Archive for the ‘Empire’ Category
American Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Special Issue: Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith.
Filed under: Empire, Hawaii, Latin America, New Zealand, Pacific, United States | Closed
Robin A. Butlin, Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c.1880–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers – British, French, […]
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Peter J. Hugill, ‘The Shaping of an American Empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 36, 3, (2010), pp. 261-265 Abstract This paper creates a traditional, counterfactual, historical geography that proposes the rise of an American Empire in the 1800s instead of the British. The industrialization of the British world-economy of the early 1800s, victory in the […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Jeffrey Glover, ‘Channeling Indigenous Geopolitics: Negotiating International Order in Colonial Writing’, PMLA 125, 3 (2010) Abstract Recent comparative approaches to early American studies have described the networks of literary exchange that linked colonial writing from different imperial contexts. Current methodologies should be expanded to account for the relation between colonial writing and indigenous forms of […]
Filed under: Empire, literature, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
The Canberra Times, Thursday 9 July 1953, p. 6. via Trove Newspapers
Filed under: Australia, Empire, media, Southern Africa | Closed
Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine, Migration and Empire (OUP: forthcoming 2010). Migration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained […]
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I have been following the recent Ngapuhi case in NZ, and have made a few comments on this blog about the matter here, here and here. I admit that I have been stabbing in the dark quite a bit, and unsurprisingly, I have made a few errors in my coverage. An experienced Maori lawyer, Joshua Hitchcock, […]
Filed under: Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
Harry C. Merritta, ‘The colony of the colonized: the Duchy of Courland’s Tobago colony and contemporary Latvian national identity’, Nationalities Papers 38, 4 (2010). Abstract This paper examines the legacy of the Duchy of Courland’s overseas colony of Tobago as it relates to present-day Latvian national identity using the ethno-symbolist approach of Anthony D. Smith […]
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Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Political developments, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
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