Crossing Colonial Historiographies

Author : Anne Digby,Projit B. Muhkarji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443822121

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Crossing Colonial Historiographies by Anne Digby,Projit B. Muhkarji Pdf

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much-needed opportunity to explore new conceptual perspectives and encourages critical reflection on how scholars’ research specialisms have influenced their approaches to the history of medicine and healing. The book includes contributions on different geographical regions in Asia, Africa and the Americas and within the varied contexts of Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and British colonialisms. It deals with issues such as internal colonialism, the plural history of objects, transregional circulation and entanglement, and the historicisation of medical historiography. The chapters in the volume explore the scope for conceptual interaction between authors from diverse disciplines and different regions, highlighting the synergies and thematic commonalities as well as differences and divergences.

Author : A. J. Temu,Bonaventure Swai
Publisher : London : Zed Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0905762797

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Historians and Africanist History by A. J. Temu,Bonaventure Swai Pdf

Author : Amy Turner Bushnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351939164

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Establishing Exceptionalism by Amy Turner Bushnell Pdf

Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; this rich historiographical tradition has generated robust methodological discussions about how to study the European encounter in the light of the experience of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. By bringing together major research reviews by a series of leading scholars, this volume makes it possible to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands, and the Caribbean.

Author : A. J. Temu,Bonaventure Swai
Publisher : London : Zed Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070705038

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Historians and Africanist History by A. J. Temu,Bonaventure Swai Pdf

Author : Karel van Nieuwenhuyse,Joaquim Pires Valentim
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Colonies in textbooks
ISBN : 1641131934

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The Colonial Past in History Textbooks by Karel van Nieuwenhuyse,Joaquim Pires Valentim Pdf

"This book examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonisation in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial representations in history education and the underpinning explanations for the specific outlook in different - former colonizer and colonised - countries (to be found in collective memory, popular historical culture, social representations, identity-building processes, and the state of historical knowledge within academia). The approach of the book is novel and innovative in different ways. First of all, given the complexity of the research, an original interdisciplinary approach has been implemented, which brings together historians, history educators and social psychologists to examine representations of colonialism in history education in different countries around the world while drawing on different theoretical frameworks. Secondly, given the interest in the interplay between collective memory, popular historical culture, social representations, and the state of historical knowledge within academia, a diachronic approach is implemented, examining the evolving representations of the colonial past, and connecting them to developments within society at large and academia"--

Author : Kirsty Reid,Fiona Paisley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0415521750

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Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism by Kirsty Reid,Fiona Paisley Pdf

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism encourages readers to think more critically and analytically about the archives in which they work as well as about their research methods, their sources and their conceptual approaches. This volume provides an in-depth and critical survey of the now substantial and influential scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the 'imperial archive' and on the relationships between the archive, knowledge and power. It allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives. It explores the ways in which newer approaches to, and ways of thinking about, the past have challenged more traditional views of 'the archive', provoking new questions about what archives are and where their conceptual, geographical and chronological boundaries might lie. And, it assesses the implications of these shifts for those interested in researching and writing about colonial and postcolonial societies. Focusing on the period from the late eighteenth century to the present, the authors examine issues, themes and case studies pertaining to a broad range of modern empires including those established by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States. The source genres discussed illustrate and exemplify a range of core themes and debates regarding the writing of colonial and postcolonial histories, covering a range of subjects including government papers, censuses, petitions, case-files, and orality. Many of the chapters combine an overview of the current state of research and writing about a particular source genre or conceptual theme with a case study. This combination of overview and case study will enable readers to explore and examine the issues in a grounded, hands-on and applied fashion.

Author : Kirsty Reid,Fiona Paisley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1315271958

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Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism by Kirsty Reid,Fiona Paisley Pdf

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialismprovides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a diverse range of examples and surveying the now substantial scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the 'imperial archive', it facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within imperial and colonial archives. Covering the late eighteenth century to the present day and drawing on material from a range of modern empires including those established by Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States, chapters discuss themes such as the emergence of photography as an archival tool, the use of oral history in histories of colonialism and the ways in which the state informs the archive and vice versa. This book considers the ways in which newer ways of thinking about the past have challenged more traditional views of 'the archive', provoking questions about what archives are and where their conceptual, geographical and chronological boundaries lie. Examining a wide selection of source material including government papers, censuses, petitions and case files and providing both an overarching introduction to the subject and close analysis of specific case studies, this book will be essential reading for students of imperial and colonial history.

Author : Martin Lengwiler,Nigel Penn,Patrick Harries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351232654

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Science, Africa and Europe by Martin Lengwiler,Nigel Penn,Patrick Harries Pdf

Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilisations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232041

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Crossings by James Walvin Pdf

We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.

Author : Anna Greenwood
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 0719089670

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Beyond the State by Anna Greenwood Pdf

Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa.

Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031271281

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Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim Pdf

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

Author : Florian Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512838

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Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 by Florian Wagner Pdf

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Author : Stefanie Gänger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842167

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A Singular Remedy by Stefanie Gänger Pdf

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

Author : Samuël Coghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108950268

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Population Politics in the Tropics by Samuël Coghe Pdf

Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on the history of colonial Angola, showing how population policies were conceived, implemented and contested. He analyses why and how doctors, administrators, missionaries and other colonial actors tried to grasp and quantify demographic change and 'improve' the health conditions, reproductive regimes and migration patterns of Angola's 'native' population. Coghe argues that these interventions were inextricably linked to pervasive fears of depopulation and underpopulation, but that their implementation was often hampered by weak state structures, internal conflicts and multiple forms of African agency. Coghe's fresh analysis of demography, health and migration in colonial Angola challenges common ideas of Portuguese colonial exceptionalism.

Author : David Wheat
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469623801

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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat Pdf

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the "Africanization" of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain's colonization of the Caribbean.