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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Howe is Professor of the History and Cultures of Colonialismat theUniversity of Bristol. His previous books include Anticolonialism in British Politics (1993); Afrocentrism (1998); Ireland and Empire (2000) and Empire: a Very Short Introduction (2002). He is also co-editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Klappentext In recent years! imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour! dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field! which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However! this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a a new imperial historya (TM) and those who can! by default! be termed old imperial historians. This collection not only gathers together some of the most important! influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled a new imperial historya (TM)! but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies. This book is the perfect companion for any student interested in empires and global history. Zusammenfassung This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled ‘new imperial history’, but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Stephen Howe Part 1: Promoting and Explaining ‘New Imperial History’ 1. The Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach George Balandier 2. Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture Antoinette Burton 3. Provincializing Europe: Postcoloniality and the Critique of History Dipesh Chakrabarty Part 2: Intellectual Battles and Exchanges 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History Frederick Cooper 5. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India Nicholas Dirks 6. Shoot Them to Be Sure Richard Gott Part 3: Influences from Anthropology and Psychoanalysis 7. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India Bernard Cohn 8. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism Ashis Nandy Part 4: Imperial Cultures as Global Networks 9. Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-century South Africa and Britain Alan Lester 10. Mapping the British World Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich 11. Colonial Subjects: An African intelligentsia and Atlantic ideas P.S. Zachernuk Part 5: Feminism, Gender Studies, Histories of the Body 12. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule Ann Laura Stoler 13. Thinking Back: Gender Misrecognition and Polynesian Subversions Aboard the Cook Voyages Kathleen Wilson Part 6: Ecological Histories 14. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1660–1860 Richard Grove 15. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History Nancy J. Jacobs Part 7: Racial imaginings 16. Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire Tony Ballantyne 17. Slower Than a Massacre: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Africa Jonathon Glassman 18. The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa before the First World War Jonathan Hyslop Part 8: The Impact of Colonialism’s Cultures on Metropoles 19. The Persistence of Empire in Metropolitan Culture John Mackenzie 20. There'll Always be an England: Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948–1968 Wendy Web...
