Colonialism and the Modern World / Edition 1

by Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, Ralph C. Croizier, Criozier, Ralph

Overview

This collection fills the need for a resource that adequately conceptualizes the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. These essays were selected with special emphasis on their comparative outlook. The chapters range from the British Empire (India, Egypt, Palestine) to Indonesia, French colonialism (Brittany and Algeria), South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism. Within the chapters, key concepts such as gender, land and law, and regimes of knowledge are considered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765607720
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2002
Series:	Sources and Studies in World History Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, Ralph Croizier

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
1	Introduction	3
I	Resituating Colonial Histories
2	Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena	25
3	The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria	40
4	Women's History, Gender History, and European Colonialism	51
II	Land, Law, and Colonial Politics in the British Empire
5	Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, and the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India	71
6	Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts	100
7	European Capital and Its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900-1914)	120
8	"Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions": Land Laws, Development, and British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s	145
III	Gendered Identities and the Politics of Colonialism
9	All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, and the Family Business of Imperialism in British India	167
10	The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950	182
11	Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945-1949	200
IV	Regimes of Colonial Knowledge
12	Science in the Service of Empire; Empire in the Service of Science	219
13	Governors, Politics, and Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited	234
14	Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, and Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present	246
V	Ordering Space, Building Colonialism
15	Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of "Indonesia" in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies	265
16	Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945	283
	Bibliography	299
	Index	327
	About the Editors and Contributors	357