Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
Within few decades after the ‘conquest’, Britain, the dominating power in the region at the time, recognised the al-Khalifa tribal order. On several occasions, Britain deployed its forces to quell internal clashes or ward off external foes of al-Khalifa. British support, particularly since 1869, will continue to be the major resource for the regime, for […]
Filed under: Empire, middle east, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous […]
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Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (University of North Carolina Press: 2011). A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans’ grand geopolitical […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
In recent times, a number of academics and commentators have sought to offer a revisionist history of colonialism that sees it as something that wasn’t as bad as some others make out, that actually made the modern world as we now know it and so was essentially a good thing, or was something to be […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Empire | Closed
Satadru Sen, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness, and: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region’ (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 3 (2010). Excerpts: Both volumes reviewed here take off from what has now become a familiar launching point for studies of whiteness: Ann Stoler’s contention […]
Filed under: Asia, Australia, Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Duncan Kelly, ed. Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 247 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-726439-3. Reviewed by Daniel Gorman (University of Waterloo) Published on H-Albion (January, 2011) Commissioned by Thomas Hajkowski excerpt: Despite work by scholars such as David Armitage, Uday Singh Mehta, Jennifer […]
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is decolonisation dead?
“Is decolonization dead?” What does such a question mean? In what ways could decolonization be dead? That would be, it seemed to me, either the day when the colonized have thoroughly overcome colonization OR the day when the colonized themselves are all dead. Unless, of course, “decolonization” here refers simply to an academic fad whose […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, Website | Closed
Ken MacMillan, ‘Benign and Benevolent Conquest?: The Ideology of Elizabethan Atlantic Expansion Revisited’, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, 1 (2011). This essay revisits the language of conquest in metropolitan writings advocating Elizabethan Atlantic expansion. It argues that contrary to the belligerent connotations scholars usually attach to the word conquest, in Elizabethan England it […]
Filed under: Empire, law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
In recent years across a range of disciplines, empire has become a paradigm for rethinking a globalized world. In this context, the University of Aberdeen is pleased to advertise a number of Masters (fees only) and Doctoral (fees and partial maintenance) Studentships within a broader interdisciplinary project on the ‘Ideas, Practices, and Impacts of Global […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Damen Ward, ‘Legislation, Repugnancy and the Disallowance of Colonial Laws: The Legal Structure of Empire and Lloyd’s Case (1844)’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 41 (2010). Abstract: The imperial government had the ability to disallow New Zealand colonial ordinances that were “repugnant to the laws of England”. “Repugnancy” did not operate as a clear […]
Filed under: Empire, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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