Rethinking the History of Empire

List of contents

Introduction 1. Naming the suffering of victims in the French conquest of Algeria 2. Palestine sine tempore 3. Where does colonialism come from? 4. The making of the Congo question: truth-telling, denial and ‘colonial science’ in King Leopold’s commission of inquiry on the rubber atrocities in the Congo Free State (1904–1905) 5. The lexical violence of imperial culture

About the author

William Gallois is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Time, Religion and History (2007), The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria (2008), and A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013).

Summary

This book forms part of the scholarly rejection of the ‘experts’ of empire and calls for us to centre our understanding of colonial praxis upon the lives of the colonised peoples of the past and the present. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

Product details

• Authors: William (University of Exeter Gallois
• Assisted by: William Gallois (Editor), William (University of Exeter Gallois (Editor), Gallois William (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367276584
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27658-4
• No. of pages: 116
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, maritime history, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Empires & historical states, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history