Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
Fiona Batemen and Lionel Pilkington (eds), Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture (Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2011). Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture offers an accessible overview of settler colonialism as a globally important cultural and political phenomenon within a range of historical and geographical contexts, including Palestine, Hawai’i, Canada, southern […]
Filed under: Australia, Empire, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Hilary M. Carey. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801-1908. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Tables. xxiii + 421 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19410-5. Reviewed by David Lindenfeld (Louisiana State University) In this study, Hilary M. Carey sheds light on a relatively neglected aspect of missionary activity in the British Empire, […]
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Emma Christopher, A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain’s Convicts after the American Revolution (OUP, 2011). Since Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic–the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the […]
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Laura Robson, ‘Church, State, and the Holy Land: British Protestant Approaches to Imperial Policy in Palestine, 1917–1948’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, 3 (2011). British Protestants had long held to the notion of a legitimate Protestant interest in the Christian ‘Holy Land’, a concept that helped bolster Britain’s political claim to Palestine in […]
Filed under: Empire, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Settlers and Expatriates’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, 3 (2011). a bit: But there were yet other circumstances, including the double estrangement of those who returned to metropolitan Britain, and the peculiar position of the British of Ceylon, who could be described as ‘permanent boarders’ (p. 208). While expatriates never see […]
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Mark Meuwese, ‘The Dutch Connection: New Netherland, the Pequots, and the Puritans in Southern New England, 1620–1638’, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, 2 (2011). Although most historical studies of the Pequot War acknowledge the existence of a trade alliance between the Pequots and the Dutch preceding the outbreak of the English-Pequot conflict, scholars […]
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lorenzo veracini on settlerness
Lorenzo Veracini, ‘On Settlerness’, borderlands 10, 1 (2011). Part of a larger project dedicated to a theoretical appraisal of settler colonial phenomena, this paper draws attention to the need to develop interpretative categories capable of accounting for the specificity of the settler colonial ‘situation’. In the first section, the paper suggests that settler colonialism establishes […]
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Carroll P. Kakel III., The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). The American West and the Nazi East is a unique exploration of the conceptual and historical relations between the Early American and Nazi-German national projects of territorial expansion, racial cleansing, and settler colonization in their respective […]
Filed under: Empire, Europe, Genocide, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
‘admit our imperial wrongs’: post-empire britain and the politics of apology in public discourse
David Anderson, of the Guardian: History teaches us that empire can bring out the worst in people. In Britain we applaud the “civilising mission” of our imperial past, but are less happy to acknowledge the violence and brutality that so often girded our imperial endeavour. It is time we were more honest. […] To the […]
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