Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisPatrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. He is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt for the epic novel Texaco. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies. Scholars and students with interests in creolization, neocolonialism, and globalization will find this work particularly valuable.Patrick Chamoiseau brings the writer's major works of fiction into dialogue with lesser-known texts, including unpublished theatrical works, screenplays, visual texts, and treatises. This holistic, comprehensive, and largely chronological study of Chamoiseau's oeuvre includes analyses of various authorial strategies, especially the use of narrative masques, cross-cultural storytelling techniques, and creolizing poetics.

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Book SynopsisBorn in Civil War–era Cincinnati in 1857, William Howard Taft rose rapidly through legal, judicial, and political ranks, graduating from Yale and becoming a judge while still in his twenties. In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to head a commission charged with preparing the Philippines for US-led civil government, setting the stage for Taft’s involvement in US-Philippine relations and the development of his imperial vision across two decades. While biographies of Taft and histories of US-Philippine relations are easy to find, few works focus on Taft’s vision for the Philippines that, despite a twenty-year crusade, would eventually fail. William Howard Taft and the Philippines fills this void in the scholarship, taking up Taft’s vantage point on America’s imperialist venture in the Philippine Islands between 1900 and 1921.Adam D. Burns traces Taft’s course through six chapters, beginning with his years in the islands and then following it through his tenure as President Roosevelt’s secretary of war, his term as president of the United States, and his life after departing the White House. Across these years Taft continued his efforts to forge a lasting imperial bond and prevent Philippine independence.Grounded in extensive primary source research, William Howard Taft and the Philippines is an engaging work that will interest scholars of Philippine history, American foreign policy, imperialism, the American presidency, the Progressive Era, and more.

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Book SynopsisNew England history often treats Indigenous people as minor or secondary actors within the larger colonial story. Focusing on those Native Americans who were sachems, or leaders, in local tribes when Europeans began arriving, Marie Balsley Taylor reframes stories of Indigenous and British interactions and illuminates the vital role that Indigenous kinship and diplomacy played in shaping the textual production of English colonial settlers in New England from the 1630s until King Philip’s War.Taylor argues that genres like the conversion narrative, the post-sermon question and answer session, and scientific treatise—despite being written in English for European audiences—were jointly created by Indigenous sachems and settlers to facilitate interaction within the contested space of colonial New England. Analyzing the writings of Thomas Shepard, John Eliot, John Winthrop Jr., and Daniel Gookin and the relationships these English Protestants formed with Indigenous leaders like Wequash, Cutshamekin, Cassacinamon, and Waban, this innovative study offers a new approach to early American literature—indicating that Native thought and culture played a profound role in shaping the words and deeds of colonial writers.Trade Review“Within a highly mediated field of scholarly study, Taylor has managed to turn over new ground, find cause for interest in previously undervalued texts, and present them in such a way that will prove generative for scholars of early American and Native American literature.” - Drew Lopenzina, author of Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot

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Book SynopsisIn this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation’s foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a “biopolitical state,” in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.Trade Review“Horowitz challenges conventional approaches, particularly in recent environmental criticism, that see a return to nature as an emancipatory act (from the colonial period to today), when quite to the contrary, it might be a reifying act that further leads to a biopolitical state. Those committed to a rigorous Latin American ecocriticism will need and want to engage with this cross examination.”— Christopher Travis, author of Resisting Alienation: The Literary Work of Enrique Lihn “Gabriel Horowitz’s Nature Fantasies is a ground-breaking book that explores the complex and contradictory construction of ‘nature’ in nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish American cultural production. Horowitz demonstrates how ‘nature’ as it is determined within this history is a figure both of what must be walled off—disciplined or controlled—and of what must be incorporated into the hegemonic sensibility. One of the important implications of Horowitz’s discussion of nature as both the outside and the inside of criollista cultural ideology is that the biopolitical developments of the twentieth century and beyond turn out to have their roots in colonial and post-colonial histories.”— Patrick Dove, author of Literature and “Interregnum”: Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin A “A formidable and provocative examination of the role of nature thinking (and nature writing) in the historical transition from cultural decolonization to the modern biopolitical state in Latin America. A must-read for anyone interested in the ways nature and politics intersect.”— Alejandro Quin, coeditor of Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing “A study on the discursive history of nature in Latin America, Nature Fantasies is a far-reaching and well-documented intervention that offers fresh new readings of such classics as Gómez de Avellaneda, Martí, and Heredia. The author argues for the nineteenth-century signifier 'nature' in Spanish America as one housing criollo fantasies that aimed at superseding and erasing both indigenous histories of the region and the continent’s own non-human history. A readable theoretical intervention on our own historical uses of the word-concept 'nature,' this book is also a study that challenges, in productive ways, the very tenets of ecocriticism and what we do as ecocritics.”— Felipe Martínez Pinzón, coeditor of Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon “In its candid engagement with the modern Latin American literary canon, Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America provides a succinctly written assessment of some of the limitations inherent to current paradigms of thought such as decolonial thinking and the environmental humanities. It makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates on Latin America’s past and present.”— Gareth Williams, author of Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign StateTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1 The Natural History of Latin American Independence 2 Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition Part II 3 The Fantasy of the Creole as White Indian 4 The End of History and the Return to Nature 5 The Garden, the Camp, and the Biopolitical State Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation’s foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a “biopolitical state,” in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.Trade Review“Horowitz challenges conventional approaches, particularly in recent environmental criticism, that see a return to nature as an emancipatory act (from the colonial period to today), when quite to the contrary, it might be a reifying act that further leads to a biopolitical state. Those committed to a rigorous Latin American ecocriticism will need and want to engage with this cross examination.”— Christopher Travis, author of Resisting Alienation: The Literary Work of Enrique Lihn “Gabriel Horowitz’s Nature Fantasies is a ground-breaking book that explores the complex and contradictory construction of ‘nature’ in nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish American cultural production. Horowitz demonstrates how ‘nature’ as it is determined within this history is a figure both of what must be walled off—disciplined or controlled—and of what must be incorporated into the hegemonic sensibility. One of the important implications of Horowitz’s discussion of nature as both the outside and the inside of criollista cultural ideology is that the biopolitical developments of the twentieth century and beyond turn out to have their roots in colonial and post-colonial histories.”— Patrick Dove, author of Literature and “Interregnum”: Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin A “A formidable and provocative examination of the role of nature thinking (and nature writing) in the historical transition from cultural decolonization to the modern biopolitical state in Latin America. A must-read for anyone interested in the ways nature and politics intersect.”— Alejandro Quin, coeditor of Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing “A study on the discursive history of nature in Latin America, Nature Fantasies is a far-reaching and well-documented intervention that offers fresh new readings of such classics as Gómez de Avellaneda, Martí, and Heredia. The author argues for the nineteenth-century signifier 'nature' in Spanish America as one housing criollo fantasies that aimed at superseding and erasing both indigenous histories of the region and the continent’s own non-human history. A readable theoretical intervention on our own historical uses of the word-concept 'nature,' this book is also a study that challenges, in productive ways, the very tenets of ecocriticism and what we do as ecocritics.”— Felipe Martínez Pinzón, coeditor of Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon “In its candid engagement with the modern Latin American literary canon, Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America provides a succinctly written assessment of some of the limitations inherent to current paradigms of thought such as decolonial thinking and the environmental humanities. It makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates on Latin America’s past and present.”— Gareth Williams, author of Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign StateTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1 The Natural History of Latin American Independence 2 Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition Part II 3 The Fantasy of the Creole as White Indian 4 The End of History and the Return to Nature 5 The Garden, the Camp, and the Biopolitical State Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDescribed by one early colonist as ‘this constant sort of war’, The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians around greater Sydney.Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars sheds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out.Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent.Trade Review‘A powerful and cogent contribution to one of the most contentious aspects of Australian history: the war between British settlers and the First Nations. The fine detailed research will mean that we will have to radically reassess our understanding of the history of the first thirty years of settlement.’ - Henry Reynolds

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Book SynopsisThe Beginning, the first of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, available together for the first time, gives an account of earlysettlement by Britain that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.In this period, the penal colony at Port Jackson wasestablished. As it grew, this community of convicts andex-convicts posed profound questions about the commonrights of the subject, the responsibility of power, andthe possibility of imaginative attachment to a land ofexile. Europeans were not just conquerors motivated bybrutal colonising imperatives. Their culture was ancientand infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas aboutspirituality, authority, self, and land, all of which hadimplications for the way Australians live now. Conflictand possession of Aboriginal land were at issue, as werethe ancient habits of Europeans themselves.

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Book SynopsisDemocracy, the second of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, shows whatthe Europeans did with Australia and why during thefirst four or five generations of invasion and settlement,so as to secure great wealth and the beginnings ofdemocracy.During the period from around 1815 to the early 1870sAustralia began to find its place. The pace of colonialexpansion accelerated while a kind of democracyemerged. More than a story of geography and politics,Democracy describes the way people thought and felt –what drove them, what troubled them. By analysing thelives of both powerful and ordinary men and women,Atkinson sets out the ideas that moved and marked them,in a history of ‘common imagination’.

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Book SynopsisExposing the history of racism in Canada’s classroomsWinner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awardsIn School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s school system has, from its inception and for decades, taught and endorsed colonial domination and racism. This English translation of the award-winning book extends its crucial lesson to readers across the country, bridging English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada’s past and present identity.Using postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist theories and methodologies, Larochelle examines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century classroom materials used in Quebec’s public and private schools. Many of these textbooks, and others like them, made their way into curricula across Canada. Larochelle’s innovative analysis illuminates how textual and visual representations found in these archives constructed Indigenous, Black, Arab, and Asian peoples as “the Other” while reinforcing the collective identity of Quebec, and Canada more broadly, as white. Uncovering the origins and persistence of individual and systemic racism against people of colour, Larochelle shows how Otherness was presented to—and utilized by—young Canadians for almost a century.School of Racism names the ways in which Canada’s education system has supported and sustained ideologies of white supremacy—ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. The book offers historians new insight into how Canadian and Quebecois concepts of nationalism and racism overlap, helps educators confront racism in their classrooms, and deepens urgent discussions about race and colonialism throughout Canada.Table of Contents Author’s Note Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Theories of Otherness Chapter 2: Other Societies: Imperialist Knowledges and Orientalist Representations Chapter 3: The Other-Body or Alterity Inscribed in the Flesh Chapter 4: The Indian: Domination, Erasure and Appropriation Chapter 5: The Other Observed or “Tea Chaptering Through the Eyes” Chapter 6: Of Missions and Emotions: Children and the Missionary Mobilization Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography List of Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisWood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of Dénesųłıuné homelands, where Dené people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada 's largest at nearly 45, 000 square kilometers, was the eviction of Dénesųłıuné people from their home, the forced separation of Dené families, and restriction of their Treaty rights. Remembering Our Relations tells the history of Wood Buffalo National Park from a Dené perspective and within the context of Treaty 8. Oral history and testimony from Dené Elders, knowledge-holders, leaders, and community members place Dénesųłıuné voices first. With supporting archival research, this book demonstrates how the founding, expansion, and management of Wood Buffalo National Park fits into a wider pattern of promises broken by settler colonial governments managing land use throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By prioritizing Dénesųłıuné histories Remembering Our Relations deliberately challenges how Dené experiences have been erased, and how this erasure has been used to justify violence against Dénesųłıuné homelands and people. Amplifying the voices and lives of the past, present, and future, Remembering Our Relations is a crucial step in the journey for healing and justice Dénesųłıuné peoples have been pursuing for over a century.

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Book SynopsisRemains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid, a condition referred to as ‘the postapartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience, and a desire for a ‘post-apartheid social’. Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of ‘the post-apartheid’ as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which ‘the post-apartheid’ – as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid’s difference – unfolds, falters and is worked through.Trade ReviewThis is exciting work. The concept of the remains—or thinking about postapartheid South Africa based on various theorisings of loss—is a valid one. It is original and astute in its applications of theory and philosophical thinking – Rita Barnard, DirectorTable of ContentsIntroduction: Traversing the social; Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Premesh Lalu and Gary Minkley; 1. The Mandela Imaginary: Refl ections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy Derek Hook; 2. The ethics of precarity: Judith Butler's reluctant universalism Mari Ruti; 3. Hannah Arendt's work of mourning: The politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid Jaco Barnard-Naude; 4. The return of empathy: Post-apartheid fellow feeling Ross Truscott; 5. Souvenir Annemarie Lawless; 6. Re-covery: Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover Aidan Erasmus; 7. The graves of Dimbaza: Temporal remains Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick; 8. The principle of insuffi ciency: Ethics and community at the edge of the social Maurits van Bever Donker; 9. The Trojan Horse and the becoming technical of the human Premesh Lalu.

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Book SynopsisWriting the Ancestral River is an illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. This tidal river runs through the centre of what used to be called the Zuurveld, a formative meeting ground of different peoples who have shaped our history: Khoikhoi herders, Xhosa pastoralists, Dutch trekboers and British settlers. Their direct descendants continue to live in the area and interact in ways that have been decisively shaped by their shared history.Besides being a social history, this is also a natural history of the river and its catchment area, where dinosaurs once roamed and cycads still grow. As the book shows, the natural world of the Kowie has felt the effects of human settlement, most strikingly through the establishment of a harbour at the mouth of the river in the 19th century and the development of a marina in the late 20th century. Both projects have had a decisive and deleterious impact on the Kowie.People are increasingly reconnecting with nature and justice through rivers. Acknowledging the past, and the inter-generational, racialised privileges, damages and denials it established and perpetuates, is necessary for any shared future. By focusing on this ‘little’ river, the book raises larger questions about colonialism, capitalism, ‘development’ and ecology, and asks us to consider the connections between social and environmental injustice.Trade ReviewJacklyn Cock has penned a love letter that is as hopeful as it is elegiac. Drawing on family connections to the Kowie that go back to the 1820 settlers, Cock asks big questions about the relationship between nature and culture, between humans and other forms of life, and about the place of rivers in human history. It is only by rethinking our relationship to nature that we can save ourselves."" - Jacob Dlamini, Assistant Professor 0f History, Princeton University""Jacklyn Cock has made the story of a small and fairly insignificant river into a metonym of the biological glories of South Africa and the ecological devastation they have endured, and continue to endure. The result is at once lyrical and trenchant. As a history rooted in the landscape of South Africa, it has few peers, and no superiors."" - Robert Ross, Professor Emeritus of African Studies, Leiden University""Jacklyn Cock has written an extraordinary work of engaged and imaginative scholarship. Writing the Ancestral River will become a South African classic, accessible to the public but at the cutting edge of international scholarship."" - Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus, University of The WitwatersrandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Plates; Chapter 1: Motivations; Chapter 2: The River; Chapter 3: The Battle; Chapter 4: The Harbour; Chapter 5: The Marina; Chapter 6: Connecting nature and justice through rivers; Appendix; Glossary of isiXhosa terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses how Britain replicated the "Singapore model" - the use of imported "industrious" Chinese labour - to other parts of its empire, with varying degrees of success. The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial administrators saw that the "model" of whathad been done in Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the "Singapore model" and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It examines the role of the key people who developed the model, including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model, notably free trade and the use of "industrious" Chinese rather than "lazy" natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities and globalisation; theneed to find labour without recourse to slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated more widely. STAN NEAL is Lecturer in Modern British Imperial History at Ulster University.Trade ReviewThis book's focus on Chinese migrant labor within the British Empire is not only an important contribution to British Empire studies but a fine contribution on the Chinese diaspora as well. Recommended. * CHOICE *Stan Neal's intriguing, well-researched book should be essential reading for anyone interested in indenture, nineteenth-century Chinese migration, and wider Anglo-Chinese relations. -- Rachel K. Bright * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Singapore Model The Chinese Character: Race, Economics, Colonization Crossing the Indian Ocean: Chinese Labour in South Asia and Beyond From Singapore to Sydney: Race, Labour and Chinese Migration to Australia Hong Kong Versus Singapore: The Dawn of Mass Migration Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFar from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile. This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and the Black Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out some autonomy from the British and Bourbon powers. It also explores the mutiny of a slave-ship and its unsuccessful raiding ventures in order to show how the dominant European powers sought to contain piracy in an expanding plantation complex. The book emphasizes the contrarieties of struggle, the difficulties preventing subaltern groups, whether slaves, free blacks, indigenous peoples or soldiers and sailors, from forging broader alliances, and the importance of tropical disease in shaping military outcomes. It warns against romanticizing resistance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, showing that it was instead a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Lost in Translation? Tracking Robinson Crusoe Across the Eighteenth Century 2. Vernon's Nemesis: The Caribbean Expeditions of 1741-42 3. War, Race and Labour in Caribbean Waters, 1740-50 4. Piracy and Slavery Aboard the Black Prince, 1760-77 5. Rebellion, War and the Jamaican Conspiracy of 1776 6. War, Race and Marginality: The Mosquito Coast in the Eighteenth Century 7. Eighteenth-century Warfare in the Tropics: the Nicaraguan Expedition of 1780 8. The Carbet and the Plantation: The Black Caribs of Saint Vincent Postscript: The Caribbean Crucible at the Turn of the Century Appendix: Black Risings, Conspiracies and Marronage, 1773-80 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisChallenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period. A key argument of this book is that the English Pale - the four counties around Dublin under English control - was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, whereby "the four obedient shires" were protected by new fortifications and a newly-constituted English-style militia, which replaced the former system of extended marches, was highly effective, making unnecessary money and troops from England, and enabling the Dublin government to be self-financing. The book provides full details of this new system. It also demonstrates how direct rule by an English army and governor, which replaced the system in the years after 1534, was much more costly and led on in turn to the policy of "surrender and regrant" under which Irish chiefs became subject to English law. The book highlights how this policy made the English Pale's frontiers redundant, but how ideologically ideas of "English civility" nevertheless survived, and "the wild Atlantic way" remained "beyond the Pale".Trade ReviewThis book is a welcome addition to the current scholarship on the English Pale and will certainly revitalise debate on this topic. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY *This book will be of interest to anyone working on colonial politics in late medieval and Early Modern Ireland. [...] The book will also serve as a helpful guide to seigneurial governance in the late medieval Pale. -- CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIESEllis's findings alter our understanding of how the Pale developed through the late medieval and early Tudor period and challenge historians to question accepted wisdom. -- HISTORY IRELANDTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: in search of Ireland's English Pale The horizons of English rule: retreat and recovery The fortifications and identity of a military frontier County Dublin and the military frontier Strengthening the march in County Kildare The English Pale's westward expansion: County Meath The English Pale's northern frontier: County Louth Restoring the English Pale, 1534-41 The waning of the English Pale Conclusion: an English region in Tudor Ireland Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCombining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into debates about music's role in society. International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments from the past and present were accompanied by performances intended to educate or to entertain, while music was heard at exhibitors' stands, in concert halls, and in the pleasure gardens that surrounded the exhibition buildings. Music was depicted as a symbol of human artistic achievement, or employed for commercial ends. At times it was presented in nationalist terms, at others as a marker of universalism. This book argues, by interrogating the multiple ways that music was used, experienced, and represented, that exhibitions can demonstrate in microcosm many of the broader musical traditions, purposes, arguments, and anxieties of the day. Its nine chapters focus on sociocultural themes, covering issues of race, class, public education, economics, and entertainment in the context of music, tracing these through the networks of communication that existed within the British Empire at the time.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Exhibiting Music 2. The Musical Object 3. Sounding Instruments 4. Museums and the History of Music 5. Performance, Rational Recreation, and Music for 'Progress' 6. Music for Leisure and Entertainment 7. Nationalism and Music 8. Curating Non-Western Music 9. Performing Non-Western Music Conclusion: Exhibitions and Their Musical Legacies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJust as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which serve as the focus of this volume. Following the American Revolution, French authors often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with France's own Revolutionary ideals but in competition with lingering anti-American depictions of an inferior, untamed New World. The volume examines French imagining of America through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, homages to Washington, Franklin and Lafayette and negotiations of Francophone identity in New Orleans. The subject of race features prominently in paradoxical depictions of slavery, freedom, and revolution in the United States and French Caribbean colonies of 'Amérique' and in varied interpretations of American music and gendered identity. Essays consider French constructions of the Indigenous American and Black American 'exotic' that intersect with tropes of noble, pastoral savagery, menacing barbarism and the 'civilising' potency of French culture. Such French constructions reveal both a revulsion of racial alterity and an attraction to the expressive, even subversive, freedom of Americanness. Investigations of French conceptions of America extend to critiques of American orchestral music, Gottschalk's Louisianan-Caribbean Creole works, Buffalo Bill's spectacles and the cakewalk in Paris. With scholarly contributions on music, dance, theatre and opera, the volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of these disciplines.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage 1 Between Amérique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberté and esclavage Diana R. Hallman 2 Justamant's Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French Ballet Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer 3 Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839) Helena Kopchick Spencer Part II. Myths of America and Intersecting Identities 4 'Brise du Sud': American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans Charlotte Bentley 5 'The Most Seductive Creole Indolence': Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French Press Laura Moore Pruett 6 Symphonies from the New World: The Myths and Realities of American Orchestral Music in France Douglas Shadle Part III. Soundscapes and Sonic Fantasies 7 Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand's Sonic Imagining of the New World Ruth E. Rosenberg 8 La Liberté éclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty Annegret Fauser Part IV. America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siècle9 Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America at the 1889 World's Fair Mark A. Pottinger 10 Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture César A. Leal Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMost writing today by activists and opponents of foreign policy is rooted in the 1960s. Underpinning many of these books is the unquestioned assumption that contemporary British imperialism is an adjunct to American foreign policy. Wherever the United States invades and bombs, Great Britain lays out the carpet and obediently follows. This subservience is jubilantly referred to as a “special relationship” by its supporters; by its detractors it is disparagingly depicted as “America’s poodle”. This book argues that a true understanding of contemporary British militaristic foreign policy begins with a rejection and a historical unpacking of this perceived subservience to the United States.

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Book SynopsisThe riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War. During the riots, crowds of white working-class people targeted black workers, their families and black-owned businesses and property. One of the chief sources of violent confrontation in the run-down port areas was the ‘colour’ bar implemented by the sailors’ trades unions campaigning to keep black, Arab and Asian sailors off British ships in a time of increasing job competition. Black 1919 sets out the economic and social causes of the riots and their impact on Britain’s relationship with its empire and its colonial subjects. The riots are also considered within the wider context of rioting elsewhere on the fringes of the Atlantic world as black people came in increased numbers into urban and metropolitan settings where they competed with working-class white people for jobs and housing during and after the First World War. The book details the events of the port riots in Britain, with chapters devoted to assessing the motivations and make-up of the rioting crowds, examining police procedures during the riots, considering the court cases that followed, and looking at the longer-term consequences for the black British workers and their families. Black 1919 is a stark and timely reminder of the violent racist conflict that emerged after the First World War and the shockwaves that reverberated around the Empire.Trade Review'With Black 1919, Jacqueline Jenkinson has provided the first detailed investigation of the 1919 riots, which were among the most severe, widespread, and prolonged social disturbances to occur in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.' Journal of British Studies'There is simply no rival for its detail and substance ... a substantial addition to the literature of black British history.' Neil Evans, Cardiff University'The book deserves a wide readership. It will stimulate further debate into the numerous questions raised about race, class and empire.' Reviews in HistoryTable of Contents List of tables and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The wider context of the seaport riots 2. Chief events of the riots 3. Who were the rioters? 4. Police and court responses 5. Repatriation to the colonies: the government solution to the riots and some Caribbean consequences 6. Aftermath: global reverberations, selfhelp, alien status and further riots Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInformed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the demise of democratic socialism in the 1980s. It also pays attention to practices devoid of racial content but which equally helped to sustain a society stratified by race and colour, such as voting qualifications. Case studies on the labour market, education, the family and legal system, among other areas, demonstrate the extent to which race and colour shaped social relations in the island in the decades preceding and following independence and argue that racial discrimination was a public secret – everybody knew it took place but few dared to openly discuss or criticise it. The book ends with an examination of race and colour in contemporary Jamaica to show that race and colour have lost little of their power since independence and offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to facilitate equality of opportunity for all.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This is a very important and useful contribution to the literature on race in the Caribbean, through a focus on the questions of color in 20th century Jamaica. There is a layered and subtle approach to thinking through the various ways in which society and economy are shaped in complex and often obfuscated ways by distinctions and discriminations around color.'Laurent Dubois, Duke University'This is a significant book on an important and under-researched topic, which has been especially neglected by historians. Altink tackles the ‘public secret’ of race in twentieth-century Jamaica, paying particular attention to ‘shadism’. The book is grounded in a strong grasp of sociological and anthropological theorisations of how race works in societies that disavow its importance.'Diana Paton, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIllustrations, Figures, Tables and Maps!!AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Race at Work2. “Equality of Opportunity for all Children”3. Race in Everyday Life4. Commitment to Colour Blindness5. The Silence and Salience of RaceBibliographyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent between the turn of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In contrast to the longstanding scholarship on the subject as regards other European empires, the entanglement of gender and colonialism has been ignored in the Portuguese case. Hence, this book takes a long view, surveying mostly little known historical and literary records that evince how "women" and "colonialism" were discursively constructed at particular points in time in view of a colonialist project that became the reason for being of the fascist authoritarian regime (1933-1974). A cultural studies approach of radical contextualization informs each of the five main chapters, in which documents from a range of disciplines are brought to bear on the main problematic of the female-authored works in focus. The latter are all written in the metropole as a place of colonial return and critical reflection. Beyond recuperating women's voices, this book suggests a story of Portuguese colonialism in the African continent that is anything but Lusotropicalist.Trade Review“This book tackles the important but much neglected issue of the entanglement of gender and Portuguese colonialism. It is an outstanding study: authoritative, remarkably well researched and beautifully written. The chapters present an elegant mix of literary interpretation and historical fact, leading to the production of a new and much needed synthesis of otherwise disparate material."Ana Margarida Dias Martins, University of Exeter 'Ana Paula Ferreira's book is a hard-hitting work which covers the writing of several Portuguese women, from the late 19th century to the 21st century, setting them in the context of the different political situations in Portugal throughout this period. This broad overview, which relates the work of several female authors, demonstrates the relevant contribution of the writing of a group of women who, each in their own way, became involved in the main debates of their time, leaving a testimony of those times through their writing. [...] The book makes a solid connection to the present day by pointing out another rendering of the guardanos' various contributions of writing by Portuguese women, who have always commented on the tensions and silencing of their society.'Translated from Portugese:'O livro de Ana Paula Ferreira é uma obra de fôlego que percorre a escrita de várias mulheres portuguesas, desde finais do século XIX até ao século XXI, enquadrando-as nas diferentes conjunturas políticas de Portugal ao longo deste período. Esta visão ampla, que relaciona o trabalho de várias autoras, conseguedemonstrar o relevante contributo da escrita de um conjunto de mulheres que, cada qual a seu modo, se envolveunos principais debates da sua época, deixando através da escrita um testemunho desses mesmos tempos. [...] O livro faz uma sólida ligação à atualidade apontando mais um render da guardanos vários contributos da escrita por mulheres portuguesas, que sempre comentaram as tensões e silenciamentos da sua sociedade.'Joana Passos, DiacríticaTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Women’s Education, Nation and Late EmpireChapter 2: Colonial Literature and Women: Variations on a ThemeChapter 3: ‘Making Empire Respectable’ Between Miscegenation and LusotropicalismChapter 4: The Coloniality of Gender and the Colonial WarChapter 5: Lusotropicalist Entanglements in the Post-colonial MetropolisConclusion

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Book SynopsisHow did Rodrigo Duterte earn the support of large segments of the Philippine middle class, despite imposing arbitrary rule and offering little tolerance for dissent? Has the Filipino middle class, heroes of the 1986 People Power Revolution, given up on democracy? Chasing Freedom tells the story of the love/hate relationship of the Philippine middle class with democratic politics. It illuminates the historical roots and contingency of the Philippine middle-class’s reticence about democracy, and makes visible the forms of power that have shaped and constrained middle-class imaginings of democracy and representations of themselves as political subjects. Drawing on historical archival work, discourse analysis and fieldwork interviews, the chapters trace the attitudes of the Filipino middle class from the time of American colonization in 1898 to the 2016 election of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. The argument is that democracy has been, and continues to be, lived in a deeply ambivalent way. The simultaneous saying of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to democracy by citizens is one of the defining features of the Philippines’ democratic journey. The prime source of this ambivalence, the book argues, is the Janus face of America’s ‘democratic imperialism’, and the deprecation inherent in the project of ‘democratic tutelage’. According to Webb, the Philippines is a bellwether case of what she calls democratic ambivalence. In an age when disenchantment with democracy is on the rise, it provides lessons of global importance. The book’s empirical findings support a striking conclusion: since ambivalence is not simply a ‘pathology’ of democracy, but one of its persistent features, the dynamics of ambivalence need to be at the heart of descriptive and normative accounts of how democracy works.Trade Review‘Webb sheds light on the unsung connection between democratic ambivalence in the Philippines and American imperialism… [Chasing Freedom] may spark great interest among students of political science, history, and development studies. Webb’s original contribution to Philippine historiography and democratic theory deserves further research and interest, especially when pieces of historical evidence are often left unacknowledged to deliberately cement today’s dominant narratives.’ John Romer M. Capurcos, Philippine Political Science Journal"Webb makes an original contribution to the field by offering a nuanced analysis of Filipino middle-class responses to democracy and linking this to the period of ‘democratic tutelage’ under American colonial rule.” Professor Mina Roces, Series Editor“Webb convincingly argues that to understand the middle class’s difficult relationship to democracy, one needs to examine over long stretches of time what members of the middle class have thought about democracy – something that is not often done. Webb thus develops in this book a novel and highly fruitful approach that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of democracy.” Frederic Schaffer, Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Book SynopsisEntrenched until recently in Western aesthetics, Australian composers are now developing a functional cultural identity expressed through a distinctly nationalistic musical idiom. Its ongoing formation, inspired by Australias Aboriginal heritage and unique natural environment, seeks to distance the nations artistic developments from the geographically remote Occidental regions and emphasize its native cultures. Presently, however, mounting sociopolitical and ethical concerns surrounding the cultural borrowing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are problematizing the developing nationalistic idiom, as composers must determine whether the two groups share any legitimate connection beyond mere occupation of the same land, given their tense post-colonial history. Musicologist Beatrice Dalov traces the formation of the Southern Lands cultural identity while simultaneously considering its complex relationship with the nations First Peoples. She illuminates the origins, influences, and developments of Australian art music, from colonization (late eighteenth century) to the present day, interweaving the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped (and often determined) its evolution. The history demonstrates that the complex processes of articulating a unique cultural identity began almost immediately after arrival of the first colonists and continues uninterrupted through today. Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and personally conducted interviews with numerous contemporary composers, Dalov traces the history of the lands music, from scattered convict settlements and eventful contacts with Aboriginal peoples, to the formation of a national musical infrastructure, to todays thriving musical independence. She brings forward not only the most prominent composers and musicians of the last century, but also those who laid a crucial foundation and offered the first contributions toward a national idiom. A comprehensive history of the music of the Great Southern Land has been too long neglected by social historians and musicologists worldwide. Beatrice Dalov sets the record straight.

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Book SynopsisIn Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslim communities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiations presented a complexity to which the administrative power was often unprepared. The exercise of this governance, with all the variations that characterized it, extended throughout the period that the colonial project lasted, from the phase of effective military occupation, in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, until the end of the colonial wars in 1974. In this chronological segment, Portuguese Colonialism and Islam seeks to address the circumstances of the colonial governance and regulation of those populations, focusing on: (1) The representations and images of Islam and Muslims that the agents of Portuguese colonialism produced at significant stages of the period, the recurrence of this imagery, its evolution, and the way it interacted with the concrete policies of control and governance of the populations. (2) The changes that such policies underwent, oscillating between a posture of ambivalent hostility, more visible in the 1930s to 1950s and more present in Mozambique than in Guinea, and a strategy of rapprochement with the Islamic leadership and their religious enticement, a strategy developed in the final phase of the Colonial War as part of the fight against nationalist movements. (3) The critical eye with which representatives of former colonial powers followed the Portuguese policies of governance of Islam, expressed in the testimonies of consuls-general of France and the United Kingdom, and documents conveying how diplomatic bodies perceived the Portuguese colonial system.

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy’s Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy—as well as Greece—may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today.Trade Review'This book is a much needed and welcome addition to the growing body of work on Italian colonialism, as well as broader Mediterranean studies, that also sheds new light on Italian fascism. Valerie McGuire provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated analysis of one of Italy’s lesser studied “colonies”: the Dodecanese Islands.'Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan'In Valerie McGuire’s Italy’s Sea, we encounter two kinds of Italian Mediterranean imaginary. In unearthing the largely forgotten history of Italy’s colonial rule in the Aegean (1924–1943, but de facto since 1912) the author distinguishes between two phases of colonial administration that were characterized respectively by two different Mediterraneanist ideologies. [...] Through thorough research of largely unexplored material [...] the author offers a masterful account not only of how Italian colonial subjecthood was imagined in the Aegean but also of how it was practiced by both colonizers and colonized. [...This book] is a welcome and valuable addition to the field of Italian and Mediterranean studies. [It] deserves high praise for [its] interdisciplinarity and for providing useful tools for addressing the issues with which [it is] concerned.'Konstantina Zanou, Italian American Review '[Italy's Sea] provides a very compelling account of the remaking of the Italian identity through the Mediterraneanist discourse and fills a void in the literature about both Italian and Greek histories by shedding new light on the impact of the colonial domination of the Fascist regime in the Dodecanese islands.' Matteo Giordano, Journal of Contemporary History‘McGuire’s ambitious and comprehensive work contributes essentially to understanding the intersection of colonial expansion, citizenship, and the construction of race in the Eastern Mediterranean.’ Joanna Bürger, H-Italy‘Valerie McGuire's book is a fundamentally important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies… an excellent text, written in captivating prose, a supreme novelty in the field of Italian studies and also in the broader context of colonial and postcolonial studies. The chapter “Everyday Fascism in the Aegean” will become required reading for students in my fascism class.’ Sergio Ferrarese, Quaderni d’Italianistica‘Italy’s Sea is a fine book that achieves its aims admirably. It makes very important contributions to our understanding of both Italian imperialism and the history and culture of Dodecanese. Its great innovation is to link, convincingly, the Mediterranean heritage of connectivity and pluralism to Italy’s modern imperial project.’ Nicholas Doumanis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies‘The way in which McGuire’s book adds to and expands the recently proliferating literature on Italian rule on the Dodecanese is by offering to write not simply a history of the archipelago under Italian administration, but a history of Italy – and even of Europe – through the experience of the Dodecanese… this is an important study that speaks to several literatures across disciplines.’ Alexis Rappas, Mediterranean Historical Review‘McGuire’s book is thorough, creative, and groundbreaking, building upon her dissertation at New York University and perspective gained from years of archival research and oral history interviews in Italy and in Greece. This is an important work for historians of contemporary Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, and for the field of Italian studies, and will be appreciated by both undergraduate and graduate students… fascinating both as a historical and as a present-minded study.’ Mark I. Choate, Mediterranean Studies‘Unlike the many recent studies of empire that focus on Italy’s African colonies, the book’s focus on the eastern Mediterranean allows for unique and illuminating perspectives on the trajectory of Italian colonialism and nation-state building… McGuire masterfully recounts the Italian transformation of Rhodes into a cosmopolitan tourist destination that showcased the island’s Mediterranean and Levantine cultural heritage… an important addition to the growing scholarship on Fascism, Italian Empire, and the Mediterranean.’ Michael R. Ebner, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Nostalgia, the Aegean, and Mediterraneità in the Liberal Era2. Touring Italian Rhodes3. Belonging in the Archipelago: Nation, Race, and Citizenship4. Technologies of Empire: Everyday Fascism in the DodecaneseConclusion: Postcolonial ReturnsBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, inter alia, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of Présence Africaine and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the ‘long nineteenth century’ and the difficulty encountered by these authors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the modern methodologies of the ‘colonial library’. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.Trade Review"This is a thoroughgoing and scholarly study of African culture, anthropology and history during the lead-up to decolonization, using the notion of temporality as a lens through which to assess this complex transitional period. It is a high quality piece of research, offering a wealth of new insight on a complex question."Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford'Fraiture's intervention in the debate is monumental. He helps the English-speaking world see the part of the debate that, until now, lacked visibility, i.e. the de-colonialists who challenged the French colonial system. And he does it in superb English –a gift to be savoured. The reader gulps with curiosity as Fraiture opens the vaults of history for our benefit. He educates in a very dazzling way. [...] This book is a labour of love; the scholarship is a pure bravura. No one concerned about decolonization can be without this book. It is first-rate.'Paul Okojie, Africa International Network'Pierre-Philippe Fraiture’s opus is an astute book that breaks new ground in the study of decolonization in the twentieth century. An erudite tour de force that deconstructs complex and oftentimes demanding texts, Past Imperfect succeeds in bringing to the fore the intertextual dialogues among African, Antillean, and French intellectuals in their effort to unmake colonialism and the epistemologies that informed its implementation. This makes it a must-read for any scholar interested in the decolonial turn in African studies.' B. Bamba, African Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreludeIntroductionChapter I: ‘Pasts and Futures’Chapter II ‘Things’Chapter III: ‘Words’Chapter IV: ‘Customs’Conclusion: ‘Decolonization: a Work in Progress’Bibliography

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Book SynopsisShame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies of such literature almost universally ignore the topic in favour of a focus on the struggle for independence and the postcolonial situation, encompassing a search for individual, national, and ethnic identities and questions of corruption, changing gender roles, and conflicts between so-called tradition and modernity. Shame, however, is not antithetical to these investigations and, in fact, the persistent trope of shame undergirds many of them. This book locates these expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame’s function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent. Though shame research is dominated by Western definitions and theories, this study emphasizes the centrality of African conceptions of shame in ways that notions of Western subjectivity dismiss or cannot capture.Trade Review"Stephen Bishop’s Scripting Shame is an important and timely addition to the criticism of the African novel, providing a multi-layered theoretical and textual analysis of shame in African literatures."Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, University of Winnipeg'Le titre [...] il a le mérite d’ouvrir un champ d’investigation passionnant, à propos duquel il offre un panorama riche et clairement exposé des études critiques et des textes littéraires, ainsi qu’une bonne mise en perspective des enjeux socio-culturels de la honte.''This book [...] has the merit of opening up a fascinating field of investigation, offering a rich and clearly presented panorama of critical studies and literary texts, as well as a good perspective on the socio-cultural issues of shame.'Marion Ott, Études LittérairesTable of ContentsPreface - Negotiating Shame Part I - The Many Faces of ShameChapter 1 – Differentiating Shame(s)Chapter 2 – Shame in AfricaChapter 3 – Fanon’s ShameChapter 4 - Contemporary Views of Traditional ShamePart II – Penned in: Shame in the African NovelChapter 1 - Shaming Colonial AfricaChapter 2 – More of the Shame in Post-Colonial AfricaChapter 3 – Women’s Virtue: Engendering ShameChapter 4 – Excess(ive) Shame and ShamelessnessChapter 5 – Naming and Shaming Violence and CorruptionChapter 6 - The Shame of Which We Shall (Never) Now SpeakShame’s EpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the ‘humanities’. On the one hand, it treats colonial education as a facet of colonialism. It draws on a rich body of work by ‘colonized’ writers – starting with Edward Said, then focusing on Algeria – that attests to the suffering inflicted by colonialism, to the shortcomings of colonial education, and to the often painful mismatch between the world of the colonial school and students’ home cultures. On the other hand, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education, and its powers of transformation.Trade Review'This is a deeply insightful, stimulating and scholarly book — uncompromisingly reflective, finely argued and carefully referenced, it deepens our understanding of colonial education and legacies in a number of mutually enriching ways that consistently draw out complexity and urge us to think about the teaching of literature. This is a book that will last the test of years and will prompt better scholarship (and, possibly, classroom practice) from the rest of us.' Patrick Crowley, University College CorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Our Civilizing MissionChapter 1 Lessons from SaidChapter 2 ‘Nos ancêtres les colons’Chapter 3 Teaching in a Time of CrisisChapter 4 Unfamiliar WorldsChapter 5 French LessonsConclusion Education’s ImpactBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public monuments, Cleopatra’s Needles, the last of a series of obelisks from Ancient Egypt to be moved abroad during a period of over two thousand years. This book uses the Needles to examine how objects embody the cultures that create them, and how the use, value, and meaning of these objects change as they are transferred between cultures by gift, sale, barter, or theft. It explores the way in which obelisks functioned as imperial trophies, how their transfer was part of the complex political manoeuvring between European powers, America, the Ottoman Empire, and the semi-autonomous rulers of Egypt, and how their acquisition reflected the relative power of these parties. In contrast, it also examines the crucial role that private individuals and finance played in the acquisition and transport of the obelisks, and how popular understanding of them, and of the culture they came from, often differed from those of social and professional elites. It also relates the Needles to contemporary debates about the ownership of cultural artefacts, the legacy of colonial history, and the nature of reception as the process of understanding and valuing the past and its surviving material and immaterial culture.Trade Review'The author of this new study has explored a whole range of elements which make up the complex tapestry of the subject.’ Hilary Forest, Ancient Egypt

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Book SynopsisPeople, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others’ prejudice.During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa… But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations.The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona Béatrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, Aimé Césaire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian ThuramThis translation of Lilian Thuram’s bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure.Trade Review'At the heart of [The Lilian Thuram Foundation For Education Against Racism's] activities has been the publication of a series of books that do the legwork of imagining the world differently. The first and best-selling of these is My Black Stars [...] now finally available in English. [...] Thuram tackles the persistance of a world view that consistently prioritises white people and white culture, [...] keeping the struggle for equality at the heart of the public debate.' David Murphy, When Saturday ComesTable of ContentsIntroductionOur African ‘Grandmother’LucyThe Black PharoahsTaharqaA Wise Man from Ancient GreeceAesop‘Every Life is a Life’The Hunters of MandenThe Pride and Courage of a QueenAnna ZinghaThe Struggle for a New KingdomDona BeatrizGeneral-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial ArmyAbraham Petrovitch HannibalA Philosopher from GhanaAnton Wilhelm AmoThe Musician of the EnlightenmentChevalier de Saint-Georges‘Uproot the tree of slavery with me’Toussaint LouvertureThe Liberator of HaitiJean-Jacques DessalinesThe Poet of Paradise LostPhillis WheatleyThe Oath of the AncestorsGuillaume Guillon Lethière‘A first shot up to shatter the fog’Louis Delgrès & Solitude‘Ain’t I a Woman?’Sojourner TruthThe Greatest Russian PoetAlexander PushkinThe First Black American Presidential CandidateFrederick DouglassSmuggling in the Name of LibertyHarriet TubmanAgainst the Invention of the RacesJoseph Anténor FirminThe First Black ‘Nègre’ at the École Polytechnique of FranceCamille MortenolThe First Man to Reach the North PoleMatthew HensonA Whirlwind on Two WheelsMajor TaylorThe Hell of the Human ZoosOta BengaBack to AfricaMarcus Mosiah Garvey‘No time rest, all the time make war, all the time kill blacks’Tirailleurs SénégalaisChampion of the WorldBattling SikiThe Black DragonflyPanama Al BrownA Pen of RageRichard Nathaniel WrightThe Silent Resistance FighterAddi BâThe Genius of Black Scientific PioneersScientists, Inventors, Researchers…‘Trees in the South Bear Strange Fruit’Billie Holliday‘Our Time Has Come’Aimé CésaireReturning Africa to Her ChildrenPatrice Emery LumumbaBlack Skin, White MasksFrantz FanonThe SparkRosa Louise McCauley ParksLiberty or DeathMalcolm XA Dream that Changed the WorldDr Martin Luther King, JrA Militant for the African PeopleMongo Beti‘I am super fast! I fight with my mind.’Muhammad AliThe Man who ran the GauntletTommie SmithFrom Ten Thousand Days in Prison to… the PresidencyRolihlahla Nelson MandelaInterplanetary VoyagerCheick Modibo DiarraThe Voice of the VoicelessMumia Abu-JamalThe Emotional Truth of RapTupac Amaru ShakurThe Star of HopeBarack Hussein ObamaNo, This Map is Not Upside DownWords that Liberate the Future, by Gilles-Marie ValetBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines today’s massive migrations between Global South and Global North in light of Spain and Portugal’s complicated colonial legacies. It offers unique material on Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa in conjunction to transatlantic and transpacific perspectives encompassing the Americas, Asia, and the Caribbean. For the first time, these are brought together to explore how movement within and beyond these former metropoles came to define the Iberian Peninsula. The collection is composed of papers that study human mobility in Spanish-speaking or Lusophone contexts from a myriad of approaches. The project thus sheds critical light on migratory movement within the Luso-Hispanic world, and also beyond its traditional geo-linguistic parameters, through an eclectic and inter-disciplinary collection of essays, traversing anthropology, literary studies, theater, and popular culture. Beyond focusing solely on the geo-political limits of Peninsular space, several essays interrogate the legacies of Iberian colonial projects in a global perspective, and how the discursive underpinnings of these impact the politics of migration in the broader Luso-Hispanic world.Table of ContentsPreface: Coloniality, Racism, and Migrations by Walter D. Mignolo Introduction by Anna Tybinko, Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva Part I. Migration and Racialization Where the Atlantic and Pacific Meet Chapter 1. Unseen Diasporas: Portuguese Labor Migrants in Colonial Plantations by Cristiana Bastos Chapter 2. Emigration, Anarchism and Ecology in Ferreira de Castro’s Emigrants by Patrícia Vieira Chapter 3. Filipinx Negrito: Black Mestizaje and Transpacific Intimacies in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters and José Rizal’s Filipinas dentro de cien años by Sony Coráñez Bolton Part II. Iberian Colonial Settlement, Memory, and Postcolonial Knowleges Chapter 4. The African City: Space, Borders and Identities by Barbara Fraticelli Chapter 5. Crossing Borders, Bodies, and Time: a Luso-Hispanic Dialogue on (Post)Colonial Interracial Liaisons by Sandra I. Sousa Chapter 6. The Peripheral Subject in Welket Bungué’s Films by Inês Cordeiro Dias Part III. Anti-Blackness and Migration on the Iberian Peninsula Chapter 7. Race and Fortress Europe in Ozkar Galán's Castigat ridendo mores by Jeffrey Coleman Chapter 8. Vidas negras importam: Debates on Blackness, Belonging, and Racial Violence in Portugal by Anna Mester Chapter 9. Liminal Inclusions: Black Portuguese Footballers, Portuguese Multiculturalism, and Migrant Epistemologies by Daniel F. Silva Part IV. Precarity and Displacement in African Migrant Literature in Spain Chapter 10. All That Glitters: Questioning the Spanish El Dorado through Rachid Nini’s and Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s Narratives of Migration by Anna Tybinko Chapter 11. The Incestuous Embodiment of Immigration and Identity: La filla estrangera by Najat El Hachmi by Jessica Folkart Chapter 12. Writing from the Displacement: Najat El Hachmi and Global Literature by Lucía Hellín Nistal

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Book SynopsisDecadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonial discourse, from nineteenth-century women writers to our contemporary, Michel Houellebecq. Different chapters explore these intersections in the cultural imagination of dance, the novel, travel writing, historiographical theory, and literary networks. Decadence is often seen as an essentially metropolitan, urban movement, but this study identifies key spaces elsewhere, from fin-de-siècle Saigon to India in the heyday of French colonialism, from Byzantium to ancient Persia. Although the colonies were held up by some as an antidote to the threat of French decline, other writings reveal anxiety that the antidote might itself be a form of poison. Colonial contact might exacerbate degeneration, whether through cultural mixing or through the violence of colonial aggression itself. A profound anxiety about French identity and France’s so-called mission civilisatrice is played out through the imagery, the style and the pose of Decadence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and ExoticismJennifer YeeChapter 1Bibelotic Buddhas: Decadence and its CriticsSam BootleChapter 2Sous-mission and the mission civilisatrice: Houellebecq’s Parody of Empire and DecadenceJenai Engelhard HumphreysChapter 3Gender, Decadence, and Orientalism in Jane Dieulafoy’s Journal de fouilles and ParysatisJulia HartleyChapter 4Anti-colonial exoticism in Mirbeau’s Jardin des supplicesRichard HibbitChapter 5Decadent and Anti-Decadent Networks of the Belle époque: littérature coloniale as a Rhetorical AllianceVladimir KaporChapter 6The Anarchist Denunciation of Decadent Colonialism: Georges Darien, Octave Mirbeau, and Jules VallèsAurélien LorigChapter 7Judith Gautier, La Conquête du Paradis or L’Inde éblouie: when French colonization becomes an Indian epicValérie Magdelaine-AndrianjafitrimoChapter 8Exoticism and the Threat of Contagion: Danger or Therapy for Decadent DanceHélène MarquiéChapter 9Decadent Colonial Saigon in Fin-de-siècle French LiteratureWanrug SuwanwattanaGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity, developed during the last centuries of Portuguese settler colonialism continue to inform an array of cultural production and consumption in the four decades since decolonization. By examining a range of contemporary popular cultural production (literature, football, musical production, and celebrity culture) in critical conversation with intellectual production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Empire Found examines how narratives of Portuguese racial hybridity and indeterminacy operate alongside ongoing structures of coloniality and white supremacy in the realms of cultural production. I argue that these implied or overt historical dialogues carried out through cultural production are integral to the very reproduction of the Portuguese nation-state apparatus, as well as its racial structures and claims to whiteness in the wake of decolonization and marginal integration into the European Union.Trade Review"Daniel F. Silva’s book will make an important, innovative, and much needed contribution in the field of Lusophone Studies and beyond. This original book interrogates Portugal’s historical depths of historical, linguistic, symbolic and political ties to its former colonies and the meaning of these articulations for the country’s post-imperialism and current notions of Portuguese cultural identity."Sandra Sousa, University of Central FloridaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Portuguese Whiteness and Racial Ambiguity in Intellectual Thought during Empire2. Post-Imperial Orientalism and Portuguese Claims to Late Capitalist Whiteness in José Rodrigues dos Santos’s Mystery Thrillers3. Football, Empire, and Racial Capitalism in Portugal4. Color Games: Anti-Blackness, Racial Plasticity, and Celebrity Culture5. Latin Reinventions: Contemporary Portuguese Singers, Latinidad, and Latinx Musical FormsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisInformed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the demise of democratic socialism in the 1980s. It also pays attention to practices devoid of racial content but which equally helped to sustain a society stratified by race and colour, such as voting qualifications. Case studies on the labour market, education, the family and legal system, among other areas, demonstrate the extent to which race and colour shaped social relations in the island in the decades preceding and following independence and argue that racial discrimination was a public secret – everybody knew it took place but few dared to openly discuss or criticise it. The book ends with an examination of race and colour in contemporary Jamaica to show that race and colour have lost little of their power since independence and offers some suggestions to overcome the silence on race to facilitate equality of opportunity for all.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This is a very important and useful contribution to the literature on race in the Caribbean, through a focus on the questions of color in 20th century Jamaica. There is a layered and subtle approach to thinking through the various ways in which society and economy are shaped in complex and often obfuscated ways by distinctions and discriminations around color.'Laurent Dubois, Duke University'This is a significant book on an important and under-researched topic, which has been especially neglected by historians. Altink tackles the ‘public secret’ of race in twentieth-century Jamaica, paying particular attention to ‘shadism’. The book is grounded in a strong grasp of sociological and anthropological theorisations of how race works in societies that disavow its importance.'Diana Paton, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIllustrations, Figures, Tables and Maps!!AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Race at Work2. “Equality of Opportunity for all Children”3. Race in Everyday Life4. Commitment to Colour Blindness5. The Silence and Salience of RaceBibliographyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websitesThough Greco-Roman antiquity (‘classics’) has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent’s decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has taken in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and especially South Africa, and even the dynamics of transformation itself. How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era of profound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on pedagogies, historical consciousness, the creative arts and popular culture. The volume, in its overall shape, responds to the idea of dialogue – in both the Greek form associated with Plato’s rendition of Socrates’ wisdom and in the African concept of ubuntu. Here are dialogues between scholars, both emerging and established, as well as students – some of whom were directly impacted by the Fallist protests of the late 20-teens. Rather than offering an apologia for classics, these dialogues engage with pressing questions of relevance, identity, change, the canon, and the dynamics of decolonisation and potential recolonisation. The goal is to interrogate classics – the ways it has been taught, studied, perceived, transformed and even lived – from many points of view.Table of Contents1 Nothing about us? Reflections on classics in southern Africa (Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu and Grant Parker) I FIRST DIALOGUE: ON BAGGAGE 2 Classical imagery and policing the African body (Ian Glenn) 3 Classics and colonial administration in Southern Rhodesia (Obert Mlambo and John Douglas McClymont) 4 Conversation with Christiaan Bronkhorst II SECOND DIALOGUE: ON INTERSECTING IDENTITIES 5 Classics for the third millennium: African options after The Fall (Jo-Marie Claassen) 6 The liberatory potential of Latin studies: Stellenbosch University’s Latin Project (Reshard Kolabhai and Shani Viljoen) 7 Conversation with Chanté Bhugwanth III THIRD DIALOGUE: ON CLASSICS AND THE CANON 8 Responses to crisis: Cicero in Zimbabwe (Madhlozi Moyo) 9 Rethinking the commemorative landscape in South Africa after The Fall: A pedagogical case study (Samantha Masters) 10 Conversation with Amy Daniels IV FOURTH DIALOGUE: FROM RECEPTION TO RE-IMAGINATION 11 African port cities and the classics (Carla Bocchetti) 12 ‘Wilder than Polyphemus’: Towards a tragic poetics of the post-colonial consumption of symbols (David van Schoor) 13 Conversation with Nuraan Essop 14 Ovid in the time of statues (Grant Parker)

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.A City Against Empire is the history of the anti-imperialist movement in 1920s Mexico City. It combines intellectual, social, and urban history to shed light on the city’s role as an important global hub for anti-imperialism, exile activism, political art, and solidarity campaigns. After the Russian and the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City became a space and a symbol of global anti-imperialism. Radical politicians, artists, intellectuals, scientists, migrants, and revolutionary tourists took advantage of the urban environment to develop their visions of an anti-imperialism for the twentieth-century. These actors imagined national self-determination, international solidarity, and an emancipation from what they called “the West.” Global, local, and urban factors interacted to transform Mexico City into the most important hub for radicalism in the Americas. By weaving together the intellectual history of Mexico, the urban and social histories of Mexico City, and the global history of anti-imperialist movements in the 1920s, this books analyses the perfect storm of anti-imperialism in Mexico City.Trade Review"Lindner’s A City Against Empire is a carefully researched, convincingly argued and well-written overview of a remarkable place, moment and theme. He makes his case for Mexico City as a unique site of national, regional and global anti-imperialism in the 1920s, but that story is made much more significant by its insertion into a variety of transnational histories that have often been given short shrift in local and national histories of Mexico City." John Lear, University of Puget SoundTable of ContentsIntroductionOne: Anti-Imperialist Cosmopolitanism. Art and Radical PoliticsTwo: Our Anti-Imperialist America. Transnational Exile NetworksThree: Standing with Sacco and Sandino. Transnational Solidarity CampaignsFour: Anti-Imperialist Imaginaries. Mexican Origins of TricontinentalismFive: Globalizing Urban Networks. The Brussels Congress of 1927ConclusionAcronymsBibliography

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy’s Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy—as well as Greece—may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today.Trade Review'This book is a much needed and welcome addition to the growing body of work on Italian colonialism, as well as broader Mediterranean studies, that also sheds new light on Italian fascism. Valerie McGuire provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated analysis of one of Italy’s lesser studied “colonies”: the Dodecanese Islands.'Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan'In Valerie McGuire’s Italy’s Sea, we encounter two kinds of Italian Mediterranean imaginary. In unearthing the largely forgotten history of Italy’s colonial rule in the Aegean (1924–1943, but de facto since 1912) the author distinguishes between two phases of colonial administration that were characterized respectively by two different Mediterraneanist ideologies. [...] Through thorough research of largely unexplored material [...] the author offers a masterful account not only of how Italian colonial subjecthood was imagined in the Aegean but also of how it was practiced by both colonizers and colonized. [...This book] is a welcome and valuable addition to the field of Italian and Mediterranean studies. [It] deserves high praise for [its] interdisciplinarity and for providing useful tools for addressing the issues with which [it is] concerned.'Konstantina Zanou, Italian American Review '[Italy's Sea] provides a very compelling account of the remaking of the Italian identity through the Mediterraneanist discourse and fills a void in the literature about both Italian and Greek histories by shedding new light on the impact of the colonial domination of the Fascist regime in the Dodecanese islands.' Matteo Giordano, Journal of Contemporary History‘McGuire’s ambitious and comprehensive work contributes essentially to understanding the intersection of colonial expansion, citizenship, and the construction of race in the Eastern Mediterranean.’ Joanna Bürger, H-Italy‘Valerie McGuire's book is a fundamentally important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies… an excellent text, written in captivating prose, a supreme novelty in the field of Italian studies and also in the broader context of colonial and postcolonial studies. The chapter “Everyday Fascism in the Aegean” will become required reading for students in my fascism class.’ Sergio Ferrarese, Quaderni d’Italianistica‘Italy’s Sea is a fine book that achieves its aims admirably. It makes very important contributions to our understanding of both Italian imperialism and the history and culture of Dodecanese. Its great innovation is to link, convincingly, the Mediterranean heritage of connectivity and pluralism to Italy’s modern imperial project.’ Nicholas Doumanis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies‘The way in which McGuire’s book adds to and expands the recently proliferating literature on Italian rule on the Dodecanese is by offering to write not simply a history of the archipelago under Italian administration, but a history of Italy – and even of Europe – through the experience of the Dodecanese… this is an important study that speaks to several literatures across disciplines.’ Alexis Rappas, Mediterranean Historical Review‘McGuire’s book is thorough, creative, and groundbreaking, building upon her dissertation at New York University and perspective gained from years of archival research and oral history interviews in Italy and in Greece. This is an important work for historians of contemporary Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, and for the field of Italian studies, and will be appreciated by both undergraduate and graduate students… fascinating both as a historical and as a present-minded study.’ Mark I. Choate, Mediterranean Studies‘Unlike the many recent studies of empire that focus on Italy’s African colonies, the book’s focus on the eastern Mediterranean allows for unique and illuminating perspectives on the trajectory of Italian colonialism and nation-state building… McGuire masterfully recounts the Italian transformation of Rhodes into a cosmopolitan tourist destination that showcased the island’s Mediterranean and Levantine cultural heritage… an important addition to the growing scholarship on Fascism, Italian Empire, and the Mediterranean.’ Michael R. Ebner, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Nostalgia, the Aegean, and Mediterraneità in the Liberal Era2. Touring Italian Rhodes3. Belonging in the Archipelago: Nation, Race, and Citizenship4. Technologies of Empire: Everyday Fascism in the DodecaneseConclusion: Postcolonial ReturnsBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti’s nineteenth-century has yet to receive its due, this despite independent Haiti’s vital importance as the first nation to permanently ban slavery and its ongoing struggle for sovereignty in the Atlantic World. Louis-Joseph Janvier (1855–1911) is one of the foremost Haitian intellectuals and diplomats of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His prolific oeuvre offered enduring challenges to racist slanders of Haiti and critiques of the global inequalities that arose from European colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through his writings, Janvier influenced the international debates about slavery, race, nation, and empire that shaped his era and, in many ways, remain unresolved today. Arguably his most powerful work, Haiti for the Haitians (1884) provides a searing critique of European and U.S. imperialism, predatory finance capitalism, and Haiti’s domestic politics. It offers his vision of Haiti’s future expressed through a remarkable phrase: Haiti for the Haitians. Haiti for the Haitians is the first major English translation of Janvier. Accompanied by an introduction, annotations, and an interdisciplinary collection of critical essays, this volume offers unprecedented access to this vital Haitian thinker and an important contribution to the scholarship on Haiti’s nineteenth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber Haiti for the Haitians Translated from French by Nadève Ménard Annotations by Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber Critical Essays 1 Louis-Joseph Janvier, National Writer Yves Chemla For Ludovic Janvier Translated from French by Nadève Ménard 2 Caribbean “Race Men”: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic Marlene L. Daut 3 There Is No Odd in Ordinary: Louis Joseph Janvier, Haiti, and the Tropics of Racial Science Bastien Craipain 4 Haïti farà da se: French Third Republic Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy Chelsea Stieber 5 Louis-Joseph Janvier, the Founding Theorist of the Haitian Nation (an Active Reading of Haïti aux Haïtiens) Watson Denis Translated from French by Nadève Ménard 6 Haiti for the Haitians: A Genealogy of Black Sovereignty Brandon R. Byrd Afterword: The Elusive Habitant Jean Casimir Translated from French by Chelsea Stieber

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the place of imperialism in the cultural, political and economic life of late nineteenth-century Irish society. It highlights the tensions which arose because Ireland was at the same time both a colonial subject of Britain, yet also shared aspects of the imperial culture which was being formed during this period. It considers how Empire seeped into everyday Irish life, explores how Irish men and Irish women were intimately bound up with British expansionism, with imperial achievements and setbacks enthusiastically covered in many national and local newspapers, and discusses how Irish politicians and students vehemently debated imperial matters in public. It addresses key questions including: What were the similarities and differences with Britain's imperial experience? Was there a general awareness and understanding of the implications of British overseas expansion? How was Ireland's ambiguous role in Britain's imperial enterprise perceived: did the Irish regard themselves as empire-makers, opponents of British national chauvinism, or occupying a more neutral role? Overall, the book provides a nuanced analysis of the impact of the British Empire in Ireland, demonstrating how the Empire was central to Ireland's late nineteenth-century historical experience - for nationalists and unionists alike.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Note on Terminology Chronology Introduction Part A. Politics 1. Gladstonian Liberalism: Imperialism in Egypt and Coercion in Ireland 2. Another 'People Struggling to be Free': Crisis and Conquest in the Sudan Part B. Culture 3. Informing Ireland: Sources of Information and Their Cultural Impact 4. Reading Empire: Identities, Patriotism, and the Press Part C. Society 5. Building Empires: Humanitarian and Religious Impulses 6. Learning About Empire: Debating Societies and Schooling 7. Economic Ideas: Profit from the Empire or from Home Rule? Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in the African mandated territories. It examines the mandates system with particular attention to international relations as well as to national politics, the activities of pressure groups, and the bureaucracies of the two largest overseas empires. The book studies developments in international law, international organization, and the powers of the Permanent Mandates Commission. The mandates system not only reflected the changing face of European colonialism, but also played a transforming role in its operation by influencing the economic, political, and cultural lives of Africans and Europeans within the mandated territories. The system led to the development of policies that transformed the relations between Europeans and Africans, and changed the way in which the colonial state exercised power within the mandated territories.Trade Review"A fascinating study of the advent of the League of Nations mandate system in Africa." -- Choice"Provides us with the best account we are likely to get of the French and British .official mind' about mandates." -- Susan Pedersen, Professor of History & James P Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, in a review essay in American Historical Review (October 2007)"In this definitive book the meticulous research and critical analysis of Michael Callahan has brought clarity in the evolution of these murky mandates from the old imperial order to the acceptance of neo-imperial trusteeship at the beginning of the new. His scholarship will be rewarded as the source for students, their teachers, and those scholars of every nationality who seek to understand Africa in the lost but formative years between the two great wars of the twentieth century." -- Robert O Collins, Professor of History Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara"The best study of the colonial mandates in Africa and raises important questions about the evolution of colonial empires." -- The International History Review"An extensively researched and detailed study." -- Journal of African History"A book of profound historical research which deserves to become a work of incalculable value to scholars of African history as well as international relations." -- Anthony Kirk-Greene, St Antony's College, OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations; Map of Africa, 1931; Introduction ; The Great War and Imperial Expansion; The New Scramble for Africa; Lloyd George, Wilson, and Self-Determination'; Annexation vs. Internationalisation; Preparing for the Paris Peace Conference; Reforming European Imperialism, 1919; Wilson and the Fight for Mandates; Milner and Simon; Nomansland,' the Duala, and French Resistance; The Lone B' Mandate?; Accommodating the League of Nations, 1920; The Tanganyika Territory'; French Capitulation; There is no more Annexation'; The United States, Germany, and the Permanent Mandates Commission, 1921--1925; America's Departure and Demands; Germany's Protests; Geneva and the PMC; Lugard and the League; The British Mandates between Theory and Practice, 1921--1925; Slavery and Land Legislation; Rwanda and Religious Freedom; Military Recruitment and Africans; Cameron, Indians, and White Settlers; Mandated Territory and League of Nations Stupidities'; The French Mandates between Theory and Practice, 1921--1925; Separate and Autonomous'; Military Recruitment and Africans; African Protest and the League; International Criticism and Imperial Legitimacy; Germany Joins the League: The British Mandates, 1926--1929; Chamberlain Confronts the PMC; Dr Kastl and Kenya; Cameron's Mandated Territory; The British Empire as Article 22; Germany Joins the League: The French Mandates, 1926--1929; French Fears and Colonial Control; The Return of the Bund; Taxation and Labour Laws; Mandate and Empire in British East Africa, 1929--1931; The Closer Union' Debate, 1919--1929; Labour's White Papers; Lugard's Questions; The Law Officers' Answers; The Failure of Closer Union'; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. Bringing together the work of leading international scholars of mission and empire, the focus is on missions across the British Empire (including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific), within transnational and comparative perspectives. Themes throughout the contributions include collusion or opposition to colonial authorities, intercultural exchanges, the work of indigenous and local Christians in new churches, native evangelism and education, clashes between variant views of domesticity and parenting roles, and the place of gender in these transformations. Missionaries could be both implicated in the plot of colonial control, in ways seemingly contrary to Christian norms, or else play active roles as proponents of the social, economic and political rights of their native brethren. Indigenous Christians themselves often had a liminal status, negotiating as they did the needs and desires of the colonial state as well as those of their own peoples. In some mission zones where white missionaries were seen to be constrained by their particular views of race and respectability, black evangelical preachers had far greater success as agents of Christianity. This book contains contributions by historians from Australasia and North America who observe the fine grain of everyday life on mission stations, and present broader insights on questions of race, culture and religion. The volume makes a timely intervention into continuing debates about the relationship between mission and empire.Table of ContentsReappraisals of Mission History: An Introduction; Mother's Milk: Gender, Power & Anxiety on a South African Mission Station, 1839-1840; "The Natives Uncivilise Me": Missionaries & Interracial Intimacy in Early New Zealand; Contested Conversions: Missionary Women's Religious Encounters in Early Colonial Uganda; "It is No Soft Job to be Performed": Missionaries & Imperial Manhood in Canada, 1880-1920; An Indigenous View of Missionaries: Arthur Wellington Clah & Missionaries on the North-west Coast of Canada; The Promise of a Book: Missionaries & Native Evangelists in North-east India; Translation Teams: Missionaries, Islanders, & the Reduction of Language in the Pacific; Practising Christianity, Writing Anthropology: Missionary Anthropologists & their Informants; Missionaries, Africans & the State in the Development of Education in Colonial Natal, 1836-1910; Colonial Agents: German Moravian Missionaries in the English-Speaking World; "A Matter of No Small Importance to the Colony": Moravian Missionaries on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1891-1919; Mission Dormitories: Intergenerational Implications for Kalumburu & Balgo, Kimberley, Western Australia; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Sami people of Northern Europe and Aboriginal Australians are literally a world apart in geographical terms, yet share a common fate as Indigenous minorities. Emerging from centuries of internal colonisation. Their ancient cultures and languages severely eroded by policies of forced assimilation, their traditional lifestyles and Economies damaged, and their political voices marginalised, recent decades have seen their struggles for collective survival rise to political prominence in national and international agendas, with the promise of Indigenous self-determination held out by national governments and the United Nations Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples. Both the Sami and Indigenous Australians have won important new rights during these decades, yet the outcomes are very different. In this volume -- the only collection of essays specifically on the Indigenous peoples of Australia and Northern Europe -- the similarities and differences between the Indigenous experiences in the Nordic countries and Australia are explored by renowned experts in the field including Indigenous authors. Some of the contributions are explicitly comparative and based on research experience in both areas, and two essays on New Zealand and Canada provide external points of reference to the volume's focus on Northern Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) and Australia. As always in Indigenous Studies, issues of cultural identity and survival are prominent but there is a special emphasis in many of the chapters on issues of socio-economic development and political representation, and a substantial introduction by the editors sketches out a historical-theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous struggles in First World countries that is critical of some currently fashionable approaches.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Development of Sami Rights in Norway from 1980 to 2007; The Norwegian Sami Parliament & Sami Political Empowerment; Indigenous Representative Bodies in Northern Europe & Australia; Principles & Practice in Finnish National Policies Towards the Sami People; Russia's Sami: The Search for Autonomy in the Kola Peninsula; Internal Colonialism in Australia; Wiradjuri: Revival & Survival; Poverty Alleviation in Remote Indigenous Australia; Sami Lands & Indigenous Australian Lands: Some Comparative Perspectives; Arctic to Outback: Indigenous Rights, Conservation & Tourism; Making Places & Polities: Indigenous Uses of Cultural Heritage Legislation in Australia & Norway; Learning the Political Power Play of Survival; Ethnic Discrimination & Bullying in Norway; The Woggan-ma-gule Morning Ceremony; Commemorating the Treaty of Waitangi; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Distant Drums" reveals how colonies were central to the defence of the British Empire and the command of the oceans that underpinned it. It blends sweeping overviews of the nature of imperial defence with grass-roots explanations of how individual colonies were mobilised for war, drawing on the author's specialist knowledge of the Indian Ocean and colonies such as Bechuanaland, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Swaziland. This permits the full and dramatic range of action involved in imperial warfare -- from policy-makers and military planners in Whitehall to chiefs recruiting soldiers in African villages -- to be viewed as part of an interconnected whole. After examining the martial reasons for acquiring colonies, the book considers the colonial role in the First World War. It then turns to the Second World War, documenting the recruitment of colonial soldiers, their manifold roles in British military formations, and the impact of war upon colonial home fronts. It reveals the problems associated with the use of colonial troops far from home, and the networks used to achieve the mobilisation of a global empire, such as those formed by colonial governors and regional naval commanders. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of the role of British colonies in twentieth-century warfare. The defence of empire has traditionally been associated with the military endeavours of Britain and the 'white' Dominions, with the Indian Army sometimes in the background. This book champions the crucial role played by the other parts of the British Empire -- the sixty or so colonies spread across the globe -- in delivering victory during the world wars of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsPreface; The British Colonial Empire & Imperial Warfare; The Role of Colonies in Imperial Defence; The Evolution of a Martial Colony: Ceylon, 1760 to 1960; The First World War in the Indian Ocean Region; The First World War in a Colonial Backwater: The Bechuanaland Protectorate & the Caprivi Strip; Recruiting Colonial Soldiers: Mauritius & the High Commission Territories; The Military Contribution of High Commission Territories Soldiers During the Second World War; Unrest Among African Soldiers in the British Army During the Second World War; The 1st Battalion the Mauritius Regiment, Madagascar, 1943: The Archaeology of a Colonial Mutiny; Ceylon, Mauritius, & the Indian Ocean During the Second World War; 'A Prodigy of Skill & Organisation': British Imperial Networks & the Second World War; Colonial Governors & the Second World War; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the first of its genre in English, brings together the pioneering work of scholars of urban Indians of colonial Latin America. An important, but understudied segment of colonial society, urban Indians composed a majority of the population of Spanish America's most important cities. The geographic range, chronological scope, and thematic content of urban native studies is addressed by examining such topics as the role of natives in settling frontier regions, interethnic relations, notaries and chroniclers, and the continuation of indigenous governance. In spanning the entirety of the colonial period, the persistence and the creation of urban Indian identities and their contributions to colonial society is brought to the fore. Scholarly contributions include chapters by Susan Schroeder, "Whither Tenochtitlan? Chimalpahin and Mexico City, 15931631" and David Cahill, "Urban Mosaic: Indigenous Ethnicities in Colonial Cuzco". The volume opens with commentary by John K. Chance, pioneer scholar of urban Indians in Latin America and author of the highly praised Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca and is summed up in "Concluding Remarks" by Kevin Terraciano, author of the widely acclaimed The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History. The diverse themes, time periods, and geographic regions discussed herein make this illustrated book essential reading for all those engaged in colonial and indigenous studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book spans a century in the history of the Blackfoot First Nations of present-day Montana and Alberta. It maps out specific ways in which Blackfoot culture persisted amid the drastic transformations of colonisation, with its concomitant forced assimilation in both Canada and the United States. It portrays the strategies and tactics adopted by the Blackfoot in order to navigate political, cultural and social change during the hard transition from traditional life-ways to life on reserves and reservations. Cultural continuity is the thread that binds the four case studies presented, encompassing Blackfoot sacred beliefs and ritual; dress practices; the transmission of knowledge; and the relationship between oral stories and contemporary fiction. Blackfoot voices emerge forcefully from the extensive array of primary and secondary sources consulted, resulting in an inclusive history wherein Blackfoot and non-Blackfoot scholarship enter into dialogue. Blanca Tovias combines historical research with literary criticism, a strategy that is justified by the interrelationship between Blackfoot history and the stories from their oral tradition. Chapters devoted to examining cultural continuity discuss the ways in which oral stories continue to inspire contemporary Native American fiction. This interdisciplinary study is a celebration of Blackfoot culture and knowledge that seeks to revalourise the past by documenting Blackfoot resistance and persistence across a wide spectrum of cultural practice. The volume is essential reading for all scholars working in the fields of Native American studies, colonial and postcolonial history, ethnology and literature.Trade Review"The book's strengths lie first in the effort to identify Blackfoot perspectives within documentswritten primarily by cultural outsiders and, second, in its recognition of the importance of the Scarface story in literature." - Alison Brown, University of Aberdeen, British Journal of Canadian Studies Vol.25 No.1 2012Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; A Review of the literature; The Model; Simulating the Entry of Multinationals without Profit Repatriation; Simulating the Entry of Multinationals with Profit Repatriation; Conclusions; Index.

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Book SynopsisHaving succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an almost global hegemony, constituting the largest political force in Europe and abroad. Although they lost their political primacy in the seventeenth century, both monarchies survived and were able to enjoy a relative success until the early 19th century. The aim of this collection is to answer the question how and why their cultural and political legacies persist to date. Part I focuses on the construction of the monarchy, examining the ways different territories integrated in the imperial network mainly by inquiring to what extent local political elites maintained their autonomy, and to what a degree they shared power with the royal administration. Part II deals primarily with the circulation of ideas, models and people, observing them as they move in space but also as they coincide in the court, which was a veritable melting pot in which the various administrations that served the Kings and the various territories belonging to the monarchy developed their own identities, fought for recognition, and for what they considered their proper place in the global hierarchy. Part III explains the forms of dependence and symbiosis established with other European powers, such as Genoa and the United Provinces. Attempting to reorient the politics of these states, political and financial co-dependence often led to bad economic choices. The Editors and Contributors discard the portrayal of the Iberian monarchies as the accumulation of many bilateral relations arranged in a radial pattern, arguing that these political entities were polycentric, that is to say, they allowed for the existence of many different centres which interacted and thus participated in the making of empire. The resulting political structure was complex and unstable, albeit with a general adhesion to a discourse of loyalty to King and religion.Trade Review"...this volume should provide a stimulus not only to the historiography of the Iberian empires but to imperial historiography in general." - Gabriel Paquette, The Johns Hopkins University, USA, European History Quarterly, Vol. 44 No. 3.

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