Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 13, 1 (2012). Ann Curthoys, ‘Indigenous People and Settler Self Government: Introduction’. Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Slavery, Settlers and Indigenous Dispossession: Britain’s empire through the lens of Liberia’. Rachel Standfield, ‘Protection, Settler Politics and Indigenous Politics in the work of William Thomas’. Mark McKenna, ‘Transplanted to Savage Shores: Indigenous Australians and […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Allan Greer, ‘Commons and Enclosure in North America’, American Historical Review 117, 2 (2012). Opening paragraphs: What were the broad processes by which settlers of European stock created new forms of tenure and wrested control of lands from indigenous peoples, first in the Americas and later across wide stretches of Africa and Oceania? Anyone interested […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
alison bashford on malthus
Alison Bashford, ‘Malthus and colonial history’, Journal of Australian Studies 36, 1 (2012). It is rarely recognised—either by scholars of Australian history or of Thomas Robert Malthus—that the famous political economist wrote about New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in later editions of Essay on the Principle of Population. This occasional lecture examines just […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
James Belich, ‘Review: Jerry H. Bentley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of World History’, English Historical Review (2012). Relevant extract (but the review is worth canvassing in its entirety, absolutely): Duara’s decision to exclude settler colonialism from his ‘modern imperialism’ is also problematic. The hard fact is that three and one-third (Russian Asia) of the world’s […]
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Günther Schlee, ‘Review: Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity, and Culture’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming. It begins: Most of the twenty contributors to this volume work in departments of English or Literature, but this volume is also of great interest to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists. I regret that, for this review, I can only single […]
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Paul A. Kramer, ‘Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World’, American Historical Review 116, 5 (2011). Excerpt: What would a post-exceptionalist account of U.S. imperial history look like? It would purposively engage in dialogue with other societies’ globalizing historiographies, which have often involved imperial turns. One of the most striking and […]
Filed under: Empire, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Saliha Belmessous, ed., Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire (New York and Oxford: OUP, 2011). This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European […]
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Theodore Koditschek, Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. […]
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colonial film database
This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written […]
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Stumbled across this today, fresh of the press at the William & Mary Quarterly. Each contribution is available for free here. Critical Forum. Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 Julia Adams, ‘Clear, Hold, Build: Patriarchy and Sovereignty in the Colonization of Early English America’. Tamar Herzog and Richard […]
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settler colonial studies blog 