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Book SynopsisPatricia M.E. Lorcin is the Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. She is the author of
Imperial Identities (1995; revised edition 2014),
Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present (2013), and numerous edited and co-edited volumes on Western empires. She is currently working on a project tentatively entitled:
The Cold War, Art, Politics and Transnational Activism during the period of Decolonization.Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface,
Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction,
Patricia Lorcin, (University of Minnesota-twin cities, USA) 1. War,
Richard Fogarty, (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) 2. Trade,
David Lynch, (Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA) 3. Natural Worlds,
Robert Rouphail, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 4. Labor,
Daniel Bender, (University of Toronto, Canada) 5. Mobility,
Jessica Namakkal, (Duke University, USA) 6. Sexuality,
Anna Clark & Elizabeth Williams, (University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 7. Resistance,
Roland Burke, (La Trobe University, Australia) 8. Race,
Bruce Hall, (University of California Berkeley, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
