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Book SynopsisA gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this collection contextualize St. Louis, exploring French-Native relations, the agency of empire in the Illinois Country, the role of women in “mapping” the French colonial world, fashion and identity, and commodities and exchange in St. Louis as part of a broader politics of consumption in colonial America. The collection also provides a comparative perspective on America’s two great Creole cities, St. Louis and New Orleans. Lastly, it looks at the Frenchness of St. Louis in the nineteenth century and the present.French St. Louis recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francophoTrade Review“One of the most refreshing and illuminating aspects of this collection is the inclusion of women not merely as individual characters but as intrinsic parts of the history and historiography. . . . Patricia Cleary’s chapter on fashion is exemplary in portraying St. Louis’s rich economic, political, and cultural history and its connections to far-flung places. . . . Delightful and deeply insightful. Its chapters speak to one another, creating a collection that holds together surprisingly well. One could read the book from cover to cover, finding connections.”—Kathleen DuVal, Missouri Historical Review “This meticulously edited collection reframes the ongoing conversation on the often-confusing history of a special urban landscape—St. Louis—broadening its diverse meaning and multicultural impact through a model lens by which all early American cities may be profitably studied.”—John Neal Hoover, author of A Nation, a City, and Its First Library: Americana at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 Years"[French St. Louis] can foster a better understanding of our present and our future for all of us."—Missouri Life"This volume is a commendable venture to tell the French story of the founding of interior America. The project's inception during the sestercentennial year of St. Louis's founding yielded fruitful results with the recent publication of this book. A valuable read for American historians."—Dan Shannon, Denver Posse of WesternersTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A French City in North America Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey, and Peter J. KastorPart 1. Fashioning a Colonial Place: St. Louis between Empire and Frontier 1. Empire by Collaboration: St. Louis, the Illinois Country, and the French Colonial Empire Robert Michael Morrissey 2. Between Obligation and Opportunity: St. Louis, Women, and Transcolonial Networks, 1764–1800 Robert Englebert 3. The Capital of St. Louis: From Indian Trade to American Territory, 1764–1825 J. Frederick Fausz 4. Fashioning Identities on the Frontier: Clothing, Culture, and Choice in Early St. Louis Patricia ClearyPart 2. St. Louis and New Orleans: A Regional Perspective 5. You Are Who You Trade With: Why Antebellum St. Louis Industrialized and New Orleans Didn’t Lawrence N. Powell 6. The Creole Frontier: Free People of Color in St. Louis and along the French Mississippi Corridor, 1800–1870 Andrew N. WegmannPart 3. Visualizing Place: New Sources and Resources for Telling the Story of St. Louis 7. Visualizing Early St. Louis Robert J. Moore Jr. 8. The View from Upper Louisiana: Pierre-Clément de Laussat’s Concerns and Contacts, 1803–1804 John H. LawrencePart 4. Maintaining the French Connection of St. Louis 9. Louis Cortambert and l’Esprit français in St. Louis in 1854 Anne Juneau Craver 10. The French Presence in St. Louis Today Lionel Cuillé Conclusion: The Founding and Lasting Significance of St. Louis Jay Gitlin Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements—earth, wind, fire, and water—as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility.Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population receiveTrade Review"Church’s study is a nuanced and rich addition to a growing body of work that demonstrates the relationship between nature- and human-induced disasters set against the backdrop of government management."—Caroline Grego, Environmental History"Christopher M. Church shows us that disasters do indeed reveal some significant facts about the risks and stresses of life in the French colonial Caribbean. . . . Church's book is well-researched, highly detailed, and tightly argued using a wide range of primary sources, including some illuminating statistical data. It introduces new insight into the story of the French Caribbean by shifting the focus towards the human/nature interaction while also showing how environmental concerns were deeply intertwined with political economy, race, and colonial/metropolitan relationships. . . . The book makes a significant historiographical intervention at the intersection of French colonial studies and environmental studies and should become a model for future work in this area."—Jeffrey H. Jackson, H-France Review"This well-researched book moves beyond being simply an analysis of the issues surrounding race, citizenship, and colonialism by incorporating the theoretical and methodological models of disaster studies. . . . Scholars interested in historical disasters will find this work useful for its comparative utility, especially if viewed alongside studies about the effects of disaster and colonialism in other parts of the world."—Sherry Johnson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean, constitutes a valuable addition to considerations on the history of disasters, both natural and man-made, in the French Antilles during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Thanks to Church's original, insightful, and well-argued new work, researchers can now consider France's old colonies in the Caribbean, with their environmental disasters, civil discord, and political intrigue, as influencing factors in historical and ideological developments within the metropole. With its Francophone focus, this new work situates itself as an innovative contribution to the burgeoning field of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, which has, heretofore, concentrated primarily on an Anglophone context. . . . Church keeps his content clear and coherent, making it accessible to scholars in a broad range of fields, including Caribbean History, Environmental Studies, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and Political Science."—Shanaaz Mohammed, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"Church demonstrates that, from 1870 to 1902, the Third Republic's responses to cataclysmic natural calamities,man-made catastrophes, and subsequent civil unrests led to the reshaping of its political and economic relationship with these islands that were already on the brink of economic disaster due to a failing sugar industry."—Séverine Bates, French Review“With a timely focus on environmental disaster and its political ramifications, Christopher Church has given us a highly original and multidisciplinary view of an understudied period in Caribbean history.”—David Geggus, professor of history at the University of Florida and editor and translator of The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History “Christopher M. Church offers compelling short narratives of the various disasters that struck the colonies, and his analysis of the politics of relief is sophisticated and informative. . . . It is a book that will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, including French imperial studies and Caribbean history. It is also a welcome and significant contribution to the history of disasters.”—Matthew Mulcahy, professor of history at Loyola University at Maryland and author of Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean “Christopher Church offers a richly researched, well-told, and insightful account of the political, economic, and social impact of natural disaster in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French Antilles, profoundly deepening our understanding of these societies.”—Laurent Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History “Trouble in paradise! In this engaging, innovative, and well-researched study, Christopher Church uses the history of disasters to explore interactions between environmental, colonial, and political history in the French West Indies. . . . Paradise Destroyed adds an important new dimension to the history of modern empire, showing how France’s ‘colonies of citizens’ could be both exotic and familiar, colonial and French at the same time.”—Tyler Stovall, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal NationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration 1. French Race, Tropical Space: The French Caribbean during the Third Republic 2. The Language of Citizenship: Compatriotism and the Great Antillean Fires of 1890 3. The Calculus of Disaster: Sugar and the Hurricane of 18 August 1891 4. The Political Summation: Incendiarism, Civil Unrest, and Legislative Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century 5. Marianne Decapitated: The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelée Epilogue: National Identity and Integration after the First World War Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLeveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the developing region of Oregon via its exclusionary laws in the years 1841 to 1859. Trade Review“This is one of the first works of historical scholarship to explicitly take up the question of settler colonialism in the Pacific Northwest. By bringing together race and gender Jacki Hedlund Tyler offers an intersectional analysis that is also a useful contribution to the region’s scholarship. Scholars working on the American West more generally will also appreciate her argument about the influence Oregon had on the rest of the country.”—Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over PlaceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface: Daffodils Acknowledgments Introduction: A Colonial Outpost 1. Oregon and the Making of a Settler Colony in the Pacific Northwest 2. The Dispossession of American Indians and the Right to Exist 3. Understanding Immigration Restrictions through Arguments of Slavery and Labor 4. Incorporated Definitions of Land Ownership 5. The Privileged Right to an Education 6. Implications of Citizenship in Suffrage and Naturalization Laws Conclusion: Defiant Subjects and Their Legacies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting the hundreds of white missionary children born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nineteenth century, and the impact these children had on U.S. foreign policy of the era. Trade Review"A compelling and thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century American missionary children in Hawai‘i—the generation that orchestrated the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and annexation to the United States. While the political story has been told, Joy Schulz adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural milieu of settler children who came to see the islands of their birth as their birthright. Hawaiian By Birth underscores the importance of family relations and generational difference to understanding the complexities of American empire. Clearly and concisely written, the book is well suited for classroom use."—Seth Archer, Western Historical Quarterly"A thoughtful treatment fusing the study of childhood with imperialism."—Choice"Both general reader and scholar will benefit from reading Schulz’s excellent contribution to the study of 19th century Hawaiian history and the role the children of white missionaries played in shaping it."—Reading Religion"Schulz's child-centric approach is methodologically invigorating, and her interweaving of social and political events and trends with interpersonal emotions and tensions is a valuable contribution. In taking children seriously as historical figures, she gives them agency while also providing a much fuller consideration of mission colonialism in the Pacific. Hers is an engaging and persuasive reminder to take the history of children and childhood seriously. . . . Strong primary-source research and an engaging writing style make this book a valuable contribution to scholars of American relations with Hawai'i."—Emily J. Manktelow, Journal of Pacific History"In Hawaiian by Birth, Joy Schulz sheds new light on a remarkable group of individuals: the children of the first Christian missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands. Much has been written about the missionaries (who radically transformed the islands in the early to mid-1800s), but less has been written about their children."—Clifford Putney, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"[Hawaiian by Birth] is a fascinating case study of evangelical missionaries' interventions for what they saw as the good of others. Through her meticulously researched book, Schulz has contributed an illuminating account of 19th-century American foreign appropriation set in train by Christian outreach in the northern Pacific."—Patricia Grimshaw, Pacific Northwest Quarterly"Descendants of the many generations of native Hawaiians who have been maltreated and disregarded over the past two centuries still struggle to have their voices heard and their histories made known. This book will hopefully go some way toward making all of us more aware of what occurred on the Hawaiian Islands not so very long ago, with political, economic, and social consequences extending into the present day."—Jean Barman, American Historical Review"This book makes a valuable contribution to the history of U.S. colonialism and the history of American missionaries, and is an essential addition to scholarship on the history of Hawai‘i. It breaks new ground by examining the childhood experiences of this generation of Hawaiian-born whites and by applying theories of childhood development to their history."—Lawrence Kessler, Pacific Historical Review“Hawaiian by Birth is a superb study at the dynamic intersection of imperial, Hawaiian, cultural, and childhood histories. Joy Schulz is a passionate writer, and her work is filled with surprising implications for the history of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i.”—David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush“We understand that the normative, heterosexual family constitutes the nation-state. This remarkable, innovative study reveals the centrality of that family in ‘birthing empire’ through a history of childhood. Race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion intersect to advance U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and settler colonialism in Hawai‘i.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Island World: Hawai‘i and the United StatesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imperial Children and Empire Formation in the Nineteenth Century 1. Birthing Empire: Economies of Childrearing and the Establishment of American Colonialism in Hawai‘i 2. Playing with Fire: White Childhood and Environmental Legacies in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i 3. Schooling Power: Teaching Anglo–Civic Duty in the Hawaiian Islands, 1841–53 4. Cannibals in America: U.S. Acculturation and the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century White Immigrants from the Hawaiian Islands 5. Crossing the Pali: White Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and the Racial Divide in Hawai‘i, 1820–98 Conclusion: White Hawaiians before the World Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis, he concludes that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Buschmann moves beyond the easy definition of artifacts as trophies of colonial defeat or religious conversion, instead employing the term hoarding to describe the irrational amassing of Indigenous artifacts by European colonial residents. Buschmann also highlights Indigenous material culture as a bargaining chip for its producers to engage with the imposed colonial regime. In addition, by ceTrade Review"This book will fascinate scholars in museum studies, postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural geography, and anyone interested in tracing the history of material culture. Beyond the case study and geographic focus, this scholarship will also inform explorations into local colonial collections in other parts of the world, from Africa to Canada. By making space for Indigenous actions and reactions, the study will become a model for the decentering of historical studies on colonial artifacts."—Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow“Hoarding New Guinea manages to be both historically grounded and also attuned to contemporary recognitions of Indigenous agency. The book’s findings and conclusions are sobering, surprising, and illuminating in equal measure, and a refreshing corrective to much superficial postcolonial writing that simplifies and flattens the complexities of the colonial encounter.”—Conal McCarthy, author of Museums and Māori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice“This book establishes its topical focus—the hoarding of New Guinea—in a sound analysis of colonial ethnographic collection histories, thus grounding the critique of the present and potential reimagination of the future in a nuanced understanding of the past. Such careful and detailed work is much needed, long overdue, and highly important. It will be of interest to museum scholars as well as professionals and students.”—Philipp Schorch, author of Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic LensesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Itinerant Yet Stubbornly Stable European Value of Material Culture, Circa 1870–1920 2. Ethnographic Resident Collection Networks in German New Guinea 3. Contested Indigenous Borderlands 4. Artifact Exchanges along the Ethnographic Borderlands Conclusion Appendix: Three Ways of Estimating Artifact Extraction from German New Guinea Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa.

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Book SynopsisUndoubtedly one of Africa's most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene''s creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene''s oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with documenting the past in an attempt to present a balanced and nuanced view of African history. While these studies, unquestionably contribute to a better understanding of his works, they collectively ignore Sembene's relentless preoccupation with culture in his entire career as a writer and filmmaker. The collection of essays in Sembene and the Politics of Culture sets out to fill that gap as the contributors at once foreground Sembene's fixation on the centrality of culture in the articulation of the discourse of national consciousness Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: Cultural Politics in Senegal: A Quest for Relevance, by Lifongo Vetinde Part One: Culture and Development Chapter One: Sembene, Senghor and Competing Notions of Culture and Development at the 1966 Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres de Dakar, by David Murphy Chapter Two: Sembène and the Aesthetics of Senghorian Négritude, by Lifongo Vetinde Chapter Three: Representations of Islam and the question of Identity in Ousmane Sembene’s Ceddo, by Cherif Correa Part Two: Discourses Chapter Four: A Twice-Told Tale: The Post-colonial Allegory of La Noire de …(1966) and Faat Kine (2000), by Dayna Oscherwitz Chapter Five: Bringing the Rain Indoors: Rereading the National Allegory in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala, by Mathew H. Brown Chapter Six: Women in Sembène’s Films: Spatial Reconfigurations and Cultural Meanings, by Moussa Sow Chapter Seven: Why Does Diouana Die? Facing History, Migration and Trauma in Black Girl, by Lyell Davis Part Three: Language and Aesthetics Chapter Eight: Language, Racial Difference and Dialogic Consciousness: Sembene's God’s Bits of Wood, by Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu Chapter Nine: An Onomastic Reading of Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kine, by Mouhamedoul A Niang Chapter Ten: Trans-formal Aesthetics and Cultural Impact on Ousmane Sembene’s Xala, by Rachel Diang’a Part Four: Testimonies Makhète Diallo Pathé Diagne Fatoumata Kandé Senghor

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Book SynopsisThis book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s. Several actions were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant migrants from the young independent state of Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, this culturally coherent group consisted of ex-Royal Dutch Colonial Army personnel and their families. Their ancient roots in the Moluccan archipelago and their protestant-christian faith defined their minority image. Their sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to be permanent. At the height of strained relations, Massada rose to the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting contemporary sounds.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Backdrops Colonial times and impact Popular music in exile Latin in the Lowlands Part II Massada before Astaganaga In the air What’s in a name Decisive break The action years Part III Massada’s Astaganaga The making of Track by track Sleeve art and credits Reception and rewards Part IV Massada after Astaganaga Bang the drum Mission accomplished Full circle Hindsight Part V Afterwork Discography About research Literature Thanks About author Endnotes

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Book SynopsisThere is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen''s book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians alike.?American Historical ReviewJonathan Wyrtzen''s Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco’s historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history.The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation, and uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a framework to orient and organize the socio-historical problems of the case and to make sense of the different types of problems variouTrade ReviewWyrtzen contributes to the existing literature in two important ways. First, he connects the colonial period to its influences in ongoing debates over Moroccan identity with relevant examples.... Second, he ambitiously attempts to bring together several topics of interest that are often addressed separately, such as the legacy of colonialism on Berber communities, conflict in the Rif Mountains, struggles in defining an Arab-Islamic identity and what that means for Moroccan Jews, and the role of women and monarchy in post-protectorate statehood. * H-Net Reviews *Wyrtzen has written a book that examines colonialism through a slightly modified prism, but one that will appeal widely to scholars of colonialism and former colonial states.... [T]he book overall constitutes a useful intervention in interdisciplinary conversations about the ways in which the colonizers and the colonized together constructed a political field and a political project that was productive of collective identities, as well as fatally flawed. * Journal of Modern History *Given newfound interest by economists and political scientists in the legacies of colonialism for contemporary politics and the unwieldy claims often found in postcolonial studies, Making Morocco injects a needed sociological precision into the comparative study of empires and nationalism. * American Journal of Sociology *An erudite and eloquent contribution to both the historiography of colonial Morocco and to scholarship that examines and theorizes, from a relational perspective, processes of statemaking and collective identification.... This carefully researched and deftly written book should be obligatory reading for scholars interested in North Africa, colonialism, and postcolonialism, and processes of identity and state formation. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *Wyrtzen has produced a nuanced account of Morocco's twentieth-century process of political identity formation. It is a welcome addition to recent English-language works extending across modern Moroccan history.... With its multi-vocal approach, this book contributes significantly to several fields at once, representing and respecting the polyphony of sources (and voices) both new and old in a timely, careful, and sophisticated work. * French Studies *Wyrtzen's book is a refreshing reading of Morocco's contemporary history that draws on a wide body of historical literature and colonial writings to build an original perspective on the factors that shaped the history of contemporary Morocco and the identification processes of ordinary Moroccans. * Contemporary Sociology *There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen's book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians alike. * American Historical Review *Bringing to bear both conventional archival and written sources, but also Berber poetry and the writings of others, Wyrtzen provides historically grounded accounts of how each became dynamized in the course of the liberation struggle.... This is where Making Morocco marks a significant methodological change from previous, largely ahistorical accounts of how the discursive frame was established. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Contributes to an emergent body of English-language scholarship that is adding nuance, clarity, and intrigue to our understanding of Morocco's colonial period. Framed by the weighty problem of how colonisation transformed Morocco identity, Wyrtzen interlaces a wide array of narratives to tell a convincing story about the politicisation of religion, ethnicity, territory, and monarchy in the protectorate period.... The reason for Wyrtzen's success in crossing so much terrain in a relatively short period is his strategic deployment of theory and method and their transposition onto the structure of the book. * The Journal of North African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Identity in a Colonial Political Field1. The Space of the Colonial Political Field2. Organizing Forces of the Field: Legitimation and Legibility3. Resisting the Colonial Political Field in the Atlas Mountains4. Creating an Anti-colonial Political Field in the Rif Mountains5. Classification Struggles and Arabo-Islamic National Identity6. Negotiating Morocco's Jewish Question7. Gender and the Politics of Identity8. The Sultan-cum-King and the Field’s Symbolic Forces9. The Monarchy and Identity in Post-Protectorate MoroccoConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDanna Agmon''s gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the Nayiniyappa Affair in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon''s compelling account draws readers into the social, economic, religious, and political interactions that defined the European colonial experience in India and elsewhere. Her portrayal of imperial sovereignty in France''s colonies as it played out in the life of one beleaguered family allows readers to witness interactions between colonial officials and locals.Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.Trade ReviewRevisiting an often forgotten scandal in an obscure corner of France's eighteenth-century empire—the Nayiniyappa Affair and Pondichéry, respectively—Agmon draws our attention to the shifting dynamic of conflict and collaboration that underlay the French imperial project in India. The result is a valuable reminder of the contested nature of early modern colonial power, all set against a compelling backdrop of personal tragedy and posthumous redemption.... [C]ompellingly argued and beautifully written. * H-France Reviews *Because Agmon has carefully, cogently, and insightfully analyzed the events and significance of Nayiniyappa's trial, readers might find themselves impelled to read A Colonial Affair from cover to cover at one sitting! * International Bulletin of Mission Research *Agmon's prose is sophisticated, clear and flowing, and she successfully guides the reader through all of the affair's complexities. * French Review *Danna Agmon peels back the layers of this fascinating series of events with consummate skill; she has the sure touch of a historian whose confidence is well earned.... As with any microhistory, the ultimate test is whether the story told opens new perspectives on broader themes. By this criterion, Agmon has passed with flying colors. * Journal of Modern History *This book is strong on the internal tensions of early French rule in India.... Agmon ably conveys the sense of a transitional period between a relationship of commercial equals [between the French and indigenous intermediaries] to one of colonial master and servant.... [A] welcome addition to the history of French India [and]... a fascinating glimpse into an early French colonial period when Catholic conversion was the stamp of trust. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Actors Introduction Part One 1. The Elusive Origins of a Colonial Scandal 2. Kinship as Politics Part Two 3. The Denial of Language 4. Conflict at Court Part Three 5. Between Paris and Pondichéry 6. Archiving the Affair Epilgoue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThere is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen''s book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians alike.?American Historical ReviewJonathan Wyrtzen''s Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco’s historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history.The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation, and uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a framework to orient and organize the socio-historical problems of the case and to make sense of the different types of problems variouTrade ReviewWyrtzen contributes to the existing literature in two important ways. First, he connects the colonial period to its influences in ongoing debates over Moroccan identity with relevant examples.... Second, he ambitiously attempts to bring together several topics of interest that are often addressed separately, such as the legacy of colonialism on Berber communities, conflict in the Rif Mountains, struggles in defining an Arab-Islamic identity and what that means for Moroccan Jews, and the role of women and monarchy in post-protectorate statehood. * H-Net Reviews *Wyrtzen has written a book that examines colonialism through a slightly modified prism, but one that will appeal widely to scholars of colonialism and former colonial states.... [T]he book overall constitutes a useful intervention in interdisciplinary conversations about the ways in which the colonizers and the colonized together constructed a political field and a political project that was productive of collective identities, as well as fatally flawed. * Journal of Modern History *Given newfound interest by economists and political scientists in the legacies of colonialism for contemporary politics and the unwieldy claims often found in postcolonial studies, Making Morocco injects a needed sociological precision into the comparative study of empires and nationalism. * American Journal of Sociology *An erudite and eloquent contribution to both the historiography of colonial Morocco and to scholarship that examines and theorizes, from a relational perspective, processes of statemaking and collective identification.... This carefully researched and deftly written book should be obligatory reading for scholars interested in North Africa, colonialism, and postcolonialism, and processes of identity and state formation. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *Wyrtzen has produced a nuanced account of Morocco's twentieth-century process of political identity formation. It is a welcome addition to recent English-language works extending across modern Moroccan history.... With its multi-vocal approach, this book contributes significantly to several fields at once, representing and respecting the polyphony of sources (and voices) both new and old in a timely, careful, and sophisticated work. * French Studies *Wyrtzen's book is a refreshing reading of Morocco's contemporary history that draws on a wide body of historical literature and colonial writings to build an original perspective on the factors that shaped the history of contemporary Morocco and the identification processes of ordinary Moroccans. * Contemporary Sociology *There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen's book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians alike. * American Historical Review *Bringing to bear both conventional archival and written sources, but also Berber poetry and the writings of others, Wyrtzen provides historically grounded accounts of how each became dynamized in the course of the liberation struggle.... This is where Making Morocco marks a significant methodological change from previous, largely ahistorical accounts of how the discursive frame was established. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Contributes to an emergent body of English-language scholarship that is adding nuance, clarity, and intrigue to our understanding of Morocco's colonial period. Framed by the weighty problem of how colonisation transformed Morocco identity, Wyrtzen interlaces a wide array of narratives to tell a convincing story about the politicisation of religion, ethnicity, territory, and monarchy in the protectorate period.... The reason for Wyrtzen's success in crossing so much terrain in a relatively short period is his strategic deployment of theory and method and their transposition onto the structure of the book. * The Journal of North African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Identity in a Colonial Political Field1. The Space of the Colonial Political Field2. Organizing Forces of the Field: Legitimation and Legibility3. Resisting the Colonial Political Field in the Atlas Mountains4. Creating an Anti-colonial Political Field in the Rif Mountains5. Classification Struggles and Arabo-Islamic National Identity6. Negotiating Morocco's Jewish Question7. Gender and the Politics of Identity8. The Sultan-cum-King and the Field’s Symbolic Forces9. The Monarchy and Identity in Post-Protectorate MoroccoConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan''s attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II.? Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture ReviewIn The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan''s total empire met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia''s future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalisTrade ReviewThe author's insights, based on extensive research, add depth to understanding of Japan's wartime decision-making process while also correcting misreadings of the role played by its erstwhile collaborators in Burma and the Philippines * Choice *No English-language monographs have [yet] explored the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere—Japan's wartime effort to impose a new regional order—from the vantage point of Japanese high policy. Jeremy Yellen has admirably filled this gap, offering innovative insights into Japan's abortive effort to redefine the international relations of East and Southeast Asia from the late 1930s to 1945. * Global Asia *Yellen offers a useful examination of the changing and contested meaning of Japan's proclaimed 'Co-Prosperity Sphere.' [His] work helps inform about an important but opaque aspect of World War II history that influenced the receding of Asian empires after that war. * Journal of Military History *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is in fact a truly timely addition to the historiography of modern Japan in general and a fundamental contribution to the study of the Japanese wartime experience. * The Japan Society *In this outstanding new study of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen challenges the longstanding view that the Sphere was little more than a facade for Japan's predatory imperialism and that Asian leaders who collaborated with Japan were traitors to their countries. [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the inner workings of the Japanese empire and its enduring legacy in Southeast Asia. * Pacific Historical Review *We had to wait forty-four years, but Yellen's The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War was worth the wait. In his masterful account regarding the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Yellen argues that it was nothing more than 'a failed dream'—an incoherent vision that was contested and an idea that never coalesced into a coherent policy that could be enacted. * Journal of Asian Studies *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II. * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *With his excellent command of Japanese and use of rich Japanese sources, Yellen reveals the ambivalence evident in Japan's policy making and implementation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. * Southeast Asian Studies *Yellen's study is a welcome step toward a fuller understanding of GEACPS led by international scholars on a truly global basis. * Pacific Affairs *Yellen describes in his deep empirical analysis, showing mastery of the archival record in Japan and the long stretch of Japanese secondary scholarship, how Japan was attempting to shape its own new world order. The delicious banquet that [he] serves up is the complex and at times completely incongruous definition of the sphere. * Journal of Japanese Studies *

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Book SynopsisDanna Agmon''s gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the Nayiniyappa Affair in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon''s compelling account draws readers into the social, economic, religious, and political interactions that defined the European colonial experience in India and elsewhere. Her portrayal of imperial sovereignty in France''s colonies as it played out in the life of one beleaguered family allows readers to witness interactions between colonial officials and locals.Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.Trade ReviewRevisiting an often forgotten scandal in an obscure corner of France's eighteenth-century empire—the Nayiniyappa Affair and Pondichéry, respectively—Agmon draws our attention to the shifting dynamic of conflict and collaboration that underlay the French imperial project in India. The result is a valuable reminder of the contested nature of early modern colonial power, all set against a compelling backdrop of personal tragedy and posthumous redemption.... [C]ompellingly argued and beautifully written. * H-France Reviews *Because Agmon has carefully, cogently, and insightfully analyzed the events and significance of Nayiniyappa's trial, readers might find themselves impelled to read A Colonial Affair from cover to cover at one sitting! * International Bulletin of Mission Research *Agmon's prose is sophisticated, clear and flowing, and she successfully guides the reader through all of the affair's complexities. * French Review *Danna Agmon peels back the layers of this fascinating series of events with consummate skill; she has the sure touch of a historian whose confidence is well earned.... As with any microhistory, the ultimate test is whether the story told opens new perspectives on broader themes. By this criterion, Agmon has passed with flying colors. * Journal of Modern History *This book is strong on the internal tensions of early French rule in India.... Agmon ably conveys the sense of a transitional period between a relationship of commercial equals [between the French and indigenous intermediaries] to one of colonial master and servant.... [A] welcome addition to the history of French India [and]... a fascinating glimpse into an early French colonial period when Catholic conversion was the stamp of trust. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Actors Introduction Part One 1. The Elusive Origins of a Colonial Scandal 2. Kinship as Politics Part Two 3. The Denial of Language 4. Conflict at Court Part Three 5. Between Paris and Pondichéry 6. Archiving the Affair Epilgoue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic''s reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port citiesNew York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, ScotlandJones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies.Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting taskto refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation''s claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the belTrade ReviewResisting Independence adds much-needed breadth, texture, and nuance to our understanding of Loyalism, not just in the 'Thirteen Colonies,' but in the wider British Atlantic world. [A]ccording to Jones, the ideological threads crucial to such connections have not been analyzed in the same rigorous way as have the ideological bonds shared by those referred to as Patriots. The provision of such rigor is another of the key goals of this book. * New West Indian Guide *Resisting Independence makes a major contribution by contextualizing popular loyalism's ideological formation in the print culture of four diverse port cities and persuasively probes the tension within Britishness between diversity and unity during a critical period of change. * William & Mary Quarterly *Jones has provided a revealing, boundary-crossing study of an alternative set of ideas spawned by the American Revolution. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC *Jones's greatest contribution is to the Loyalist historiography.Resisting Independence is a well-written piece of work. Jones combines a compelling narrative with analysis, thus making it a good read for experts as well as beginners in the subject of the American Revolution, Loyalism, and the British Atlantic world. It offers a fascinating insight into how networks were developed and nurtured between the colonies that enabled Protestant Whig ideas to spread and develop Loyalism, while also demonstrating how the societies of Glasgow, Halifax, Kingston, and New York coped with the revolution and its subsequent war. * H-Net *What Jones calls the book's 'multiple paths approach' to the American Revolution widens the historical lens to account for the circulation of Loyalist ideology while also localizing the politics of loyalty throughout the empire. These multiple perspectives are managed nimbly and thoroughly, and they do provide a new story of British Loyalists that resists—as Jones argues—the supposed inevitability of the American Revolution. * Early American Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Revolution in British Loyalism 1. A Body Politic: Newspapers, Networks, and the Making of a Nation 2. Liberty Triumphant: The Stamp Act Crisis in the British Atlantic 3. In Search of Common Happiness: A Divided British Atlantic on the Eve of Rebellion 4. King-Killing Republicans: Rebellion and the Making of a British Common Cause 5. The Madness of these Deluded People: Independence and the American Enemy 6. The British Lion is Rouzed: The Franco-American Alliance and a New British Common Cause 7. In Defence of the Protestant Religion: Fighting Catholicism Across the British Atlantic Conclusion: Reimagining Loyalism in a Postwar British Atlantic

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Book SynopsisIn Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan''s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible, they promoted alternative strategies, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects, extending colonial police networks, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. The Taiwanesemerchants, gangsters, policemen, interpreters, nurses, and soldiersseized new opportunities for socioeconomic advancement that did noTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Overseas Subjects as Gateway Actors 1. Opening a Gateway into China 2. Taiwanese in South China's Border Zones 3. Taiwanese in Southeast Asia Part 2: The Wartime Gateway 4. Mobilizing for War 5. Colonial Liaisons in Occupied South China 6. Advancing into the Southern Regions Epilogue: Postwar Legacies

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters'' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France''s May ''68.Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies, Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationshipTable of ContentsPrologue: An (In)Tense Reflection Introduction: 1968 in Postcolonial Time and Space 1. Colonialism, Intellectual Migration, and the New African University Part One: 1968(s) in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar 2. Tunis: Student Protest, Transnational Activism, and Human Rights 3. Paris: Bringing the Third World to the Metropole 4. Dakar: The "Other" May '68 Part Two: Activism After 1968 5. From Student to Worker Protest in Tunisia 6. Immigrant Activism and Activism for Immigrants in France 7. The Birth of Political Pluralism in Senegal Conclusion: Toward a Decolonial Order of Things Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnpacked offers a critical, novel perspective on the Caribbean''s now taken-for-granted desirability as a tourist''s paradise. Dreams of a tropical vacation have become a quintessential aspect of the modern Caribbean, as millions of tourists travel to the region and spend extravagantly to pursue vacation fantasies. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, travelers from North America and Europe thought of the Caribbean as diseased, dangerous, and, according to many observers, the white man''s graveyard. How then did a trip to the Caribbean become a supposedly fun and safe experience?Unpacked examines the historical roots of the region''s tourism industry by following a well-traveled sea route linking the US East Coast with the island of Cuba and the Isthmus of Panama. Blake C. Scott describes how the cultural and material history of US imperialism became the heart of modern Caribbean tourism. In addition, he explores how advances in tropTable of ContentsIntroduction: Growing Up in Florida's Vacationland 1. Empire's Lake: Tourism in the Wake of US Expansion 2. Service Sector Republics: Transnational Development in Panama and Cuba 3. Changing Routes from Sea to Air: The Rise of Pan American World Airways 4. The Nature of Tourism: Naturalist Explorers as Scientific Guides 5. Traveling Writers: Literary Dreams of Tropical Escape 6. Burning Privilege: Luxury in the Age of Decolonization Conclusion: Perilously Cruising into the Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnpacked offers a critical, novel perspective on the Caribbean''s now taken-for-granted desirability as a tourist''s paradise. Dreams of a tropical vacation have become a quintessential aspect of the modern Caribbean, as millions of tourists travel to the region and spend extravagantly to pursue vacation fantasies. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, travelers from North America and Europe thought of the Caribbean as diseased, dangerous, and, according to many observers, the white man''s graveyard. How then did a trip to the Caribbean become a supposedly fun and safe experience?Unpacked examines the historical roots of the region''s tourism industry by following a well-traveled sea route linking the US East Coast with the island of Cuba and the Isthmus of Panama. Blake C. Scott describes how the cultural and material history of US imperialism became the heart of modern Caribbean tourism. In addition, he explores how advances in tropTable of ContentsIntroduction: Growing Up in Florida's Vacationland 1. Empire's Lake: Tourism in the Wake of US Expansion 2. Service Sector Republics: Transnational Development in Panama and Cuba 3. Changing Routes from Sea to Air: The Rise of Pan American World Airways 4. The Nature of Tourism: Naturalist Explorers as Scientific Guides 5. Traveling Writers: Literary Dreams of Tropical Escape 6. Burning Privilege: Luxury in the Age of Decolonization Conclusion: Perilously Cruising into the Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationshipsfrom the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was foundational not only to the colonization of the Philippines but also to the longer, uneven history between the two nations. Although some relationships between Filipinos and Americans served as demonstrations of US benevolence, too-close sexual relations also threatened social hierarchies and the so-called civilizing mission. For the Filipino, Indigenous, Moro, Chinese, and other local populations, intercourse offered opportunities to negotiate and challenge empire, though these opportunities often came at a high cost for those most vulnerable.Drawing on a multilingual array of primary sources, Dangerous Intercourse highlights that sexual relationships enablTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dangerous Intercourse: Romantic Pretense and Colonial Violence 1. Marshaling Interracial Intercourse during the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902 2. Colonial "Frontiers": Empire Building and Intercourse in the Northern and Southern Philippines 3. Colonial Society and Policing Dangerous Intercourse, 1898-1907 4. The Trials of Intercourse: Criminality and Illegitimacy in the Colonial Courts 5. Depicting Dangerous Intercourse: Sam and Maganda on the Pages of Empire 6. Making Mestizos: Filipino American Mixed-Race Children and Discourses of Belonging, 1898 and Beyond Conclusion: "My Filipino Baby," Absolution, and Aftermath of an Imperial Romance

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Book SynopsisIn Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan''s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible, they promoted alternative strategies, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects, extending colonial police networks, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. The Taiwanesemerchants, gangsters, policemen, interpreters, nurses, and soldiersseized new opportunities for socioeconomic advancement that did noTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Overseas Subjects as Gateway Actors 1. Opening a Gateway into China 2. Taiwanese in South China's Border Zones 3. Taiwanese in Southeast Asia Part 2: The Wartime Gateway 4. Mobilizing for War 5. Colonial Liaisons in Occupied South China 6. Advancing into the Southern Regions Epilogue: Postwar Legacies

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters'' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France''s May ''68.Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies, Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationshipTable of ContentsPrologue: An (In)Tense Reflection Introduction: 1968 in Postcolonial Time and Space 1. Colonialism, Intellectual Migration, and the New African University Part One: 1968(s) in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar 2. Tunis: Student Protest, Transnational Activism, and Human Rights 3. Paris: Bringing the Third World to the Metropole 4. Dakar: The "Other" May '68 Part Two: Activism After 1968 5. From Student to Worker Protest in Tunisia 6. Immigrant Activism and Activism for Immigrants in France 7. The Birth of Political Pluralism in Senegal Conclusion: Toward a Decolonial Order of Things Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." â Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions-one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines. Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.Trade ReviewThe author's insights, based on extensive research, add depth to understanding of Japan's wartime decision-making process while also correcting misreadings of the role played by its erstwhile collaborators in Burma and the Philippines * Choice *No English-language monographs have [yet] explored the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere—Japan's wartime effort to impose a new regional order—from the vantage point of Japanese high policy. Jeremy Yellen has admirably filled this gap, offering innovative insights into Japan's abortive effort to redefine the international relations of East and Southeast Asia from the late 1930s to 1945. * Global Asia *Yellen offers a useful examination of the changing and contested meaning of Japan's proclaimed 'Co-Prosperity Sphere.' [His] work helps inform about an important but opaque aspect of World War II history that influenced the receding of Asian empires after that war. * Journal of Military History *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is in fact a truly timely addition to the historiography of modern Japan in general and a fundamental contribution to the study of the Japanese wartime experience. * The Japan Society *In this outstanding new study of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen challenges the longstanding view that the Sphere was little more than a facade for Japan's predatory imperialism and that Asian leaders who collaborated with Japan were traitors to their countries. [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the inner workings of the Japanese empire and its enduring legacy in Southeast Asia. * Pacific Historical Review *We had to wait forty-four years, but Yellen's The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War was worth the wait. In his masterful account regarding the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Yellen argues that it was nothing more than 'a failed dream'—an incoherent vision that was contested and an idea that never coalesced into a coherent policy that could be enacted. * Journal of Asian Studies *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II. * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *With his excellent command of Japanese and use of rich Japanese sources, Yellen reveals the ambivalence evident in Japan's policy making and implementation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. * Southeast Asian Studies *Yellen's study is a welcome step toward a fuller understanding of GEACPS led by international scholars on a truly global basis. * Pacific Affairs *Yellen describes in his deep empirical analysis, showing mastery of the archival record in Japan and the long stretch of Japanese secondary scholarship, how Japan was attempting to shape its own new world order. The delicious banquet that [he] serves up is the complex and at times completely incongruous definition of the sphere. * Journal of Japanese Studies *

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Book SynopsisSalvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to eTable of ContentsIntroduction Dispossession 1. Settler Safe Zone or Colonial Staging Ground? 2. Company Islands 3. Imperial Diaspora Wreckage 4. Does the Sea Lion Roar? 5. Grounding Offshore Oil Survival 6. The Geopolitics of Marine Ecology 7. Colonizing with Natives Conclusion: Unsettled Claims

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Book SynopsisSalvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to eTable of ContentsIntroduction Dispossession 1. Settler Safe Zone or Colonial Staging Ground? 2. Company Islands 3. Imperial Diaspora Wreckage 4. Does the Sea Lion Roar? 5. Grounding Offshore Oil Survival 6. The Geopolitics of Marine Ecology 7. Colonizing with Natives Conclusion: Unsettled Claims

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Book SynopsisThe Starving Empire traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Yan Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society Cowinner of the Nikki Keddie Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America The Future Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian people focused outward to developments in the Middle East, looking critically at their own society and with new eyes to Islamic tradition. In doing so, they reordered the world on their own termspushing back against French colonial claims about Islam's inherent misogyny. Rahnama describes how Algerians took inspiration from Middle Eastern developments in women's rights. Empowered by the Muslim reform movement sweeping the region, they read Islamic knowledge with new eyes, even calling Muhammad "the first Arab feminist." They compared the blossoming women's rights movements across the Middle East and this history of Islam's feminist potential to the stifled position of Algerian women, who suffered from limited access to education and respectable work. Local dynamics also shaped these discussions, including the recent entry of thousands of Algerian women into the workforce as domestic workers in European settler homes. While Algerian people disagreed about whether Algeria's future should be colonial or independent, they agreed that women's advancement would offer a path forward for Muslim society toward a more prosperous future. Through its use of Arabic-language sources alongside French ones, The Future Is Feminist moves beyond Algeria's colonial relationship to France to illuminate its relationship to the Middle East.

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Book SynopsisJewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined swathe of global powers that included Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. How, when, and where do Jews figure in this important chapter of history? This book explores these questions and many others. The essays of this volume foreground the connectivity between Jews and other population groups in the realms of empire, trade, and slavery, taking readers from the shores of Caribbean islands to various outposts of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires.Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World revolutionizes the study of Jews in early American history, forging connections and breaking down artificial academic divisions so as to start writing the history of an

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