Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisThis volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements.Trade Review"Een schitterende biografie van Georg Marggrafe geeft de jong gestorven wetenschapper alsnog de eer die hem toekomt. Maar zijn biografen verliezen de koloniale context niet uit het oog." -- Dirk van Delft in NRC, 4-2-2023Table of ContentsVolume 1 – Life , Work and Legacy Preface PART I – CONTEXT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN DUTCH BRAZIL? PART II – BIOGRAPHY CHAPTER 3: YOUTH IN GERMANY CHAPTER 4: A CRUCIAL YEAR AT LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CHAPTER 5: LIFE IN BRAZIL CHAPTER 6: LEGACY PART III – ASTRONOMY CHAPTER 7: BACKGROUND CHAPTER 8: SETTING AND EQUIPMENT CHAPTER 9: OBSERVATIONS IN LEIDEN AND RECIFE PART IV – CONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE CHAPTER 10: RETROSPECTIVE APPENDICES LITERATURE INDEX

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe’s untimely death (and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for his equally remarkable other achievements.Table of ContentsVolume 2 – Text edition PART V – PROGYMNASTICA ASTRONOMICA AMERICANA TRANSCRIPTION AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MARGGRAFE’S ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE IN COLONIAL DUTCH BRAZIL IN THE YEARS 1638–1643 Introduction The Paris manuscript: a note about the transcription A note about the English translation Transcription and Translation of Marggrafe’s astronomical observations in Dutch Brazil.

Read more less

Book SynopsisRepublican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914 revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic, when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of granting such rights was. The difficulties of implementing a new political culture based on the language of rights and participatory political institutions were not so much rooted in a lack of assimilation into the French culture on the part of the Indian population. Rather, they were the result of political infighting and long-term conflicts over status, both in relation to caste and class, and between inclusive and exclusive visions of French citizenship.Trade Review"Anne Raffin’s thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued book treats citizenship less as a legal category than as a framework for making claims. More complicated than a dichotomy of French citizens and indigenous subjects, politics in French India entailed multisided mobilizations to preserve, reform, or overturn an unequal social order. Raffin raises basic questions about sovereignty, citizenship, and difference in a colonial situation that was both unique and a microcosm of empire."- Frederick Cooper, Professor at New York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Diagrams, Graphs, Images, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Pondicherry in the French Empire during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Between Colonial Subjects and French Citizens I. Overview and General Concepts II. Analytical Framework 2. Contextualizing Pondicherry within the French Empire and the Indian Subcontinent I. Pondicherry within the French Empire II. Pondicherry within the Indian Subcontinent III. Pondicherry during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 3. Inclusive and Exclusive Visions of Citizenship in French India I. Colonial Pondicherry and Its Entanglement with Imperial Citizenship II. The Topas, the Renouncers, and the Catholics III. Institutions IV. Conclusion 4. Education and Army Attempts to Institutionalize Republican Ideals in French India I. The State of Education in Pondicherry before the Third Republic Education in Third Republic Pondicherry: A Secular Primary Education for All III. Civic Education and the Language Policies IV. Hindrances to the Republican School Project: Race and Caste V. Hindrances to the Republican School Project: Gender Issues and Budget Constraints VI. The Armed Forces in Pondicherry VII. Military Laws, Citizenship, and Indochina VIII. Conclusion 5. The Art of Petitioning in a Colonial Setting I. Law, Order, and a Bureaucracy of Petitions II. A Deficient Electoral System III. Attempts to Prevent Electoral Frauds and Appeals on the Ground IV. Partisan Political Fraud Under the Three-List System (1884–1899) V. Partisan Political Fraud under The Two-List System (1900–1913) VI. Conclusion 6. From Electoral Politics to Expansion of Rights and National Independence I. What Conclusions Can We Draw from Republican Citizenship in Pondicherry? II. How Far Was the Civilizing Mission Applied? III. From Contestations to Nationalism and the Impact of British India IV. New Forms of Political Participation in a Comparative Perspective V. Situating Pondicherry within a Larger Theoretical Reflection on the Relationship between Empire and Citizenship Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisWe all look to our past to define our present, but we don’t always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It’s easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world’s oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when our cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This book examines the Dutch so-called “Golden Age” though its artistic and architectural legacy, recapturing the global dimensions of this period by looking beyond familiar artworks to consider exotic collectibles and trade goods, and the ways in which far-flung colonial cities were made to look and feel like home. Using the tools of art history to approach questions about memory, history, and how cultures define themselves, this book demonstrates the centrality of material and visual culture to understanding history and cultural identity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction: Grasping at the Past 2 The Gilded Cage: Dutch Global Aspirations 3 Gathering the Goods: Dutch Still Life Painting and the End of the "Golden Age" 4 Dutch Batavia: An Ideal Dutch City? 5 Simplifying the Past: Willemstad’s Historic and Historicizing Architecture 6 Conclusion: The "Golden Age" Today Works Cited Acknowledgements Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities that needed to be subdued and 'civilised'. This collection of critical essays focuses on the colonial construction of race and looks at how the colonial wars in 19th-century Southeast Asia were rationalised via recourse to theories of racial difference, making race a significant factor in the wars of Empire. Looking at the colonial wars in Java, Borneo, Siam, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia, the essays examine the manner in which the idea of racial difference was weaponised by the colonising powers and how forms of local resistance often worked through such colonial structures of identity politics.Trade Review"[...] Noor, Carey, and the volume’s contributors make an excellent case for how constructions of racial difference in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia were central to militarized violence and colonial expansion. [...] It is a bold and refreshing reminder to readers of how racial hierarchies have deep roots in the histories of warfare and colonialism and continue to influence governance and conflict in the present." - Kate Imy, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 3Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Race Mattered: Racial Difference, Racialized Colonial Capitalism and the Racialized Wars of 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia - Farish A. Noor and Peter Carey Towards the Great Divide: Race, Sexuality, Violence and Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies, from Daendels (1808-11) to the Java War (1825-30) - Peter Carey Hostis Humanis Generis: The Invention of the 'Warlike Dayak Race' during the 'War on Piracy' in Borneo, 1830-1848 - Farish A. Noor Piratical Headhunters yang semacam Melayu dan Cina: Creating the Abject Native Other in the Mat Salleh Rebellion (1894-1905) - Yvonne Tan The Franco-Siamese War and Russo-Japanese War: Two Colonial Wars and the Political Appropriation of the Idea of Race in Absolutist Siam - David M. Malitz 'Sly Civility' and the Myth of the 'Lazy Malay': The Discursive Economy of British Colonial Power during the Pahang Civil War, 1891-1895 - Netusha Naidu 'Smoked Yankees', 'Wild' Catholics, and the Newspaper 'Lions' of Manila: The Multiplicity of Race in the Philippine-American War - Brian Shott Warriors and Colonial Wars in Muslim Philippines Since 1800 - Mesrob Vartavarian Chronology of major events and conflicts in Southeast Asia 1800-1900 Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisEmpire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire.Trade Review"This is an original work on the role of data collection in colonial Southeast Asia, one of the first of its kind in the domain of Southeast Asian Studies. Its originality lies in the manner that it examines colonial data-gathering in terms of the concept of the panopticon and how the identities of colonized Southeast Asians were framed as a result." - Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsDedication A note on spelling Introduction. The Panopticon in the Indies: Data-Gathering and the Power of Knowing I. Lost no longer: The House of Glass that is Postcolonial Southeast Asia. Chapter 1: Caught in the Eye of Empire: Stamford Raffles' 1814 Java Regulations I. An English government does not need the articles of a capitulation to impose those duties which are prompted by a sense of justice: Lord Minto's brand of benevolent imperialism in Java. II. The Lieutenant-Governor is Watching You: Raffles' 1814 Regulations. III. Knowing Java and Policing Java. IV. Policing Bodies: Corpses, Prisoners and other 'Asiatic Foreigners'. V. Policing and Profit: Raffles' Regulations of 1814 as the Foundation of Regulated and Racialized Colonial-Capitalism. VI. Framing the Javanese as both Useless and Useful: Native Labour in Imperial Policing. Chapter 2: Deadly Testimonies: John Crawfurd's Embassy to the Court of Ava and the Framing of the Burman I. Stabbing at the Heart of their Dominions: John Crawfurd's Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava as a Blueprint for Invasion. II. I shall have the honour soon to lay an abstract before the Government: Crawfurd's Embassy to Ava read as an Intelligence Report. III. Who Can I Trust? John Crawfurd's Search for Reliable Data from Reliable Witnesses. IV. Racial Difference and the Framing of the Burmese in the Writing of John Crawfurd. V. Deadly Testimonies: Weaponised Knowledge in the Working of Racialized Colonial-Capitalism. Chapter 3: Fairy Tales and Nightmares: Identifying the 'Good' Asians and the 'Bad' Asians in the Writings of Low and St. John I. Fairy Tale Beginnings: Hugh Low Spins the Tale of Sarawak's 'Redemption' II. Knowing the Difference: Differentiating Between the 'Good' Asians and the 'Bad' Asians in the works of Hugh Low and Spenser St. John III. Protecting the Natives from other Asiatics: St. John's negative portrayal of Malays and Chinese as the oppressors of the Borneans. IV. Bloodsuckers and Insurgents: Knowing the Asian Other and the Maintenance of Colonial Rule. V. And the Narrative Continues: The Fairy Tale Ending to Sarawak's Story. Chapter 4: The Needle of Empire: The Mapping of the Malay in the works of Daly and Clifford I. Elbow Room for Empire: Britain's Expansion into the Malay Kingdoms. II. Stabbing at the Heart of the Malay: Seeking Justification for Britain's Expansion into the Malay States. III. Enter the Imperial Needle: Dominick D. Daly, Geographic Intelligence, and Colonial Mapping. IV. To Bring Darkness to Light: Hugh Clifford, Colonial Geography, and the Duty of 'the Great British Race'. V. The Geography of Empire: Mapping and Colonial Power. Chapter 5: Panopticon in the Indies: Data-collecting and the Building of the Colonial State in Southeast Asia I. We want to know you better: Data-collecting in the service of Empire II. Text and Context: Empire's Power Differentials and the Framing of the Colonized Other III. Imperial Hubris: When Empire's Archive Fell Apart. IV. The Panopticon Today: Data-Gathering and Governance in Present-day Postcolonial Southeast Asia. Appendix A: Proclamation of Lord Minto, Governor-General of British India, at Molenvliet, Java, 11 September 1811. Appendix B: Proclamation of Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-General of Java, at Batavia, Java, 15 October 1813. Appendix C: The Treaty of Peace Concluded at Yandabo. Appendix D: The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Borneo (Brunei). Signed, in the English and Malay Languages, 27 May 1847. Appendix E: The Racial Census employed in British Malaya from 1871 to 1931. Timeline of events and developments in Southeast Asia 1800-1900. Bibliography. Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of “spiritual conquest” in order to demonstrate how it reflected the contribution of religious ministers to a protracted period of social anomie throughout the mission provinces between the 16th-18th centuries. By tracking the prose of spiritual conquest with the history of the mission in official documents, religious correspondence, and public controversies, the author shows how, contrary to the general consensus in Philippine historiography, the literature and pastoral politics of spiritual conquest reinforced the frontier character of the religious provinces outside Manila in the Americas as well as the Philippines, by supplanting the (absence of) law in the name of supplementing or completing it. This frontier character accounts for the modern reinvention of native custom as well as the birth of literature and theater in the Tagalog vernacular.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Counter-History of the Mission Pueblo 1 The War of Peace and Legacy of Social Anomie 2 Monastic Rule and the Mission As Frontier(ization) Institution 3 Stagings of Spiritual Conquest 4 Miracles and Monsters in the Consolidation of Mission-Towns 5 Our Lady of Contingency 6 Reversions to Native Custom in Fr. Antonio de Borja’s Barlaam At Josaphat and Gaspar Aquino de Belen’s Mahal na Pasion 7 Colonial Racism and the Moro-Moro As Dueling Proxies of Law Conclusion: The Promise of Law Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisThrough the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theatre and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection. The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and at times a specifically Dutch—identity. It offers insight into the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theatrical modes, tropes, and scenarios of racialised subjection and considers them as materials of the “Dutch cultural archive,” or the Dutch “reservoir” of sentiments, knowledge, fantasies, and beliefs about race and slavery that have shaped the dominant sense of the Dutch self up to the present day.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Table of Content 0. Introduction 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance 5. Conclusions Bibliography Consulted Archives, Collections, and Databases Literature Appendix

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the museum cannot truly be decolonized, museum staff and museologists have been approaching the issue from different angles to practice decoloniality in any way they can. Practicing Decoloniality in Museums: A Guide with Global Examples collects a wide range of practices from museums whose audiences, often highly diverse, come together in sometimes contentious conversations about pasts and futures. Although there are no easy or uniform answers as to how best to deal with colonial pasts, this collection of practices functions as an accessible toolkit from which museum staff can choose in order to experiment with and implement methods according to their own needs and situations. The practices are divided thematically and include, among others, methods for decentering, improving transparency, and increasing inclusivity.Table of ContentsIntroduction What is the problem? What is in this book? For whom is this book? How to design your own decolonial practice 1 Creating Visibility The challenge The change International Slavery Museum (UK) Tropenmuseum (NL) Mutare Museum (ZW) Belmont Estate (GD) Further reading Further examples 2 Increasing Inclusivity The challenge The change Corona in the City | Amsterdam Museum (NL) GLOW | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (US) Museum of London (UK) Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey (JM) Further reading Further examples 3 Decentering The challenge The change Memento Park (HU) Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? | National Museum of Modern Art (JP) Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures | Kunsthistorisches Museum (AT) Indigenous ‘Museum-like’ Centers (CA & US) Further reading Further examples 4 Championing Empathy The challenge The change National Museum of African American History and Culture (US) Museo Tula (CW) POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (PL) Tate Modern (UK) Further reading Further examples 5 Improving Transparency The challenge The change International Inventories Program | National Museum Nairobi & Goethe-Institut Kenya (KY) The Past Is Now | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (UK) Museum of British Colonialism (KY & UK) Musee des Civilisations Noires (SN) Further reading Further examples 6 Embracing Vulnerability The challenge The change The Museum of Others | Pitt Rivers Museum (UK) Scaffold | Walker Art Center (US) Muzeum krytyczne (Critical Museum) by Piotr Piotrowski (PL) Voices from the Colonies | National Museum of Denmark (DK) Further reading Further examples Concluding Remarks Contributors Acknowledgements Author Biographies References Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisAn elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond is about the tomahawk and other objects like it, acquired in colonial contact zones and displayed by Swedish elites in the seventeenth century. Its first part situates the objects in two distinct but related spaces: the expanding space of the colonial world, and the exclusive space of the Kunstkammer. The second part traces the objects’ physical and epistemological transfer from the Kunstkammer to the modern museum system. In the final part, colonial objects are considered at the centre of a heated debate over the present state of museums, and their possible futures.Trade Review"Snickare’s arguments are not only timely but also model an historically grounded, balanced and judicious approach to issues that trouble many institutions around the world currently trying to address the complex legacies of colonialism." - Ruth Phillips, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The King’s Tomahawk? Part I Colonial Objects in Space: Baroque Practices of Collecting and Display 1. The Spaces of Colonial Objects : The Colonial World and the Kunstkammer 2. Global Interests: Colonial Policy and Collecting in the Reign of Queen Christina 3. Performing Difference: Court Culture and Collecting in the Time of Hedwig Eleonora 4. Object Lessons: Materiality and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer of Johannes Schefferus Part II Colonial Objects in Time: Object Itineraries 5. Objects and their Agency and Itineraries 6. From North America to Nordamerika: A Tomahawk 7. From Northern Sapmi to Nordiska Museet: A Goavddis Part III The Fate of Colonial Objects: Pasts, Presents, and Futures 8. Learning from the Kunstkammer? Colonial Objects and Decolonial Options Bibliography About the Author Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisCollective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoirs and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.Trade Review"Doolan’s work is the most comprehensive English language account of so many forms of Dutch remembrance of the 1945-1949 period… For scholars who do not read Dutch, his review of Dutch texts that engage with remembrance of the independence war is very useful, particularly because of the synthesis of so many diverse works." Katherine McGregor, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 138 (2023) "[...] this is quite an impressive, courageous, and ambitious attempt to sketch the whole process of the development of collective (un)remembering. [...] a complete and detailed overview, covering all facets." - Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 42, Iss. 1Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Collective Memory and Unremembering Collective Memory Collective Unremembering Historical Representation A Short Summary of Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies 2 Representations during the War The Press Indonesia Calling: A Film Oeroeg: A Novella Historiography of the Conflict: Early Beginnings 3 Post-decolonization: The First 20 Years, 1949-1969 The Great Unremembering Loss The Existentialist Victimhood The Adventurer The Soldier The Historian 4 Breaking the Silence The Hueting Interview The Role of the Public 5 Postmemory The Moluccan Attacks Postmemory Authors Radio and Television, 1979-1988 6 Loe de Jong Controversy A Slow Change Coming Silence of the Guild Loe de Jong, Volume 11a 7 Remembering the War Ben Laurens: A Soldier Novelist Anton P. de Graaff and The Way Back Oeroeg: The Film The Boomsma Affair The Poncke Princen Affair Television The Guild Stirs 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of ‘legal posturing’ on the part of those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime violence in the early modern era. The authors in Piracy in World History highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction: Piracy in World History Stefan Eklof Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hagerdal 2 "Publique Enemies to Mankind": International Pirates as a Product of International Politics Michael Kempe 3 All at Sea: Locke's Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought Bruce Buchan 4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States Jennifer L. Gaynor 5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs? Hans Hagerdal 6 Piracy in India's Western Littoral: Reality and Representation Lakshmi Subramanian 7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean Joshua M. White 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China Robert J. Antony 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800 Birgit Tremml-Werner 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis: Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought Joachim Ostlund and Bruce Buchan 11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land": Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Stefan Eklof Amirell 12 Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword Lauren Benton

Read more less

Book SynopsisA Metropolitan History of the Dutch Empire: Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands, 1850-1940 examines popular imperial culture in the Netherlands around the turn of the twentieth century. In various and sometimes unexpected places in civil society the empire played a prominent role and was key in mobilizing people for causes that were directly and indirectly related to the Dutch overseas colonies. At the same time, however, the empire was ostensibly absent from people's minds. Except for some jingoist outbursts during the Aceh War and the Boer War, indifference was the main attitude with which imperial affairs were greeted. How could the empire simultaneously be present and absent in metropolitan life? Drawing upon the works of scholars from fields ranging from postcolonial studies to Habsburg imperialism, the author argues that indifference to empire was not an anomaly to the idea of an all-permeating imperial culture, but rather the logical consequence of an imperial ideology that rendered metropole and colony firmly separated entities. The different groups and individuals that advocated imperial or anti-imperial causes – such as missionaries, former colonials, Indonesian students, and boy scouts – hardly ever related to each other explicitly and had their own distinctive modes of expression, but were nonetheless part of what the author calls a 'fragmented empire' and shared the common thread of Dutch imperial ideology. This suggests we should not mistake colonial culture's metropolitan invisibility for a lack of strength.Trade Review"Kuipers’ characterization of patchy imperial enthusiasm bears profoundly on questions of colonial memory today. In this respect, Kuipers’ study adds important historical pretext to a growing scholarly and popular interest in the contemporary legacies of colonialism in the Netherlands. [...] by historicizing how notions of a strict metropole colony divide emerged in the Netherlands, Kuipers’ study leaves us much better equipped to challenge other inherited paradigms that cleave the study of the Dutch empire." - Chelsea Schields, BMGN — Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 138 (2023)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations On Names and Terminology Introduction: The Still Waters of Empire Run Deep Dutch Indifference The Metropole in the Colonial World Conquering the Metropolitan Mind The Politics of History Case Studies from a Fragmented Empire 1 Food and Indifference: A Cultural History of the Rijsttafel in the Netherlands Dichotomies of a Colonial Dish The Metropolitan Rijsttafel Who’s Cooking? The Politics of Colonial Food The Limits of Permeation (Conclusion) 2 Indonesians and Cultural Citizenship: The Metropolitan Microcosm of Empire Dissent and Cultural Citizenship Wim Tehupeiory: Naturalization and Social Mobility Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo: Political Dissent in the Metropole Jodjana: The Arts and the Idea of Association Imperial Citizenship and Double Consciousness (Conclusion) 3 Schools and Propaganda: History Books and Schools as Sites of Imperial Campaigns Schools, Teachers and Pupils History Lessons ‘Classroom Collections’ Maps on the Wall (Conclusion) 4 Scouting and the Racialized Other: Imperial Tropes in the Dutch Scouting Movement The Advent of Dutch Scouting An Empire without Boys Imperial Imagery in Dutch Scouting The 1937 Jamboree Scouting and Dutch Imperialism (Conclusion) 5 Missionary Organizations and the Metropolitan Public: The ‘Inner Mission’ and the Invention of Mission Festivals Internal Colonialism Mission Festivals The Choice of a Missionary Career Gendered Role Models Finding Funds (Conclusion) Conclusion: A Fragmented Empire Sources Archives and Libraries Published Primary Sources Published Secondary Sources Index List of Figures and Tables Figures Figure 1 A modern-day Javanese tumpeng Figure 2 Mrs. Catenius-van der Meijden Figure 3 A rijsttafel in a colonial domestic setting Figure 4 Drawing of Oost en West’s coat of arms Figure 5 Boeatan’s tearoom Figure 6 Portrait of the Indiërs Comité Figure 7 Jodjana performing in Germany Figure 8 Poster announcing the 1937 World Scout Jamboree in Vogelenzang, Netherlands Tables Table 1 Annual number of classroom collections sent out by the Koloniaal Museum and the reported number requested by schools Table 2 Number of annual visitors to the Koloniaal Museum Table 3 Annual balance of the Nederlandsch Zendelinggenootschap in the 1880s

Read more less

Book SynopsisAfter ruling Hong Kong for 155 years, what did the British leave behind when they withdrew at midnight on 30 June 1997? C. K. Lau answers this question for the lay reader. Whether you are a long-time resident or merely a newcomer to the territory, Hong Kong's colonial legacy promises to deepen your understanding of this Pearl of the Orient. Questions this book tackles include: What is the attitude of Hong Kong Chinese towards British rule and the resumption of Chinese sovereignty? Why have most of them failed to master English despite a century and a half of colonial rule? What is the future of the common law after 1997? ‧What do Hong Kong's leaders mean by "executive-led government"? What is Hong Kong's recipe for economic success? What is the future of press freedom in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region?

Read more less

Book SynopsisBy 1945, everywhere one looked in the Far East the British Empire was being openly questioned or was failing outright. Yet in the previous century, the British had been the pre-eminent imperial power from Weihaiwei to North Borneo. This book investigates how the British held on for so long. Rent control legislation and other measures of property law are nominated as key tools used to frustrate decolonization in most Eastern colonies. British colonial administrations tried long and hard to inhibit the dialectical discord between their colonial hierarchism and local forms of nationalism with the prompts and plaudits of property policy.

Read more less

Book SynopsisUsing the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948–1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya, begging the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?

Read more less

Book Synopsis"Singapore Civil Society and British Power" is the first broad look at the associational activity that took place from 1819 to 1963 and how it influenced British public policy in Singapore. From the early days of the East India Company through to independence, residents were prepared to form associations to further their causes using political means. Dr. Gillis traces the ebb and flow of civil society and argues with convincing evidence that it made an important contribution to the economic, political and social development of Singapore. This is a chronological study covering six periods in Singapore's history from the establishment of Raffles' trading factory in 1819 to the end of the British era in 1963.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served for 15 years, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as well as his long, distinguished career in the Colonial Service, serving Queen Victoria in many countries including Natal in Southern Africa during and after the Zulu Wars, British Honduras, British Guiana, Fiji and Singapore.It is his time in Singapore that is given extensive treatment in the book. Having been sworn in as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Straits Settlements and their Dependencies (the 'Colony') on 1 February 1894, Mitchell inherited a colony, which was in very serious financial difficulty. With his prudent financial management, the governor brought the Colony back to a strong financial position and completed many projects. He was also instrumental in the implementation of the Federation of Malay States and was its first High Commissioner.His governorship was cut short when he died suddenly at the Colony's Government House (the current Istana) on 7 December 1899 and was buried in Singapore.However, his legacy was written out by his successor Sir Frank Swettenham who would take credit for the Colony's achievements. To this end, this book will go towards correcting the history of Singapore and Malaya at that time.The book also contains one of the very few public accounts of freemasonry in Singapore during the 19th Century and those of prominent freemasons participating in the colonial administration and commercial sector in the Colony.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served for 15 years, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as well as his long, distinguished career in the Colonial Service, serving Queen Victoria in many countries including Natal in Southern Africa during and after the Zulu Wars, British Honduras, British Guiana, Fiji and Singapore.It is his time in Singapore that is given extensive treatment in the book. Having been sworn in as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Straits Settlements and their Dependencies (the 'Colony') on 1 February 1894, Mitchell inherited a colony, which was in very serious financial difficulty. With his prudent financial management, the governor brought the Colony back to a strong financial position and completed many projects. He was also instrumental in the implementation of the Federation of Malay States and was its first High Commissioner.His governorship was cut short when he died suddenly at the Colony's Government House (the current Istana) on 7 December 1899 and was buried in Singapore.However, his legacy was written out by his successor Sir Frank Swettenham who would take credit for the Colony's achievements. To this end, this book will go towards correcting the history of Singapore and Malaya at that time.The book also contains one of the very few public accounts of freemasonry in Singapore during the 19th Century and those of prominent freemasons participating in the colonial administration and commercial sector in the Colony.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn the heart of Beijing, a large digital clock marked off the seconds until July 1, 1997, when the red, five-star flag of China would be hoisted over Hong Kong and the grand but untried idea of one country, two systems would be put into practice. Farewell, My Colony is a real-time journal of the end of an era by an objective observer. American journalist Todd Crowell captures a unique moment in history as Britain stoically soldiers through the last months of its 156 years of colonial rule, China waits restlessly to resume its sovereignty, and Hong Kong buzzes with endless speculation. He tells how Hong Kongs Chinese and expatriates, taipans and cagemen come to terms with the impending change of rule. He mingles with the rich and famous and common people alike. A long-term resident, he votes in elections controversially called by Governor Chris Patten. He then follows the selection of a rival legislature, and of Pattens successor, shipping magnate Tung Chee-hwa, as the first chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The citys pulse is charted by his pen, through to the pomp, circumstance and partying of the day of handover itself. Now, 20 years later, Crowell has updated this valuable historical record with reflections on what has happened to Hong Kong since 1997.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisAn eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is “the work that makes all other work possible.” But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy. Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit.Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: “One of the Family”: Gender, Labor, and the Care Work DiscourseChapter 2: The Labors of Life: Care Work, Social Reproduction, and CapitalismChapter 3: Social Reproduction, Coercion, and CareChapter 4: “Tell ‘Dem Slavery Done’”: Social Reproduction and the Politics of ResistanceChapter 5. Who Cares? Caring (or Not Caring) for the PoorChapter 6: In Bed with Capitalism: The State, Capital, and Profiting Off Those in NeedChapter 7. Radical CareConclusion

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how do we measure their failures?In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, was killed in police custody for failing to observe the strict dress code imposed on Iranian women. Her death sparked a massive social uprising within and outside of Iran. The slogan, Woman, Life, Freedom, spread like wildfire from Amini's hometown to solidarity protests held in London, New York, Melbourne, Paris, Seoul and beyond. The pain felt by millions of Iranians, caused by the Islamic Republic, was on the global stage again. Yet, misreadings of the Zhina uprisingboth accidental and insidiousbegan to proliferate, with different parties vying for power. Iran in Revolt by author and scholar Hamid Dabashi cuts through the white noise of imperialist war mongers and social media bots to provide a careful and principled account of the revolution, and how it has forever altered the nature of politics in Iran and the wider region. Iran in Revolt argues that democracy and the nation-state are tired concepts, exploring what it means to fight for a just society instead. Through detailed political, philosophical, and historical analysis, Dabashi shows that the vulnerable lives and fragile liberties of nations have never been so intimately connected, just as the pernicious cruelties of ruling regimes have never been so identical as they are today.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less