Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisShows how powerful states and empires seek to know and understand parts of the world they consider to be unknown, dangerous or violent. Spanning multiple disciplines, this book will appeal to students and researchers working in the fields of history, international relations, diplomacy, conflict and foreign policy.Trade Review'Focusing on the shifting parameters of 'knowledge communities', this impressive book situates Afghanistan and the Afghan frontier in a multi-layered and evolving set of British Imperial and colonial policies and practices during the nineteenth century. It is essential reading for all students of modern Afghanistan and for those concerned with colonial knowledge formations and the history of imperialism.' Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University, Virginia'According to Edward Said, 'From travelers' tales … colonies were created'. In recent years scholars have explored the details of the dialectical relationship between colonial knowledge and imperial policy. In Taming the Imperial Imagination, Martin J. Bayly continues the work begun by Christopher Bayly on British information gathering in India, pushing the investigation north of the Durand Line into Afghanistan. Bayly reconstructs the images of Afghanistan upon which British officials drew in crafting their policy decisions. After discussing the work of the founding figures, he tracks the emergence after 1830 of a more unified concept of the Afghan polity. This book is an important contribution to the histories of British imperialism and Anglo-Afghan relations and to the re-historicization of the international relations discipline.' George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan'Bayly, in a single volume, demolishes powerful self-fulfilling myths. Speaking to multiple audiences with interests across the historical and thematic spectrum, this book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand why Afghanistan looks the way it does in 2017, and more importantly, why many view it the way they do.' Avinash Paliwal, International Affairs'Taming the imperial imagination is at once an intellectual history of British constructions of Afghanistan as well as a critical theoretical argument regarding the variegated manifestations of space, sovereignty and territory - the currency of much IR literature - over time. … ultimately, the book's intellectual ambition is equalled by the author's sophisticated and compelling argument.' Benjamin D. Hopkins, Cambridge Review of International Affairs'This is no ordinary book about British colonial-era engagement with Afghanistan. In fact, it is as far removed from orthodox military histories of the Anglo-Afghan experience as it is possible to be. More than anything it chooses to intellectualise the subject in an uncommon fashion and in the process delivers an entirely refreshing approach to what is in danger of becoming a tired and unimaginative field of study. … It is as much a book about the present as it is about the past, and for that reason is a must-read for anyone interested in the formulation of foreign policy and military strategy with respect to those dark corners of our world that stoke the fears of Western imagination.' Christian Tripodi, International Journal of Military and HistoriographyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Knowledge: 1. Early European explorers of Afghanistan; 2. Knowledge entrepreneurs; Part II. Policy: 3. 'Information … information': Anglo-Afghan relations in the 1830s; 4. Contestation and closure: rationalising the Afghan polity; Part III. Exception: 5. The emergence of a violent geography, 1842–53; 6. Overcoming exception, 1853–7; 7. 'Science' and sentiment: the era of frontier management, 1857–78; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDuring the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos' complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the AmeTrade Review'This important and enjoyable new addition to the venerable Cambridge Latin American Studies book series makes a resoundingly original contribution to the field. Seijas skillfully deploys archival sources on both the Philippines and Colonial Mexico, placing their analysis within a single, coherent framework. The result is fascinating; as the study unfolds, it effectively shifts our views of Asian slavery in Spanish America, of identity terms like chino, and indeed of race and ethnicity in early colonial Mexico.' Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Pennsylvania State University'Well-established forms of Filipino intertribal slave raiding along with swells of captives from the Indian Ocean and the wars against Islam in Mindanao transformed Manila into a bustling slave entrepôt by the mid-sixteenth century. For some 150 years, thousands of these 'chino' slaves left the Philippines for Mexico, where they became urban servants, artisan slaves-for-hire, pious beatas, and ultimately free Mexican 'Indian' vassals in the eyes of both civil and ecclesiastical courts. Paradoxically, the abolition of the Filipino slave trade by the late seventeenth century led to the ideological consolidation of African slavery, for the black body became the only sure legal marker to distinguish the true 'captive foreigner' in the body polity. This is a brilliant study of the rise and fall of the forgotten transpacific slave trade.' Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin'Focused on the trans-Pacific trade, Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico illustrates the commercial and cultural linkages that tied New Spain to the global economy of the early modern world. By making chinos the subjects of this history, Tatiana Seijas rivets our attention on the human cargoes of the Manila galleon in their transit from the Philippines to New Spain and their gradual integration into colonial Mexican society. Built on a solid foundation of archival research, this innovative study examines anew the entwined themes of human bondage and the ambiguities of ethnic labeling through the pathways to freedom that were opened to enslaved persons in the far-flung imperial networks of the Iberian world.' Cynthia Radding, Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'Tatiana Seijas's book is long overdue. It is truly global in focus and comparative in reach. Steeped in archival sources, its study of early modern trans-Pacific slavery provokes comparisons with the trans-Atlantic traffic in humans during a contemporaneous and later period. Tracing the fate of 'Asian slaves' between Spain's two colonial spheres, the Philippines and colonial Mexico, this book is well-placed to contribute to a wide variety of fields, including comparative imperial formations and the growing historiography on slavery in East and Southeast Asian, Latin America and China. Its meticulous tracing of the lives of Asian slaves is a model for doing the social history of subaltern groups compelled to negotiate with colonial law, religious sanctions and permeable racial identities as they seek to move out of bondage and into emancipation prior to abolition.' Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington, Seattle'A short review cannot do justice to the many complex issues discussed in this superb and carefully researched early modern globalization case study. Students and scholars alike will benefit from the author's painstaking efforts to both track down traces of chino lives in archival documents and to contextualize their history within the expansive historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings on race and slavery.' Nicole von Germeten, The American Historical Review'Seijas has provided an illuminating history from below of worldwide slavery and the Mexican caste system. The extensive archival research undergirding her study both strengthens its arguments and makes for a compelling read … This monograph is exemplary for anyone seeking to examine a regional issue within a wider historical context, for it shows early modern Mexico as the global crossroad that it was.' Ronald J. Morgan, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Catarina de San Juan: China slave and popular saint; 2. The diversity and reach of the Manila slave market; 3. The rise and fall of the transpacific slave trade; 4. Chinos in Mexico City: slave labor and liberty; 5. Joining the republic of Indians: free Filipinos and freed chinos; 6. The Church on chino slaves versus Indian chinos; 7. The end of chino slavery; Final conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDuring the first half of the twentieth century, movements seeking political equality emerged in France's overseas territories. Within twenty years, they were replaced by movements for national independence in the majority of French colonies, protectorates, and mandates. In this pathbreaking study of the decolonization era, Adria Lawrence asks why elites in French colonies shifted from demands for egalitarian and democratic reforms to calls for independent statehood, and why mass mobilization for independence emerged where and when it did. Lawrence shows that nationalist discourses became dominant as a consequence of the failure of the reform agenda. Where political rights were granted, colonial subjects opted for further integration and reform. Contrary to conventional accounts, nationalism was not the only or even the primary form of anti-colonialism. Lawrence shows further that mass nationalist protest occurred only when and where French authority was disrupted. Imperial crises were Trade Review"Political scientists interested in nationalism, imperialism, and contentious politics will find something in this book to inform their thinking. But Lawrence has something new to say to other audiences too. Historians who feel that political scientists enter the historical field only to fetch a few examples to prove their pet theories will find in Lawrence a political scientist who, when she delves into history, does so as a historian would and actively contributes to the historical understanding of nationalism in the Middle East." Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University"Adria Lawrence presents an important argument: the development of nationalism is not a natural, automatic response to subordination in an empire, but an interactive, contingent phenomenon. Her book is about actual politics – the give and take of claims and counterclaims, the opening and shutting of opportunities. She presents an analysis that students of nationalism, colonial situations, and political movements need to ponder." Frederick Cooper, New York University, author of Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa"Mainstream interpretations of how nationalist movements under French colonial rule emerged and mobilized for independence have long privileged the inherent link between colonialism and the impulse for national self-determination. In this innovative and deeply informed study, Lawrence highlights the contingent nature of the nationalist enterprise, in which the impulse for political equality and its subsequent denial by the colonial authorities serves to catalyze popular demand for independence framed in the language of nationalism. The author brings together an impressive array of original and secondary sources to substantiate her theoretical claims with particular focus on the Moroccan experience. Clearly written and devoid of jargon, Lawrence has produced a compelling reinterpretation of imperial rule and the politics of nationalism from which students and specialists alike will benefit." John P. Entelis, Fordham University"Some of the most rewarding books are those that expose a flaw in conventional wisdom. Adria Lawrence’s Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism discredits the widely held view that nations naturally want to rule themselves. She shows that Moroccans might well have been satisfied by French rule had the French governed them more skillfully. This finding, which is based on impressive research, has huge policy implications concerning the world’s trouble spots." Timur Kuran, Duke UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: the politics of nationalism in the French empire; 2. Indigènes into Frenchmen? Seeking political equality in Morocco and Algeria; 3. Political equality and nationalist opposition in the French empire; 4. Empire disrupted: nationalist opposition accelerates; 5. Nationalist mobilization in colonial Morocco; 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisImperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed from an open, democratic, multiethnic, male fraternity dedicated to frontier raiding into a closed, ethnic community devoted to defending and advancing the boundaries of the Russian state. He shows how by promoting border patrol, migration control, bureaucratic regulation of cross-border contacts and deportation of dissidents, Peter I destroyed the world of the old steppe and created a new imperial Cossack order in its place. In examining this transformation, Imperial Boundaries addresses key historical issues of imperial expansion, the delegitimization of non-state violence, the construction of borders, and the encroaching boundaries of state authority in the lives of local communiTrade Review'The book not only makes an important contribution to our understanding of Russia as empire, but also tells us much about a particular region and its population, especially about the shift of social identities in early modern Russia.' Guido Hausmann, H-HistGeogTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don Steppe Frontier; 2. People and power on the frontier: liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700; 3. A middle ground between autonomy and dependence: the raiding economy of the Don Steppe Frontier to 1700; 4. Boundaries of integration or exclusion? Migration, mobility, and state sovereignty on the southern Frontier to 1700; 5. Testing the boundaries of imperial alliance: co-operation, negotiation and resistance in the era of Razin (1667–81); 6. Between Rus' and Rossiia: realigning the boundaries of Cossack communities in a time of migration and transition (1681–95); 7. The era of Raskol: religion and rebellion (1681–95); 8. Incorporation without integration: the Azov Interlude (1695–1711); 9. From frontier to borderland: the demarcation of the Steppe and the delegitimation of raiding (1696–1710); 10. Boundaries of land, liberty, and identity: making the Don region legible to imperial officials (1696–1706); 11. The Bulavin uprising: the last stand of the old Steppe (1706–9); 12. Reshaping the Don in the imperial image: power, privilege, and patronage in the post-Bulavin era (1708–39); 13. Closing the Cossack community: recording and policing the boundaries of group identity (1708–39); 14. A borderline state of mind: the closing of the Don Steppe frontier (1708–39); Afterword.

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Book SynopsisA two-volume portrait of the first two hundred years of Antiguan history since British colonisation. Memoirs, legends and documents are used to follow the British aristocrats who established the infrastructure of the island during colonisation and the rise of the slave trade, and show how Antigua's identity was shaped.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. General description of the island; 2. History of the island continued; 3. Rupture between France and England; 4. Governors; 5. Governor Col. R. Williams; 6. Governor Colonel Christopher Codrington; 7. Governor Colonel Daniel Parke; 8. Governor Walter Hamilton; 9. Governor William Mathew; 10. Governor William Mathew; 11. Governors; 12. Governors; 13. Governors; 14. My first voyage to Antigua; 15. The extent of Antigua; 16. Scenery of Antigua; 17. The seasons at Antigua; 18. Description of the town of St. John's, the capital of Antigua; 19. Description of the church of St. John's; 20. Court-house; 21. Morning; 22. Early rising and 'Jamie Thomson'; 23. Zulmiera, the half-Carib girl, a legend of the Savannah; 24. Continuation of the legend; 25. Conclusion of the legend; 26. Towns; 27. Forts and fortifications; 28. Remarks upon the aboriginal Americans.

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Book SynopsisA two-volume portrait of the first two hundred years of Antiguan history since British colonisation. Memoirs, legends and documents are used to follow the British aristocrats who established the infrastructure of the island during colonisation and the rise of the slave trade, and show how Antigua's identity was shaped.Table of Contents29. Caribs; 30. Negroes, their introduction into the New World; 31. Negroes, palliations, but not excuses, for former cruelties; 32. Negroes, the assertion that negroes are careless of all domestic ties confuted by anecdotes; 33. Negroes, superstition; 34. Seeming paradoxes explained; 35. Negroes, 'shadows' continued; 36. Negroes, the crime of poisoning; 37. Negroes, a little change for the better; 38. Negroes, their amusements; 39. Negroes, fondness for the 'Nancy stories'; 40. Negroes, further sentences upon 'dress'; 41. Negroes, occupations; 42. Negroes, employment of the women; 43. Negroes, exterior appearance; 44. Remarks upon free system; 45. A chapter on colour; 46. Prejudice; 47. Grades among the pure in blood; 48. The pure in blood; 49. The pure in blood; 50. Zoology; 51. Zoology; 52. Botany; 53. Government; Supplemental chapter; Appendix.

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Franklin (1706–90) is best known as an outstanding statesman and leader. First published in 1874, this three-volume work was compiled entirely from Franklin's own writings. Volume 1 contains Franklin's autobiography (to 1857), and also recounts his experiments with lightning conductors and his examination before the House of Commons.Table of ContentsPreface; Historical sketch of the fortunes and misfortunes of the autograph MS. of Franklin's memoirs of his own life; Part I. Franklin's Outline of the Topics of his Autobiography: Autobiography of Franklin from his birth to his arrival in England as agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania (1706–57); Part II. Continuation of the Autobiography from Franklin's Arrival in England as Agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania, in June 1757, Until the Close of his Mission There and Return to Philadelphia, in 1775: 1. Domestication and protracted illness in London; 2. His reception in America; 3. Jealousy of English manufacturers; 4. Franklin's examination before the House of Commons (1766); 5. Franklin sends his wife a new dress on the repeal of the Stamp Act; 6. The Walpole Grant again; Appendix.

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Franklin (170690) is best known as an outstanding statesman and leader. First published in 1874, this three-volume work was compiled entirely from Franklin's own writings, including his autobiography and correspondence. Volume 2 covers the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France and his encounter with Voltaire.Table of ContentsPart II continued: 1. The election to the new parliament; 2. No taxation without representation; 3. Silkworms; 4. The dancer pays the piper; 5. Rules for reducing a great empire to a small one; 6. An edict by the King of Prussia; 7. Petition of the Massachusetts Assembly for Hutchinson's recall; 8. An account of the transactions relating to Governor Hutchinson's letters; 9. Ministerial hostility to Franklin; 10. An account of negotiations in London for effecting a reconciliation between Great Britain and the American colonies; Part III. From the Close of Franklin's Mission to England to the Close of his Mission to France (1775–85): 11. Franklin chosen delegate to the Second Continental Congress; 12. Negotiations with Lord Howe for a reconciliation with the colonies; 13. Franklin's mission to France; 14. Recall of Silas Deane; 15. New attempts to corrupt the Commissioners; 16. Inception of Irish emigration to America; 17. Never a good war or a bad peace.

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Franklin (170690) was an outstanding statesman and leader. First published in 1874, this work was compiled from Franklin's writings, including his autobiography and correspondence. Volume 3 covers the negotiation of peace with Britain, the drafting of the United States constitution, Franklin's retirement from public life, and his will.Table of ContentsPart III continued: 1. Franklin asks to be relieved from the mission to Paris; 2. R. R. Livingston named Minister of Foreign Affairs; 3. Journal of the negotiation for peace with Great Britain, from March 21st to July 1st, 1782; 4. Micawberism of the Ministry; 5. Misunderstanding between Count de Vergennes and Dr. Franklin; 6. The Fishery Calumny; 7. The usefulness of enemies; 8. Red tape; 9. Preparation for leaving France; Part VI. From the Termination of his Mission to France in 1785 until his Death, April 17th, 1790: 10. Franklin's reception in America; 11. Freedom of commerce; 12. Re-elected President of Pennsylvania; 13. Retirement from public life; 14. Franklin's last will and testament; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece''s colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato''s ''Laws'' and Aristotle''s ''Politics'', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.Trade Review'… this groundbreaking book offers a fresh and compelling portrait of daily life in Classical Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel's forward-thinking analyses prompt his readers to question longheld beliefs about Greek colonization, and his discussions of early colonial architecture (Chapter 2), residential patterns (Chapters 4 and 5), the reinterpretation of land distribution practices at Metapontum (pp. 132–134), and specialized craft production (Chapter 7) are of particular note. This book is a must-have resource for all scholars of Greek colonization, and will undoubtedly shape the discourse of the field for years to come.' Ancient History BulletinTable of Contents1. Places of darkness: colonial settlements and the history of classical Greece; 2. Huts and houses: a question of ideology?; 3. Tombs: visibility and invisibility in colonial societies; 4. Fields: colonial definitions of equality; 5. Farms: the end of equality?; 6. Mountains: the limits of Greekness and citizenship; 7. Workshops: Banausoi in the colony; 8. Classical Greece from a colonial perspective; Index.

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Book SynopsisKris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe''s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined, histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and freedom struggle in the making of our modern world.Trade Review'If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra's devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism – with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth – and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.' Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles'Kris Manjapra's global history of colonialism turns the most complex scholarship on colonial experience into a lucid and enjoyable narrative. He shows how legacies of colonialism in race relations and unequal economic structures still shape the most crucial issues of today, and demonstrates how a renewal of global humanities is needed to face these problems.' Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'Manjapra's luminous book is a nuanced yet accessible contribution to the relational and comparative study of modern colonialism. Moving deftly across entangled geographies, unsettling the discrete temporalizations of empire, Colonialism in Global Perspective compels readers to see the world anew.' Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico'Refusing to compartmentalize, Kris Manjapra offers readers the long view of colonialism's interlocking logics of power, a tour through time and space that is simultaneously sweepingly global and specifically grounded in the particular.' Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College'Uncommonly comprehensive and intellectually stimulating … Highly recommended.' B. Tavakolian, Choice'Colonialism in a Global Perspective is a lucid and enjoyable read that covers a large geographic area over a lengthy period.' Amal Shahid, H-Socialisms'… the book will leave us with one overarching question in face of socio-economic oppression and post-colonial captivity: should not human rights make us free to be free?' Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, Nordic Journal of Human Rights'Manjapra's approach is an inspired one … The multi-perspective parallactic view Manjapra has employed in Colonialism in Global Perspective has suited the topic well and produced an accessible study of features of a shared colonial experience.' Joseph M. Snyder, The Middle Ground Journal'Interdisciplinary scholars and students interested in the history, political economy, and sociocultural dimensions of colonialism will find this book of value.' Marc Kosciejew, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisHow did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with ''modernity'' and the so-called ''Rise of the West''.Trade Review'Crooks and Parsons have taken an unfashionable subject and crafted a sparkling set of essays that demonstrate the importance of bureaucracy to the founding and maintaining of a diverse array of empires. Speaking across a huge temporal divide, this collection is sensitive to newer histories of colonialism, takes nothing for granted, and rethinks comparative history in important and productive ways. An impressive contribution that belongs on the shelves of historians of empire from every era and every region.' Philippa Levine, University of Texas, Austin'This book studies the links between the hugely important but complicated realities of empire and bureaucracy in a way that is extremely wide-ranging, of great conceptual clarity but also full of detailed knowledge. Given the enormous scale of the project and the different perspectives of the many specialists involved in writing the individual chapters, the coherence of this fascinating work is a great tribute to the two editors. Dominic Lieven, University of Cambridge'A distinguished array of the most important and innovative historians in their respective fields has been brought together here. The resulting debates and discoveries are wide-ranging, penetrating, often genuinely groundbreaking.' Stephen Howe, University of Bristol'In this rich collection of essays edited by Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons, historians working on diverse regions and eras examine the relationship between the establishment and running of empires and bureaucracy.' Prachi Deshpande, H-AsiaTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Empires, bureaucracy and the paradox of power Peter Crooks and Timothy H. Parsons; Part II. Empires and Bureaucracy in World-Historical Perspective: 2. China as a contrasting case: bureaucracy and empire in Song China Patricia Ebrey; 3. Conflict and cooperation between Arab rulers and Persian administrators in the formative period of Islamdom, c.600–950 CE I. T. Kristó-Nagy; 4. Bureaucracy without alphabetic writing: governing the Inca empire, c.1438–1532 Chris Given-Wilson; 5. The Ottoman empire (1299–1923): the bureaucratization of patrimonial authority Karen Barkey; Part III. From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: 6. 'The late Roman empire was before all things a bureaucratic state.' Michael Whitby; 7. Bureaucracies, elites and clans: the case of Byzantium, c.600–1100 John Haldon; 8. Charlemagne and Carolingian military administration Bernard S. Bachrach; 9. Bureaucracy, the English state and the crisis of the Angevin empire, 1199–1205 John Gillingham; 10. The parchment imperialists: texts, scribes, and the medieval western Empire, c.1250–c.1440 Len Scales; 11. Before Humpty Dumpty: the first English empire and the brittleness of bureaucracy, 1259–1453 Peter Crooks; Part IV. From the Age of European Expansion to the End of Empires: 12. Magistrates to administrators, composite monarchy to fiscal-military empire: empire and bureaucracy in the Spanish monarchy, c.1492–1825 Christopher Storrs; 13. Britain's overseas empire before 1780: overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged Jack P. Greene; 14. 'Les enfants du siècle': an empire of young professionals and the creation of bureaucratic, imperial ethos in Napoleonic Europe Michael Broers; 15. Bureaucracy, power and violence in colonial India: the role of Indian subalterns Deana Heath; 16. From chief to technocrat: labour and colonial authority in post-World War II Africa Frederick Cooper; 17. The unintended consequences of bureaucratic 'modernization' in post-World War II British Africa Timothy H. Parsons; Part V. Afterword: 18. Empires and bureaucracy: means of appropriation and media of communication Sam Whimster.

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Book SynopsisThis volume re-inscribes slave-ownership in the history of nineteenth-century Britain, highlighting the crucial roles played by slave-owners and their immediate families in the formation of Victorian economy and society. It combines approaches from social, cultural, political and economic history to rethink the relationship between metropolitan Britain and colonial slavery.Trade Review'This is an important book which contributes significantly to modern British history. It, and the data which underpin it, have the potential not only to re-construct our national memory but also to inform related projects in countries such as France and the Netherlands, studies of re-investment in Britain's 'informal' empire in the Americas, and demands from Caribbean states for reparations for the enduring suffering inflicted by the Atlantic slave trade.' Mandy Banton, Family and Community HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society; 3. Helping make Britain great: the commercial legacies of slave-ownership in Britain; 4. Redefining the West India interest: politics and the legacies of slave-ownership; 5. Reconfiguring race: the stories the slave-owners told; 6. Transforming capital: slavery, family, commerce and the making of the Hibbert family; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Making history in a prosopography; Appendix 2. Glossary of claimant categories; Appendix 3. A note on the database; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victoryIn 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies.    Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the Uni

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Book SynopsisAn astute look at how neoliberalism is ravaging the postcolonial world through the lens of PakistanTrade Review'A major analysis of our world's political crisis and a brilliant critique of the ideology of middle class aspiration' -- Joel Wainwright, Professor at Ohio State University'Shows how an aspirational idea of the middle class reinforces the subordination of dispossessed labour, ethnic minorities in peripheral territories, terrorists and deviant dissenters. This wide-ranging book is sure to stimulate critical scholarship and organic intellectual activism both inside and outside South Asia' -- Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford University'Akhtar powerfully channels the spirit of Gramsci and Fanon to critique neoliberal hegemony in Pakistan - and to diagnose the next great battlefield for the Afro-Asian Left: the values, aspirations, and solidarities of the digitised youth across core and periphery' -- Majed Akhter, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, King's College London'Drawing with insight on Gramsci, and located in the Global South, this accomplished book is an important contribution to the search for progressive, anti-colonial, and humanist revolutionary politics in Pakistan and beyond' -- John Chalcraft, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science'What is the 'political' in Pakistan, and how does this help update our theories on democratic backsliding and contemporary authoritarianism? Why do we want to think of the middle class at the centre of it all again? Read this book to find out' -- Shandana Mohmand, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex'This path-breaking work follows Antonio Gramsci to trace the processes that have led to middle-class aspirations becoming pervasive in places like Pakistan. It builds an alternative hegemony which counters the processes of depravity and violence, and allows for a more socially just future' -- Kamran Asdar Ali, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, AustinTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Middle-class hegemonies in theory and history 1. The Integral State 2. Fear and desire 3. The digital lifeworld 4. The classless subject Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and compelling book, notable for its command of divergent fields and discourses, its careful readings, and its theoretical reach. -- Betsy Bolton Comparative Drama O'Quinn's focus... is refreshing. -- Diedre Lynch Studies in English Literature A sophisticated exposition... useful and stimulating. -- Cheryl Wanko 1650-1850: Ideas, Esthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era An ambitious and important book. -- Michael Garner Studies in Romanticism The book as a whole is an impressive scholarly achievement and a major contribution to the fields of romantic theatre and imperial studies. Theatre Research International Groundbreaking, informative, and penetrating, and it [ Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800] offers significant new information about the role of the theater in late eighteenth-century debates about the Asian colonies and English government. -- Jeremy W. Webster Eighteenth-Century Life O'Quinn's book is one of great importance and significant innovation. His understanding of the situated nature and ideological function of performance is excellent. -- David Francis Taylor Huntington Library QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Supplementation of Imperial SovereigntyPart I: Ethnographic ActsChapter 1. Empire's Vicious Expenses: Samuel Foote's The Nabob and the Credit Crisis of 1772Chapter 2. "As Much as Science Can Approach Barbarity" Pantomimical Ethnography in Omai; or, A Trip round the WorldPart II: Women and the Trials of Imperial MasculinityChapter 3. Inchbald's Indies: Meditations on Despotism circa 1784Chapter 4. The Raree Show of ImpeachmentChapter 5. Molière's Old Woman: Judging and Being Judged with Frances BurneyPart III: A Theatre of Perpetual WarChapter 6. Starke Reforms: Martial Masculinity and the Perils of IndianizationChapter 7. War and Precinema: Tipu Sultan and the Allure of Mechanical DisplayAfterword: Recreational AlterityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's attitude of experimenting, of tesing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances,in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

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Book SynopsisOffers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and non-literary texts.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Postcards, museums, river steamers, friendly guide books, and sunbathers—Debbie Lisle shows here that each of these can be made to serve military objectives or to reinforce militarized, gendered, and racialized presumptions about this world and our alleged places in it. Holidays in the Danger Zone is sure to spark new conversations and fresh investigations."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics"In this fascinating global adventure through historical archives, evocative images, and contemporary accounts of places mundane and exotic, Debbie Lisle takes us across the frontlines from tourism studies to critical war studies (and back, a few times) in order to explore the shared spaces and unexpected engagements between war and leisure."—Waleed Hazbun, author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World"Even to specialists, war and tourism seem to be at opposing ends of the spectrum: war means decreased tourism, and increased tourism is the product of peace. Lisle demonstrates that this relationship is much more complex than commonly accepted."—CHOICETable of ContentsContents Introduction: Entanglements of War and Tourism 1. The Double Vision of Empire: The Gordon Relief Campaign, 1884–85 2. Tours of Duty, Tours of Pleasure: Battlefield Journeys and the Rise of Militourism, 1914–45 3. Bipolar Travels: Tourism and Conflict at the Edges of the Cold War 4. Global Interventions: Contested History and the Rise of Dark Tourism 5. Connecting Tourism and Terrorism: Milblogs, Soft Targets, and the Securitization of Travel Conclusion. Touring Otherwise: The Ethical Possibilities of Entanglement Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the turbulent period prior to colonial Indiaâs partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India for their present. The Language of Secular Islam pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion. The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the very decade in which the demand for Pakistan began to be articulated, should

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War. It reconstructs the long pattern of Korean struggles for national unity and independence, examines the post-war history of North and South Korea, and concludes that reunification is the optimal solution for Korea.Table of ContentsPart 1 Empire and resistance: the United States and Korea; the Korean struggle for independence and democracy. Part 2 Division and war: from occupation to division; US foreign policy and Korea, 1945-1950; the Korean war. Part 3 From division to reunification: divided Korea - the North Korean experience; divided Korea - the South Korean experience; the challenge and promise of reunification.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, The White Man's Burdens offers a cross-section of British poetry in which the Empire was the burden of the song. The material, much of it previously uncollected, is drawn from a broad cultural spectrum that includes narrative poetry, heroic verse, patriotic ballads, music hall monologues, and poems from Punch. Trade Review "The title is from Kipling, of course, as is the epigraph, but it is Kipling footnoted by Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 'The White man's Burden is the burden of his cash'. In these days, when publishers seem eager to publish anthologies on every conceivable subject, and when the nature of the British Empire is a source of fascination and debate at academic and colour supplement and more popular levels as well, it is surprising that we have had to wait so long for this 'cross-section of British poetry in which the Empire was the burden of the song'. It was worth the wait… The expected and familiar are all here, the set-pieces and the party-pieces and those that (sometimes undeservedly) have become the stock of jokes and gibes. But there is much unfamiliar material here, and some interesting juxtapositions are created by the choice of arrangement by chronology, rather than by author or theme, which encourages the reading of each poem in the context of the historical moment of its production. This is a valuable source book, It is also a good read - I couldn't decide whether to keep it in the study or by the bed." (Terry Barringer, Royal Commonwealth Society Collections, Cambridge University Library, African Research and Documentation, No. 78, 1998) Table of ContentsContents: Part 1 16th century: George Chapman. Part 2 17th century: Michael Drayton; Andrew Marvell; John Dryden; Aphra Behn. Part 3 18th century: Daniel Defoe; Alexander Pope; George Berkeley; Frances Seymour; James Thomson; David Garrick; Thomas Morris; James Grainger; Anne Penny; Phillis Wheatley; Anna Seward; James Freeth; George Dallas; William Cowper; Hannah More; William Blake; Erasmus Darwin; Robert Shouthey; William Shepherd. Part 4 19th century: Thomas Campbell; William Wordsworth; James Montgomery; Charles Lamb; Felicia Hemans; Reginald Heber; Thomas Hood; Alfred Tennyson; Samuel Rogers; George Beard; Richard Chevenix Trench; Eliza Cook; John Sheehan; Arthur Hugh Clough; Charles Mackay; Christina Rossetti; Aldred Comyns Lyall; Gerald Massey; William Allingham; Francis Hastings Doyle; Charles Kingsley; "Aliph Cheem" (Walter Yeldham); William Rossetti; William McGonagall; Wilfred Scawen Blunt; Douglas Sladen; George Robert Sims; Alfred Austin; George MacDonald; Rudyard Kipling; Lewis Morris; William Watson; Sarah Geraldine Stock; William Ernest Henley; Owen Seaman; Henry Newbold; Hilaire Belloc; Robert Williams Buchanan; Thomas Hardy; Algernon Charles Swinburne. Part 5 20th century: Henry Newbolt; A.E. Housman; Arthur Christopher Benson; Francis Thompson; Alfred Noyes; John Milton Hayes; Harwood Steele; Lawrence Eastwood; Billy Bennett; Alan Sanders; Noel Coward; John Masefield; W.H. Auden; Stevie Smith; Philip Larkin; Jon Stallworthy; Fred D'Aguiar.

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule.Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence from British colonial rule. Of the seven, four were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, the emancipation of women, environmentalism.This book tells their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found endless infuriation in his views; each understan

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Book SynopsisSounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, and one that will appeal not just to lovers of poetry but to historians of the Empire and sociologists who study trans-national influences. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami Sounding Imperial is a very readable book. It will be mainly of interest to students and scholars of English literature and history. -- Sadhana Naithani Journal of Folklore Research James Mulholland has produced an important new study of eighteenth-century British poetry... -- Evan Gottlieb Review of English Studies James Mulholland's Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 brings the context of British imperialism to Romantic-era poetics, illuminating the concerns of orientalism within the history of print culture. -- Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature What Sounding Imperial tells us about colonialism and culture is that we need to look again at their relationship with fresh eyes. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed VoiceAuthoring Gray's "Elegy"Performing Gray's "Elegy"Impersonating the Bard?Wildness and Welsh ProsodyQuotation Marks(Un)Editing the Bards2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective VoiceBardic Nationalism ReconsideredThe Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo MorganwgListening to the Welsh PastDead Voices Reanimated3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, HistoryAmbiguous SpeechWriting, Re- performance, and Restored VoicesIntimate HailingOssian's Afterlife4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo- Indian PoetryWilliam Jones and the Fountainhead of VerseMaking the Subaltern SpeakRewriting Gray's "The Bard" in IndiaDislocated OrientalismCoda: Reading the Archive of the InauthenticNotesBibliographyIndex

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