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A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.
About the author
Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).
Summary
This vibrant, compelling relational history of colonialism explores one of the most enduring and contested social, political, and cultural phenomena of all time. Here Manjapra communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields in clear and accessible ways for all readers wishing to understand the making of the modern world.
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'Refusing to compartmentalize, Kris Manjapra offers readers the long view of colonialism's interlocking logics of power, a tour through time and space that is simultaneously sweepingly global and specifically grounded in the particular.' Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
