Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 (Cambridge UP, forthcoming, 2010). Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands – Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts – that covers all four islands in the period from […]
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Susan Hardman Moore, Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home (Yale University Press, 2010). This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of […]
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Tony Barta, ‘REVIEW ARTICLE Genocide and Colonialism from New and Old Perspectives’, borderlands e-journal 9, 1 (2010). A. Dirk Moses (ed), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, New York: Berghahn, 2008. John Docker, The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008. Robert Kenny, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming. […]
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Felix Driver, ‘In Search of The Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire’, History Workshop Journal 69 (2010) Crane’s commitment to a gendered, pastoral iconography of labour – epitomized by his celebrated May Day scenes – is clear in his design for the 1886 map. The vision of empire as a means of […]
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some recent reviews in the jich
By various authors. Books in review: Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought Edited by Duncan Kelly Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce Edited by Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert The New Oxford History of New Zealand Edited by Giselle Byrnes
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Noel Parker, ‘Empire as Geopolitical Figure’, Geopolitics 15, 1 (2010). Abstract: This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form’s proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation […]
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Some highlights from the awesome blog zunguzungu, which among other things includes snippets of his research on Kenyan history, framed within a transnational perspective. On “Unsettled Labor”: Putting Africans to work — breaking and training them to use the tools of agriculture — is almost literally the same process as domesticating African oxen; note the […]
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bell on j. s. mill and colonies
Duncan Bell, “John Stuart Mill on Colonies”, Political Theory, 38, 1 (2010), pp. 34-64. Abstract: Recent scholarship on John Stuart Mill has illuminated his arguments about the normative legitimacy of imperial rule. However, it has tended to ignore or downplay his extensive writings on settler colonialism: the attempt to create permanent “civilized” communities, mainly in […]
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Gary B. Magee and Andrew S. Thompson, Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914 , Cambridge University Press, 2010. Outline: Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how […]
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