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Amberley Publishing The Sun Must Set
Book SynopsisIndiaâs experience of British colonialism. The true financial, social and ecological cost of British rule and the contrasting experiences of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh following independence.
£18.75
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in
Book SynopsisAlthough Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward freedom. From Britain came the Great Awakening, the advent of evangelism in America, which would provide slaves with hope for future freedom. In 1775, black emancipation commenced in Chesapeake Bay with Lord Dunmore's proclamation and the resulting fleet, which attracted blacks, creating the first mass emancipation of slaves in British colonial history. At the end of the War for Independence, the British evacuations of loyal subjects from 1782 to 1785 were the turning point in the Emancipation Revolution. A majority of free and enslaved blacks would remain where the Royal Navy transports landed them in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Nova Scotia, or Britain. Blacks' love of freedom is concluded with the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire.
£21.25
Edinburgh University Press Late Roman Italy
Book SynopsisExplores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most important region of the Roman world.
£150.00
Edinburgh University Press Nigerias CounterTerrorism Strategy
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Edinburgh University Press Migration and the Rise of the United States
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£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman
Book SynopsisProvides a new account of the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects.
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire
Book SynopsisWILLIAM S. MALTBY is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His publications include The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1588-1660, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, The Reign of Charles V and with Steven Hause, Western Civilization.
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire
Book SynopsisWILLIAM S. MALTBY is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His publications include The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1588-1660, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, The Reign of Charles V and with Steven Hause, Western Civilization.
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Palgrave USA Transforming Museums
Book SynopsisA detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.Trade Review'Dubin has collected a vital series of interviews which, in full, are a highly significant archive of historical and museological thinking in this transitionary period.' - Institute of Historical ResearchTable of ContentsUsing War to Put Food on the Table: Reflections on a Decade of Democracy A White Step in a Black Direction: Inertia, Breakthrough and Change in South African Museums The First Shall Be Last: Picturing Indigenous Peoples and the Sins of Long Ago Prisoners to Science: Sarah Bartmann and "Others" "A Pustular Sore on a Queen's Forehead": District Six and the Politics of the Past "The History of Our Future": Revamping Edifices of a Bygone Era Tête-à-tête: Museums and Monuments, Conversations and Soliloquies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World
Book SynopsisWhat were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? How did political expansion, cross-cultural trade, scientific exploration and discrete religious practices require new ways of rendering the unknown visible, and of making what was seen knowable? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures argues that distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had epistemic consequences: in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. The essays here consider prints and panoramas, sculpted works of stone and corn pith cane - and their physical presence in the lived world - calling attention to the materiality and sensuality of visual experience. Anchored in writings on art history and visual culture, Seeing Across Cultures also engages histories of transcultural encounters and vision.Trade Review'Ranging from viceregal Mexico to Akbar's India, the authors of this timely and diverse collection practice what theorists of early modern globalization have only lately preached: that the world was understood to be connected and mutually intelligible in the age of sail and gunpowder. There was plenty of wonder, mutual discovery, and violent misunderstanding, but the hard nationalist and regionalist divisions came later, and for too long they clouded scholars' vision of the early modern past. In addition to their efforts to reveal early modern worlds in their own terms, the authors offer new insights to scholars beyond art history both by rigorous comparisons and through re-examination of venerable theoretical models and disciplinary boundaries. It is sure to provoke considerable discussion, and likely some controversy.' Kris Lane, Tulane University, USA 'The latest entry from Ashgate in one of the most innovative and stimulating new art history publication series, 'Transculturalisms 1400-1700,' this collection of essays takes up the complex issue of what some scholars are calling 'visuality,' a conception of vision itself in a given culture... a fascinating collection...' Cassone 'The most important question these essays raise ... especially from the perspective of early modern scholars not in the field of art history, is the problem of commensurability. Commensurability has become a central theme of early modern studies as the field has moved away from its European roots and become increasingly global. The study of encounters in the early modern world inevitably raises the question of how culture translates across racial, ethnic, and geographic divides, and this issue becomes more urgent as scholars abandon their Eurocentric focus and binary categories of European versus other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... thought-provoking ...' Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: geographies of sight, Dana Leibsohn; Part I Perspective and Mimesis: Perspective and its discontents or St Lucy's eyes, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia M. Mochizuki; Perceiving blackness, envisioning power: Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico, Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and complementary visions of the court of the Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II Blindness and Memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness, Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease, decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman. Part III Colonial Visualities: Without a face: voicing Moctezuma II's image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen; Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India, ca.1750-1858, Natasha Eaton. Part IV Seeing Across Time: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial
Book SynopsisGermany''s imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an ''extraordinary body of historical scholarship'', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to refTrade Review’This volume is an extraordinary achievement. Written by leading authorities in the field of modern German history, it provides a rich and up-to-date survey of the vast historiography of Imperial Germany. Without doubt, this latest Ashgate Companion will become an indispensable reference work for students and researchers alike.’ Stefan Goebel, University of Kent, UK ’What distinguished the German Second Empire from other nation-states and what does this mean for subsequent German history? Such concerns have stimulated innovative research and fierce debates. The contributors to this volume analyse this historiography in a wide-ranging, up-to-date and accessible way. This is a valuable resource for anyone studying this complex and dynamic period of German history.’ John Breuilly, London School of Economics, UK ’As Matthew Jefferies reminds us, German history remains as highly charged with relevance as ever. Students can find no better guide to current research, new departures, and grounds of debate than this comprehensive and carefully judged Companion.’ Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA ’This scintillating collection presents the state of the art on the German Empire - what made it tick, how it fits within the larger sweep of history, why scholars disagree about its problems and prospects. The chapters expand the limits of the genre, offering remarkable breadth and unique depth. With its vivid prose and judicious analysis, this book will be indispensable to novices and experts alike.’ James Retallack, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Matthew Jefferies. Part I State and Monarchy: Imperial governance, Katharine Anne Lerman; Prussian governance, Hartwin Spenkuch; The German monarchies, Frank Lorenz Müller. Part II Politics and Society: Elections, Thomas Kühne; Liberalism, Eric Kurlander; Conservatism, Oded Heilbronner; Nationalism, Mark Hewitson; Antisemitism, Lars Fischer; Political Catholicism, Jeffrey T. Zalar; Socialism, Stefan Berger and Stefan Braun. Part III Culture and Identity: Particularism and localism, Jennifer Jenkins; Popular culture, Kaspar Maase; Gender, Ann Taylor Allen; Religion, James E. Bjork; Class, Dennis Sweeney. Part IV Economy and Environment: Trade policy and globalization, Cornelius Torp; Agriculture labour, Simon Constantine; The environment and environmentalism, Thomas Rohkrämer; Population: demography and mobility, Steve Hochstadt. Part V International Relations, Militarism and War: International relations, Andreas Rose; Militarism, Benjamin Ziemann; The army, William Mulligan; The navy and the sea, Jan Rüger; Germany and the origins of the First World War, Annika Mombauer; Colonialism and genocide, Jürgen Zimmerer. Index.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Orientalism Eroticism and Modern Visuality in
Book SynopsisIn Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century âorientalâ bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracing their global dissemination at cross-cultural intersections of the visual and the political. Authors consider the impact of eroticized orientalist representations registered on racial and gendered bodies at historical moments across the globe in the media of photography, painting, prints and sculpture by contextualizing the visual within social practices, ethnography, literature, travel writing and the dynamics of imperialism. Authors examine orientalismâs politico-erotic import across not only imperial Britain and France but also throughout India and the Middle East initiating cross-cultural analyses of orientalism outside of Europe. Works studied include Orientalist and homoerotic works by canonic artists such as Ingres, GÃrÃme, Delacroix and Girodet, and lesser-known artists such as scTrade Review’This is an important work. An admirably learned, focused, nuanced volume that follows a theme that is central, but rarely examined in-depth, through a fascinating variety of cultural and geographic locales-from Morocco to India. It should be read by anyone interested in artistic Orientalism and Exoticism, or the complexity and variety of desires they engage.’ Frederick N. Bohrer, Hood College, author of Orientalism and Visual CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction: Rethinking Orientalism, Eroticism and Cross-Cultural Visuality 1Julie Codell and Joan DelPlatoPART I: RACE, ETHNICITY AND THE ABJECT ORIENTAL2 Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism 25James Smalls3 Delacroix’s Invitation to the Jewish Wedding in Morocco 55Albert Boime4 Seeing through “The Veil Trick”: Heterotopic Eroticism in Monti’s Sculpture Circassian Slave at the Crystal Palace in 1851 83Joan DelPlatoPART II: DISCOURSES OF PROJECTION AND CULTURAL CROSS-DRESSING5 The Conceit of Burton’s Scar: Orientalism as Identity and Transgression 115Julie Codell6 Other Desires and the Desire of Others 141Mary RobertsPART III: CIRCULATING AND RE-CIRCULATING ORIENTAL EROTICS7 Sapphism and the Seraglio: Refl ections on the Queer Female Gaze and Orientalism 163Reina Lewis8 European Fantasies and Awadhi Aspirations: From a “Turkish” Harem to a Lucknowi Zenana 181Saleema WaraichWorks
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sounding Imperial
Book SynopsisSounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, and one that will appeal not just to lovers of poetry but to historians of the Empire and sociologists who study trans-national influences. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami Sounding Imperial is a very readable book. It will be mainly of interest to students and scholars of English literature and history. -- Sadhana Naithani Journal of Folklore Research James Mulholland has produced an important new study of eighteenth-century British poetry... -- Evan Gottlieb Review of English Studies James Mulholland's Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 brings the context of British imperialism to Romantic-era poetics, illuminating the concerns of orientalism within the history of print culture. -- Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature What Sounding Imperial tells us about colonialism and culture is that we need to look again at their relationship with fresh eyes. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed VoiceAuthoring Gray's "Elegy"Performing Gray's "Elegy"Impersonating the Bard?Wildness and Welsh ProsodyQuotation Marks(Un)Editing the Bards2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective VoiceBardic Nationalism ReconsideredThe Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo MorganwgListening to the Welsh PastDead Voices Reanimated3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, HistoryAmbiguous SpeechWriting, Re- performance, and Restored VoicesIntimate HailingOssian's Afterlife4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo- Indian PoetryWilliam Jones and the Fountainhead of VerseMaking the Subaltern SpeakRewriting Gray's "The Bard" in IndiaDislocated OrientalismCoda: Reading the Archive of the InauthenticNotesBibliographyIndex
£58.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Lomidine Files
Book SynopsisUltimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control, but as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity.Trade ReviewThis is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—ChoiceGuillaume Lachenal's engaging body of work has long been on the radar of global scholars of public health and medicine in Africa. It is, then, both a true pleasure for readers and vital addition to Anglophone literature in the field that we now have his monograph, The Lomidine Files, in Noémi Tousignant's elegant translation from the original French . . . This is an innovative and sophisticated study that rewards sustained engagement. Though it will appeal to a wide audience interested in medical controversy or public health ethics, it is also an excellent addition to undergraduate and graduate syllabi in public health, the histories of science and medicine, world history, African studies, and development studies.—Mari K. Webel, University of Pittsburgh, Bulletin of the History of MedicineI urge medical scientists, health activists, public health experts, executives of multinational pharmaceutical companies, public officials of affected countries, and officials of international organizations, bilateral development agencies and philanthropic organizations—not to mention the sociologists, anthropologists, historians and others who study them—to read this book. And read it carefully. It cannot tell us how to avoid the catastrophic outcomes of bêtise, but it should have a humbling effect, as it offers a painful remainder of the costs to others—not of evil, but of simple passivity, stupidity and arrogance.—Nitsan Chorev, European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex
£35.88
Johns Hopkins University Press Persian Interventions
Book SynopsisIts conclusions will interest not only specialists in both fields but students of ancient and modern comparative historical imperialism.Trade ReviewIn his original and significant contribution to this new historiography of the Persian Empire, Hyland (history, Christopher Newport Univ.) thoroughly analyzes Persian activities in the Aegean from the conclusion of the Peace of Kallias in 449 BCE to the imposition of the King’s Peace in 387 BCE . . . This important work belongs in the libraries of all universities offering courses in ancient history.—ChoiceQuestioning the traditional assumption that Persia was acting defensively in this period, playing Athens and Sparta off against each other to defuse their joint threat, Hyland reframes the story around Persia as the single world power of the era, with the Greek city states as minor satellites who posed no particular threat, but could be useful in fortifying the Great King's ideological claims to universal empire beyond the sea and the pacification of his borderlands.—Times Literary SupplementThis is a well-written and carefully researched alternative interpretation of a key period of Mediterranean history . . . it will also provide an illuminating case study for historians and political scientists on how a large and powerful empire sought to manage relations with the troublesome states on its margins.—American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Tables and MapsAcknowledgmentsTranslations, Spelling, and Units of Measure1. Achaemenid Persia and the Greeks across the SeaThe Traditional ModelThe Image of Persian World SupremacyA New Approach2. Artaxerxes I and the Athenian PeaceThe Peace of KalliasThe Costs of PeaceThe Savings of PeaceThe Profits of PeaceThe Ideology of PeaceAdherence to Peace3. The Peloponnesian War and the Road to InterventionArtaxerxes I and the Peloponnesian WarDarius II and AthensSicily, Tribute, and Darius’s InterventionAgents of InterventionNegotiating Intervention4. Tissaphernes’s War and the Treaty of 411The Ionian War and Athenian ResilienceVictory over AmorgesRevising the Terms of AllianceQuarrel with Sparta and Contacts with AthensThe Treaty of 4115. The King’s Navy and the Failure of Satrapal InterventionDarius’s Ships and Tissaphernes’s WagesThe Ionian Garrison ExpulsionsThe Royal Fleet’s RecallThe Satraps at the HellespontPharnabazos’s Timbers6. Cyrus the Younger and Spartan VictoryThe Satraps on the DefensiveDarius and the Embassy of BoiotiosCyrus Takes CommandCyrus and Spartan DisasterCyrus and Lysander’s Road to VictoryPersia’s Victory7. Artaxerxes II and War with SpartaCyrus and the Second Loss of IoniaTissaphernes and Spartan InvasionNaval Escalation and Tissaphernes’s DownfallTithraustes’s Truce and Pharnabazos’s Defense of the NorthArtaxerxes’s Fleet and Victory at Knidos8. Persia, the Corinthian War, and the King’s PeaceTimokrates’s Mission to GreecePharnabazos’s RevengeKonon and Persian Aid to AthensTiribazos’s Folly and the Peace Talks of 392Strouthas and the Failure of Outreach to AthensThe King’s PeaceConclusion Notes BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Britain and Africa
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965. This book is about the association between Britain and Africa. The book begins with the British entry into Africa and the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the principal foci of power before 1914. The book next treats the quarter century from the First World War until the outbreak of the Second. The book then discusses the period of the Second World War, its aftermath, and the time period contemporaneous with the book's publication. The author's personal experiences and observations shortly before and during the Second World War in different parts of Africa convinced him at the time that the years 19391945 marked a decisive watershed. After the historical chapters, the author examines the three major zones of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter considers the major international associations of which Britain is a member and with which it operates in African affairs in the aftermath of colonialism.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Britain and Africa before 1914: Establishment of the Foci of PowerChapter 2. Britain and Africa 1914—39: War and Trusteeship Chapter 3. Britain and Africa 1939—64: Bases and BridgeheadsChapter 4. Britain and Southern AfricaChapter 5. Britain and West AfricaChapter 6. Britain and Eastern AfricaChapter 7. Britain and Independent Africa: Partnership—The Uncompleted TaskPostscriptIndex
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Arrest Decisions
Book SynopsisSamuel Richardson''s New Nation focuses on four novels, taking new and varied approaches in analyzing the construct of native English virtue and the role of the domestic sphere within eighteenth-century England. Ewha Chung not only examines Richardson''s use of such themes but also links the novels to historical developments that inevitably heightened the sense of English superiority so crucial to the age of imperialism. The powerful influence of Richardson''s literary nationalism inspired eighteenth-century readers in England and Europe. This work investigates the phenomenal investment in Richardson''s characters and demonstrates beyond question the far-reaching impact of his work.Trade Review«In this ground-breaking study, Edith Linn, a former New York Police Department lieutenant, takes on the personal dimensions of arrest decisions. Some officers, suffering from low pay and high living costs, arrest for overtime and use a variety of techniques to maximize it. Others are deterred from arrest-making by the muddle of paperwork and the likelihood that a collar will interfere with childcare, second jobs, or family functions. Such officers may pass off their arrests to others, ignore criminal behavior, or try for a desk job. Overall, this exceptional work not only humanizes these officers but adds tremendously to our store of knowledge of policing and the factors that affect officers’ behavior.» (Martin D. Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, Ohio Presidential Research Scholar, Ohio University) «Edith Linn’s book ‘Arrest Decisions’ is a fascinating, well-researched study of adaptive arrest behavior among New York City Police Department officers. Linn, a former NYPD lieutenant, proves that lengthy arrest procedures generate powerful private motives to make or avoid an arrest, and that officers control their arrest-making in furtherance of their own self-interest. Buttressing her analysis are the many participants’ comments, which detail the problems in their daily lives and their frustration with the system. Linn’s groundbreaking work is an outstanding contribution to the literature of policing and criminal justice. I would recommend it for any interested professor, researcher, student, and the average citizen.» (John S. Dempsey, Captain, New York City Police Department (Ret.); Professor Emeritus in Criminal Justice, State University of New York (SUNY)-Schenectady County Community College; Mentor in Criminal Justice and Public Administration, SUNY-Empire State College) «Anyone interested in exploring the full range of factors that enter a police officer’s mind as he/she decides when and how often to arrest individuals should hurry up and read Edith Linn’s ‘Arrest Decisions’. Linn brings these considerations to life through rigorous social science analysis buttressed with illuminating revelations of officers’ confidential opinions. She uncloaks the determinants of this ‘adaptive arrest behavior’ as she astutely combines the practical experience of a former police lieutenant and the analytical skills of a sociologist.The book examines the intersection of the arresting process with organizational, situational, and personal factors, but it is in the area of personal factors that Linn breaks new ground. She examines such factors as post-work commitments, the burdens of the arrest process, attitudes towards arrest, personal concerns, personal finances, and pre-incident proclivity to make or decline arrests.This volume is an important contribution to the literature on police behavior and other scholars will be well advised to replicate this valuable study. I highly recommend this work.» (Eli B. Silverman, Professor Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author, ‘NYPD Battles Crime: Innovative Strategies in Policing’) «Through hard work and concise analysis, Edith Linn provides us with a thought-provoking inside look at how forces outside police officers’ work environments shape how they carry out their duties on the job. Linn has given a wonderful glimpse into the world of everyday police decision-making. In so doing, she has made a fine contribution to what we currently know about the operations of the police in modern American society.» (David A. Klinger, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh
Book SynopsisThis book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization. Centuries of invasions (1204-1757) resulted most notably in the Islamization of Bengal. Often there were conflicts between Sanskritization and Islamization. Later colonization of Bengal by Britain (1757) led to a process of Anglicization, which created a new middle class in Bengal that, in turn, created a form of elitism among the Bengali Hindu upper caste. After British rule ended (1947), Bengali culture lost its elitist status in South Asia and has undergone severe marginalization. Political instability and economic insufficiency, as reflected by many quantitative and qualitative indicators, are common and contribute to pervasive unemployment, alienation, vigilantism, and instability in the entire region. A Story o
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Africas Last Romantic
Book SynopsisAfrica's Last Romantic: The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom captures the drama and excitement of John L. Brom's film expeditions from 1949 to 1962 through sub-Saharan Africa. Brom was the only explorer to follow the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley and in a documentary interviewed the two last survivors of Stanley's expeditions from 1874 to 1890. In 1955 he also interviewed the famous nineteenth-century East African slave trader Tippu Tip's grandson, who defended his grandfather's trade. Brom's expedition was the basis for his bestseller 20,000 Miles in the African Jungle, which was translated into eleven languages. Brom managed to interview and film the rulers and tribes he encountered before they were decimated in the civil wars of the Congo after independence, and his historic films are now preserved in the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution. Over 500 articles were published on Brom's work on both sides of the Atlantic during his lTable of ContentsContents: 1949-1950 - The Cameroun Expedition – 1953 - 20,000 Miles through the African Jungle – 1953-1954 - Mau Mau Expedition – 1955 - On the Footsteps of Stanley – 1960-1966 - The Drumbeats of Independence.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Empire and Education in Africa
Book SynopsisEmpire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial education. The collection includes case studies from South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) and Tanzania (then Tanganyika). It will therefore prove invaluable for scholars in the histories of French, British and German colonialism in Africa. The book examines similarities and differences in approaches to education across a broad geographical and chronological framework, with chapters focusing on the period between 1830 and 1950. The chapters highlight some central concerns in writing histories of education that transcend geographic or imperial boundaries. The text addresses the relationship between voluntary societies' role in educatioTrade Review«Empire and Education in Africa is a useful collection and should be valuable to readers as they discover the roots of current issues from the study of colonial schooling in Africa.» (Brendan P. Carmody, History of Education 2017) «[...] scholars and students of the history of education in Africa or the history of colonial education in other world regions will find something of interest in this collection. It is a valuable and welcome addition to the literature.» (Kelly Duke Bryant, The International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 50, 2 2017).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Peter Kallaway/Rebecca Swartz: Introduction – Tim Allender: ‘Lessons’ from the Subcontinent: Indian Dynamics in British Africa – Section One: Nineteenth Century – Rebecca Swartz: Industrial Education in Natal: The British Imperial Context, 1830–1860 – Helen Ludlow: Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education: Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839–1862 – Brian Willan: ‘A Test of Civilisation’? Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown – Section Two: Inter-War Era British Territories – Christina Cappy: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century – Richard Glotzer: Charles Templeman Loram: Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America – Meghan Healy-Clancy: Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of ‘Development’ in Apartheid South Africa and Late-Colonial British Africa – Section Three: German Sphere/East Africa – Peter Kallaway: German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education – Section Four: French Colonial Education in Africa – Elsie Rockwell: Tracing Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the Early Twentieth Century – Ellen Vea Rosnes: Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century – Pierre Guidi: Independence and Influence: Empress Mänän School—An Ethio-French Girls’ School in 1930s Ethiopia – Bio-Notes of Contributors – Index
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Empire and Education in Africa
Book SynopsisEmpire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial education. The collection includes case studies from South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) and Tanzania (then Tanganyika). It will therefore prove invaluable for scholars in the histories of French, British and German colonialism in Africa. The book examines similarities and differences in approaches to education across a broad geographical and chronological framework, with chapters focusing on the period between 1830 and 1950. The chapters highlight some central concerns in writing histories of education that transcend geographic or imperial boundaries. The text addresses the relationship between voluntary societies' role in educatioTrade Review«Empire and Education in Africa is a useful collection and should be valuable to readers as they discover the roots of current issues from the study of colonial schooling in Africa.» (Brendan P. Carmody, History of Education 2017) «[...] scholars and students of the history of education in Africa or the history of colonial education in other world regions will find something of interest in this collection. It is a valuable and welcome addition to the literature.» (Kelly Duke Bryant, The International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 50, 2 2017).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Peter Kallaway/Rebecca Swartz: Introduction – Tim Allender: ‘Lessons’ from the Subcontinent: Indian Dynamics in British Africa – Section One: Nineteenth Century – Rebecca Swartz: Industrial Education in Natal: The British Imperial Context, 1830–1860 – Helen Ludlow: Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education: Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839–1862 – Brian Willan: ‘A Test of Civilisation’? Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown – Section Two: Inter-War Era British Territories – Christina Cappy: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century – Richard Glotzer: Charles Templeman Loram: Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America – Meghan Healy-Clancy: Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of ‘Development’ in Apartheid South Africa and Late-Colonial British Africa – Section Three: German Sphere/East Africa – Peter Kallaway: German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education – Section Four: French Colonial Education in Africa – Elsie Rockwell: Tracing Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the Early Twentieth Century – Ellen Vea Rosnes: Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century – Pierre Guidi: Independence and Influence: Empress Mänän School—An Ethio-French Girls’ School in 1930s Ethiopia – Bio-Notes of Contributors – Index
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Invisible in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisThe Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free black communities between 1820 and 1850 in the Old Northwest, becoming an important safe haven and beacon of freedom.Its notoriety and size grew as slaves often migrated to these locations after they were granted emancipation in the wills of slave owners who purchased land in the area for them to settle on. The newly free people found sanctuary as these communities were also rumored to shelter runaway slaves in their role as active participants in the Underground Railroad Movement.However, the prosperity of blacks living in these villages angered some of the local whites many of whom were migrating at the same time and were connected to local law officials and politicians. ArTable of ContentsList of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Virginia Confederacy of Indians – Immigration of European Indentured Servants – Immigration of African Indentured Servants – Alliances between Indigenous People and African Indentured Servants – Alliances between European Indentured Servants and African Indentured Servants – From African Indentured Servants to Enslaved People – Race as a Social Construct—Structural Constraints on Race Mixing – African American Legal Status and the American Revolution – Registers of Free Blacks – Western Expansion – The Relationship between Western Expansion and Free Blacks – Migrations to Ohio – The Goings Clan—the Genealogy – The Migration of the Goings Clan to Northwestern Ohio – The Village of Rumley – The Village of Carthagena – The Village of Wren – The Village of Middle Creek – Education in the Black Settlements – The Importance of the Church in the Black Settlements – Life in the Black Settlements after the Civil War – Benevolence Societies in the Black Settlements – Social Life in the Black Settlements – Living Conditions in the Black Settlements – Health and Wellness in the Black Settlements – Health-Seeking Traditions in the Black Settlements – Conclusions: Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Prelude to Disaster
Book SynopsisPrelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists. Unlike other studies, it emphasizes the central role of the young George III in the process. Central to this examination are George's principles of statecraft and government, his thoughts on pre- and post-war empires, his assessments of future relations with Britain's great antagonist France, his personality and its development before and after his accession to the throne, his friendship with the earl of Bute, and his attitudes toward domestic policies and politicians, especially George Grenville.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
Book SynopsisUnsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Américas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race theories to trace cross-community tensions and possibilities for solidarities amidst the uneven imposition of racialization and settler colonization. Contrasting texts such as Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men with Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest with Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, among others, Le reveals how settler colonialism persists through the liberal ideological structuring or incorporation of critical and political resistance. She illuminates the tense collisions of Asian and Indigenous movements from the heroic/warrior traditions, reparations and redress, and transnational/cross-racial mobilization against global capital to mixed-race narratives.Reading the
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
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University of Toronto Press Empire and Nations
Book SynopsisEmpire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward – teacher, scholar, and administrator – who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career he has made significant contributions to international understanding and the study of international relations through his writings, public lectures, and participation in international organizations and conferences.The volume consists of essays by fourteen outstanding contributors, all of whom are former students or associates of Professor Soward. The essays have as their common subject the nations that evolved within the British Empire and found, or are finding, their place in the world. Papers written by John Conway, Harvey L. Dyck, G.P. de T. Glazebrook, Edward D. Greathed, John W. Holmes, R.A. MacKay, Norman A.M. MacKenzie, Kenneth A. MacKirdy, H. Blair Neatby, and Peter B. Waite develop the subject fro
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Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
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Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
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Bristol University Press Decolonising Social Work in Finland
Book SynopsisIntroduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised. Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. Brings together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland. Critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing. It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Education.
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Little, Brown Book Group Viceroys The Creation of the British
Book SynopsisViceroys tells the important story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs and the role it played in the shaping of the modern British identity.Trade ReviewA richly rewarding work of history * Military History *
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Bloomsbury USA Point Pleasant 1774
Book SynopsisThe only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. This title brings to life one of the most significant pre-Revolutionary which conflicts between American settlers and the native tribes.Table of ContentsIntroduction /Strategic situation /Chronology /Opposing commanders /Opposing armies /Orders of battle /Opposing plans /The campaign /Aftermath /The battlefield today /Further reading /Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The First Afghan War 183942
Book SynopsisIn 1839, forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king, Shah Soojah, to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain''s Great Game--Afghanistan would create a buffer to any potential Russian expansion toward India. This history traces the initial, highly successful campaign as the British easily occupied Kabul and the rebellion that two years later humbled the British army. Forced to negotiate a surrender, the British fled Kabul en masse in the harsh Afghan winter. Decimated by Afghan guerilla attacks and by the extreme cold paired with a lack of food and supplies, just one European--Dr. Brydon--would make it to the safety of Jalalabad five days later. This highly illustrated history then goes on to trace the retribution attack on Kabul the following year, which destroyed the symbolic Mogul Bazaar before troops rapidly withdrew and left Afghanistan in peace for nearlTable of ContentsIntroduction/Chronology/Opposing commanders/Opposing armies/Opposing plans/The campaign/Aftermath/The battlefield today/Further reading/Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tenochtitlan 151921
Book SynopsisIn 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like a jewel in the midst of Lake Texcoco. This encounter brought together cultures that had hitherto evolved in complete isolation from each other Catholic Spain and the Aztec Empire. What ensued was the swift escalation from a clash of civilizations to a war of the worlds. At the conclusion of the Conquistador campaign of 151921, Tenochtitlan lay in ruins, the last Aztec Emperor was in chains, and Spanish authority over the native peoples had been definitively asserted. With the colourful personalities Cortés, Malinche, Pedro Alvarez, Cuitláhuac, Cuauhtémoc driving the narrative, and the vivid differences in uniforms, weapons, and fighting styles between the rival armies (displayed
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC French Naval Colonial Troops 18721914
Book SynopsisFrance''s colonial wars in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia were very largely fought by an organization completely separate from both the home-defense Metropolitan Army and the Armée d''Afrique in Algeria. The Naval Troops (Troupes de la Marine) were volunteers, and earned a reputation for greater toughness and hardiness than the conscripted Metropolitan Army. Spread throughout the French Empire, Naval Troops in this period were characterized by very large infantry and artillery regiments based in France, mixed race regiments (Régiments Mixtes), and entire native regiments raised in West Africa, Madagascar, and Indochina. The latter, the so-called Tirailleurs, were organized and led by officers and cadres from the Naval Troops, and wore very varied and colorful uniforms based on formalized versions of traditional local costumes.French Naval & Colonial Troops 18721914 uses rich and detailed full color plates as well as thorough Table of ContentsIntroduction – organization of French forces for overseas service/ Chronology/ Campaigns: Indochina, from 1883 – West Africa, from 1886 – Dahomey, from 1890 – Madagascar, from 1885 – China, 1900/ Locally raised units: Tirailleurs & Spahis Sénégalais – Tirailleurs Haoussas – Tirailleurs & Spahis Soudanais – Tirailleurs Sakalaves & Malgaches – Tirailleurs Annamites, Tonkinois & Cambodgiens/ Minor island garrisons/ Plate Commentaries
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The First AngloSikh War 184546
Book SynopsisA highly illustrated account of the First Anglo-Sikh War of 184556, a dramatic, hard-fought, and colorful conflict during Britain''s rule of India.This fully illustrated study of the First Anglo-Sikh War tells the story of one of the major colonial wars of the nineteenth century, as the British East India Company attempted to wrest control of the Punjab region from a Sikh Empire riven by infighting.The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out due to escalating tensions between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company in the Punjab region of India in the mid-nineteenth century. Political machinations were at the heart of the conflict, with Sikh rulers fearing the growing power of their own army, while several prominent Sikh generals actively collaborated with the East India Company.The British faced a disciplined opponent, trained along European lines, which fielded armies numbering in the tens of thousands. The war featured a number of closely contested battleTable of ContentsOrigins of the campaign /Chronology /Opposing commanders /Opposing armies /Orders of battle /Opposing plans /The campaign /Aftermath /The battlefields today /Further reading /Index
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Hodder & Stoughton The Lost Homestead
Book SynopsisThrough her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.Trade Review'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' * The Times *A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history... Evocative... Gripping. * Financial Times *In spare, occasionally lyrical prose, The Lost Homestead meticulously tells the story of her much-loved Sikh-born mother. -- Sonia Purnell * Evening Standard *Her poignant memoir reminds us that our past shares no borders with our present. -- F.S. Aijazuddin * Dawn *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Lost Homestead
Book SynopsisThrough her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.Trade Review'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' * The Times *A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history... Evocative... Gripping. * Financial Times *In spare, occasionally lyrical prose, The Lost Homestead meticulously tells the story of her much-loved Sikh-born mother. -- Sonia Purnell * Evening Standard *Her poignant memoir reminds us that our past shares no borders with our present. -- F.S. Aijazuddin * Dawn *
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John Murray Press No Neutral Ground
Book SynopsisCape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth. Yet for the majority of its inhabitants it is hell. Apartheid-spawned ghettoes are everywhere, and for those living in Manenberg - a coloured township on the Cape Flats, purpose-built by the apartheid government as part of its forced removal plan - life is just as marginal today as it was during apartheid. The main differences now are the rampant drug use and widespread gang presence.No Neutral Ground is a gripping account of Pete Portal''s move from London to Manenberg, of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. This is a story of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair; the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balanced on a knife edge. Offering searing insight andTrade ReviewHere we have the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balance on a knife edge. The author believes this is what the Church could become if we were willing to risk it all to reach the forgotten and the lost. Our contexts may be different, but our UK churches could learn much from this book. * The Methodist Recorder *Wow. Honest, inspiring, heartbreakingly convicting, spirit-infused, humble and holy. This book reeks of Jesus and the invitation he still gives to lose our lives for something so much better. Pete writes and lives with both skill and passion and reading this book inspires me to actively participate in God's Kingdom coming to our world! * Danielle Strickland *Pete Portal is a revivalist and an activist, an unusual and powerful combination. This book is the story of how he holds together the great hope of cultural transformation and spiritual revival. He does so whilst facing the painful realities of day-to-day life in one of the most troubled communities in South Africa. * Ken Costa *Portal compels us to lay down our pursuit of comfort, security and quality of life and follow Jesus not just to places like Manenberg, but to the edges of ourselves. No Neutral Ground is a glimpse into a story of our mutual liberation and it is not without cost * Idelette McVicker *Pete's book is a combination of inspiring stories, wild faith and insightful challenge. It will stretch your views of prayer - both answered and unanswered - and of the deeply transformative power of love. * Pete Greig *a human account that shows resilience and humility. I would gladly recommend this as a refreshing read. * Families First *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Exploring the Dutch Empire Agents Networks and Institutions 16002000
Book SynopsisCatia Antunes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004).Jos Gommans in Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is author of The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780 (1999) and Mughal Warfare (2002).Trade ReviewThe individual essays are uniformly very good — they are exceptionally readable for this sort of genre, and they are likewise enjoyable and informative — and they collectively immerse the reader in a wide swath of the Netherlands’ overseas colonies and engagements. * The English Historical Review *[An] excellent and enjoyable overview of Leiden scholarship on Dutch colonial history. * European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Catia Antunes and Jos Gommans Introduction Catia Antunes PART I: AGENTS 1. South Asian Cosmopolitanism and the Dutch Microcosms in Seventeenth-Century Cochin (Kerala) Jos Gommans 2. Negotiating Foreignness in the Ottoman Empire: The Legal Complications of Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth Century Maurits van den Boogert 3. Pioneering in Southeast Asia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Anita van Dissel 4. Nodal Ndola Robert Ross and Anne-Lot Hoek PART II: NETWORKS 5. The Networks of Dutch Brazil: Rise, Entanglement and Gall of a Colonial Dream Catia Antunes, Erik Odegard and Joris van den Tol 6. Networks of Information: The Dutch East Indies Charles Jeurgens 7. Paramaribo: Myriad Connections, Multiple Identifications Peter Meel 8. The Global Dutchman in Indonesian Waters J. Thomas Lindblad PART III: INSTITUTIONS 9. ‘Not out of Love, but for Money and Profit’: The Dutch-Japanese Trade from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Wim Boot 10. Institutional Interaction on the Gold Coast: African and Dutch Institutional Cooperation in Elmina, 1600-1800 Henk den Heijer 11. Conflict Resolution, Social Control and Law-Making in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sri Lanka Alicia Schrikker 12. Curaçao: Insular Nationalism vis-à-vis Dutch (Post-)Colonialism Gert Oostindie Conclusion: Globalizing Empire: The Dutch Case Jos Gommans Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Eurafrica The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism Theory for a Global Age Series
Book SynopsisPeo Hansen is Professor in the Institute for Research in Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.Stefan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.Trade ReviewEurafrica is a very timely book on an important topic. While stressing continuity across the twentieth century and cataloguing Eurafrican projects in an accessible and useful manner, it shows that colonies played a much more important role in the thinking about European cooperation than is generally acknowledged. * Anne-Isabelle Richard, Journal of Global History *A powerful essay ... Hansen and Jonsson are to be commending for having written a book on European integration that will be of interest to scholars both of postcolonial studies as well as of modern European history in general. * H-Soz-Kult online *It is not often that one reads a work of academic history that has both interpretative value and policy relevance, as Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson’s Eurafrica does. …[This] splendid book rightly dwells upon the ambiguous legacy of the concept of Eurafrica for the process of European integration. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Hansen and Jonsson’s exceptional study Eurafrica ... is invaluable in recovering the imperial history of Europe qua Europe. * Sociology *[A] wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... The authors are to be commended for their extensive research. * The European Legacy *A roseate glimmer of postwar peace attaches to 'Europe' - the fake continent and the organization of states that is said metonymically to stand for it. Hansen and Jonsson uncover something altogether different in the formation of the European project, something either unknown or papered over in embarrassed silence: Eurafrica. The colonial ideology, morphing into the neo-colonial here, is nothing less than astonishing. * Anders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History, Columbia University, USA *[...] the work Eurafrica offers a very valuable contribution to the thorough knowledge and full understanding of the bond existing between decolonization and europeanisation processes. Based on a wide range of sources, it provides a general overview of the origins, motivations, forms and means of EC cooperation policies and illuminates the denseness of themes, controversies and approaches covered in research. In this way it advances knowledge about the debate on the “centrality of colonial legacy in early blueprints for European Integration” and provides a good fact finding of the state of the research in the field. * Jean-Marie Palayret, former Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union, European University Institute, Florence *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface 1. Introduction: The Past that Europe Forgot 2. A Holy Alliance of Colonising Powers: The Interwar Period 3. Making Europe in Africa: The First Postwar Decade 4. The Eurafrican Relaunch: The Rome Treaty Negotiations, 1955–1957 5. Conclusion: Ending Colonialism by Securing its Continuation Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Open Door Era
Book SynopsisIn 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation and prevent conflict in the Far East. In an examination of its origins and development, we discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. TheOpen Door Idea, 1893-1904; 2. Imposing the Open Door, 1904-1917; 3. The Global Open Door, 1917-1929; 4. The Open Door in a Closed World, 1929-1945; 5. The Open Door and the Cold War, 1945-1968; 6. The Open DoorTriumphant, 1968-1991 Conclusion; Select Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press The Press in the Middle East and North Africa
Book SynopsisThis volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950).
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Edinburgh University Press Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire
Book SynopsisContrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908 1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire.
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Edinburgh University Press Hydrofictions
Book SynopsisThis book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine.
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Edinburgh University Press The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
Book SynopsisThis compelling analysis of the modern Middle East shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors.
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Edinburgh University Press Images of Apartheid
Book SynopsisImages of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity.Trade Review"Waddell examines South African (or B-scheme films), i.e., the country's iteration of Hollywood blaxploitation. ZAxploitation cinema was surreptitiously tainted by the apartheid ideological undertones because it was supported by the National Party regime, which provided financial underwriting in the background. These low-budget exploitation films reimagined Black lives in a modernized (rural and urbanized) context. Waddell's book is in conversation with Ken Harrow's Trash: African Cinema from Below (2013) and Tomaselli's Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinema (2006). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -K. M. Kapanga
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Edinburgh University Press Earthbound The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the
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