Fragments Of Empire

Author : Madhavi Kale
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812202427

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Fragments of Empire by Madhavi Kale Pdf

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.

Author : Ioan Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Culture
ISBN : OCLC:1078694705

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Cultural Studies and Beyond by Ioan Davies Pdf

Author : Ioan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134956449

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Cultural Studies and Beyond by Ioan Davies Pdf

This lively book will be essential to all those attempting to understand the state of Cultural Studies in the West today. Ion Davies, who was in at the birth of Cultural Studies in Britain and followed its development in many parts of the world, is uniquely qualified to add historical depth and comparative breadth to this subject. Introducing the central theoretical issues, as well as the key personalities, Cultural Studies and Beyond traces the origins, growth and diffusion of the subject.

Author : Robert Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : India
ISBN : NYPL:33433005407204

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Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire by Robert Orme Pdf

Author : Robert Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015035588428

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Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English Concerns in Indostan by Robert Orme Pdf

Author : Rebecca Peabody,Steven Nelson,Dominic Thomas
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066683

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Visualizing Empire by Rebecca Peabody,Steven Nelson,Dominic Thomas Pdf

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia, France had expanded its dominion to the four corners of the earth. This volume examines how an official French visual culture normalized the country’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects alike to racialized ideas of life in the empire. Essays analyze aspects of colonialism through investigations into the art, popular literature, material culture, film, and exhibitions that represented, celebrated, or were created for France’s colonies across the seas. These studies draw from the rich documents and media—photographs, albums, postcards, maps, posters, advertisements, and children’s games—related to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French empire that are held in the Getty Research Institute’s Association Connaissance de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC) collections. ACHAC is a consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussions of race, iconography, and the colonial and postcolonial periods of Africa and Europe.

Author : Priscus of Panium
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935228141

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The Fragmentary History of Priscus by Priscus of Panium Pdf

Attila, king of the Huns, is a name universally known even 1,500 years after his death. His meteoric rise and legendary career of conquest left a trail of destroyed cities across the Roman Empire. At its height, his vast domain commanded more territory than the Romans themselves, and those he threatened with attack sent desperate embassies loaded with rich tributes to purchase a tenuous peace. Yet as quickly he appeared, Attila and his empire vanished with startling rapidity. His two decades of terror, however, had left an indelible mark upon the pages of European history. Priscus was a late Roman historian who had the ill luck to be born during a time when Roman political and military fortunes had reached a nadir. An eye-witness to many of the events he records, Priscus's history is a sequence of intrigues, assassinations, betrayals, military disasters, barbarian incursions, enslaved Romans and sacked cities. Perhaps because of its gloomy subject matter, the History of Priscus was not preserved in its entirety. What remains of the work consists of scattered fragments culled from a variety of later sources. Yet, from these fragments emerge the most detailed and insightful first-hand account of the decline of the Roman Empire, and nearly all of the information about Attila’s life and exploits that has come down to us from antiquity. Translated by classics scholar Professor John Given of East Carolina University, this new translation of the Fragmentary History of Priscus arranges the fragments in chronological order, complete with intervening historical commentary to preserve the narrative flow. It represents the first translation of this important historical source that is easily approachable for both students and general readers.

Author : Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540846

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The Global Spanish Empire by Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass Pdf

The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities. The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices. The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Contributors Stephen Acabado Grace Barretto-Tesoro James M. Bayman Christine D. Beaule Christopher R. DeCorse Boyd M. Dixon John G. Douglass William R. Fowler Martin Gibbs Corinne L. Hofman Hannah G. Hoover Stacie M. King Kevin Lane Laura Matthew Sandra Montón-Subías Natalia Moragas Segura Michelle M. Pigott Christopher B. Rodning David Roe Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Steve A. Tomka Jorge Ulloa Hung Juliet Wiersema

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674971721

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Maladies of Empire by Jim Downs Pdf

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.

Author : Charles Undeland,Nicholas Platt
Publisher : Asia Society Museum
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89100229459

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The Central Asian Republics by Charles Undeland,Nicholas Platt Pdf

Author : Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298406

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American Fragments by Daniel Diez Couch Pdf

Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."American Fragments argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished writing reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished.

Author : Sunanda Sen,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351184809

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The Changing Face of Imperialism by Sunanda Sen,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Pdf

This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the prevailing pattern of expropriation across the globe. While imperialism as an arrangement of exploitation has sustained over ages, measures deployed to achieve the goals have gone through variations, depending on the network of the prevailing power structure. Providing a historical as well as a conceptual account of imperialism in its ‘classical’ context, this collection brings to the fore an underlying unity which runs across the diverse pattern of imperialist order over time. Dealing with theory, the past and the contemporary, the study concludes by delving into the current conjuncture in Latin America, the United States and Asia. The Changing Face of Imperialism will provide fresh ideas for future research into the shifting patterns of expropriation – spanning the early years of sea-borne plunder and the empire-colonies of nineteenth-century to contemporary capitalism, which is rooted in neoliberalism, globalization and free market ideology. With contributions from major experts in the field, this book will be a significant intervention. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of economics, politics, sociology and history, especially those dealing with imperial history and colonialism.

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425713

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Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

Author : Robert Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:10284258

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Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English Concerns in Indostan, from the Year M.DC.LIX by Robert Orme Pdf

Author : Robert Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459015832

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Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire by Robert Orme Pdf