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This innovative work places non-European histories into the larger narrative of world history by focusing on colonialism and its legacy around the world.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Gregory Blue; Part I Resituating Colonial Histories; Chapter 2 Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, Thomas R. Metcalf; Chapter 3 The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria, Edmund BurkeIII; Chapter 4 Women’s History, Gender History, and European Colonialism, Margaret Strobel; Part II Land, Law, and Colonial Politics in the British Empire; Chapter 5 Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, And the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India, Peter Robb; Chapter 6 Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts, Bruce Kercher; Chapter 7 European Capital and its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900–1914), Samir Saul; Chapter 8 “Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions”: Land Laws, Development, And British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s, Martin Bunton; Part III Gendered Identities and the Politics of Colonialism; Chapter 9 All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, And the Family Business of Imperialism in British India, Mary A. Procida; Chapter 10 The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930–1950, Susanne Klausen; Chapter 11 Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945–1949, Frances Gouda; Part IV Regimes of Colonial Knowledge; Chapter 12 Science in the Service of Empire; Empire in the Service of Science, Robert W. Rydell; Chapter 13 Governors, Politics, And Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited, Sara H. Sohmer; Chapter 14 Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, And Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present, Christopher A. Conte; Part V Ordering Space, Building Colonialism; Chapter 15 Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of “Indonesia” in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies, Abidin Kusno; Chapter 16 Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions
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Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, Ralph Croizier
Summary
This work conceptualises the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. Chapters cover the British Empire, Indonesia, French colonialism, South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism.
