Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Superb passages of original and unusual research . . . [a] sweeping, polemical treatment of a century of history." * Bangkok Post *"This insightful monograph is unquestionably a tour de force worth reading by both amateurs and professional scholars whose interest lies in Thai history and the Chinese in Thailand." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"[A] path-breaking and fascinating interpretation of modern Thai history." * South East Asia Research *"[A] provocative book that promises to reopen debates about the relationship between Chineseness, Thai nationalism, and the Thai monarchy." * Southeast Asian Studies *"Wongsurawat provocatively flips the usual narrative about Thai nationalism." * Choice *"Wongsurawat’s book offers a more complete view of the nature of the Thai nation and of the triangular relation between Chinese, Thai people, and the monarchy. Her interesting book makes clear the evolution of the Thai nation and explores the fundamental role of the national educational system for the shaping of national identity." * The Middle Ground Journal *"[A]n excellent and most thoughtful contribution to the understanding of the Chinese diaspora in Thailand and Southeast Asia." * H-Net Reviews *

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Book SynopsisHow sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as Nature's Island, was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological recordwhich preserves traces of slave households, waterwaysTrade Review"This book is an excellent example of the application of archaeological research to a larger anthropological problem, in this case the anthropology of slavery and plantation economies in the Caribbean." * Choice *"This is a well-written book that has the added advantage of demonstrating the value of archaeology for the study of history, environmental history not least." * H-Net *"In this fine study of colonial Dominica, Mark W. Hauser brings together the history of slavery, the environment, and the growing field of histories of water. His interdisciplinary approach unveils new perspectives on known events and provides fresh insights into largely forgotten histories." * The Middle Ground Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume adds[s] significantly to knowledge of colonial Korea. The essays are particularly provocative in the questions they raise about laws and policies—most notably, village consolidation, the Peace Preservation Law, and thought conversion—that were applied to both Japan and Korea but with very different results." * Choice Reviews *

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Book SynopsisExamines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology Note on Romanization Introduction Explaining Peasant Protest: An Integrated View Social change and Land Tenure in Traditional Korea Colonialism and Korean Agriculture: Growth without Development Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1920-32: Ideology or Interest? The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 1: An Overview & Critique The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 2: History from Below Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1933-39: Class and Nation Japanese Militarism and Everyday forms of Resistance, 1940-44 Historical Origins of Peasant Radicalism in Liberated Korea Conclusion: Toward Reform and Revolution Appendix 1: Main Activities of Red Peasant Unions Appendix 2: Peasant Radicalism Index in Relation to Number of Red Peasant Unions and Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Religious Variables Appendix 3: Leadership Characteristics in Selected Red Peasant Unions Appendix 4: List of Counties Analyzed Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nationTrade Review"This work is a significant contribution to the ever-growing array of studies of termination and Indian life." -- John H. Barnhill * Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources *"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on termination could be among Native groups. It shows how Native individuals played crucial and diverse roles in affecting tribal outcomes in regard to termination and expansive federal policy." -- Sam Herley * Western Historical Quarterly *"Arnold, tribal member and director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, succinctly chronicles the response of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville in all its complex detail. Recommended." * Choice *"The net effect of Arnold's narrative strategy may be that future generations of Colvilles, and future generations of scholars, will see this book not only as a valuable work of tribal history but also as a document of Colville cultural continuity." -- Thompson Smith * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The literature on termination as an Indian policy has been significantly enriched with this publication." -- Eleanor Carriker * Columbia Reviews *"Laurie Arnold, a member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes, writes thoroughly and sensitively about both sides . . ." -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. “We want to be Indians forever.” 2. “It is like giving your eagle feather away.” 3. “Soon buried in a junk pile of Cadillacs.” 4. “What is their future?” 5. “Come back from your pilgrimage to nowhere.” 6. “Not another inch, not another drop.” Conclusion: “We kept getting a little bit smarter.” Appendix: Major Legislation Affecting the Colville Confederated Tribes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nationTrade Review"This work is a significant contribution to the ever-growing array of studies of termination and Indian life." -- John H. Barnhill * Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources *"This is an excellent tribal case study of the kind and caliber needed for further understanding of the termination era. It shows how complicated, intense, and permutable the positions and arguments on termination could be among Native groups. It shows how Native individuals played crucial and diverse roles in affecting tribal outcomes in regard to termination and expansive federal policy." -- Sam Herley * Western Historical Quarterly *"Arnold, tribal member and director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, succinctly chronicles the response of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville in all its complex detail. Recommended." * Choice *"The net effect of Arnold's narrative strategy may be that future generations of Colvilles, and future generations of scholars, will see this book not only as a valuable work of tribal history but also as a document of Colville cultural continuity." -- Thompson Smith * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The literature on termination as an Indian policy has been significantly enriched with this publication." -- Eleanor Carriker * Columbia Reviews *"Laurie Arnold, a member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes, writes thoroughly and sensitively about both sides . . ." -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. “We want to be Indians forever.” 2. “It is like giving your eagle feather away.” 3. “Soon buried in a junk pile of Cadillacs.” 4. “What is their future?” 5. “Come back from your pilgrimage to nowhere.” 6. “Not another inch, not another drop.” Conclusion: “We kept getting a little bit smarter.” Appendix: Major Legislation Affecting the Colville Confederated Tribes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBetween 1876 and 1946 Korea opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, and industrialization. This book examines how peasants responded to these events with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.Trade Review"A work of sterling scholarship - original, thorough, meticulous, sharply focused, cogently reasoned, and precise in expression. A weighty and groundbreaking study." -American Historical Review "Shows beautifully how ordinary people shaped history through their continuous struggles for a better life." -American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Chronology Note on Romanization Introduction Explaining Peasant Protest: An Integrated View Social change and Land Tenure in Traditional Korea Colonialism and Korean Agriculture: Growth without Development Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1920-32: Ideology or Interest? The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 1: An Overview & Critique The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 2: History from Below Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1933-39: Class and Nation Japanese Militarism and Everyday forms of Resistance, 1940-44 Historical Origins of Peasant Radicalism in Liberated Korea Conclusion: Toward Reform and Revolution Appendix 1: Main Activities of Red Peasant Unions Appendix 2: Peasant Radicalism Index in Relation to Number of Red Peasant Unions and Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Religious Variables Appendix 3: Leadership Characteristics in Selected Red Peasant Unions Appendix 4: List of Counties Analyzed Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller. In this book, the author explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Zachary Macaulay, the leading abolitionist, and his son Thomas' visions of race, nation, and empire.Trade Review“If Hall’s book inspires some readers to turn back to Macaulay’s essays and History of England, all the better.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast -- Jacob Heilbrunn * The Daily Beast *“Catherine Hall’s insightful and compelling dual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay and his father Zachary. . . is able to make the Macaulays illuminate many different historical themes and purposes. . .She confidently locates father and son within their intellectual and political milieu, emphasizing the importance of the Scottish Enlightenment and the stadial theory of human progress.”—David Arthur, Times Literary Supplement -- David Arthur * Times Literary Supplement *Catherine Hall has built a reputation as one of the preeminent historians of her generation. . . . [She] now adds to her string of seminal publications with what may well be her most polished and masterful book.”—The Journal of British Studies * The Journal of British Studies *"Catherine Hall tells the story of father and son with consummate skill. Not only is Macaulay and Son important for understanding imperial Britain, it is a beautifully crafted history. Rather than offering a strictly biographical study, Hall draws upon the two men's lives and writings in order to explore key themes.”—James Epestein, Victorian Studies -- James Epstein * Victorian Studies *

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Book SynopsisA new history of the abolition of the British slave tradeTrade Review“Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was at its peak.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade“David Richardson’s meticulous exploration of the rise and fall of the British slave trade offers a brilliant synthesis of the history and historiography of a pivotal development in world history.”—Seymour Drescher, author of Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery“The most important recent single volume study of the slave trade, this is a book that commands attention. Richardson confronts a topic of great historical importance. It is a study conceived and executed with an intellectual verve and confidence.”—James Walvin, University of York“An important and timely book that will appeal to the general reader interested in the history of the British slave trade and the abolition movement.”—Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisHow did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself?Trade Review“This very well-researched book reconnects the British empire with domestic political, economic and religious culture, successfully showing how Britons were entranced but also divided by colonial possibilities.”—Mark Knights, author of Trust and Distrust“With wide-ranging archival research and a scope that spans the Atlantic, Gabriel Glickman shows with unprecedented detail and sophistication how empire and nation made each other.”—Matthew Kruer, University of Chicago“This is an impressive study. Deeply researched, wide-ranging and elegantly written, Glickman’s exploration of how the growth of empire shaped domestic politics transforms our understanding of the period. A must-read.”—Tim Harris, Brown University“A masterful analysis of the complex interplay between domestic and foreign affairs, of the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled, and of the profoundly divisive nature of an embryonic empire.”—Jason Peacey, University College London“Gabriel Glickman’s beautifully written and deeply researched book revolutionizes the way we must think about English history and the history of all its overseas possessions.”—Steve Pincus, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisNavy Records Society Publications, Vol 167Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ........................................................................age xi Acknowledgements .....................................................................xiii Preface...........................................................................................xv General Introduction .......................................................................1 A. Choice of Documents................................................................1 B. Editorial Procedures ..................................................................2 C. Conditions under Which the Letters Were Written .................13 D. Outer Appearance of Letters ...................................................17 Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Citations .........................23 I: The Beginning of an Enduring Relationship, June 1978-December 1800........................................................... 25 II: The Baltic Campaign, January-June 1801 ..............................97 III: The Channel Campaign, July-October 1801 .......................245 IV: Settled, May 1802-August 1805..........................................337 V: The End, September-October 1805 ......................................507 Appendices..................................................................................533 1. Selected List of Previous Publications....................................535 2.Chronology of Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton ..................539 3.Items Mentioned in the Letters, Nelson's Wills and Codicils to His Wills ...................................................................557 4.Poetry Referred to in Nelson's Letters....................................563 5.Minute of a Conversation with the Prince Royal of Denmark on 3 April 1801 ...........................................................567 6.The Taking of the Swift Cutter: An Attempt to Trace the Documents Captured by l'Espérance in 1804 ......................573 7.Documentation of Flow of Letters in Chapter IV (1803-1805)581 Sources and Documents ..............................................................597 Index ...........................................................................................619

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Book SynopsisGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' account of the second and third Spanish Expeditions to the Moluccas.Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557), warden of the fortress and port of Santo Domingo on the Island of Hispaniola, also served his Emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New World. Book XX, published in 1557, concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. Only the first four chapters deal with Magellan's voyage, the remaining thirty-one detail two subsequent expeditions to the Moluccas, 1525-35, the first initially led by García Jofre de and Loaysa. The narrative offers many details of the hardships and conflict with the Portuguese endured by the Spanish. There is also much information about indigenous culture, commerce, geography and the fauna and flora of the Spice Islands.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION BOOK XX OF THE SECOND PART OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE INDIES, WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, WARDEN OF THE FORTRESS AND PORT OF SANTO DOMINGO OF THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, AND HIS MAJESTY’S CHRONICLER General Prologue Prologue CHAPTER V. Which treats of the second and infelicitous voyage to the Spicelands, with the second armada that the Emperor, our lord, sent there in the second discovery commanded by Captain-General Fray García Jofre de Loaysa, Knight of the Order of Rhodes, citizen of Ciudad Real VI. How Captain-General Fray García Jofre de Loaysa rejoined the other ships of the armada, and of other events that happened to them, and of the giants and people of the Strait of Magellanes to whom Magellanes gave the name Patagones VII. What happened to the cleric Don Joan de Areyzaga among the giant Patagones, and of the continuation of their journey in search of the ships of the armada VIII. Of some particulars of the people called the giants, and of the birds, fish and other things that those of this armada observed IX. Continuing the journey of the armada that went with Commander Fray García de Loaysa, and of some particulars of the river and harbour of Santa Cruz and of that land X. Of some particulars of the river of San Alfonso where he had been before, as reported in Chapter IV, and how the armada returned to the Strait of Fernando Magallanes XI. Of some particulars of the famous Strait of Ferdinand Magellanes XII. Of what happened to Captain Sanctiago de Guevara and to Chaplain Don Juan de Areyzaga and the other Spaniards aboard the pinnace Santiago in their journey beyond the Strait XIII. In which is the conclusion of the account of the cleric Don Juan de Areyzaga XIV. Of the Strait of Magallanes, its length and width, its notable parts, the giants that inhabit it and other particulars XV. How the third captain-general named Salazar died, and Martín Iñiquez de Carquizano was elected to fill the position and continued the voyage to the Maluco; how they came upon a rich island called Vendanao and what happened to them there XVI. How they discovered the Ladrones Islands and came upon a Christian Spaniard who had sailed in the first armada with Captain Ferdinand Magellan XVII. How the third captain-general named Salazar died, and Martín Iñiquez de Carquizano was elected to fill the position and continued the voyage to the Maluco; how they came upon a rich island called Vendanao and what happened to them there XVIII. Which treats of the province of Cebú and of the trade there with Chinese merchants and in the other islands of the Célebes archipelago, and of the voyage of this flagship XIX. Of the embassy that Captain Martín Iñiguez de Carquizano sent to the kings of Tidore and of Gilolo; and of the gracious responses and good will the emissaries received from those kings and how pleased they were at the arrival of those Castilians at their lands XX. How the Emperor’s captain determined to go see the kings of Tidore and Gilolo and departed in his ship accompanied by their emissaries in their paraos; how on the way he was given a letter from the captain-general of the king of Portugal and his response to it XXI. How the Portuguese went to fight the Castilians at Tidore with many more people than the soldiers of the Emperor; how the ones and the others fared in this encounter; and how the Portuguese returned badly damaged to their fortress of Ternate XXII. How Captain Martín Iñiguez sent a parao to determine if the two ships they saw sailing were of the armada or not; and how those who set out on this mission captured two paraos at sea and burned a town on the island of Motil that the Portuguese held XXIII. How the general sent Captain Urdaneta to search for the ships they had sighted from Camafo; and how he burned down a town on an island and killed or captured its inhabitants; and how he came upon eight paraos with Portuguese on board XXIV. How Captain-General Martín Iñiguez ordered a galleon built to send to Spain because the flagship was no longer seaworthy; how two paraos of Portuguese came and the Spaniards sallied forth against them XXV. Which treats of the arrival of Don Jorge de Meneses in India and of the subsequent differences and wars between the Portuguese and the Castilians; and how the parties agreed to a truce which was broken by the Portuguese XXVI. How Fernando de la Torre was elected captain-general on the death of Martín Iñiguez; how the fusta the Castilians were building in Gilolo was destroyed by a fire secretly set by the Portuguese; how a principal gentleman of Tidore was killed for sleeping with the queen; and of other things pertinent to the history XXVII. How Quichilhumar, governor of Machián, abandoned the Portuguese and passed over to the Castilian side and how the Portuguese destroyed the city of Machián by means of an Indian traitor; and of the intervention of the Portuguese and Castilians in support of their allies XXVIII. How, at the Emperor’s command, the governor of New Spain sent a galleon and crew to the Spicelands to learn of Captain Fray García de Loaysa’s armada, and found things in the state that has been related, and of what happened on the galleon’s arrival XXIX. How Hernando Cortés’s galleon, captained by Alvaro de Saavedra, departed the Maluco carrying some Portuguese prisoners and the despicable thing they did to the captain in stealing the ship’s boat; and how the ship returned to Tidore XXX. How …Captain Saavedra’s galleon returned to the Maluco to be cleared to return to New Spain; how the king of Gilolo and special friend of the Castilians died; how Tidore was lost as well as our fortress by the treason and mutiny of Fernando de Bustamante XXXI. How the galleon of Governor Hernando Cortés returned a second time, coming to Camafo; and how Captain Fernando de la Torre renewed the war because the Portuguese did not live up to the agreement; and how the Indians on both sides made peace among themselves and agreed to kill the Castilians and the Portuguese XXXII. How Gonzalo Pereyra came to the Maluco as the king of Portugal’s captain and arrested Don Jorge de Meneses; and how Gonzalo Pereyra and the Castilians re-established the peace between the parties; and how the Indians of Ternate rose up against the Portuguese, …and how the Portuguese recovered their fortress and … the Castilians sent to India to request passage to Spain XXXIII. How the Portuguese took the city of Gilolo where the Castilians were and how the Castilians and their captain passed over to the Portuguese and went with them to their fortress in Ternate where Captain Tristán de Atayde gave them the two thousand ducats that the Portuguese governor of India granted them for their journey XXXIV. A description of the clove islands called the Maluco, and an account of the clove gathered in each island one year to the next; and of their customs, marriages, conduct and merchandise exchanged between those people; and likewise of the Célebes Islands, the Banthán Islands XXXV. Of some customs, ceremonies, and rites of the Indians of the Spicelands; and of how the Castilians left Maluco for India, passing by way of Java; and especially of Captain Urdaneta, the one who most travelled and saw things of those parts XXXVI. Of a remarkable case of a fruit resembling almonds, and how many of them are found on a small islet without there being an almond tree or any tree that bears such a fruit on that island nor is that fruit produced where it is found; rather it comes by air APPENDIX 1. The narrative which Andres de Urdaneta submits to your Majesty of the fleet which your Majesty despatched to the Spice Islands under the Comendador Loaysa, in the year 1525 APPENDIX 2. Narrative of all that was traversed and discovered by the Captain Alvaro de Sayavedra who sailed from the port of Yacatulo in New Spain on November 1st, 1527: which fleet was despatched by Don Hernan Cortes, Marquis of Valle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisWithin twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest extent as late as 1921, was transformed into more than fifty sovereign states. Why did this great transformation come about? Had Britain simply become too weak in a world of superpowers? Had the pressure of colonial nationalism suddenly become overwhelming? Or had the British themselves decided that they no longer needed an empire, and that interests were better served by joining the rich man''s club of Europe? In this short book, these and other theories are examined critically. The aim is not to present a detailed narrative of Britain''s imperial retreat but to introduce the reader to the current state of debate in a rapidly expanding subject.Table of ContentsDomestic politics and Britain's imperial retreat; economics and the end of Empire; international politics and the end of Empire; the onslaught of colonial nationalism.

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Book SynopsisHow can we handle the unevenness between the West and the Rest? How can theory help us resolve our ethical and political problems? Can theory help us think beyond the winner talks all model by articulating strong connections between ethics and politics? This book deals with the debates about the postcolonial and the global.Trade Review"R. Radhakrishnan belongs to a generation of critics which has enriched contemporary literature by revolutionizing the literary canon. He is one of the foremost of this generation and deservedly so." Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace "Written with a magnanimous spirit and vision, Theory in an Uneven World is a welcome reminder of the challenges theoretical thinking continues to pose. I applaud R. Radhakrishnan for countering the fashionable gesture of theory-bashing with such intensely engaging critical discussions." Rey Chow, Brown University "In a world ridden with unevenness, Radhakrishnan’s intense analyses invoke the need for shattering the self-reflexive discourses of the academy so as to open them up to the demands of the oppressed." Robert J.C. Young, New York UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Postmodernism and the Rest of the World. 2. The Use and Abuse of Multiculturalism. 3. Globalization, Desire, and the Politics of Representation. 4. Derivative Discourses and the Problem of Signification. 5. Theory in an Uneven World. Notes. Index

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Book Synopsis* Guides the reader through historical, linguistic and theoretical issues. * Avoids jargon and generalization. * Offers detailed case studies of literary texts by a wide range of writers. * Provides a clear and provocative account.Trade Review"Would be particularly suitable as the basis for an undergarduate course."Contemporary South Asia "Offers a clear survey of the development of the field, and a vigorous engagement with early scholars and more recent theorists". Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introducing the Post-Colonial. Part I: Studying Post-Colonial Literatures: . 2. History. 3. Language. 4. Theory. Part II: Case Studies:. 5. Indo-Anglian Fiction. 6. Caribbean and Black British Poetry. 7. South African Literature in the Interregnum. 8. After Post-Colonialism?. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines the changes that have occurred in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. This book presents introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization.Trade Review"The present volume is one of the largest and most intellectually ambitious collections of essays to emerge in the past decade. Highly recommended, upper-division undergraduates and above in social science and humanities." (Choice)Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Acknowledgments xxiii Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1 Henry Schwarz Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21 1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23 Neil Larsen 2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park 3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72 David Theo Goldberg 4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87 Ato Quayson 5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112 Jenny Sharpe 6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126 Crystal Bartolovich Part II: The Local and the Global 163 7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165 Doris Sommer 8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests – The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180 Walter D. Mignolo 9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203 Donald E. Pease 10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221 Jace Weaver 11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236 Supriya Nair 12 “Middle-class” Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252 Sumit Sarkar 13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269 Tejumola Olaniyan 14 The “Middle East”? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282 Magda M. Al-Nowaihi 15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover” from the USA 304 Rey Chow 16 Japan and East Asia 319 Sandra Buckley 17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333 Laurie J. Sears 18 Settler Colonies 360 Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson 19 Ireland After History 377 David Lloyd 20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order 396 Ali Behdad 21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410 Geeta Patel Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429 22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431 Anthony C. Alessandrini 23 Spivak and Bhabha 451 Bart Moore-Gilbert 24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467 Dipesh Chakrabarty 25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486 Ipshita Chanda 26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508 Katie King Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism 521 27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523 Gaurav Desai 28 Postcolonial Legality 540 Upendra Baxi 29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm? 556 Bruce Robbins Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11 574 Sangeeta Ray Index 584

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Book Synopsis* Brings together well--established contributors and emergent scholars in postcolonialism. * Presents essays in dialogue with each other to create a controversial collection that examines the current state of postcolonial studies.Trade Review"Taken together, the diverse contributions to this book represent a sustained attempt to bring postcolonial criticism into a dialogue with some of the most pressing and enduring issues of our times. I cannot think of any other book that helps us to see so clearly where postcolonial criticism is headed." Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago "This volume is a fine demonstration of the inexhaustible connectivity of postcolonialism-as-critical-thinking – not only across academic disciplines and sociopolitical formations but also across generations of scholars with divergent intellectual practices. For anyone concerned with this major field of knowledge, it will prove a stimulating and rewarding read." Rey Chow, Brown University "This much needed collection indicates the continuing significance of postcolonial discourse today and its complex relationship to fields such as critical race theory, ethnic studies, and disability studies. The wide-ranging discussions will make this volume particularly useful to scholars committed to cross-cultural exchanges." Sangeeta Ray, University of MarylandTable of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements x Introduction: Scale and Sensibility xi Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg 1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1 Edward Said 2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15 Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff 3 Resident Alien 47 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66 Benita Parry 5 Racial Rule 82 David Theo Goldberg 6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103 Ann Laura Stoler 7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122 Anne Bailey 8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143 Barnor Hesse 9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174 Olu Oguibe 10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184 Pal Ahluwalia 11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205 Zane Ma-Rhea 12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217 Ato Quayson 13 Theorizing Disability 231 Rosemarie Garland Thomson 14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270 John K. Noyes 15 Passing as Korean American 282 Wendy Ann Lee 16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294 Eve Darian-Smith 17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320 Dawn Duncan 18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334 Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope 19 Post-Scriptum 349 François Vergès Index 359

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Book Synopsis* Provides an entirely new approach to the subject of post--colonialism which will completely re--orientate the field. * Unique to this Reader is a section on Ireland which highlights a new approach to resistance to empire. * Offers students a sense of the heterogeneity and plurality of the field.Trade Review"Gregory Castle has assembled a rich collection of key texts which will succeed in introducing postcolonialism to newcomers (above all students) while at the same time provide a useful store of critical materials for those further into the field (above all lecturers, researchers and scholars). This is a well-gathered collection, representing significant writing over the last 20 or so years, and demonstrating excellent research and a sure knowledge of the field in its choice and arrangement of material. This is a work with a first-rate set of ideas and references. The hardback is an excellent addition to the library shelf and the paperback a must for personal reading, particularly for serious students of the subject." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsThematic Contents. Acknowledgments. Editor’s Introduction: Resistance and Complicity in Postcolonial Studies. Selected Bibliography.. Part I: Post-Colonial Discourses: Complicity and Critique. "Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness" (Frantz Fanon). "Discrepant Experiences" (Edward W Said). "Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism" (Homi K Bhabha). "The Burden of English" (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). "Colonialism and Desiring Machines" (Robert Young). "Post-Colonial Critical Theories" (Stephen Slemon). Part II: Indian Nations: The Conundrum of Difference. "The Prose of Counter-Insurgency" (Ranajit Guha). "The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question" (Partha Chatterjee). "Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities" (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan). "Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity" (R Radhakrishnan). Part III: African Identities: Resistance and Race. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (Chinua Achebe). "African Identities" (Kwame Anthony Appiah). "Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of Times': 'Afropop' and the Paradoxes of Imperialism" (Neil Lazarus). "Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa" (Amina Mana). Part IV: Caribbean Encounters: Revolution, Hybridity, Diaspora. "Colonialism and the Caribbean Novel" (George Lamming). "Negotiating Caribbean Identities" (Stuart Hall). "Survival and Invention: Indigeneity in the Caribbean" (Peter Hulme). "Sending the Younger Son Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: The New Colonizer Arrives" (Moira Ferguson). Part V: Rump Commonwealth: Settler Colonies and the "Second World". "Crimes and Punishments" (Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra). "Colonizing Gender in Colonial Australia: The Eliza Fraser Story" (Kay Schafer). "The Body in the Library: Identity, Opposition, and the Settler-Invader Woman" (Helen Tiffin). "Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-Colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand" (Ralph J Crane). Part VI: The Case of Ireland: Inventing Nations. "Adulteration and the Nation" (David Lloyd). "Reading in a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Angela Bourke). "Deanglicization" (Declan Kiberd). "Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History" (Luke Gibbons). Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisRelations between the Choson and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operation of the traditional Chinese tribute system. In contrast, this work contends that the motivations, tactics, and successes (and failures) of the late Qing Empire in Choson Korea mirrored those of other nineteenth-century imperialists.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the body of literature on the period of Korea’s opening. -- J. E. Hoare * Asian Affairs *This is an important and stimulating work, and it deserves to be widely read. -- Richard S. Horowitz * Journal of Asian Studies *Its rich analysis of the Qing’s interventionism sheds fresh and more varied light on interpreting Qing China’s imperialism into Choson Korea at the turn of the twentieth century, not only in the history of Sino–Korean relation but in the larger historical and regional context of imperialism of the world. -- Jungwon Kim * Korean Studies *This is a fine piece of diplomatic and political history that should become standard reading for anyone interested in the process of imperialism in late nineteenth-century East Asia. -- Kenneth M. Swope * Pacific Affairs *Table of Contents* Conventions and Abbreviations * Introduction * Pre-Nineteenth-Century Sino-Korean Relations * Nineteenth-Century Challenges and Changes * Treaties and Troops: Bringing Multilateral Imperialism to Korea * Soldiers, Diplomats, and Merchants: Establishing a Qing Presence in Korea * the Residency of Yuan Shikai * Suzerainty, Sovereignty, and Ritual * Yuan Shikai and "Commercial Warfare" in Korea * Defending Multilateral Privilege at Suzerainty's End: The Sino-Japanese War and Its Aftermath * Endings, Echoes, and Legacies * Works Cited * Index

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