Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisExhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception.This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.Trade Review‘Exhibiting the Empire is an excellent contribution to the continued debate about the empire’s role in Britain. There is a good deal packed into this relatively short volume, which certainly raises a number of new topics and approaches that warrant further attention from scholars of empire, British and otherwise.’Stephen Hague, Rowan University, H-Net, Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online‘This collection is a brilliant example of how the historiography of empire should consider the multiple and complex imperial interactions within and throughout British domestic culture. Contributions from a range of scholars and a variety of disciplinary traditions show that a host of cultural products were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire within the metropole.’Shahmima Akhtar, University of Birmingham, Journal of contemporary History, Vol. 54, No. 1 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cultures of display and the British Empire – John M. MacKenzie and John McAleer 1. An elite imperial vision: eighteenth-century British country houses and four-continents imagery – Stephanie Barczewski 2. Exhibiting exploration: Captain Cook, voyages of exploration and the culture of display – John McAleer 3. Satirical peace prints and the cartographic unconscious – Douglas Fordham4. Sanguinary engagements: exhibiting the naval battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars – Eleanor Hughes 5. Empire under glass: the British Empire and the Crystal Palace, 1851–1911 – Jeffrey Auerbach 6. Ephemera and the British Empire – Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins 7. Exhibiting the empire in print: the press, the publishing world and the promotion of ‘Greater Britain’ – Berny Sèbe 8. Exhibiting the empire at the Delhi Durbar of 1911: imperial and cultural contexts – John M. MacKenzie 9. Elgar’s Pageant of Empire, 1924: an imperial leitmotiv – Nalini Ghuman 10. Representing ‘Our Island Sultanate’ in London and Zanzibar: cross-currents in educating imperial publics – Sarah Longair Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today. Over the last four decades, the Persian Gulf region has gone through oil shocks, wars and political changes, and yet the basic entities of the southern Gulf states have remained largely in place. Drawing on extensive multi-archival research in the British, American and Gulf archives, this book illuminates a series of negotiations between British diplomats and the Gulf rulers that inadvertently led Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE to take their current shapes. The story addresses the crucial question of self-determination versus 'better together', a dilemma pertinent to anyone interested in the transformation of the modern world.Trade Review‘Sato has written an important book that is readily accessible to non-specialists and the broader public and deserves a wide readership among the policy-making community, both in Britain and in the Gulf. At a time when the phrase ‘east of Suez’ has re-entered the British government lexicography and Britain has returned to permanent military bases in the Gulf for the first time since 1971, Sato's reassessment of Britain's regional withdrawal holds particular resonance.’ -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'Pirates' turned sovereign states, 1819–1964 2. Labour's clinging on to the Gulf, 1964–1967 3. Jenkins and the withdrawal decision, 1968 4. Dilemmas and delay, 1968–1970 5. The 'secret' agreement, July 1971 6. Formal sovereignty and continuing collaboration, 1972 Conclusion Bibliography Maps Index

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Book SynopsisBased on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen and travellers. The story told here questions, for the first time, the concept of Europeans in India. Previous scholarship has ignored any national variations in the presence of white people in India, viewing them either as part of a ruling elite or, more recently, white subalterns. The German elites undermine these conceptions. They developed into distinct groups before 1914, especially in the missionary compound, but faced marginalisation and expulsion during the First World War.Trade Review‘The intellectual and personal histories of German refugees and internment camps reveal a fascinating history of exile, suffering, and trauma that is simultaneously marked by resilience, survival, and creativity. It is here that the role of subaltern memories and archives can and should be brought into conversation with the current narrative, as the elites and subaltern were also put together in the internment camps. While marginal, subaltern actors play an important role. Although not enshrined in archives, they too shape histories in ways that need to be mapped when we are writing histories of entanglements and globalization. Indeed, subalterns are the first actors who migrate under the pulls and pressures of globalization as migrant labour and refugees. In fact, the rich archival material and Panayi’s meticulous research direct our attention to such possibilities. In conclusion, Panayi’s Germans in India is a valuable addition to our existing knowledge of connected Indo-German histories even as it suggests new avenues to explore.’Razak Khan, German Historical Institute London Bulletin Vol. XL, No. 2, Nov 2018‘In six chapters Panayi weaves a complex narrative of the histories of highly educated elite actors, most notably missionaries, travellers, and scholars. He uses rich archival material gleaned from institutional missionary and colonial state archives as well as personal accounts left in the form of autobiographies, travel documents, memoirs, and other ego documents…The intellectual and personal histories of German refugees and internment camps reveal a fascinating history of exile, suffering, and trauma that is simultaneously marked by resilience, survival, and creativity.’Razak Khan, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol XL (2018), 2 -- .Table of Contents1 The Germans in India as elite European migrants2 Passages to India3 Everyday life4 Community5 Interethnic perceptions and interactions6 The impact of the Great War7 Endings, new beginnings and meaningsIndex

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Book SynopsisStirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why did imperialist language remain so pervasive in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout much of the twentieth century? What rhetorical devices did political leaders, administrators, investors and lobbyists use to justify colonial domination before domestic and foreign audiences? How far did their colonial opponents mobilize a different rhetoric of rights and freedoms to challenge them? These questions are at the heart of this collection. Essays range from Theodore Roosevelt’s articulation of American imperialism in the early 1900s to the rhetorical battles surrounding European decolonization in the late twentieth century.Trade Review‘It is a pleasure to read a volume in which rhetoric is subject to such sustained scrutiny across such a wide range of modern imperial contexts…I would simply direct readers to an engaging collection of high-quality chapters focused on subjecting a single theme to sustained and invigorating scrutiny.’Christopher Prior, University of Southampton, Journal of contemporary History, Vol. 54, No. 2 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: rhetorics of empire – Martin Thomas and Richard Toye1 ‘The people are grateful’: the discourse of modernization in the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899–1902 – Elizabeth van Heyningen2 ‘We don’t want a pirate empire’: imperial governance, the Transvaal crisis, and the anxieties of Liberal rhetoric on empire – Simon Mackley3 Civilization, empire and humanity: Theodore Roosevelt's second corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – Charlie Laderman4 Franklin D. Roosevelt and America’s empire of anti-imperialism – Andrew Preston 5 ‘The real question at issue’: Mers el-Kébir and the rhetoric of imperial confrontation in July 1940 – Rachel Chin6 French late colonial rhetoric, “myth” and imperial reason – Martin Shipway7 ‘Boom! goes the Congo’: the rhetoric of control and Belgium’s late colonial state – Matthew Stanard8 The hard side of soft power: Spanish rhetorics of empire from the 1950s to the 1970s – Andreas Stucki9 Repression, reprisals, and rhetorics of massacre in Algeria’s war – Martin Thomas10 Arguing about Hola Camp: the rhetorical consequences of a colonial massacre – Richard Toye11 Extended families or bodily decomposition? Biological metaphors in the age of European decolonization - Elizabeth Buettner12 Rhetoric of the realm: monarchy in New Zealand, political rhetoric and adjusting to the end of empire - Harshan KumarasinghamIndex

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Book SynopsisFrance’s presence on the African continent has often been presented as ‘cooperation’ and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris – and quite as often been denounced as ‘the longest scandal of the republic’ by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France’s sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d’Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France’s and Africa’s shared history.Trade Review'Francophone Africa at Fifty is aimed at generalists and specialists alike. For those wishing to learn about this often-neglected part of the world, and especially for those with an interest in its history, this book is an excellent place to start.'Craig Phelan, Kingston University London, Political Studies Review, May 2016 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Tony Chafer and Alexander KeesePart I: Zero hour approaches1. Gaston Defferre’s Loi-Cadre and its application, 1956–57: last chance for a French African ‘empire-state’ or blueprint for decolonisation? – Martin Shipway2. A Vocation for Independence: Guinean Nationalism in the 1950s – Mairi MacDonald3. French officials and the insecurities of change in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar, 19 August 1960 re-visited – Alexander KeesePart II: Military transitions4. 'Saving French West Africa’: The French army, African soldiers and military propaganda during the 1950s – Ruth Ginio5. The French Army and Malian Independence (1956–1961) – Vincent Joly6. Transfer of Military Power in Mauritania: From Ecouvillon to Lamentin (1956-1978) – Camille EvrardPart III: Continuities and Connections7. Franco-African Security Relations at Fifty: Writing Violence, Security, and the Geopolitical Imaginary – Bruno Charbonneau8. French coopération in the field of education (1960-1980): A story of disillusionment – Samy Mesli9. Jacques Foccart: Éminence grise for African affairs – Jean-Pierre BatPart IV: Anglo-French Relations10. Whitehall, the French Community and the Year of Africa: Negotiating post-independence diplomacy in West Africa – Mélanie Torrent11. A Transnational Decolonisation: Britain, France and the Rhodesian Problem, 1965–1969 – Joanna WarsonPart V: Nationalist trajectories, border issues and conflicted memories12. The Changing Boundaries of Resistance: The UPC and France in Cameroonian History and Memory – Thomas Sharp13. A fragmented and forgotten decolonisation: The end of European empires in the Sahara and their legacy – Berny Sèbe14. Through the prism of the cinquantenaire: Côte d’Ivoire between refondation and Houphouët’s legacy – Kathrin Heitz15. Chad’s political violence at 50: Bullets, ballots and bases – David StyanIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book explores British art in relation to British India. It examines the aesthetic interactions initiated by the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter across the disciplines of painting, print-making, design, photography and architecture. It also considers the display of Indian artefacts at exhibitions in Britain and in India and presents the art of urban elites alongside popular arts and artefacts.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Renate Dohmen1 Painting in British India – Renate Dohmen2 Indian crafts and empire – Renate Dohmen3 Photography in colonial India – Steve Edwards4 Architecture, empire and India – Elizabeth McKellarConclusion – Renate DohmenIndex

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Book SynopsisWith an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact, Savage Worlds maps a wide range of different encounters between Germans and non-European indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. Examining outbreaks of radical violence as well as instances of mutual co-operation, it examines the differing goals and experiences of German explorers, settlers, travellers, merchants, and academics, and how the variety of projects they undertook shaped their relationship with the indigenous peoples they encountered. Examining the multifaceted nature of German interactions with indigenous populations, this volume offers historians and anthropologists clear evidence of the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters. It poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering ‘savage worlds’.Table of Contents1. The savagery of empire – Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath 2. ‘No alternative to extermination’: Germans and their ‘savages’ in Southern Brazil at the turn of the nineteenth century – Stefan Rinke3. ‘Far better than their reputation’: the Tolai of East New Britain in the writings of Otto Finsch – Hilary Howes4. The goddess and the beast: African–German encounters – Eva Bischoff5. Wine into wineskins: the Neuendettelsau missionaries’ encounter with language and myth in New Guinea – Daniel Midena6. Signs of the savage in the skull? German investigations of Australian Aboriginal skeletal remains, c. 1860 – Antje Kühnast7. ‘Scientific tourism’: colonialism in the photographs and letters of the young cosmopolitan Carl Heinrich Becker, 1900–02 – Ulf Morgenstern8. Through a German lens: the Australian Aborigines and the question of difference – Judith Wilson9. The savagery of America? Nineteenth-century German literature and indigenous representations – Nicole Perry10. Incompetent masters, indolent natives, savage origins: the Philippines and its inhabitants in the travel accounts of Carl Semper (1869) and Fedor Jagor (1873) – Hidde van der Wall11. Social Democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–07: the view of the socialist press – Andrew G. BonnellIndex

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Book SynopsisPhotographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands’ modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography. Photographs forged imperial networks, negotiated relations of recognition and subjecthood between Indonesians and Dutch authorities, and informed cultural modes of citizenship at a time of accelerated colonial expansion and major social change in the East Indies/Indonesia. This book advances methods in the uses of photographs for social and cultural history, reveals the entanglement of Dutch and Indonesian histories in the twentieth century, and provides a new interpretation of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana as imperial monarchs.Trade Review'It has taken historians a generation or two to come to terms with empire. Historians who lived during the age of empires tended to put the term "imperialism" in the too-hard basket. Those who lived through the end of empire appropriately, for the main, took the side of anti-imperialist nationalists. Susie Protschky’s Photographic subjects is at the forefront of new studies of imperialism. While not doubting its moral illegitimacy, she explains how the Netherlands’ colony of the East Indies imagined itself in relation to the Dutch monarchy. This is a subtle and far-sighted book, analysing photography in relation to royalty in order to show how empire worked. The visual binding of the colony to the "mother" country was, as she shows, carried out through an array of imagery that celebrated devotion to the absent ruler. Peace and war, tradition and modernity provided a range of sights revealing the nature of colonial subjecthood. This is an essential book for understanding modern Indonesian history.'Adrian Vickers, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney'A rich, carefully researched and innovative study of photography and monarchy in the Dutch Empire, Photographic subjects is a remarkable achievement. Protschky attends to image-making practices and the materiality of images to yield new insights into the relationship between monarchical authority, imperial rule and photography. Going beyond analyses of official portraits as props in state-sponsored spectacles, Protschky explores how people in the colonies responded to images of the queen though their own photographic practices. She presents an array of figures – colonial officials, local indigenous rulers, middle class Indo-European and Dutch colonists, Chinese associations and Javanese youth groups, among others – who posed next to the queen’s portrait, took photographs of royal celebrations in the Indies, sent photographic albums as gifts to the queen, collected postcards and clippings related to the queen, and shared images commemorating royal events with distant family members in other parts of the empire. Photographs, she demonstrates, were not simply proxies for an absent queen. Rather, the queen’s physical absence stimulated an array of photographic engagements with her image that cultivated affective attachments to the imperial project she embodied. Spanning a period in which photography transformed from a narrowly elite to a mass technology, Photographic subjects persuasively argues that photography played a crucial role in the formation of imperial subjects and imagined communities.'Karen Strassler, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center'Photographic subjects is a refreshing, comprehensive study of the articulation of social and political relations in the East Indies during Wilhelmina’s reign through visual culture. Protschky uses a novel, broad approach in which photographs serve as a topic, source and prism for looking into the Dutch empire.'Low Countries Historical Review' As a historian and curator with an interest in historical photographs of Chinese in Australia, it was refreshing to explore Dutch imperialism in Asia and exciting to have this told so well through the lens of historical photographs. While the book’s historical focus is the Dutch Monarchy and its relationship to its East Indies colonies, it deserves a much wider readership as an exemplary example of the historical insight that can be gained from a careful analysis of historical photographs as objects and representations.'History Australia'[This] desire to delve in, to open up the material even further, is, however, testament to the richness of the vernacular and official archive Protschky has so brilliantly assembled and draws on with such skill throughout the book. [...] Above all, it is a detailed and substantive contribution to our understanding of photography as both a technology of rule and a medium of popular political communication, identity, and subjectivity.'Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia -- .Table of Contents1 The image of the monarch who stayed home2 Snapshot diplomacy: Photographic gifts from indigenous royals3 Monarchism, amateur photography and colonial citizenship4 Visual appeal: Photographs for the queen from colonial commoners5 Oversight: Unity in diversity at royal celebrations6 Lights, camera and … ‘ethical’ colonial rule7 Monarchy, photography and the end of empireIndex

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Book SynopsisMobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power. While historians have written on exploration, commerce, imperial transport and communications networks, and the movements of slaves, soldiers and scientists, few have reflected upon the social, cultural, economic and political significance of mobile practices, subjects and infrastructures that underpin imperial networks, or examined the qualities of movement valued by imperial powers and agents at different times. This collection explores the intersection of debates on imperial relations, colonialism and empire with emerging work on mobility. In doing this, it traces how the movements of people, representations and commodities helped to constitute the British empire from the late-eighteenth century through to the Second World War.Trade Review'Written in a highly accessible style, Lambert and Merriman finely point out the interconnections between research on mobilities and imperial histories. Through such positioning, the book argues that rigorous historical research can advance mobilities scholarship and shows that there is already much that mobility scholars may learn from histories of the empire. [...] I do hope that the volume finds its way to the hands of many students of history and geography as well as those of scholars of mobility more generally.'Johanna Skurnik, Journal of British Studies -- .Table of Contents1 Empire and mobility: an introduction – David Lambert and Peter Merriman2 Military print culture, knowledge and terrain: knowledge mobility and eighteenth-century military colonialism – Huw J. Davies3 A contested vision of empire: anonymity, authority, and mobility in the reception of William Macintosh’s Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1782) – Innes M. Keighren4 The art of travel in the name of science: mobility and erasure in the art of Flinders’s Australian voyage, 1801–3 – Sarah Thomas5 ‘On their own element’: nineteenth-century seamen’s missions and merchant seamen’s mobility – Justine Atkinson6 ‘Easy chair geography’: the fabrication of an immobile culture of nineteenth-century exploration – Natalie Cox7 Consorting with ‘others’: vagrancy laws and unauthorised mobility across colonial borders in New Zealand from 1877 to 1900 – Catharine Coleborne8 Trekking around Upper Burma: Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe’s exploration of the frontier districts, 1903 – Nuala C. Johnson9 Reading the skies, writing mobility: on the road with a colonial meteorologist – Martin Mahony10 Grounded: the limits of British imperial aeromobility – Liz Millward11 Afterword: westward the course of empire takes its way – Tim CresswellIndex

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Book SynopsisMoving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.Trade Review'Katie Donington’s fascinating, formidably researched and very important investigation of the manifold ways in which the Hibbert family established its wealth through slave trading and slavery and its outsized role in important aspects of British history, including philanthropy and proslavery, is a book for our times. It deserves a wide readership.'Family and Community History'The Bonds of Family is an engaging, methodically-presented study that brings a unique perspective on the British Atlantic and promises to contribute significantly to studies of Caribbean and British history.'New West Indian Guide'Through its focus on a single family, The bonds of family thus offers a refreshingly human view of how Britain’s slave economy was made, operated, justified and sustained by its perpetrators. Atlantic slavery, Donington shows, was created not by abstract market forces, but through the actions of individuals such as the Hibberts:ambitious people who elevated themselves through the ruthless exploitation of enslaved people.'Continuity and Change -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Family matters - slavery, commerce, and culture Part I: Family business - commerce, commodities, and credit 1. Manchester 2. Jamaica 3. London Part II: Family politics - defending the slave trade and slavery4. Defending the slave trade 5. Defending slavery Part III: Family culture - domesticating slavery6. Intimate relations: the colony and the metropole7. Consuming passions: Collecting and connoisseurship 8. The culture of refinement: Country houses and philanthropy Epilogue: Family legacies - after abolition Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international friendship, through educational efforts to know and understand the world, and through the provision of assistance to those in need, the British public imagined themselves as important actors on a global stage. As this book shows, the imperial past remained an important repository of skill, experience, and expertise in the 1960s, one that was called upon by a wide range of associations to justify their developing practices of international engagement. This book will be useful to scholars of modern British history, particularly those with interests in empire, internationalism, and civil society. The book is also designed to be accessible to undergraduates studying these areas.Trade Review'This is an excellent study...It makes an important contribution to the debate about the impact of decolonization on the UK and it deserves to be widely read.'Journal of Contemporary History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Imperial lives and Commonwealth visions2 International mobility and the pursuit of informed understanding3 Friendship, hospitality, and the hierarchies of affective international relationships4 Philanthropic connections and Britain’s ‘lost vocation’5 Christian responsibility in a shrinking worldConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisCreating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.Trade Review'In sum, this is a well-written and well-researched book, which also includes, by the way, a lucid index at its end that makes it easy to look up names and key terms in the main text. It will prove a very helpful guide for any student dealing with the time prior to the First Opium war and may serve as a perfect point of departure for any further research, as it bundles information from both primary sources and secondary literature related to the various aspects of that topic. No scholar who deals with early Sino-British relations should be without it.'Journal of Asian History, Dorothee Schaab-Hanke -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I THE EMBASSIES1 The Macartney embassy 2 The Amherst embassy PART II PRELUDE TO THE OPIUM WAR3 The EIC vs free traders 4 ‘Show of force’ 5 Justifying the Opium War Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the ‘end of empire’ as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed to wider political, economic and social change.The book demonstrates the transnational character of decolonisation, thereby illustrating the value of comparison – between different cultural forms and diverse places – in understanding the nature of this wide-reaching geopolitical change. Individual chapters focus on architecture, theatre, museums, heritage sites, fine art and interior design, alongside institutions such as artists’ groups, language agencies and the Royal Mint, across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reframing cultures of decolonisation - Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle Part I: Decolonising metropolitan cultures?1. Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: the tragic voice of Richard Wright - Bill Schwarz2. Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and 'New Commonwealth Internationalism' - Damian Skinner3. Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement - Rob Waters4. Anxiety abroad: austerity, abundance, and race in post-war visual culture - David C. WallPart II: Performing decolonisation5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam - Abin Chakraborty6. Cultural heritage as performance: re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953-70) - Michael Falser7. 'I still don't have a country': the southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation - Jean SmithPart III: Decolonising expertise8. Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana - Sophie Mew9. More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana - Viviana d'Auria10. Designing change: coins and the creation of new national identities - Catherine Eagleton11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahas dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation - Rachel LeowIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state.In the early nineteenth century the role of some women occupying colonial spaces in India was to provide emotional sustenance to expatriate European males serving away from the moral strictures of Britain. However, powerful colonial statecraft intervened in the middle of the century to racialise these women and give them a new official, moral purpose. Only some females could be teachers, chosen by their race as reliable transmitters of genteel accomplishment codes of European, middle-class femininity.Yet colonial female activism also had impact when pressing against these revised, official gender constructions. New geographies of female medical care outreach emerged. Roman Catholic teaching orders, whose activism was sponsored by piety, sought out other female colonial peripheries, some of which the state was then forced to accommodate. Ultimately the national movement built its own gender thresholds of interchange, ignoring the unproductive colonial learning models for females, infected as these models had become with the broader race, class and gender agendas of a fading raj.This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.Trade Review‘Allender’s attention to the interactions between the colonial state and British women who saw themselves as good citizens of the empire working on behalf of Indian women is a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of this period….Learning Femininity is a must-read for historians of empire and imperialism, Indian history, women’s/gender history, gender studies, and the history of education.’Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York, Oswego, H-Asia, June 2017‘this book will long remain exemplary... an exceptional mastery of secondary literature, an indispensable reading of the role of women, their networks and their educational projects in India under British rule.’ [trans.] Professor Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, in Clio a lu, Clio, Femmes, Genre Histoire, no. 45 (June, 2017)‘This is an impressively detailed and rich study of the history of the education of girls and women in colonial India, based on extensive archival research in a range of localities…I have no hesitation in heartily recommending this rich and well-researched book to all those interested in the history of education in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly the history of colonial education.’Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University, History of Education, February 2017‘In a meticulous study of female education in British India, Tim Allender illuminates the mutual constitution of race and gender over one hundred years of British colonial rule.’Shefali Chandra, Washington University in St Louis, USA, Women’s History Review, November 2016‘Allender’s work is a compelling account of evolution, growth and development of female education in colonial India which originated within the framework of the state but went on to develop apparatus operating independent of the state that survived and outlived the colonial machinery.’Subhasri Ghosh, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, History of Education Review‘Tim Allender’s Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932 is a carefully researched and constructed book about British gender, class, and race agendas related to the education of girls and women in India. In a departure from much of the writing on this topic, which focuses on the education of Indian girls and women, the author considers the changing influences and networks of state-sponsored education under the East India Company and British Raj. Allender examines the classroom, hospital, and dispensary, spaces where women of different races interacted and carried out their work under the colonial state, to understand how female education reflected the East India Company and the Raj’s attitudes toward women.’Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York, Oswego, H-Asia, June 2017‘Based on a wide array of primary materials from both British and Indian repositories, Allender uses individual case studies along with broad, state-rendered policies to capture the complexities of women’s lives on both sides of the colonial divide.’Roberta Wollons, University of Massachusetts, History of Education Quarterly‘A thoroughly researched book drawing together many strands that analyse social processes spanning a century, between 1820 and 1932, and encompassing significant and productive developments in the field of women’s education. In a densely written introduction, the author has extremely competently brought together an extensive range of themes and processes that have a bearing on the subject, principally dealing with the interface between the Raj, its policies and colonial subjects. The book has nine chapters, each of which deals with different aspects of colonial education, focusing on the school and medical care. The chapters have a wealth of detail and make for stimulating reading.’Vasanthi Raman, Treasurer Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, Indian Journal of Gender Studies‘Based on vast archival researchin several continents, Learning Femininity pro­vides a dynamic view of women’s education.’Ishita Pande, Queen’s University,Historical Studies in Education Vol. 29,no. 2‘In sum, Learning Femininity in Colonial India is a welcome and important contribution to the existing literature. Allender exposes the gradated and oblique forms of imperial exchange in a wide range of, mostly underexplored, imperial sites. Most significantly, this book expertly demonstrates how this history of gender and women’s education is not a separate strand, but an integral element within the field of imperial studies.’Saima Nasar, University of Bristol, International Journal of the History of Education'Allender’s book provides valuable insights on the micro-politics of colonial governance. This includes a nuanced analysis of female pro-fessional hierarchies based on racial categorisation.'Dr Jana Tschurenev, Humboldt University, Berlin, Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle, 7/2017, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, S. 425-448The panel was impressed with the depth of scholarship, the range of primary sources, and the author’s own self-confessed awareness of both the strengths and limitations of his approach. Allender’s book considers education in its broadest sense, ranging from institutional contexts to family, community and religious groups... The book departs from traditional chronologies of Indian and imperial history to make a valuable contribution not only to the fields of south Asian and gender studies, but also to the history of formal and informal education. History of Education (UK) Book Prize Citation -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Finding feminine scholars, 1820–642. Shaping a new Eurasian moral body, 1840–673. Mary Carpenter and feminine ‘rescue’ from Europe, 1866–774. Both sides of the mission wall, 1875–845. Female medical care: the creation of a new professional learning space, 1865–906. Feminine missionary medical professionalism and secular medical feminists, 1880–19277. Code School accomplishments and Froebel: new boundaries concerning race and pedagogy, 1883–19038. ‘Better mothers’: feminine and feminist educators and thresholds of female interaction, 1870–19329. Loreto and the paradigm of piety, 1890–1932ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisEuropean settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building ‘better Britains’ overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions, epidemics and natural disasters. It is striking that settlers turned to old traditions of collective prayer and worship to make sense of these calamities. At times of trauma, colonial governments set aside whole days for prayer so that entire populations could join together to implore God’s intervention, assistance or guidance. And at moments of celebration, such as the coming of peace, everyone in the empire might participate in synchronized acts of thanksgiving. Prayer, providence and empire asks why occasions with origins in the sixteenth century became numerous in the democratic, pluralistic and secularised conditions of the ‘British world’.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Calls to prayer 2: The churches and special worship 3: Participants and observances 4: Communities of prayer 5: Droughts and special prayers 6: Prayers for monarchy Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens’ Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895). While Freeman is often viewed by modern scholars as a panegyrist to English progress and a proponent of Aryan racial theory, this study suggests that his world-view was more complicated than it appears. Revisiting Freeman’s most important historical works, this book positions Thomas Arnold as a significant influence on Freeman’s view of world-historical development. Conceptualising the past as cyclical rather than unilinear, and defining race in terms of culture, rather than biology, Freeman’s narratives were pervaded by anxieties about recapitulation. Ultimately, this study shows that Freeman’s scheme of universal history was based on the idea of conflict between Euro-Christendom and the Judeo-Islamic Orient, and this shaped his engagement with contemporary issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘History is past politics, politics is present history’Part I: The West1 The Norman Conquest (1867–79) 2 The Aryan race and Comparative Politics (1873)3 ‘I am no lover of Empire’: the critique of British expansionismPart II: The East4 Islam and Orientalism in the History and Conquests of the Saracens (1856) 5 The Great Eastern Crisis and the ‘Oriental Conspiracy’6 Fear and guilt in the Ottoman Power in Europe (1877) ConclusionAppendixReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. It draws together empirically rich studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa, to provide scope for comparative and transnational analysis. The book includes chapters on a Maori visit to Queen Victoria in 1863, meetings between African leaders and the Queen's son Prince Alfred in 1860, gift-giving in the Queen's name on colonial frontiers in Canada and Australia, and Maori women's references to Queen Victoria in support of their own chiefly status and rights. The collection offers an innovative approach to interpreting and including indigenous perspectives within broader histories of British imperialism and settler colonialism.Trade Review‘Non-European peoples had reason and opportunity to learn the structure and disposition of the authorities that colonised them. Under British rule, they had time to get to ‘know’ Queen Victoria, for she reigned from 1837 to 1901. ‘Queen Victoria’ was not only an individual but a ‘synonym for the Crown, for the British government and for the Empire’ (p.2). In Mistress ofEverything ten historians of British settler-colonial southern Africa, Australia, Canada and New Zealand richly illustrate how Victoria was ‘known’ to the colonised.’Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University, Oceania‘In its innovations and the depth of each of its contributions, this volume will act asa beginning. The editors have brought together an exciting collection of papers,which separately and together will stimulate many more conversations acrossnational and racial borders. They have taken us outside the ghetto of ‘settlercolonialism’ to explore colonised peoples’ responses to their colonisation farmore widely and realistically than is often possible. We are in a far strongerposition to see the ways empires and sovereigns make their claims, how genderand power intersect and how colonised peoples’ challenges to those claims havetaken shape in a range of conditions and different media, all of which havechanged over time.’Heather Goodall, University of Technology Sydney, AboriginalHistory, Vol. 41, 2017‘The editors have compiled a stimulating collection of studies that entice the reader with absorbing case studies from across the British Empire.’ Aidan Jones, King’s College London, Royal Studies Journal -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Indigenous histories, settler colonies and Queen Victoria - Maria Nugent and Sarah CarterPart I - Monarch, metaphor, memory1. 'We have seen the son of Heaven/We have seen the Son of Our Queen': African encounters with Prince Alfred on his royal tour, 1860 - Hilary Sapire2. 'We rejoice to honour the Queen, for she is a good woman, who cares for the Maori race': Loyalty and protest in Maori politics in nineteenth-century New Zealand - Michael Belgrave3. 'The faithful children of the Great Mother are starving': Queen Victoria in contact zone dialogues in western Canada - Sarah Carter4. The politics of memory and the memory of politics: Australian Aboriginal interpretations of Queen Victoria, 1881-2011 - Maria NugentPart II - Royal relations5. 'My vast Empire & all its many peoples': Queen Victoria's imperial family - Barbara Caine6. Maori encounters with 'Wikitoria' in 1863 and Albert VictorPomare, her Maori godchild - Chanel Clarke7. Southern African royalty and delegates visit Queen Victoria, 1882-95 - Neil ParsonsPart III - Sovereign subjects?8. Sovereignty performances, sovereignty testings: The Queen's currency and imperial pedagogies on Australia's south-eastern settler frontiers - Penelope Edmonds9. Bracelets, blankets and badges of distinction: Aboriginal subjects and Queen Victoria's gifts in Canada and Australia - Amanda Nettelbeck10. Chiefly women: Queen Victoria, Meri Mangakahia, and the Maori parliament - Miranda JohnsonSelect bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThroughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring, nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the sounds of liberty 1 Songs of the world 2 The sound of marching feet 3 Votes for a song 4 ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ 5 Music, morals and the middle class 6 The challenges of uplift 7 ‘Sing of the warriors of labour’: radical religion, secularismand the hymn Conclusion: ‘And they sang a new song’Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said’s classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said’s analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives, it uses private papers, letters, memoirs, as well as the official texts, histories and government reports, to reveal both dominant and muted discourses. While imperial sentiment certainly set the standards and sealed the image of a ruling caste culture, the investigation of colonial sentiment reveals a more diverse colony in temperament and lifestyles, often intimately rooted in the Egyptian setting. The method involves providing biographical treatments of a wide range of colonials and the sometimes contradictory responses to specific colonial locations, historical junctures and seminal events, like invasion and war or grand imperial projects including the Alexandria municipality.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Capitulations3 Civilising mission4 Projects5 Colonial life6 Imperialists and colonials7 ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisLaw across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain’s presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontier–including consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history.Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNote on transliterationList of British representatives in KashgarList of Tengyue consulsIntroductionPart I: The Burma-China frontier1 Treaty-making and treaty-breaking: transfrontier salt and opium, 1904–112 On the move: people crossing the frontier, 1911–253 Consuls and Frontier Meetings, 1909–35Part II: Through the mountains and across the desert: Xinjiang4 Isolation and connection: law between semicolonial China and the Raj5 Administering justice and mediating local custom6 The British end game in Xinjiang: the decline of consular rights, 1917–39ConclusionKey termsSelect bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWith original case studies of a more than a dozen countries, Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia offers new perspectives on how both European monarchs who reigned over Asian colonies and Asian royal houses adapted to decolonisation. As colonies became independent states (and European countries, and other colonial powers, lost their overseas empires), monarchies faced the challenges of decolonisation, republicanism and radicalism. These studies place dynasties – both European and ‘native’ – at the centre of debate about decolonisation and the form of government of new states, from the sovereigns of Britain, the Netherlands and Japan to the maharajas of India, the sultans of the East Indies and the ‘white rajahs’ of Sarawak. It provides new understanding of the history of decolonisation and of the history of modern monarchy.Trade Review‘…the range of accounts offered here complicate the picture of decolonisation, demonstrating that, far from being sidelined by transitions to national independence, monarchies were consistently pivotal.’ Professor Martin C. Thomas, University of Exeter 'In Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia, the editors have done a sterling job in compiling a stimulating collection of studies that shine a much-needed light on a continent whose history is dominated by imperialism and monarchy, yet monarchy during the end of empire is often neglected in history texts. 'Royal Studies Journal -- .Table of Contents1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia – Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery2 All the king’s men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires – Priya Naik3 Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial times – Jim Masselos4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire – Robert Aldrich 5 Conflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar) – Susan Conway6 Malaysia’s multi-monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation – Anthony Milner7 Celebrating the 'world’s most ideal state': Sarawak and the Brook dynasty’s centenary of 1941 – Donna Brunero8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism – Naimah S. Talib9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V – Christopher Goscha10 Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos – Ryan Wolfson-Ford11 Indonesia: sultans and the state – Jean Gelman Taylor12 Defending the sultanate’s territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942–50 – Bayu Dardias Kurniadi13 The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967–97 – Mark Hampton14 From absolute monarch to ‘symbol emperor’: decolonisation and the Japanese emperor after 1945 – Elise K. Tipton15 Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship – Irene StengsIndex

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Book SynopsisChosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the historicity of the Bible, biblical notions of lineage, descent and inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and empire. European settler movements portrayed ‘new’ territories across the seas as lands of Canaan, but if many colonised and conquered peoples resisted the imposition of biblical narratives, they also appropriated biblical tropes to their own ends. These innovative case-studies throw new light on familiar areas such as slavery, colonialism and the missionary project, while forging exciting cross-comparisons between race, identity and the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in South Africa, Egypt, Australia, America and Ireland.Trade Review'The flag follows the cross and in this case reaffirms it. The received understanding is that the Age of Enlightenment put to rest the dominance of religion in modern Western cultures. This collection proves Christianity and its political avatar nationalism truly underscored the age of empires. The impact was as profound on indigenous nationalisms, with subordinated societies discovering their distinct identities in the wake of first contact with colonizing Christians. Among the many case studies is Khoisan national renewal in the Cape Colony: Jared McDonald examines Christian liberation as a means to racial equality (albeit short-lived) in British South Africa. The Bible as 19th-century political testament echoed the late medieval struggle between an imperial, all-powerful church and the desire for national congregations to access the word of God in their national languages. Centralization was at odds with dissemination, a conflict the Russian czarist confessional state experienced rather keenly. Atkins (history, Queens' College, Cambridge, UK), Das (modern extra-European history, Univ. of East Anglia, UK), and Murray (19th-century literature, King's College London, UK) clearly establish that the Bible was alive and well in the long 19th century.'--J. L. Meriwether, Roger Williams UniversitySumming Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das and Brian H. MurrayPart I: Peoples and lands1 ‘A bad and dangerous book?’: the biblical identity politics of the Demerara Slave Rebellion – John Coffey2 Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines – Hilary M. Carey3 ‘The Ships of Tarshish’: the Bible and British Maritime Empire – Gareth Atkins4 Jeremiah in Tara: British Israel and the Irish past – Brian H. MurrayPart II: The Bible in transit and translation5 The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Arabic Bible translations: a study in language politics – Heather J. Sharkey6 Empire and nation in the politics of the Russian Bible – Stephen K. Batalden7 Contested identity: the Veda as an alternative to the Bible – Dorothy Figueira8 ‘The Bible makes all nations one’: Biblical literacy and Khoesan national renewal in the Cape Colony – Jared McDonald9 Distinction and dispersal: the nineteenth-century roots of segregationist folk theology in the American South – Stephen R. Haynes10 Afterword/afterlife: identity, genealogy, legacy – David N. LivingstoneSelect bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different ‘glocal’ styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Building the French empire1 Colonial enclosure: Fortification and castles on the Lesser Antilles 2 Ambitions to empire in India: Pondichéry as an imperial city in the Mughal state system 3 Decay and repair: Fort Royal as a perennial construction site on Martinique 4 Mixed society and African “Rococo”: ‘French’ style in Saint-Louis and on Gorée Island 5 Variegated engineering: The builders of the Caribbean empire 6 Community and segregation in Louisbourg: An ‘ideal’ colonial city in Atlantic Canada 7 Motley style: Affective buildings and emotional communities on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti Conclusion: The empire as a material construct Archival Sources Published Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGendered transactions seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities.Trade Review'Sen combines her various research areas in the field … from the perspective of "gendered transactions" over … diverse topics such as missionary and civilizing mission by white women, social reform and women's education, English-speaking Literature of female actors and the complex relationships between British and Indian women and the memsahib. The various sources … are remarkable… memoirs, letters, diaries, biographies, newspaper articles, novels, household manuals and medical guides. … Sen makes an important contribution to the feminist historiography of colonial India by placing the diverse voices of European and Indian women at the center of their analysis.'Manju Ludwig, Heidelberg, H.Soz. Cult (trans.)‘Sen’s book has presented an extremely accessible account of white womens’ experiences from the zenana to the colonial home to the barracks, all within an intricate web of gender, race and class relations.’Zoya Sameen, University of Chicago, Social History‘Sen brings out a perspective that is often doubly neglected in writings on India: the voice of colonised women…Sen’s research uses an impressively wide array of sources, which is particularly apparent in her work in the colonial archives digging up medical manuals available to colonial doctors, Sen demonstrates how resolutely imperial and prescriptive of women’s roles they were…The analysis of these transactions is useful and revealing. Sen’s work is a good reminder that white women in India did not work and live entirely separately from Indian life. They were also, crucially, not the only ones who were imagining the world around them, and Sen’s work on ‘Returning the ‘gaze’ across the racial divide is particularly welcome.’ James Watts, University of Bristol, Ex-Historia‘This excellent interdisciplinary study contributes to the fields of gender, literature, culture and social history of medicine in colonial India… a product of rigorous research of sources across genres… Sen’s main aim is to provide fascinating, contradictory and multilayered constructions of white women in colonial India. She focuses on the complex experiences of three groups of such women, missionaries, memsahibs (middle-class white women, mostly administrators’ wives) and, to a lesser extent, ordinary soldiers’ wives… Sen’s book skilfully tackles problematic questions about identity and agency in cross cultural encounters of white women in colonial India from various angles of gender, ‘race’, class, caste, region and religion…. The richness, cogency and clarity of the narrative is based on a thorough survey of literary and non-literary primary sources, as well as a wide range of secondary sources, to reveal the violence underlying initiatives of colonial modernity based on westernising and ‘civilising missions’ and ‘ideals’ of ‘respectability’ and well-being … Gendered Transactions is not only invaluable for students with a literature and history background at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, but also a pleasurable and informative read for a wider audience.’Ranjana Saha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India, South Asia Research Vol. 32 (2) July 2019'Gendered Transactions is a unique contribution to the gendered dimension of empire and is a valuable addition to Sen’s earlier studies.' Shilpi Rajpal, Social Scientist, Vol 48, Nos. 3-6, March-June 2020' -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The white woman and the 'civilising mission' 1. The missionary 'gaze' and the 'civilising mission': zenana encounters in nineteenth-century Bengal 2. Flora Annie, social reform and female education in late nineteenth-century Punjab 3. Returning the 'gaze': colonial encounters in Indian women's English writings in late nineteenth-century western India Part II: Colonial domesticity, white women's health and gender disadvantage 4. The ambivalences of power inside the colonial home: memsahibs, ayahs and wet nurses 5. Marginalising the memsahib: the white woman's health issues in colonial medical writings 6. The colonial 'female malady': European women's mental health and addiction in the late nineteenth century Conclusion Select bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Tod as an observer of landscape in Rajasthan and Gujarat2. Tod as anthropologist: trying to understand3. Tod’s practice of science in India: voyages through empirical common sense4. Tod’s use of romanticism in his textual constructions of Rajasthan and Gujarat5. Tod’s romantic approach as opposed to James Mill’s utilitarian approach to British government in India6. Tod’s knowledge exchanges with his contemporariesConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisCitizenship, nation, empire investigates the extent to which popular imperialism influenced the teaching of history between 1870 and 1930. It is the first book-length study to trace the substantial impact of educational psychology on the teaching of history, probing its impact on textbooks, literacy primers and teacher-training manuals. Educationists identified ‘enlightened patriotism’ to be the core objective of historical education. This was neither tub-thumping jingoism, nor state-prescribed national-identity teaching, but rather a carefully crafted curriculum for all children which fused civic as well as imperial ambitions. The book will be of interest to those studying or researching aspects of English domestic imperial culture, especially those concerned with questions of childhood and schooling, citizenship, educational publishing and anglo-British relations. Given that vitriolic debates about the politics of history teaching have endured into the twenty-first century, Citizenship, nation, empire is a timely study of the formative influences that shaped the history curriculum in English schoolsTrade Review'Peter Yeandle’s contribution on the politics of teaching history in England between 1870 and1930 does not disappoint. […] Throughout the book Yeandle has one eye on the contemporary debates on the teaching of history in schools in the twenty-first century. Indeed, the recent 800 year anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta has generated some rather far-fetched claims about its supposed significance in the creation of Britain’s modern democracy. Yeandle’s fascinating book exposes this claim to be largely a nineteenth-century invention and shows us the value of analyzing the history text and the pedagogic debates that created them.'The Journal of the Social History Society'Yeandle’s study significantly extends our knowledge of how imperialism was implicated in the teaching of history before 1930. Its findings will appeal to anyone interested in the development of history as a discipline, as well as to scholars of popular imperialism and elementary education alike.'Journal of the History of Education Society'This is a brief and powerful work, focused on two interconnected historical problems—the politics of historical pedagogy and the inculcation of imperial culture. It is remarkably successful, and Yeandle’s solid research will engage scholars of historiography and of pedagogical bibliography long after Britain’s Michael Gove moment has passed.'Twentieth Century British History -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Contested Histories: the teaching of history in its “Golden Age”Enlightened Patriotism? Or, what was history for? The Renaissance of the Child: Educational theory and the teaching of historyPart II: Imperial values and enlightened patriotism in the teaching of history, c. 1880–1930Imperial values in the teaching of history I: national origins, seafaring and the Christian impulseImperial values in the teaching of history II: the English ‘race’ Enlightened Patriots: Heroes, heroines and ‘pioneers of progress’ in the teaching of history History in War and PeaceConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisWith an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact, Savage Worlds maps a wide range of different encounters between Germans and non-European indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. Examining outbreaks of radical violence as well as instances of mutual co-operation, it examines the differing goals and experiences of German explorers, settlers, travellers, merchants and academics, and how the variety of projects they undertook shaped their relationship with the indigenous peoples they encountered. Examining the multifaceted nature of German interactions with indigenous populations, this volume offers historians and anthropologists clear evidence of the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters. It poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering ‘savage worlds’.Table of Contents1. The savagery of empire – Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath 2. ‘No alternative to extermination’: Germans and their ‘savages’ in Southern Brazil at the turn of the nineteenth century – Stefan Rinke3. ‘Far better than their reputation’: the Tolai of East New Britain in the writings of Otto Finsch – Hilary Howes4. The goddess and the beast: African–German encounters – Eva Bischoff5. Wine into wineskins: the Neuendettelsau missionaries’ encounter with language and myth in New Guinea – Daniel Midena6. Signs of the savage in the skull? German investigations of Australian Aboriginal skeletal remains, c. 1860 – Antje Kühnast7. ‘Scientific tourism’: colonialism in the photographs and letters of the young cosmopolitan Carl Heinrich Becker, 1900–02 – Ulf Morgenstern8. Through a German lens: the Australian Aborigines and the question of difference – Judith Wilson9. The savagery of America? Nineteenth-century German literature and indigenous representations – Nicole Perry10. Incompetent masters, indolent natives, savage origins: the Philippines and its inhabitants in the travel accounts of Carl Semper (1869) and Fedor Jagor (1873) – Hidde van der Wall11. Social Democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–07: the view of the socialist press – Andrew G. BonnellIndex

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Book SynopsisThough the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.Trade Review‘The book is particularly inspiring … in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal‘It is always a pleasure to write a review on a book that is so easily readable and really adds to one’s own knowledge in a significant manner. […] The book is particularly inspiring—from the perspective of a pre-modern royal studies scholar—in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal -- .Table of Contents1 Thrones and dominion: European colonisers and indigenous monarchs2 The last king in Ceylon: the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 18153 Kings of Orient were: royal exile in British Asia4 ‘Dragons of Annam’: the French and three emperors in Vietnam 5 Out of Africa: the British, French and African monarchs6 The French and the queen of Madagascar: Ranavalona III, 18977 From conquest to decolonisation: exile from French North AfricaConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhile the world’s oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time. Yet, the sea is the quintessential international space, and its importance to global politics has become all the more obvious in recent years. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from IR, Historical Sociology, Blue Humanities and Critical Ocean Studies, The sea and International Relations breaks with this trend of oceanic amnesia, and kickstarts a theoretical, conceptual and empirical discussion about the sea and IR, by highlighting theoretical puzzles, analysing broad historical perspectives and addressing contemporary challenges. In bringing the sea back into IR, the book reconceptualises the canvas of international relations to include the oceans as a social, political, economic and military space which affects the workings of world politics.Trade Review'This beautifully edited book tells a new and incredibly rich story of the sea. Each chapter not only unsettles our geopolitical imaginaries, but also invites us to think deeper about the ways in which oceans and waterways continue to shape the conditions of possibility of world politics. This is an outstanding volume that is likely to make a splash in our discipline of International Relations.'Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Copenhagen University'International Relations mostly treats the politics of the sea as a background constant, thanks to two centuries of Anglo-American naval hegemony. But no state’s naval hegemony is eternal, which makes it all the more interesting to explore the long history of high-seas politics, as this volume does. Collectively, the authors and editors bring a wealth of knowledge to a fascinating topic.'Jeff Colgan, Brown University'The sea and International Relations is a terrific volume that masterfully calls out International Relations’ (IR) terrestrial bias, and makes a compelling case for extending IR’s conceptual and empirical horizons seawards. Pirates and privateers, merchants, revolutionaries and empire-builders all feature in a scintillating series of interventions that together match formidable historical breadth with startling contemporary relevance. Anchors away, IR scholars – it’s time to set sail!'Andrew Phillips, University of Queensland'The sea and International Relations offers a collection of interesting contributions and new strategies for the discipline of International Relations (IR) to better engage with the sea and the oceans. This edited volume brings together contributors with varying research interests, from maritime security to the history of empires and from privateering to the mobility and riches of the ocean. Each contributor offers their distinctive perspective on the role of the sea/ocean in our theorizing on world politics.'Milla Vaha, International Affairs 99: 2, 2023 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction Staring at the sea – Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira1 IR’s sea sickness: a materialist diagnosis – Alejandro Colás2 The symbolic space of the sea: mythologising a nation, performing an alliance – Maria Mälksoo3 The white man and the sea? Gender, race, and foundations of order – Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho4 Boundaries in the sea: the production of political space in the early modern colonial Atlantic – Mark Shirk5 Challenging order at sea: the early practice of privateering – Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira6 A sea of connectivity and entanglement: modern mobilities and ancient thalassocracies in the Mediterranean Sea – Andonea Dickson7 Constructing insecure maritime spaces: navigational technologies and the experience of the modern mariner – Jessica K. Simonds8 Obligations erga omnes and the common heritage of mankind under the Law of the Sea Convention – Filippa Sofia Braarud9 Fishing for territory: historical IR and the environment – Kerry GoettlichConclusion: International terraqueous relations – Xavier Guillaume and Julia Costa LópezIndex

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Book SynopsisExiting war explores a particular 1918–20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully answered some of the post-war tests they faced, such as demobilisation, repatriation, and fighting the widespread effects of the Spanish flu, the racial, social, political and economic hallmarks of their imperialism set the scene for a wide range of expressions of loyalties and disloyalties, and anticolonial movements. The book documents and conceptualises this 1918–20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire, examining these years for the significant shifts in the imperial relationship that occurred and as laying the foundation for later change in the imperial system.Table of Contents1 The 1918-20 moment and the British Empire’s sorties de guerre - Romain Fathi, Margaret Hutchison, Andrekos Varnava and Michael J. K. Walsh Part I Facing the challenges of peace 2 Australia, empire, and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic - Hannah Mawdsley 3 Repatriation 1918-20 and the changing Anglo-imperial relationship - Trevor Harris 4 The Elimination of the Germans from the British Empire at the end of the First World War - Panikos Panayi Part II Controlling and exporting a military tradition 5 British colonial re-affirmation at the 1918-1920 moment: appropriation, dehumanisation and the rule of colonial difference - Samragni Bonnerjee 6 Beyond Amritsar: the Indian Army and the fight for empire, 1918-1920 - Kate Imy Part III Contesting and strengthening empire 7 The aftermath of the Great War and the birth of modern Quebec nationalism - Charles-Philippe Courtois 8 The failure of the Enosis policy in Cyprus after the Great War: between liberal philhellenism and imperialism - Andrekos Varnava 9 From Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to middle eastern mandates: understanding Britain’s 1918-1920 moment in the Middle East - Clothilde Houot Conclusion - Romain Fathi, Margaret Hutchison, Andrekos Varnava and Michael J. K. Walsh Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the ASAA mid-career book prize in Asian Studies 2020 and joint winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book PrizePhotographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands’ modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography. Photographs forged imperial networks, negotiated relations of recognition and subjecthood between Indonesians and Dutch authorities, and informed cultural modes of citizenship at a time of accelerated colonial expansion and major social change in the East Indies/Indonesia. This book advances methods in the uses of photographs for social and cultural history and provides a new interpretation of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana as imperial monarchs.Trade Review'It has taken historians a generation or two to come to terms with empire. Historians who lived during the age of empires tended to put the term "imperialism" in the too-hard basket. Those who lived through the end of empire appropriately, for the main, took the side of anti-imperialist nationalists. Susie Protschky’s Photographic subjects is at the forefront of new studies of imperialism. While not doubting its moral illegitimacy, she explains how the Netherlands’ colony of the East Indies imagined itself in relation to the Dutch monarchy. This is a subtle and far-sighted book, analysing photography in relation to royalty in order to show how empire worked. The visual binding of the colony to the "mother" country was, as she shows, carried out through an array of imagery that celebrated devotion to the absent ruler. Peace and war, tradition and modernity provided a range of sights revealing the nature of colonial subjecthood. This is an essential book for understanding modern Indonesian history.'Adrian Vickers, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney'A rich, carefully researched and innovative study of photography and monarchy in the Dutch Empire, Photographic subjects is a remarkable achievement. Protschky attends to image-making practices and the materiality of images to yield new insights into the relationship between monarchical authority, imperial rule and photography. Going beyond analyses of official portraits as props in state-sponsored spectacles, Protschky explores how people in the colonies responded to images of the queen though their own photographic practices. She presents an array of figures – colonial officials, local indigenous rulers, middle class Indo-European and Dutch colonists, Chinese associations and Javanese youth groups, among others – who posed next to the queen’s portrait, took photographs of royal celebrations in the Indies, sent photographic albums as gifts to the queen, collected postcards and clippings related to the queen, and shared images commemorating royal events with distant family members in other parts of the empire. Photographs, she demonstrates, were not simply proxies for an absent queen. Rather, the queen’s physical absence stimulated an array of photographic engagements with her image that cultivated affective attachments to the imperial project she embodied. Spanning a period in which photography transformed from a narrowly elite to a mass technology, Photographic subjects persuasively argues that photography played a crucial role in the formation of imperial subjects and imagined communities.'Karen Strassler, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center'Photographic subjects is a refreshing, comprehensive study of the articulation of social and political relations in the East Indies during Wilhelmina’s reign through visual culture. Protschky uses a novel, broad approach in which photographs serve as a topic, source and prism for looking into the Dutch empire.'Low Countries Historical Review' As a historian and curator with an interest in historical photographs of Chinese in Australia, it was refreshing to explore Dutch imperialism in Asia and exciting to have this told so well through the lens of historical photographs. While the book’s historical focus is the Dutch Monarchy and its relationship to its East Indies colonies, it deserves a much wider readership as an exemplary example of the historical insight that can be gained from a careful analysis of historical photographs as objects and representations.'History Australia'[This] desire to delve in, to open up the material even further, is, however, testament to the richness of the vernacular and official archive Protschky has so brilliantly assembled and draws on with such skill throughout the book. [...] Above all, it is a detailed and substantive contribution to our understanding of photography as both a technology of rule and a medium of popular political communication, identity, and subjectivity.'Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia -- .Table of Contents1 The image of the monarch who stayed home2 Snapshot diplomacy: Photographic gifts from indigenous royals3 Monarchism, amateur photography and colonial citizenship4 Visual appeal: Photographs for the queen from colonial commoners5 Oversight: Unity in diversity at royal celebrations6 Lights, camera and … ‘ethical’ colonial rule7 Monarchy, photography and the end of empireIndex

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Book SynopsisChina and other Third World societies cannot 'catch up' with the rich countries. The contemporary world system is permanently dominated by a small group of rich countries who maintain a vice-like grip over the key parts of the labour process – over the most technologically sophisticated and complex labour. Globalisation of production since the 1980s means much more of the world’s work is now carried out in the poor countries, yet it is the rich, imperialist countries – through their domination of the labour process – that monopolise most of the benefits. Income levels in the First World remain five and ten times higher than Third World countries. The huge gulf between rich and poor worlds is getting bigger not smaller. Under capitalist imperialism, it is permanent.China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies – like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to ‘catch up’ economically, or overtake the rich countries paves the way for imperialist military and economic aggression against China. King’s meticulous study punctures the rising-China myth. His empirical and theoretical analysis shows that, as long as the world economy continues to be run for private profit, it can no longer produce new imperialist powers. Rather it will continue to reproduce the monopoly of the same rich countries generation after generation. The giant social divide between rich and poor countries cannot be overcome.Trade Review'Sam King offers an important intervention to critical/radical/Marxist literature on the political economy of (under)development in the Third World/Global South in the neoliberal era by critically and comprehensively engaging with the notion of imperialism.'Gonenc Uysal, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Capital & Class (Volume 46, Issue 2) -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Michael RobertsIntroductionPart I: Two worlds1 Income polarisation in the neoliberal periodPart II: Contemporary Marxist analysis2 Decline of Marxist analysis of imperialism3 Contemporary Marxist response to world polarisation4 The idea of China as a rising threatPart III: Lenin’s theory of imperialism and its contemporary application5 What Lenin’s book does not say6 Is imperialism the 'highest stage of capitalism'?7 Lenin’s monopoly capitalist competition8 Monopoly and the Marx’s labour theory of valuePart IV: Monopoly and non-monopoly capital: the economic core of imperialism9 Neoliberal polarisation of capital10 Polarised specialisation of nations11 Non-monopoly Third World capital12 Neoliberal globalisation in historical context13 The industrialisation of everything14 Growing state dominance15 Stranglehold: the reproduction of highest labour powerPart V: Super-exploitation of China and why catch-up is not possible16 China: Third World capitalism par excellence17 The new Imperialist cold war against China18 Trade war and China’s latest attempts at upgradingConclusionBibliographyIndex

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