shanghai; Y. Hsu Latin American Municipalities in Transnational Networks: Reforming Municipal Government in Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) in the 1990s; S. Robin and S. Velut Lost in Translation?: Mapping, Moulding, and Managing the "Transnational Municipal Moment"; S. Ewen The Study of Municpal Connections; M. Hietala
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Yale University Press The Infection of Thomas De Quincey
Book SynopsisThomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.Table of ContentsHydrocephalus - the death of Elizabeth; nympholepsy - phantoms of delight; tigridiasis - Tipu's revenge; hydrophobia - out in the midday sun; the king's evil - the house of De Quincey; diplopia - two girls for every boy; the plague of Cairo and the death of a theory; homocidal mania - tales of massacre and vengeance; yellow fever - the opium wars; leontiasis - the Kandyan wars and the leprosy of cowardice; phallalgia - India in 1857.
£59.37
Yale University Press Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
Book SynopsisThis study tells the story of an incident of ritual murder that occurred in Ghana in 1943. It provides insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the colonial period.
£50.47
Yale University Press Natures Government
Book SynopsisThis attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic climes and making conquest seem beneficial.
£61.59
Yale University Press Science and Colonial Expansion
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by economic botany during the 19th century. It examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the Empire's prosperity.
£29.33
Yale University Press Feminist Conservation
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£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Postcolonial Middle Ages The New Middle Ages
Book SynopsisAn increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement.Trade Review'...an impressive accomplishment, exemplifying the many possible opportunities and potential difficulties medievalists face in engaging and contributing to a significant strand of cultural studies.' - Speculum 'The volume is a very strong compilation, and indeed a useful guide to the richness of post-colonial enquiry...The real strength of this book resides in the range and diversity of the topics it examines and the quality of many of the contributions.' - Cynthia J. Neville, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Midcolonial From Due East to True North: Orientalism and Orientation; S.Conklin Akbari Coming Out of Exile: Dante on the Orient Express; K.Biddick Chaucer after Smithfield: From Postcolonial Writer to Imperialist Author; J.M. Bowers Cilician Armenian Metissage and Hetoum's La Fleur des Histoires de la Terre d'Orient; G.Burger Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales; J.J.Cohen Time Behind the Veil: The Media, the Middle Ages and Orientalism Now; K.Davis Native Studies: Orientalism and Medievalism; J.M.Ganim The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon, Saracens, Jews and the Politics of Race and Nation; G.Heng Marking Time: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr and the Colonial Refrain; P.Ingham Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461; S.F.Kruger Common Language and Common Profit; K.Robertson Alien Nation: London's Aliens and Lydgate's Mummings for the Mercers and Goldsmiths; C.Sponsler Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew; S.Tomasch Imperial Fetishism: Prester John among the Natives; M.Uebel
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl U.S. Imperialism in Latin America
Book SynopsisBryan resigned in June 1915, but his actions while in office served as the foundation for later intervention in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.This work details Bryan's attitudes toward Latin America prior to assuming the title of secretary of state, his actions while in office, and his political stance after resignation.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Bryan's Early Attitude toward Latin America, 1900-1913 The Beginnings of a Latin America, 1900-1913 Nicaragua Haiti The Dominican Republic Mexico The Panama Canal Tolls Controversy The Colombian Treaty Latin America after June 1915 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Origins of the Black Atlantic
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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Random House USA Inc Chasing Freedom
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£20.83
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gendered Colonialisms in African History
Book SynopsisFocusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.Trade Review"These new works are likely to influence future research aimed at disentangling the complicated local and metropolitan interactions that gendered so many facets of colonial experiences in Africa and elsewhere." American Historical Review.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Arizona, USA). 1. Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself): The Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya: Lynn M. Thomas (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). 2. "Cocky" Hahn and the "Black Venus": The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46: Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). 3. "Not Welfare or Uplift Work": White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa: Keith Shear (Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and South Africa). 4. Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875-1990: David Graeber (University of Chicago, USA). 5. "Fork Up and Smile": Marketing, Colonial Knowledge and the Female Subject in Zimbabwe: Timothy Burke (Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA).
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