Subaltern Lives - Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920

Informationen zum Autor Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. She is currently developing comparative work on European penal colonies, on the interface between 'academic' and 'family' history, and the relationship between history, sociology and anthropology. Klappentext Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature and significance of 'networked' Empire. She reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion and sheds new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes. The book also explores the nature of colonial society during this period and embeds subaltern biographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is an important new perspective on British colonialism which also opens up new possibilities for the writing of history itself. Zusammenfassung Subaltern Lives builds a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean using biographical fragments. Clare Anderson reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion! shedding new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies! and the relationship between convictism! punishment and colonial labour regimes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Subaltern lives: an introduction; 2. Dullah; 3. George Morgan; 4. Narain Singh; 5. Liaquat Ali and Amelia Bennett; 6. Edwin Forbes; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Clare Anderson, Clare (University of Leicester) Anderson, ANDERSON CLARE
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107015098
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01509-8
• Pagine: 238
• Serie: Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, c 1910 to c 1919, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, General and world history, Indian Ocean, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)