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OUP Oxford Journey which Father António Gomes made to the
Book SynopsisGomes's Viagem..., written in 1648, presents in rare detail the relations of the Portuguese creole community with the African population of south-central Africa.Trade ReviewAs I read it, I could not stop imagining myself using Gomes's text to discuss with my students the strengths and weaknesses of the written document as a historical source, and what, even in the same document, might count as primary and secondary source. In this way, both the independent researcher and the guided student of pre-colonial African history will benefit from this book. * Festo Mkenda SJ, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary List of maps List of Illustrations Introduction Portuguese text of the Viagem... English Translation of the Viagem...
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Oxford University Press Inc Schooling Diaspora Women Education and the
Book SynopsisEducation has long been a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese norms have also held that the less education and exposure to influence from outside the home a girl had, the more likely she would be to remain true to conventional domestic values and to remain morally upright. In the mid-nineteenth century, overseas Chinese communities encountered a new perspective via Western European and American missionary schools. Formal education could be not just helpful but integral to preserving female virtue and had the added benefit of elevating the socio-cultural status of the overseas Chinese. As a result, increasing numbers of girls began to attend school. Within a few decades, other groups who sponsored female education-local Chinese community leaders, mainland Chinese reformists, the British colonial government-were offering a competing approach: education for the sake of modernization. These diverse and sometimes divergent priorities preoccupied educators, parents, politicians, and, of course, the girls and women who attended these institutions.In this work, Karen Teoh relates the history of English and Chinese girls'' schools that overseas Chinese founded and attended from the 1850s to the 1960s in British Malaya and Singapore. She examines the strategies of missionaries, colonial authorities, and Chinese reformists and revolutionaries for educating girls, as well as the impact that this education had on identity formation among overseas Chinese women and larger society. Such schools ranged from charitable missions operated by nuns who rescued orphans and prostitutes, to elite institutions for the daughters of the wealthy and powerful. They could tailor their curricula to suit the specific needs of female students, emphasizing domestic skills such as sewing and cooking, or, later, training for women''s work in teaching, nursing, or secretarial jobs. They would help to produce what society needed, in the form of better wives and mothers, or workers and citizens of developing nation-states, while ensuring compliance with desired ideals. Chinese women in diaspora found that failing to conform to any number of state priorities could lead to social disapproval, marginalization, or even outright deportation. Overseas Chinese communities were mindful of these perils, and their responses were as myriad as their modes of identity construction and adaptation. They grappled with questions of how this project might support Chinese nationalism, absorb the best of British colonial influence, and strengthen their image as a stable, modern, and desirable population in their countries of settlement.Bridging Chinese and Southeast Asian history, British imperialism, gender, and the history of education, Schooling Diaspora shows how these diasporic women contributed to the development of a new figure: the educated transnational Chinese woman.Trade ReviewKaren M. Teoh helps readers both visualise and envision, through descriptive and detailed research, the lives, culture, and lived experiences of overseas Chinese women in female schools in British Malaya and Singapore from 1850s to 1960s. The work is a collection of oral histories, shared experiences, and research that presents a remarkable tribute to the collective body of overseas Chinese females whose experiences are represented therein ... [it] ensures that the complicated and winding history of overseas educated Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore is neither overlooked nor forgotten. The work also ensures imagined notions of overseas Chinese and female education in historical British Malaya and Singapore are viewed through their authentic, deeply dynamic realities. * Jennifer Schneider, History of Education *Schooling Diaspora is a valuable contribution to our understanding of education as part of the colonial project and competing notions of gender in the Chinese community in Southeast Asia. * Dr Stan Neal, Reviews in History *This book is an important contribution not only to the history of female education in Malaya, it also contributes significantly to our understanding of the experiences of Chinese migrants and the political participation of overseas-Chinese women in Malaya. It demonstrates how the intersections of national, ethnic and gender identities were played out for overseas-Chinese women as well as the convergences and divergences in the educational experiences of Chinese women across English-medium and Chinese-medium schools. * Siao See Teng, Journal of Chinese Overseas *Schooling Diaspora... breaks new important ground in the historical study of the overseas Chinese. Not only does this book depart from the conventional focus on male mobility, but it also rejects tired assumptions of in-betweenness or a divided sense of belonging about a diasporic group. Rather, Teoh carefully delineates how different ideologies of colonialism, ethnonationalism, and patriarchy simultaneously lay claim to her subjects' commitments, complicating their identities... By moving beyond the national framework in considering questions of ethnicity and power, Teoh successfully recasts these familiar questions in a wider terrain where identity options were multiple and constantly shifting... The result of Teoh's efforts is a groundbreaking work that deftly brings together a variety of sources and interpretations about the transnational lives of educated Chinese women. * Shelly Chan, American Historical Review *Schooling Diaspora successfully depicts how diasporic women's education has been woven into the transnational narratives of modernity and nationalism, and how education and women's self-identity mutually shaped each other. Bridging the gap between Chinese and Southeast Asian history, it provides an important transnational case study of diasporic Chinese women and their educational experience for the global discussion of education, gender and nationalism, and identity. * Jinghong Zhang, Women's History Review *Schooling Diaspora tells the fascinating and little-known history of female education among the Overseas Chinese communities of southeast Asia. Using previously untapped sources in multiple languages and sensitive personal interviews, Teoh shows how the concerns of community leaders, colonial officials, and missionaries, and young women and their families combined to shape the educational experience of Chinese women. She shows beautifully how the question of what role women should play in the transition to a modern nation took distinctive forms in the colonial and multi-ethnic settings of southeast Asia. * Michael Szonyi, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University *To this history of women's education in Southeast Asia Teoh adds an insider's view from her own schooling in two of the institutions. Although Western missionaries and colonial officials frequently championed education for females and wrote about their achievements, she finds that local Chinese also sponsored schools for young women and may have had a more significant modernizing influence. * Beatrice S. Bartlett, Yale University *Teoh's research presents the intersection among gender, class, and inter-ethnic relationship in the contested terrain of overseas Chinese education in British Malaya. This book contributes greatly to understandings of the multifarious faces of overseas Chinese women and their unique trajectory of modernization. A must-read book for scholars interested in transnationalism and overseas Chinese. * Huei-Ying Kuo, author of Networks beyond Empires: Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941 *This study skillfully integrates perspectives from history, political economy, and ethnography to unravel the complex interweaving of the education of Overseas Chinese females in colonial Malaya and Singapore with British colonialism, Chinese ethno-nationalism, patriarchy, and hybrid cultural identities. The archive-based narrative is enlivened by original interviews with Southeast Asia-born women who were schooled in the 1930s and 1940s, including some who were motivated by their education to re-migrate to China following the Communist revolution. Particularly striking are the different gendered worldviews embodied in English- and Chinese-language girls' schools, reflecting the different transnational as well as local political influences to which they were subject, within the same spaces. * Linda Y.C. Lim, University of Michigan *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Spelling Introduction: Women, Education, and Overseas Chinese Identity Chapter 1: A Little Education, A Little Emancipation: The Colonial Politics of Female Education, 1850s-1950s Chapter 2: Barrier against Evil, Encouragement for Good: English Girls' Schools, 1850s-1960s Chapter 3: So That They May be an Honor to You: The Nyonya Problem and the Singapore Chinese Girls' School, 1890s-1940s Chapter 4: Rare Flowers, Modern Girls, Good Citizens: Chinese Girls' Schools, 1900s-1950s Chapter 5: Home is That Which I Adore: Re-migration to China, 1940s-1960s Conclusion: The Domestic Citizen and Female Education in the Postcolonial Era Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Penman of the Founding
Book SynopsisWhy is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson?John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistance to British rule in the American colonies. In fact, to many, he was the most prominent figure in the struggle for independence, though his Quaker-influenced opposition to violence kept him from signing one of its most famous documents in July 1776. Still, Dickinson, one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, did more to promote the cause behind it than almost anyone else, not only as the lead draftsman in all the national Congresses, but in his popular writing. His hugely influential Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania educated colonists about their rights and instructed them in how to defend those rights in non-violent ways. In essence he taught the colonists to think of themselves as Americans, united in a common cause. Despite his refusal to sign the Declaration of Independence, he continued to serve the nation in a number of capacities--in Congress, as governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, as president of the Annapolis Convention, as delegate to the Federal Convention, and as president of the Delaware constitutional convention. Because of his close association with Quakerism, he also took stances unlike any other major figure of his day, making him among the first to advocate civil disobedience as a form of protest, freeing his slaves and embracing abolitionism, advocating rights for women, Indians, prisoners, and the poor. He nonetheless volunteered for active service in the Delaware militia during the War of Independence.Despite the key part he played in the country''s founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Early chroniclers and historians, seeking to create a patriotic narrative and taking their cues from his political enemies, cast him as a coward and Loyalist for not signing the Declaration. Many later historians have simply accepted and echoed this distorted and dismissive view. Jane Calvert''s fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson''s life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation''s formative years.
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OUP India In Search of Lost Glory Sindhi Nationalism in
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OUP India The Empires New Clothes
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Oxford University Press Inc Sacred Rivals Catholic Missions and the Making of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this engaging and insightful study, Joseph Peterson explores the myriad ways in which Catholic missionary experiences animated debates about race, civilization, and imperial ideology in nineteenth-century French Algeria. What emerges is a rich and troubling story of how lasting perceptions of Muslims and 'the Arab' were wrought in the fires of religious and political competition. Sacred Rivals is an essential book for anyone interested in the intellectual, social, and cultural history of modern empire. * J.P. Daughton, Stanford University *Sacred Rivals renews our understanding of the Catholic-Muslim encounters during the colonization of Algeria by France in the nineteenth century. Drawing from Catholic discourses on Islam and missionary practices on the ground, Joseph W. Peterson analyzes brilliantly the shift from the admiration, by conservative Catholics, for the devout piety of Algerian Muslims to a condemnation of Islam as fanatical and inconvertible by liberal Catholics. These new exclusionary discourses and practices fed religious orientalism, the formation of modern stereotypes of Muslims as the enemies of civilization, and, above all, the racialization of Islam. This wonderful book provides us with an important genealogy of modern Islamophobia while suggesting that Catholicism had also produced earlier resources for the toleration of Islam. * Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University *This deeply researched and carefully argued book offers new insight into how a specifically 'Catholic Orientalism,' alongside and in tension with a secular state 'civilizing mission,' shaped the ideology and practice of colonial government in nineteenth-century French Algeria. Peterson reveals the surprising ways in which internal contests between conservative and liberal Catholics shaped attitudes towards missionary work, shifting over the course of the nineteenth century from an ambivalent philo-Islamism to an increasingly hostile, racialized view of Muslim fanaticism and the perceived menace of 'pan-Islamism.' It will be of great interest to scholars of religion, race, and colonialism in the French Empire and beyond it. * Judith Surkis, Rutgers University *Weaving its argument seamlessly from the stories of colonizers and colonized in Algeria, Sacred Rivals shows how religion served to articulate and extend French imperial domination, and how colonial occupation offered resurgent Catholicism a field of action it had lost in France. Peterson argues convincingly that conservative Catholics viewed Islam more 'positively' as a model of unified religiosity France had lost; yet failing to find more than a handful of converts, they rationalized their disappointment with increasingly bitter racial and cultural generalizations about Arabs and Muslims. This is a 'social history of ideas' that will be read eagerly by scholars of French empire and the church, and more broadly by readers interested in the roots of French Islamophobia. * Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Sincerely Religious: Louis Veuillot and Catholic Representations of Islam and Empire Chapter 2: God and Caesar: Missionaries and Militaires in Colonial Algeria Chapter 3: White unto Harvest: Religion, Race, and the Jesuit Mission Arabe at Constantine Chapter 4: Crusade of Charity: Liberal Catholic Roots of the Civilizing Mission Chapter 5: Conspiracy to Massacre: Liberal Catholics and the Invention of Pan-Islam Chapter 6: Worthy of his Hire: Charles Lavigerie, Algerian Muslims, and Missionary Fundraising Chapter 7: Compel Them to Come: Algerian Students and Colonial Racism between France and Algeria Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc A Brilliant Commodity Diamonds and Jews in a
Book SynopsisThe first history of Jews in the nineteenth-century transatlantic diamond industry, A Brilliant Commodity shows how Jews became key players in the trade from its earliest days-from South Africa to Amsterdam and London to New York-to its place as a lucrative commodity in the global economy.Trade ReviewThe author's scholarship is exceptional, the writing is clear and concise, and the book is an essential account of that tumultuous time in history. * Russell Shor, Journal of Gemmology *A product of deep research, this admirable book illuminates the circuits of people, commodities, and capital in the diamond trade. In tracing Jewish enterprise and expertise through networks that encompass the Cape, London, Amsterdam, and New York, Coenen Snyder provides a convincing study of material culture set in the dynamic contexts of societies old and new. * Saul Dubow, Cambridge University *If diamonds, as De Beers would have us believe, are forever, the full story of the modern diamond trade has slipped from memory. Saskia Coenen Snyder reminds us of the central and multi-faceted role of Jews on three continents in transforming rough-hewn stones from the mines of Kimberley to the brilliant jewels sold to eager customers in the United States. This is transnational history at its best, revealing the global networks that made the diamond trade possible, teaching us about how diamonds reshaped local economies and everyday lives, and illuminating the lasting cultural impact of the relationship between Jews and diamonds. * Adam D. Mendelsohn, author of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army *Ever wonder how and why the magic words 'I do' are coupled with a diamond ring? If so, this book is for you. Sweeping, vivid, and resonant, Saskia Coenen Snyder's account of the global traffic in diamonds encompasses economics and etiquette, diamond mines and curb-side markets, intimate courtship rituals and public displays of affluence. A Brilliant Commodity is a triumph of the historical imagination. * Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and The Promise of America *This intriguing book is a model of transnational Jewish economic history. Assorted histories—imperial, Jewish, economic, and labor—converge in Coenen Snyder's fascinating account of how diamonds became a niche dominated by Jews in the world of luxury goods. This comprehensive but comprehensible study takes the reader from the minefields of Africa to the exchange floors of London to the 'Jewish factories' of Amsterdam to the retail storefronts of New York City as it brings to life the enterprising people who made diamonds a ubiquitous luxury by the twenty-first century. * Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Clarity, Cut, Carat, and Color Chapter 1: "Like Dewdrops in the Waving Grass": Diamonds in South Africa Chapter 2: An Empire Made Portable: London Chapter 3: "As Long As It Sparkles!": Amsterdam Chapter 4: "Luxuries Have Now Become Necessities": New York Chapter 5: Jews and Diamonds in the Public Imagination Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Hard Neighbors
Book SynopsisAn intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear for white colonial expansion into Indian lands, embodying what became the American pioneer spirit.Hard Neighbors highlights stories that have been subsumed by terms such as English settlers and American expansion and traces shifting relationships involving Scotch-Irish people living on the frontier, neighboring Indian peoples, and more distant governments. It follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish from their genesis on a colonial borderland on one side of the Atlantic to their role in the borderlands of Indian country on the other. It traces their relations with Native Americans over time and across the continent, examines their experiences as marginalized and expendable people living between colonial powers and Indigenous peoples, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the hard
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Oxford University Press Inc The Allure of Empire American Encounters with
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Allure of Empire offers a thought-provoking and illuminating narrative of mutual attractions and collusions between self-proclaimed progressive empires. Taking readers from Korea to Cuba and California via the Philippines, and from Washington, DC, back to East Asia via Hawai'i, this book interweaves the separate(d) stories of immigration politics, military conquest, missionary expansionism, social science research, and global racial struggle into a coherent history of the imperial Pacific. This is transimperial scholarship at its best. * Eiichiro Azuma, author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire *Chris Suh's masterful book follows the Pacific nations, especially Japan, the United States, and colonies over two centuries framed by the 'Yellow Peril.' Suh's narrative addresses elaborate ideologies, racial hierarchy, politics, and diplomacy. * Thomas Bender, author of Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History *Table of ContentsNote on Romanization Acknowledgments Introduction: Seeing Race Beyond the Color Line Chapter 1: Empires of Reform: The United States, Japan, and the End of Korean Sovereignty, 1904-1905 Chapter 2: Between Empire and Exclusion: The Professional Class at the Helm of Anti-Japanese Politics, 1905-1915 Chapter 3: Uplifting the "Subject Races": American Missionary Diplomacy and the Politics of Comparative Racialization, 1905-1919 Chapter 4: Empires of Exclusion: The Abrogation of the Gentlemen's Agreement, 1919-1924 Chapter 5: Faith in Facts: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Quest for International Peace, 1925-1933 Chapter 6: Toward a New Order: The End of the Inter-Imperial Relationship across the Color Line, 1933-1941 Epilogue: The World Empires Made Note on Sources and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Company Politics Commerce Scandal and French
Book SynopsisFocusing on the little-known French East India Company, Company Politics explores corporate politics, financial scandals, and rival empires, shedding light on both the rise of European rule in India and the origins and economic consequences of the French Revolution.Trade ReviewFrom the Seven Years' War through the Revolution of 1789, the history of the French East India Company is a tangle of corruption, reformist illusions, and imperial ambitions. Company Politics offers a commanding interpretation of this episode that explains the curious durability of the much-reviled trading companies, and company states, well into the nineteenth century. Elizabeth Cross is a skilled researcher, a discerning interpreter of politics, and an urbane writer. * Paul Cheney, University of Chicago *Company Politics offers an arresting account of how the Third French East India Company came to embody a new type of global trading corporation, one divested of sovereign attributes and relying instead on economic power to project royal influence abroad. This book adds a critical new perspective to the growing literature on the dynamic relationship between imperial governance and political economy in the final decades of the eighteenth century. * Rafe Blaufarb, author of The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property *This superb study of the last French East India Company examines the final decades of the old regime French empire in India, making clear the geopolitical and economic possibilities it still appeared to present. Following the company into the 1790s, when it was at the center of the French Revolution's greatest corruption scandal, Cross examines how revolutionary republicanism destabilized the patrimonial norms that underpinned the absolutist order. Comprehensively researched, deeply conceptualized, and a pleasure to read. * John Shovlin, author of Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order *Company Politics is written with remarkable fluency, combining meticulous empirical research with nuanced yet authoritative analysis. Cross makes sense of France's New East India Company as a remedy—a concoction of trade-offs and contradictions, commerce and state, war and peace—prescribed to heal the wound of France's painful loss to the British in India. She guides us with ease and assurance from metropolitan debates and disputes, from old regime to new, across a great gap to the lived realities of France's disparate trading posts in India. This is an invaluable study of continuity underpinning revolutionary change that deepens our understanding of French commercial and imperial strategy in Asia far beyond the period it addresses. * Natasha Pairaudeau, author of Mobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline of the Compagnies des Indes Introduction Chapter 1 The Company's Two Bodies Chapter 2 The Revolution of India Chapter 3 Diplomatic Intentions Chapter 4 Between the Colossus and the Tiger Chapter 5 Discredit Chapter 6 Revolutionary Regeneration Chapter 7 Notes on a Scandal Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Collision of Worlds
Book SynopsisMexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the globalized world we inhabit today. The violent clash that culminated in the Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-21 and the new colonial order it created were millennia in the making, entwining the previously independent cultural developments of both sides of the Atlantic.Collision of Worlds provides a deep history of this encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain, from their prehistories to the urban and imperial societies they built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Leading Mesoamerican archaeologist David Carballo offers a unique perspective on these fabled events with a focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic perspective, and their interweaving in an encounter characterized by conquest and colonialism, but also resilience on the part of Native peoples. An engrossing and sweeping account, Collision of Worlds debunks long-held myths and contextualizes the deep roots and enduring consequences of the Aztec-Spanish conflict as never before.Trade ReviewA thorough, balanced, and nuanced view of the Spanish invasion and conquest of Mesoamerica and the establishment of colonial New Spain.... This book not only helps us to better understand the centuries-long experiences in New Spain but also illustrates how weaving together multiple histories, at both macro- and micro-levels, can provide insights about culture contact-the collision of worlds-and its analysis. * Janine Gasco, American Anthropologist *Well researched, up-to-date, and even-handed, Collision of Worlds is a much-needed retelling of the Aztec overthrow, giving due weight to archaeological findings and indigenous sources, especially those written in Nahuatl by eyewitnesses who let us see into the Mexican side of a complex tragedy long told from mostly European viewpoints. * Ronald Wright, Times Literary Supplement *We have long needed just such a book, and I imagine that for many years historians will consult this volume whenever they need to understand more about archaeology's contributions to the study of early Mexico. * Camilla Townsend, Hispanic American Historical Review *Illuminating and richly detailed, this fascinating history shows readers that worlds are not lost; tendrils of what has gone before intertwine with, fashion, and forever mark the hybrid societies of today. * Historical Novel Society *I so recommend David M. Carballo's dazzling and masterful book on the Aztecs and the Spanish, their similarities and differences. * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Aspects of History *David Carballo has given us 'two for one' in this deep history of the great encounter of Spain and Mesoamerica that forged the Mexico of today. Rather than limit his focus on the dynamic five-year period between the arrival of Spaniards in 1517 and the fall of the Aztec capital of 1521, this book is a monumental work of long range historical and archaeological comparison of ethnicities, myths, cities, markets, world views, and human actions. No other history of the war for the Aztec capital reveals the cultural depth or historical breadth of what was truly at stake when the Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc yielded to Cortés at the pyramids of Tlatelolco in August of 1521. * Davíd Carrasco, author of The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction *David Carballo weaves a fascinating historical tapestry. Collision of Worlds is authoritative, evenhanded, and draws on a broad array of sources. This outstanding account helps us understand the roots of today's globalized world. * Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age *Collision of Worlds takes a new look at the world-changing events of 1519-1521 and the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Archaeologist David Carballo examines two landscapes * Medillín, Spain, home of Hernando Cortés, and Cholula, Mexico dominated by its Great Pyramidto illustrate the entanglements of deep history and place that shaped New Spain and the foundations of the global world.Deborah Nichols, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs *Collision of Worlds is a unique and resonant achievement, an old story told in a new way. By adopting an archaeologist's perspective, David Carballo is able to offer a fresh and thought-provoking take on the history of the Spanish-Aztec encounter. And by reaching back into the deep Mesoamerican and Iberian pasts, he helps us to better understand that encounter, its outcomes, and its significance. * Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés *In this remarkable work of comparative history and archaeology, David Carballo situates the Spanish-Mexica wars of the 16th century within a parallel account of Iberia and Mesoamerica, stretching back into humanity's deep past. * David Wengrow, author of What Makes Civilization? *Table of ContentsPreface Figures Tables 1. Mexico, Spain, and their Deep Histories of Place 2. Cultural Evolution in Mesoamerica 3. Cultural Evolution in Iberia 4. Mexico and Spain on the Eve of Encounter 5. The Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica 6. The Spanish-Mexica War 7. Forging New Spain Bibliography
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OUP India AngloIndia and the End of Empire
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Oxford University Press Inc Against HighCaste Polygamy
Book SynopsisAgainst High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar''s 1871 tract arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. Vidyasagar published this work fifteen years after passage of the Hindu Widow''s Remarriage Act, which owed so much to his earlier reform leadership. However, in the wake of the Rebellion of 1857 British and Indian attitudes toward official intervention in customary practices underwent a sea change.The British were increasingly reluctant to create unrest, while many Indian leaders began to question the legitimacy of seeking government assistance for social change. The age of active collaboration between the British officials and Indian reformers had passed. In Against High-Caste Polygamy, Vidyasagar demonstrates both his continued faith in an earlier approach to reform and his frustration at the new tenor of the times.Against High-Caste Polygamy is not a treatise on polygamy in general. Rather, it addresses a subset of polygamous marriage as practiced among the highest Hindu castes in eastern India, or what then constituted the Bengal Presidency of British India. This particular form of polygamy came to be known in English as Kulinism, from the term for a person who holds high clan rank (known in Bengali as a kulina). As Vidyasagar shows, Kulinism rests on a highly articulated and historically entrenched system of status and rank that trapped women in wretched domestic situations. Against High-Caste Polygamy is Vidysagar''s attempt to open the eyes of Bengali readers as well as the government to the extent and dire ramifications of polygamous practices that often left women ostracized, neglected, and abused. This translation makes Vidyasagar''s polemic available to English-language readers for the first time. It features a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, and a variety of supplementary critical tools.Trade ReviewAgainst High-Caste Polygamy departs from this pattern, by engaging a range of other rhetorical, interpretive, and explanatory methods. One does find the necessary overview of Hindu legal texts, but readers will discover much more. * Brian A. Hatcher, Packard Professor of Theology in the Department of Religion at Tufts University. *This magnificent book demonstrates how precolonial Indian forms of textual exegesis and debate foundationally shaped the birth of the modern Indian public sphere. By unearthing the nexus between patriarchy and accumulation of capital, it provides us new intellectual resources to critique 'marital capitalism.' A tour de force-must-read for anyone interested in Indian intellectual and gender history. * Milinda Banerjee, Author of The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India *Only Brian Hatcher could have so elegantly translated a text like Against High-Caste Polygamy. Hatcher's fascinating introduction highlights Vidyasagar's contribution toward an imaginative sociology of Bengal, embellished by an early data-driven perspective, and informed by enormous sympathy for Bengali women trapped in Kulin marriages. Hatchers voice merges with this sympathy, while retaining its analytical acumen. This book is central for understanding women's reform in colonial India and is a tremendous read. * Deepra Dandekar, PhD, Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin *A daunting task indeed-to make relevant a late-nineteenth century text on the plight of high-caste Hindu women, subject to, as Vidyasagar writes 'the practice of this hideous and cruel custom' of serial polygamy. Hatcher's seamless introduction and extremely readable translation successfully highlights Vidyasagar's fundamental ethical commitment to women's dignity. He neatly contextualizes the author's Brahmanical heritage that could have predicated an inherently patriarchal viewpoint. * Malavika Karlekar, Editor of Indian Journal of Gender Studies *The significance of Hatcher's work, an indispensable Vidyasagar scholar of our time, lies in the attempt to make the social reformer's works available to the English-speaking world. * Mahitosh Mandal, Indian Forum *Table of ContentsPreface Note on the text and translation Introduction Against High-Caste Polygamy: the English translation Notice Against High-Caste Polygamy Conclusion Appendices Supplement One Supplement Two Conclusion to the Second Supplement Supporting evidence Glossary: English to Sanskrit/Bengali Glossary: Sanskrit/Bengali to English Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc How to Make a New Spain The Material Worlds of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology and Gentilics How to enter the material and social worlds Chapter 1: How to make money Chapter 2: How to build houses Chapter 3: How to furnish a house Chapter 4: How to get pottery and food Chapter 5: How to dress the part Chapter 6: How to build sociotechnical systems: tools, livestock, and slaves Chapter 7: How to link wealth and consumption, or not Conclusion: The Material Worlds of Spanish Colonizers Appendix 5.1: Items of clothing in the probate inventories Appendix 6.1: Tools listed in the documents Appendix 7.1: Prices of shirts with an indicated origin References
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Oxford University Press Inc Voodoo The History of a Racial Slur
Book SynopsisCoined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term voodoo has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--real or imagined--among people of African descent. Voodoo is one way that white people have invoked their anxieties and stereotypes about Black people--to call them uncivilized, superstitious, hypersexual, violent, and cannibalistic. In this book, Danielle Boaz explores public perceptions of voodoo as they have varied over time, with an emphasis on the intricate connection between stereotypes of voodoo and debates about race and human rights. The term has its roots in the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s, especially following the Union takeover of New Orleans, when it was used to propagate the idea that Black Americans held certain superstitions that allegedly proved that they were unprepared for freedom, the right to vote, and the ability to hold public office. Similar stereotypes were later extended to Cuba and Haiti in the late nineteenth and eaTrade ReviewPainstakingly researched, Danielle Boaz's analysis shows that the denigration of African religions has always had an overarching purpose of denying Black people's humanity and of justifying colonial enterprise, enslavement, and white supremacy. This book is essential reading. * Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World *Bold and evidence-driven, Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur exposes the disturbing truth that 'religious racism' levied upon custodians of African heritage religions is the only type of racism that most people still find permissible and even necessary in the twenty-first century. In this long overdue volume, Boaz provokes readers to investigate why and demolishes all rationalizations of the past. * Dianne M. Stewart, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Emory University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Emancipation, Civil Rights, and the Origins of "Voodoo" in the 1850s--1880s 2. "Voodoo" and U.S. Imperialism in Cuba in the 1890s--1920s 3. Love Cults and "White Slaves" in the 1920s 4. Human Sacrifice and African American Muslims in the 1930s 5. "Sacrifices at Sea" and Refugees in the 1980s 6. Sex Trafficking and Sacred Oaths in the 1990s to the Present Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Horn of Africa
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Oxford University Press Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing Cesaire Glissant Conde
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, she illuminates how the development of French Caribbean literature and debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to theories of in-betweenness and incompleteness central to postcolonial modes. In each chapter, lively and detailed analyses of literary and critical texts reveal connections between key thematic, conceptual, rhetorical, and psychic issues that form the interface of Caribbean and postcolonial concerns. The first part paves theoretical ground, fTrade Review... engages adroitly with the relations between theory, fiction and politics, showing how they have taken quite a distinctive shape in Caribbean culture. * Journal of Romance Studies *... offers an important and original contribution to the study of French Antillean literature ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and compellingly argued, it places this literature within the context of deconstructive, poststructuralist thought with ease and sophistication, while offering substantive close-readings of canonical texts that markedly extend our awareness of the subtle workings of these materials. * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English. * Modern Language Review *Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing. * Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings *Table of ContentsPOSTCOLONIALITY, ALLEGORY, AND THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Migration and Empire
Book SynopsisMigration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained high. These migrants included so-called ''surplus women'' and ''children in need'', shipped overseas to ease perceived social problems at home. Empire migrants also included entrepreneurs and indentured labourers from south Asia, Africa, and the Pacific (together with others from the Far East, outside the empire), who relocated in huge numbers with equally transformative effects in, for example, central and southern Africa, the Caribbean, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Fiji. The UK at the core of empire was also the recipient of empire migrants, especially from the ''New Commonwealth'' after 1945.These several migration flows are analysed with a strong appreciation of the commonality and thTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Migration and Empire is both thoroughly engaging and very readable. I recommend it to anyone wanting, not only to understand a central element of our heritage, but also the current migration streams to this country. * Michael Drake, Family and Community History *This study, in addition to being a major work of historical scholarship, also taps our contemporary consciousness. * Donald M. MacRaild, Times Higher Education *The scholarship is splendid, with wide-ranging temporal and spatial coverage and original research. * David Northrup, English Historical Review *This book marks something of a landmark in surveys of migration within the British Empire ... a quite staggering scope and depth of research ... a model for survey texts, innovative in its own right; it should be indispensable for teachers, students and scholars for years to come. * A. James Hammerton, H-Soz-u-Kult *Migration and Empire is the result of an enormous amount of work conducted by two well-respected scholars in the field of British emigration history. The depth and breadth of their combined knowledge is clearly evident in this book. * Lisa Chilton, Victorian Studies *an important addition to the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series ... a narrative that awes us with the scope of movement through the British imperial world but also touches us with the diverse human stories behind the demographic trends. * Tilman W. Nechtman, History *[a] comprehensive overview ... Both authors approach the subject having already published a large number of books and articles on emigration from the British Isles. They bring this expertise to the present volume in the form of highly detailed statistical data and a familiarity with the wider literature that makes possible a survey of such scope and ambition. * Bryan Glass, British Scholar Society *It is a highly readable and deeply researched introduction to the topic that ought to be within arm's reach of anyone working on the subject ... Migration and Empire is a meaningful contribution to the series, full of useful statistics for the teacher and researcher and fascinating anecdotes about the experience of the British migrant. * Charles V. Reed, H-Net *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The British Empire and Empire Migration, 1815 to the 1960s ; 2. Crossing the Atlantic: Migrants and Settlers in Canada ; 3. A Land of Perpetual Summer: Australian Experiences ; 4. Sheep and Sunshine: New Zealand ; 5. Africa South of the Sahara ; 6. Exile into Bondage? Non-White Migrants and Settlers ; 7. Immigration and the Heart of Empire ; 8. A Civilizing Influence? The Female Migrant ; 9. Children of the Poor: Child and Juvenile Migration ; 10. The Emigration Business ; 11. The Homecoming Migrant ; 12. Afterword: The Politics of Migration and the End of Empire
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Oxford University Press Empires at War
Book SynopsisEmpires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War. It expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed the First World War, from the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya to the massive violence that followed the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian, and Austrian empires until 1923. It also presents the war as a global war of empires rather than a a European war between nation-states.This volume tells the story of the millions of imperial subjects called upon to defend their imperial governments'' interest, the theatres of war that lay far beyond Europe, and the wartime roles and experiences of innumerable peoples from outside the European continent. Empires at War covers the broad, global mobilizations that saw African solders and Chinese labourers in the trenches of the Western Front, Indian troops in Jerusalem, and the Japanese military occupying Chinese territory. Finally, the volume shows how the Trade ReviewThe First World War was a war not fought between nations but between empires European and Asian as well as "blue-water empires". This fundamental insight of the Greater War opens a powerful new perspective on the way the war was fought, the aims of the combatants, and the strains it imposed on their brittle systems of rule. The result is a major contribution to rethinking the First World War's impact on modern world (and not just European) history. * John Darwin, Oxford University *Empires at War is the best account we have of the global framework of warfare in the period including and surrounding the Great War. The value of this rich collection is in its forceful demonstration of how deeply imbedded nations were in transnational projects, traditions, experiences, and dreams. * Jay Winter, Yale University *With contributions from this generation's most influential historians, Empires at War offers a stunning reappraisal of the First World War's global dimensions; revealing with brilliant clarity how imperialism reached its zenith, and then collapsed as a newly politicized ethnic and racial groups stepped forward to demand their rightful place in the world order. * Jennifer D. Keene, Chapman University *Empires at War makes and important and much-needed contribution to the history of the Great War by reminding us that it was a truly a world wide conflict and one which for many areas from Central Europe to the Far East continued well beyond the armistice of 1918. This strong collection of thoughtful essays expands our understanding of a pivotal moment of the twentieth century by showing the war's global impact and consequences. * Margaret MacMillan, Oxford University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Ottoman Empire ; 2. The Italian Empire ; 3. The German Empire ; 4. Austria-Hungary ; 5. The Russian Empire ; 6. The French Empire ; 7. British Imperial Africa ; 8. The Dominions, Ireland and India ; 9. The Portuguese Empire ; 10. The Japanese Empire ; 11. China and Empire ; 12. The United States ; 13. Empires at the Paris Peace Conference
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Oxford University Press The Guardians
Book SynopsisThe First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany''s African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France, Belgium, Japan, and the British dominions wanted to keep the new states, but Woodrow Wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwise. At the Paris Peace conference of 1919, the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under ''mandate'' from the League of Nations. As The Guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequences. The allies sought to use the League to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves created. Colonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; GerTrade Review[An] original, stimulating and thoroughly researched examination of how the new League managed to sustain a façade of trusteeship in a world of selfish imperial interests... This is a fascinating examination of empire in its final death throes. * Literary Review, Richard Overy *A richly detailed study of the League's Permanent Mandates Commission... Pedersen's book is genuinely revelatory a long disquisition on the politics of unintended consequences, as a bureaucratic system designed to uphold and legitimise imperial reconstruction provided the tools for its undoing. * Financial Times, Duncan Kelly *The first indispensable book written on a critical subject in 50 years... fair-minded, hard-hitting and readable... The Guardians is a magnificent book. * Wall Street Journal (Europe), WM. Roger Louis *A strikingly original book. * Mark Mazower, The Guardian *The Guardians offers many important insights, not least in demonstrating how internationalism deepened when Germany became a commission member and how the UK's governance of Iraq inspired today's system of economic imperialism. The book's primary revelation, however, relates to what the league did not do. Pedersen argues that self-determination, the concept that supposedly underpinned its creation, "was not what the Commission would serve". Its failure to take seriously the demands of its mandated populations initiated a set of forces that would help to forge our unequal world of today. Pedersen's study is nothing less than a groundbreaking account of how one organisation shaped the 20th century. * Times Higher Education, Niamh Gallagher *A magnificent study. * Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books *provides an enlightening, insightful, richly textured exposé of the Mandates Commission from birth to transformation under the United Nations. Her multi-archival, international, superbly footnoted, and, at its core, personality driven narrative brings alive an institution ... the author's highly engaging narrative style makes the book fly by as if it were a summer beach read. Extremely readable, richly informative, and boldly argued. * G. Donato, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPART I: MAKING THE MANDATES SYSTEM; PART II: RETREAT FROM SELF-DETERMINATION, 1923-1930; PART III: NEW TIMES, NEW NORMS, 1927-1933; PART IV: BETWEEN EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONALISM, 1933-1939
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Oxford University Press Churchill and Ireland
Book SynopsisWinston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the Anglo-American relationship. Churchill, in fact, probably took Ireland more seriously than Ireland took Churchill. Yet, in the fifty years since Churchill''s death, there has not been a single major book on his relationship to Ireland. It is the most neglected part of his legacy on both sides of the Irish Sea. Distinguished historian of Ireland Paul Bew now at long last puts this right. Churchill and Ireland tells the full story of Churchill''s lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish, from his early years as a child in Dublin, through his central role in the Home Rule crisis of 1912-14 and in the war leading up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, to his bitter disappointment at Irish neutrality in the Second World War and gradual rapprochement with his old enemy Eamon de Valera towards the end of his life. As this long overdue book reminds us, Churchill learnt his earliest rudimentary political lessons in Ireland. It was the first piece in the Churchill jigsaw and, in some respects, the last.Trade ReviewIntriguing and succinct. * Eamon Delaney, Irish Independent *Paul Bew's elegant, concise and meticulous study is a timely reminder both of the profound entwinement of Irish and British history and of the interventions made by Britain's most famous 20th-century politician upon the destiny of its neighbouring island. This is also a book of surprises, particularly for readers inculcated with stories of Churchill's hostility to Ireland. * Neil Hegarty, The Daily Telegraph *[An] informed, balanced study ... As a distinguished Irish historian, Bew brings much knowledge of the Irish background. * Roland Quinault, History Today *brings the methodology of a scrupulous historian to his task * Peter Clarke, Times Literary Supplement *The book provides excellent coverage of the 1916-22, and establishes a solid basis for understanding the later period. * Ryle Dwyer, Irish Examiner *[A] succinct and challenging overview of Winston Churchill's complex relationship with Ireland. * Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times *it is welcome that a historian should decide to tackle this subject, and even more so that it should be Paul Bew [...] This short and engaging book [...] makes an important contribution to Churchill (and Irish) studies. * Dr Iain Sharpe, Journal of Liberal History *Lord Bew's outstanding, sharply written account sets out, for the first time, how Winston Churchill's intellect, wit and, at times, deviousness, shaped the relationship between Britain and Ireland. [...] Paul Bew alters our perception of the great man by showing for the first time that he determined the shape of the relationship between and within the two islands more than any other British politician. In doing this, he confirms his reputation as one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. * Lord Lexden, The House Magazine *a short but absorbing book ... Surprisingly, this is the first major study on a relationship which was literally central to Churchill's family, life and political career. * Keith Simpson, Iain Dale's blog *Lord Bew is a measured historian of notable experience ... [he] makes a real effort here to paint a well-rounded view of Churchill's relationship with Ireland, warts and all. * JP O'Malley, Irish Independent *Paul Bew has achieved the near impossible: he has somehow written a book on an important aspect of Winston Churchill's statecraft that is totally comprehensive, genuinely ground-breaking and yet capable of being read in an afternoon. In a life that has been trawled over literally thousands of times by historians, Churchill's relations with Ireland have not received anything like the attention they deserve, despite the significant role he played in Irish history and Ireland's equally significant role in his own career. That historiographical gap has now been definitively filled by Bew's scholarly, highly readable and fascinating book. * Andrew Roberts, Literary Review *Utterly compelling ... This is a provocative and fascinating book, all the more enjoyable for the energy and charm of its singular focus. * Eamon Delaney, Irish Independent *A well researched and elegantly written book ... Paul Bew is one of Irelands most interesting and important political historians. * Eion Ó Broin, Sunday Business Post *[A] fascinating book. * Evening Echo *scholarly, readable and enjoyable ... As a study of a political chameleon and Ireland, this book can be highly recommended. * Robert McNamara, The Irish News *Paul Bew has given us a masterly exposition of Churchill's lifelong engagement with Irish affairs. * Paul Addison, author of Churchill: The Unexpected Hero *An engaging, appreciative, and politically astute study ... a book that proves, if needed, that Churchills legacy still offers both an inspiration and a reproach for contemporary politicians, as they sink ever deeper into the mire of cynicism, triviality, sound-bites, and tweets. * David Fitzpatrick, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin *A necessary and desirable addition to collections on Irish history, Winston Churchill, and the British Empire ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Irish Politics: A Father's Legacy ; 2. Winston Churchill: The Making of a Home Ruler ; 3. Churchill in Belfast ; 4. The 'Plot Against Ulster' ; 5. Ireland at the Front ; 6. War in Ireland ; 7. The Making and Breaking of the Treaty Settlement ; 8. The Disintegration of Churchill's Irish Legacy ; 9. Churchill and Irish Neutrality ; 10. 'Saving them from themselves' ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press Churchill and Ireland
Book SynopsisWinston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously -- and not only because of its significance in the Anglo-American relationship. Churchill, in fact, probably took Ireland more seriously than Ireland took Churchill. Yet, in the fifty years since Churchill''s death, there has not been a single major book on his relationship to Ireland. It is the most neglected part of his legacy, on both sides of the Irish Sea. Distinguished historian of Ireland Paul Bew now, at long last, puts this right. Churchill and Ireland tells the full story of Churchill''s lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish, from his early years as a child in Dublin, through his central role in the Home Rule crisis of 1912-14 and in the war leading up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, to his bitter disappointment at Irish neutrality in the Second World War and gradual rapprochement with his old enemy Eamon de Valera towards the end of his life. As this long overdue book reminds us, Churchill learnt his earliest rudimentary political lessons in Ireland. It was the first piece in the Churchill jigsaw and, in some respects, the last.Trade ReviewPaul Bew's book attempts to explain the almost unexplainable - Churchill's twists and turns in reguard to Ireland. It is a thoughtful and engaging exegesis... This book, first published in hardback in 2016, is now happily re-issued in paperback for a wider readership. * Ian d'Alton, The Irish Catholic *Bew's elegant, meticulous study of his [Churchill's] role in Irish history is filled with surprises, and gives nuance to Churchill's fiery rhetoric, particularly on Ireland's neutral stance in the Second World War. * Daily Telegraph *[An] informed, balanced study ... As a distinguished Irish historian, Bew brings much knowledge of the Irish background. * Roland Quinault, History Today *brings the methodology of a scrupulous historian to his task * Peter Clarke, Times Literary Supplement *The book provides excellent coverage of the 1916-22, and establishes a solid basis for understanding the later period. * Ryle Dwyer, Irish Examiner *[A] succinct and challenging overview of Winston Churchill's complex relationship with Ireland. * Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times *Lord Bew's outstanding, sharply written account sets out, for the first time, how Winston Churchill's intellect, wit and, at times, deviousness, shaped the relationship between Britain and Ireland. [...] Paul Bew alters our perception of the great man by showing for the first time that he determined the shape of the relationship between and within the two islands more than any other British politician. In doing this, he confirms his reputation as one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. * Lord Lexden, The House Magazine *a short but absorbing book ... Surprisingly, this is the first major study on a relationship which was literally central to Churchill's family, life and political career. * Keith Simpson, Iain Dale's blog *Lord Bew is a measured historian of notable experience ... [he] makes a real effort here to paint a well-rounded view of Churchill's relationship with Ireland, warts and all. * JP O'Malley, Irish Independent *Paul Bew has achieved the near impossible: he has somehow written a book on an important aspect of Winston Churchill's statecraft that is totally comprehensive, genuinely ground-breaking and yet capable of being read in an afternoon. In a life that has been trawled over literally thousands of times by historians, Churchill's relations with Ireland have not received anything like the attention they deserve, despite the significant role he played in Irish history and Ireland's equally significant role in his own career. That historiographical gap has now been definitively filled by Bew's scholarly, highly readable and fascinating book. * Andrew Roberts, Literary Review *Utterly compelling ... This is a provocative and fascinating book, all the more enjoyable for the energy and charm of its singular focus. * Eamon Delaney, Irish Independent *A well researched and elegantly written book ... Paul Bew is one of Irelands most interesting and important political historians. * Eion Ó Broin, Sunday Business Post *[A] fascinating book. * Evening Echo *The most balanced, and best informed, account I have read of the allegedly poisonous relationship between the arch-imperialist, Winston Churchill, and the benighted, traduced, occupied, exploited, mocked and murdered people of Ireland... * Ian Mitchell's Ireland-related book reviews *scholarly, readable and enjoyable ... As a study of a political chameleon and Ireland, this book can be highly recommended. * Robert McNamara, The Irish News *The most balanced and best informed account I have read... Smooth, and with enough "human interest" to bring the subject alive - history as it should be written, but so seldom is these days... * Ian Mitchell's Book Recommendations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: A Father's Legacy 2: The Making of a Home Ruler 3: Churchill in Belfast 4: The 'Plot Against Ulster' 5: Ireland at the Front 6: War in Ireland 7: The Making and Breaking of the Treaty Settlement 8: The Disintegration of Churchill's Irish Legacy 9: Churchill and Irish Neutrality 10: 'Saving them from themselves' Conclusion Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Trust and Distrust
Book SynopsisMark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival material, Knights shows how corruption in the domestic and imperial spheres interacted, and how the concept of corruption developed during this period, changing British ideas of trust and distrust.Trade ReviewNo historian of this long period can afford to ignore the book and it will certainly appeal to a large readership not only among historians of Britain and its empire but among political scientists more generally. * Paul Slack, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Linacre College, University of Oxford *The scholarship on display here is remarkable ... [a] superb study * Ian Cawood, Times Literary Supplement *Knights's achievement is to set the attack on 'Old Corruption' in a much longer timeframe and a more interesting framework than the conventional view * Prof Jonathan Parry (Cambridge), London Review of Books 15 Jan 2022 *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Indian Civil Servants 3: Conceptualising Office 4: Conceptualising Corruption 5: Trust, Standards of Public Office, and Corruption 6: Interest and Disinterestedness 7: Public Money, Public Accounts, and Accountability 8: Informal Accountability 9: Freedom of the Press and Anti-Corruption 10: The Politics of Anti-Corruption 11: Sale of Office 12: Gifts and Informal Profits of Office 13: Conclusion 14: Policy Implications
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Oxford University Press 1837
Book SynopsisHistorians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the gendarme of Europe secured order beyond the country''s borders and entrenched the autocratic system at home. This book offers a profoundly different vision of Russia under Nicholas I. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, it reveals that many of modern Russia''s most distinctive and outstanding features can be traced back to an inconspicuous but exceptional year. Russia became what it did, in no small measure, because of 1837. The catalogue of the year''s noteworthy occurrences extends from the realms of culture, religion, and ideas to those of empire, politics, and industry. Exploring these diverse issues and connecting seemingly divergent historical actors, Paul W. Werth reveals that the 1830s in Russia were a period of striking dynamism and consequence, and that 1837 was pivotal for the country''s entry into the modern age. From the romantic death of Russia''s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin in January to a colossal fire at the Winter Palace in December, Russia experienced much that was astonishing in 1837: the railway and provincial press appeared, Russian opera made its debut, Orthodoxy pushed westward, the first Romanov visited Siberia-and much else besides. The cumulative effect was profound. The country''s integration accelerated, and a Russian nation began to emerge, embodied in new institutions and practices, within the larger empire. The result was a quiet revolution, after which Russia would never be the same.Trade ReviewPaul Werth makes a compelling argument...In a series of concise and well-written sketches, he demonstrates the breadth and depth of his familiarity with the secondary literature and his great skill at integrating these in a thoughtful, proactive manner. * ABBY M. SCHRADER, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, English Historical Review *This is a fascinating and highly readable book. * Alexander M. Martin, Canadian-American Slavic Studies *With admirable concision and insight, Werth investigates eight novelties of the 1830s across the worlds of culture, politics, religion and industry. Taken together, he suggests, these changes add up to "Russia's quiet revolution". * Douglas Smith, Times Literary Supplement *Werth combines solid historical research with a lively and occasionally playful style that makes his book an entertaining read. * Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs *Reflecting the accumulated wisdom of decades of historical research and writing, this highly readable history reimagines Imperial Russian history in a new and creative way. While focusing on a particular year, it is broad in its coverage, providing a superb introduction to the nineteenth century Russian Empire for experts, students and non-experts alike. * Dr. Andrew Jenks, Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach *This book on the year that heralded Russia's entry into the modern age covers an astonishing breadth of fascinating subjects and is pure pleasure to read. * Dr Laurie Manchester, author of Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia *With a winning combination of deep erudition and wry humour, Paul Werth takes us on a vivid and compelling tour of the year 1837. His book makes any number of unexpected and illuminating connections. It will surely do much to shift our perspective on this historical moment, and on modern Russian history as a whole. * Stephen Lovell, King's College London *This rich and thought-provoking study will certainly not disappoint its readers. * Anna Cavazzoni, Ab Imperio *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: He Fell, Slandered by Rumor 2: A Life for the Tsar, an Opera for the Nation 3: Philosophical Madness 4: In the Flesh 5: Provinces Animated 6: Guardians of the Benighted 7: Think More About Camels 8: Orthodoxy Marches West 9: A Unicorn, Violent but Submissive 10: Northern Phoenix Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Devil from over the Sea
Book SynopsisIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently ''forgotten'' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell''s powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the ''Cromwellian'': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded alTrade ReviewThis fascinating book explores how Oliver Cromwell has been remembered, forgotten, misremembered, demonized, and mythologized in Ireland and Irish America for more than three centuries. * D. R. Bisson, CHOICE *Intriguing * Nicholas Canny, Irish Times *This thoughtful, innovative work by Sarah Covington represents the latest, and by far the best, attempt to understand the extraordinary power of Cromwell's name and reputation amongst Irish people at home and abroad... this extraordinarily rich volume not only brings our understanding of Cromwell and his reputation in Ireland on to a new level, it also represents a further important contribution to the burgeoning field of Irish 85 memory studies by a historian who is at the height of her powers. Add to this the attractive pricing by OUP, and The Devil from over the Sea becomes a must-buy book. * Alan Ford, University of Nottingham, The Seventeenth Century *This is a book that people with even a passing interest in Irish history have an obligation to acquire and to read. * Eamon Maher, Technological University Dublin *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Aftermath 2: Religious Cromwell 3: Political Cromwell 4: Propertied Cromwell 5: Ruinous Cromwell 6: Folkloric Cromwell 7: Migrated Cromwell Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Colonized by Humanity
Book Synopsis''Colonization through a process of affection'', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was ''the worst form of colonization''. Lamming''s London was marked by the violent currents of racismsome seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race, the putting-in-place of its hierarchies, the destructions of the self that its logics entailed, exceeded only expressions of violence and hatred. It was in ''affection'', too, that colonialism''s racial visions operated. It was not only among the illiberals, but among the liberals, that colonization continued its hold on metropolitan culture. This was colonization, as Lamming would also put it, by humanity.Colonized by Humanity is a study of racial liberalism at the end of empire. It uncovers the projects to cultivate racial integration developed in the two decades between the arrival of the Empire Windrush and the passage of the first Race Relations Act. These were the years that integrationism took hold as a social p
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Oxford University Press Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC
Book SynopsisAthenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the Athenians and their allies. It brings the allies to centre stage as active agents, and considers how the Athenian empire operated in different regions. The first three chapters focus on political, fiscal and religious interactions between the Athenians and their allies in Athenian contexts. The subsequent three chapters then offer studies of the empire in three different regions - the North Aegean, Rhodes, and the straits between the Aegean and the Black Sea - showing how the empire employed overlapping but differentiated regional strategies. This book is distinct from previous contributions in three key ways. First, it offers new perspectives on well-knowTable of ContentsA note on texts, translations and transliteration Abbreviations Maps Introduction 1: Athenian decrees, negotiation and negotiators 2: Negotiation, flexibility and corruption in the Athenian tribute system 3: Athenian festival culture and allied integration 4: From the Thermaic Gulf to Thasos: Athenian power in the North Aegean 5: Athens, Rhodes and the Eastern Mediterranean 6: Athens, Daskyleion and Kyzikos: Athenian power between the Aegean and the Black Sea Conclusion: revolt and ruddle on fourth-century Keos Appendix: Fifth-Century Athenian decrees Bibliography
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Oxford University Press British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Book SynopsisUntil relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between settlers, the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants.The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempts to demonstrate thTrade Reviewthis collection is a joy and a wonder ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *will be a stock feature of undergraduate and graduate reading lists for some time to come. * Simon Middleton, English Historical Review *every essay is excellent * Steven Sarson, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps ; List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume ; 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview ; 3. 'Bound by Our Regal Office': Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century ; 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism ; 5. 'Establishment' and 'Dissent' in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World ; 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765 ; 7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies ; 8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1783 ; 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration ; 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances ; 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Book SynopsisThe Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain''s Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain''s relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in both the Gulf and Britain, this book examines how Britain''s Political Resident in the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf, protected British interests throughout the region, and managed political relations with the dozens of Arab rulers and governors on both shores of the Gulf. James Onley looks at the secret to the Gulf Residency''s effectiveness - the extent to which the British worked within the indigenous political systems of the Gulf. He examines the way in which Arab rulers in need of protection collaborated with the Resident to maintain the Pax BrTrade Review[an] illuminating book... * Peter Clark, Asian Affairs *Conveys a great sense of intellectual excitement in its confident, but careful, rethinking of the British Indian Empire... Onley has the enviable ability to convey a world that has passed to a modern reader. As I read, I felt that I was with these resilient merchant families (enduring the heat!) as they offered their services to the British, generation after generation after generation. * 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award Committee *Through the meticulous use of family archives and local as well as British sources, this study succeeds in rescuing from obscurity key local actors in the British imperial system. * 2002 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Committee *Meticulously researched, James Onley's work provides an excellent introduction to the informal structures of British imperial rule. The first part, in particular, should be essential reading for any student of British imperial history; it radically readjusts the focus from British imperialists on to the indigenous agents of empire, largely unstudied by historians. * James Canton, Times Literary Supplement *A first-rate study that is of crucial importance not only for work on the Middle East, but also for more general studies of imperialism and, in particular, of informal empire... Onley's study of the indigenous side of informal empire is an important contribution to work on imperialism and deserves widespread attention. * Jeremy Black, History: *well-written and thoroughly researched book ... an engaging and accomplished work * Hala Fattah, Enterprise and Society *[James Onley] has made a major contribution to our understanding of the functioning of the British Empire, as exemplified by the situation in the Persian Gulf in general and in the Bahrain Agency in particular. At the same time, he has given us a much better understanding of Gulf society and culture, which, as in previous centuries, differed from that of the adjacent mainland nations. * Willem Floor, Middle East Journal *James Onley's book is especially welcome. His work, founded on extensive research in both Britain and the Gulf itself, produces incisive conclusions which add greatly to our understanding of British methods of control in the informal empire. * Simon C. Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *a new and exciting departure in the historiography of the [Persian Gulf] region. In an equally stimulating fashion this book prompts the reader to re-think the historical roots of the contemporary political geography of the region which is usually considered the preserve of Middle Eastern specialists. Onley's book is a remarkable display of bibliographical erudition and knowledge of the subject matter. This study is clearly brilliantly researched...its approach is original and timely and likely to inspire other scholars in the field of regional and imperial history. * Nelida Fuccaro, Reviews in History Online *This is, all told, a very nice book making a very nice point. With enviable resourcefulness, Onley plumbs a range of official and private, metropolitan and colonial archives and a precious set of oral histories to reconstruct the lives and work of his 'invisible agents of empire' (223), generously illuminating the fascinating workings of the Indian empire-within-the-empire along the way." "Onley deserves immense credit for the many useful and convincing findings he has unearthed with his island tale. His most signal achievement remains his painstaking restoration of the full cast and crew behind the illusionary solitary British officer in the Persian Gulf. * Priya Satia, Journal of British Studies *Another superior work of scholarship * Keith Simpson, MP *James Onley's well-researched study maps in great detail and with exemplary clarity how this collaboration [of indigenous elites with the British Indian Empire] came into being in the early modern Persian Gulf. . [It represents] a major step on the path toward integrating Middle Eastern studies into wider theoretical debates. * Rudi Matthee, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *this book is an excellent resource for scholars studying the Gulf region and for those interested in British imperialism. Onley has provided us with a unique view of the nineteenth-century Gulf. * Miriam Joyce, American Historical Review *James Onley's painstakingly researched monograph constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the British Empire in the Persian Gulf and beyond...The book contains much fascinating detail...Onley is to be congratulated for a very well-researched and immensely readable book which will benefit both imperial historians as well as those concerned with the Gulf Area. * Ulrike Freitag, H-Net *a brilliant book by James Onley, which I consider the best piece of Gulf scholarship to appear in many, many years. * Paul Rich, Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf (2009) *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa ; 3. British India's Native Agency System in Asia ; 4. The Operation of British India's Native Agency in Bahrain ; 5. British India's Native Agents in Bahrain ; 6. The Decline of British India's Native Agency System in Bahrain and the Gulf ; 7. Conclusion: The Arabian Frontier of the Indian Empire
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume V Historiography
Book SynopsisThe volumes that comprise this set assess the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship, showing the creation of the empire in relation to its end. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed over imperialism generally and the British Empire in particular.Trade ReviewOxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking. * Contemporary Review *Review from other book by this author concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide. * R. Fritze, Choice *Table of ContentsList of Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The First British Empire ; 3. The Second British Empire ; 4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; 5. The American Revolution ; 6. Ireland ; 7. The British West Indies ; 8. Canada and the Empire ; 9. Australia and the Empire ; 10. Colonization and History in New Zealand ; 11. India to 1858 ; 12. India, 1858-1937 ; 13. India in the 1940s ; 14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ; 15. Pakistan's Emergence ; 16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire ; 17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire ; 18. Exploration and Empire ; 19. Missions and Empire ; 20. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition ; 21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire ; 22. Imperial Defence ; 23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars ; 24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands ; 25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia ; 26. The British Empire in South-East Asia ; 27. Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East ; 28. Informal Empire in Latin America ; 29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa ; 30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s ; 31. West Africa ; 32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative ; 33. Central and Southern Africa ; 34. Decolonization and the End of Empire ; 35. The Commonwealth ; 36. Art and Empire ; 37. Architecture in the British Empire ; 38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire ; 39. The Shaping of Imperial History ; 40. The Future of Imperial History ; 41. The Way Forward ; Chronology, Index
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Oxford University Press Gender and Empire
Book SynopsisFocusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is an original volume full of fascinating insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This is a more inclusive look at empire, which asks not only why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new interpretations of the British Empire offered here, will interest readers across a wide range, demonstrating the vitality of this innovative approach and the new historical questions it raises.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Clarity of expression and historical specificity are keynotes of this volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion series. * THES *The book's strength is that, while the multifarious centrality of gender is shown beyond contention, there are few pages that do not provoke debate. * THES *Table of Contents1. Why Gender and Empire? ; 2. Empire, Gender, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. Of Gender and Empire: Reflections on the Nineteenth Century ; 4. Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century ; 5. Medicine, Gender, and Empire ; 6. Sexuality, Gender, and Empire ; 7. Gender and Migration ; 8. Nations in an Imperial Crucible ; 9. Legacies of Departure: Decolonization, Nation-making, and Gender ; 10. Empire and Violence 1900-1939 ; 11. Childhood and Race: Growing up in the Empire ; 12. Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family ; 13. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories
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Oxford University Press Making Ireland British 15801650
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland. The book opens with an analysis of the complete works of Edmund Spenser who was the most articulate ideologue for plantation. The author argues that all subsequent advocates of plantation, ranging from King James VI and I, to Strafford, to Oliver Cromwell, were guided by Spenser''s opinions, and that discrepancies between plantation in theory and practice were measured against this yardstick. The book culminates with a close analysis of the 1641 insurrection throughout Ireland, which, it is argued, steeled Cromwell to engage in one last effort to make Ireland British.Trade Review... for many years it will be compulsory reading for anyone wishing to understand English colonial policy and its impact on native society. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Canny's knowledge of literary as well as official sources is exemplary. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *No other work reveals so much about the transformation of life across the island through the remorseless colonial process that began in Elizabethan times. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *Let there be no mistake: Making Ireland British is an extraordinary book, a major feat of scholarship, and probably the single most important study of early modern Ireland to appear for a generation or more. * Wiliam and Mary Quarterly *wonderful work, richly layered and contextualised ... a masterly study and an unmitigated triumph ... a masterpiece of painstaking research ... [a] splendid volume. * History Today *Table of Contents1. Spenser Sets the Agenda ; 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland ; 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice ; 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice ; 5. The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641 ; 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland ; 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response ; 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641
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Oxford University Press India and the British Empire
Book SynopsisSouth Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attention is paid to a cluster of binary oppositions that have hitherto framed South Asian history, namely colonizer/colonized, imperialism/nationalism, and modernity/tradition, and how new analytical frameworks are emerging which enable us to think beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics as well as to wider Trade ReviewThe fact that many of the contributors to this book are highly regarded, well-established scholars of Britain's occupation of India immediately guarantees the book's importance for other scholars in the field. It does not fail to deliver, because many of the essays provide original arguments thoroughly taking account of the strengths and weaknesses of the past thirty years of historical scholarship ... India and the British Empire therefore makes a valuable contribution to the field of its title by presenting up-to-date assessments of the wide variety of scholarly approaches used to understand the impact of India's period of British occupation on both the occupied and the occupier * A. Martin Wainwright, Journal of British Studies *... this compilation provides a good introduction to the areas covered, as well as offering an interesting and challenging interpretation of the areas that should interest scholars already working in the field ... Overall, this is an interesting and valuable contribution to the field of Empire and Indian history * Lindsay Henderson, Australian Journal of Politics and History *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. State, Power, and Colonialism ; 3. The Indian Economy and the British Empire ; 4. Knowledge Formation in Colonial India ; 5. Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community ; 6. Nationalisms in India ; 7. Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule ; 8. Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India ; 9. Environment and Ecology under British Rule ; 10. Material and Visual Culture of British India ; 11. Literary Modernity in South Asia ; 12. Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times ; 13. The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism ; 14. The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia
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Oxford University Press Empires Without Imperialism
Book SynopsisThe end of the Cold War ushered in a moment of nearly pure American dominance on the world stage, yet that era now seems ages ago. Since 9/11 many informed commentators have focused on the relative decline of American power in the global system. While some have welcomed this as a salutary development, outspoken proponents of American power--particularly neoconservatives--have lamented this turn of events. As Jeanne Morefield argues in Empires Without Imperialism, the defenders of a liberal international order steered by the US have both invoked nostalgia for a golden liberal past and succumbed to amnesia, forgetting the decidedly illiberal trajectory of US continental and global expansion. Yet as she shows, the US is not the first liberal hegemon to experience a wave of misguided nostalgia for a bygone liberal order; England had a remarkably similar experience in the early part of the twentieth century. The empires of the US and the United Kingdom were different in character--the UK''sTrade ReviewThis study will surely be widely read and be a useful resource for university students who are interested in such topics, and they offer scholars, researchers and policy makers ways of moving beyond conventional explanations through their rigorous intellectual dedication and research. * Nikos Christofis, Political Studies Review *Jeanne Morefield's Empires without Imperialism: The Late Modern Politics of Deflection makes a singularly inspired contribution to the field, richly complex in its historical scholarship, sharply polemical (without being uncharitable), and most importantly, highly original in its subject, approach and tenor. * Inder S. Marwah, Contemporary Political Theory *Morefield offers an original, thought-provoking and century-spanning account of Anglo-American international thought. Her book deserves a wide readership among intellectual and international historians, political theorists and scholars of foreign policy, as well as anyone interested in contemporary international relations. * Tomohito Baji, International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part One: Strategies of Antiquity ; Chapter One: Alfred Zimmern's <"Oxford Paradox>": Displacement and Athenian Nostalgia ; Chapter Two:Falling in Love With Athens: Donald Kagan on America and Thucydides' Revisionism. ; Part Two: Metanarrative Strategies ; Chapter Three: The Round Table's Story of Commonwealth. ; Chapter Four: The Empire Whisperer: Niall Ferguson's Misdirection, Disavowal and the Perilousness of Neoliberal Time. ; Part Three: Strategies of Character ; Chapter Five: Empire's Handyman: Jan Smuts and the Politics of International Holism. ; Chapter Six: Michael Ignatieff's Tragedy: Just As We Are, Here and Now. ; Conclusion: Conceptual Horizons and Conditions of Possibility: Is This the Swaraj That We Want?
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Oxford University Press, USA Empire by Treaty Negotiating European Expansion 16001900
Book SynopsisMost histories of European appropriation of indigenous territories have, until recently, focused on conquest and occupation, while relatively little attention has been paid to the history of treaty-making. Yet treaties were also a means of extending empire. To grasp the extent of European legal engagement with indigenous peoples, Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 looks at the history of treaty-making in European empires (Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French and British) from the early 17th to the late 19th century, that is, during both stages of European imperialism. While scholars have often dismissed treaties assuming that they would have been fraudulent or unequal, this book argues that there was more to the practice of treaty-making than mere commercial and political opportunism. Indeed, treaty-making was also promoted by Europeans as a more legitimate means of appropriating indigenous sovereignties and acquiring land than were conquest or occupation, and therefore as a way to reconcile expansion with moral and juridical legitimacy. As for indigenous peoples, they engaged in treaty-making as a way to further their interests even if, on the whole, they gained far less than the Europeans from those agreements and often less than they bargained for. The vexed history of treaty-making presents particular challenges for the great expectations placed in treaties for the resolution of conflicts over indigenous rights in post-colonial societies. These hopes are held by both indigenous peoples and representatives of the post-colonial state and yet, both must come to terms with the complex and troubled history of treaty-making over 400 years of empire. Empire by Treaty looks at treaty-making in Dutch Colonial Expansion, Spanish-Portuguese border in the Americas, Aboriginal Land in Canada, French Colonial West Africa, and British India.Trade ReviewRecommended. * M. H. Markus, CHOICE *The ten essays in this collection are refreshing for their genuinely inter-disciplinary approach to law and history ... Empire by Treaty is an excellent contribution to the study of indigenous rights, international law, and European imperialism in a global context. * Alecia Simmonds, Journal of Historical Geography *this edited volume can be recommended for its valor, its imagination, and its importance, and for the high quality of the essays. * Josep M. Fradera, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; List of maps and illustrations ; 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty ; Saliha Belmessous ; 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion ; Arthur Weststeijn ; 3. To <"Clear the King's and Indians' Title>": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties ; Daniel Richter ; 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) ; Tamar Herzog ; 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) ; Alain Beaulieu ; 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India ; Robert Travers ; 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) ; Rebecca Shumway ; 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History ; Saliha Belmessous ; 9. <"A text for every agitator amongst the natives>": M?ori property, settler politics and the M?ori franchise in the 1850s ; Damen Ward ; 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies ; Paul Patton ; Contributors ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Taxing Colonial Africa
Book SynopsisHow much did the British Empire cost, and how did Britain pay for it? Taxing Colonial Africa explores a source of funds much neglected in research on the financial structure of the Empire, namely revenue raised in the colonies themselves. Requiring colonies to be financially self-sufficient was one of a range of strategies the British government used to lower the cost of imperial expansion to its own Treasury. Focusing on British colonies in Africa, Leigh Gardner examines how their efforts to balance their budgets influenced their relationships with local political stakeholders as well as the imperial government. She finds that efforts to balance the budget shaped colonial public policy at every level, and that compromises made in the face of financial constraints shaped the political and economic institutions that were established by colonial administrations and inherited by the former colonies at independence.Using both quantitative data on public revenue and expenditure as well as aTrade ReviewIt is rare to come across a book of such high quality, especially for an author's first monograph. Colonial fiscal policy is not the most glamorous of topics. But Gardner convincingly argues that taxation tells us much about the nature and purpose of Britain's African empire. * Nicholas J. White, The Economic History Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. An Introduction to the Problem of Colonial Taxation ; PART I: BUILDING A SELF-SUFFICIENT EMPIRE IN AFRICA, 1885-1913 ; 2. Building Colonial States in Africa ; 3. Fiscal Foundations of the African Colonial State ; PART II: CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN COLONIAL PUBLIC FINANCE ; 4. From Complement to Conflict: Trade Taxes, 1914-38 ; 5. Collective Action and Direct Taxation, 1918-1938 ; 6. The Failure of Africa's 'New Deal'? ; PART III: FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY TO NATION-BUILDING ; 7. 'Cash, Competence and Consent': Building Local Governments ; 8. Fiscal Policy and Regional Integration, 1945-63 ; 9. Fiscal Consequences of Decolonization ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Spies in Arabia
Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical importance spanning present-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They were drawn by the twin objectives of securing the land route to India and finding adventure and spiritualism in a mysterious and ancient land. But these competing desires created a dilemma: how were they to discreetly and patriotically gather facts in a region they were drawn to for its legendary inscrutability and by the promise of fame and escape from Britain? In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community''s tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War. She tells the story of how an imperial state in thrall to the cultural notions of equivocal agents and beset by an equally captivated Trade Review[...] a significant edition to the historiography of the First World War beyond Europe... [An] impressive study... * Nadia Atia, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2011 *[An] impressive work which ambitiously seeks to explore the cultural space within which political, military and intelligence personnel operated. * Keith Jeffery, Asian Affairs. *This book is nuanced, challenging, nicely written, interesting and thought-provoking... rich and rewarding... It is a book that is sure to be well received and it will further our understanding of Britain and the Middle East. * Matthew Hughes, History *
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Oxford University Press Inc Genocide
Book SynopsisGenocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as its departure point, this book examines the main episodes in the history of genocide from the beginning of human history to the present. Norman M. Naimark lucidly shows that genocide both changes over time, depending on the character of major historical periods, and remains the same in many of its murderous dynamics. He examines cases of genocide as distinct episodes of mass violence, but also in historical connection with earlier episodes.Unlike much of the literature in genocide studies, Naimark argues that genocide can also involve the elimination of targeted social and political groups, providing an insightful analysis of communist and anti-communist genocide. He pays special attention to settler (sometimes colonial) genocide as a subject of major concern, illuminating how deeply the elimination of indigenous peoples, especially in Africa, South America, and North America, infTrade ReviewWhile this volume will provide a robust synthesis for advanced students and scholars, it is also an important resource for students new to the topic. Includes an excellent chronology, further reading list, and relevant Web sites for additional information....Essential. * C. Pinto, CHOICE *Table of ContentsEditors' Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Ancient World Chapter 2: Warrior Genocides Chapter 3: The Spanish Conquest Chapter 4: Settler Genocide Chapter 5: Modern Genocides Chapter 6: Communist Genocides Chapter 7: Anti-Communist Genocide Chapter 8: Genocide in the Post-Cold War World Conclusion Chronology Notes Further Reading Websites Acknowledgments Index
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OUP USA The Rule of Empires
Book SynopsisA grand account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment, The Rule of Empires explores the historical reality of subjugation and exposes the true limits of imperial power.Trade Review"Wide ranging, richly detailed, lucidly written, this compelling history of empires stresses the subject peoples on whose back these polities were built and whose resistance often caused their collapse. With his shrewdly selected mix of case studies, Parsons provides us with an important and timely rejoinder against those who romanticize imperial rule." --Dane Kennedy, George Washington University "How refreshing to read a history of imperialism aimed at a broad audience that refuses to blur or soften the brutal effects and origins of empire.... Parsons offers a refreshing, engaging and cogently argued counterweight to the more usual neo-conservative reckoning of empire's alleged benefits." --Philippa Levine, H-Net "A lucid, cold-eyed analysis of the mechanics of imperial control. The result is a compelling critique of empires past and of their latter-day nostalgists." --Publishers Weekly "Parsons, an Africanist by training, samples instructive imperial experiences: Roman Britain, Muslim Spain, Spanish Peru, the East India Company in Italy, Napoleonic Italy, British Kenya, and Vichy France." --Charles S. Maie, Foreign Affairs "Parsons sets an ambitious agenda for his case study on empires and largely succeeds. Explicitly setting out to counter the neoimperialist historiography of the last decade, Parsons uses a series of historic imperial episodes to illustrate the limits of empire and explain why empires subsequently fall.... Students of empire, historical or otherwise, would be well advised to read this book.... Highly recommended." --Choice "Parsons deserves to be commended for tackling such a key question in imperial studies. He offers a thought-provoking interpretation of the dynamics of empire from ancient to modern manifestations. His questions touching the evolution of empires merit serious consideration by historians." --Jodie Mader, Thomas More College "Parsons aims, laudably, to correct the imbalances... apologists of empire have introduced in readers' minds." --Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Times Literary Supplement "Vigorously written and intellectually engaging...there should be little dissent from the relevancy of its anti-imperialist imperative in the twenty-first century." --David Levering Lewis, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Subjects of Empire ; 1. Roman Britain: The Myth of the Civilizing Empire ; 2. Muslim Spain: Blurring Subjecthood in Imperial Al-Andalus ; 3. Spanish Peru: Empire by Franchise ; 4. Company India: Private Empire Building ; 5. Napoleonic Italy: Empire Aborted ; 6. British Kenya: The Short Life of the New Imperialism ; 7. France Under the Nazis: Imperial Endpoint ; Conclusion: Imperial Epitaph
£14.39
The University of Chicago Press Beyond Words Discourse and Critical Agency in
Book SynopsisExplores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations.Trade Review"A counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse." - Charles Piot, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press A Place That Matters Yet John Gubbinss
Book SynopsisTells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. This title focuses on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa.Trade Review"There is something fresh, rewarding, and even courageous in Sara Byala's approach. She not only manages to reconstruct the history of MuseumAfrica but also demonstrates quite clearly that none of the new museums in South Africa today were created without some institutional (or bureaucratic) connection to it." (Christopher B. Steiner, Connecticut College)"
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The University of Chicago Press A Day for the Hunter a Day for the Prey
Book SynopsisThe history of Haiti has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords, but there has also been a history of resistance and sometimes triumph. This study aims to show that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been a important element in the power struggle.
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The University of Chicago Press Rational Empires
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. The author explains imperialism through an analysis of the institutions of both the expanding state and its targets of conquest.Trade Review"Innovative, interesting, and important. Leo J. Blanken speaks to one of the oldest issues in international relations - the source of imperial behavior - and does so with a novel and well-written argument that is embedded in a very popular emerging school of research. Rational Empires will be seen as a model of how to employ some of the latest developments in the rational choice literature to international politics." (David M. Edelstein, Georgetown University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Potlatch Papers
Book SynopsisDescribed as an exchange of gifts, a system of banking or a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. This book shows that the potlatch was invented by the 19th-century Canadian law which sought to destroy it, generating a batch of potlatch papers.
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The University of Chicago Press Of Revelation Revolution V 2 The Dialectics of
Book SynopsisThe second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons.
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The University of Chicago Press Charting an Empire Geography at the English
Book SynopsisExamines how early modern England transformed itself into the centre of a worldwide empire. This work argues that the new study of geography played a crucial role in fuelling England's imperial ambitions, and that it helped create an ideology of empire which made imperialism possible.
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University of Chicago Press Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Book SynopsisThe essays in this book present new research on the interactions between Phoenicians, Greeks and indigenous people in the Iberian Peninsula during the first millennium BC.
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The University of Chicago Press Rereading the Black Legend
Book SynopsisThe phrase "the Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country. Challenging this stereotype, this book contextualizes Spain's tarnished reputation by exposing colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend.
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