The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

Social Organization
Redaktion: White, Owen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351882767
• Artikelnr.: 47955171

Autorenporträt

Owen White is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Part I Land and Labour: Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land
Sara Berry; Sugar factory workers and the emergence of 'free labour' in 19th-century Java
R.E. Elson; Peasants at work: forced cotton cultivation in northern Mozambique
1938-1961
Allen Isaacman and Arlindo Chilundo; Reinterpreting a colonial rebellion: forestry and social control in German East Africa
1874-1915
Thaddeus Sunseri; Geography
race and nation: remapping 'tropical' Australia
1890-1930
Warwick Anderson; Between fixity and fantasy: assessing the spatial impact of colonial urban dualism
William Cunningham Bissell; The control of 'sacred' space: conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore
1880-1930
Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Part II Mechanisms of Rule: Bringing the state back: the limits of Ottoman rule in Jordan
1840-1910
Eugene L. Rogan; State
enterprise
and the alcohol monopoly in colonial Vietnam
Gerard Sasges; 'Martial races': ethnicity and security in colonial India
1858-1939
David Omissi; 'Circle of iron': African colonial employees and the interpretation of colonial rule in French West Africa
Emily Lynn Osborn; Negotiated spaces and contested terrain: men
women
and the law in colonial Zimbabwe
1890-1939
Elizabeth Schmidt; The colonial development of concentration camps (1868-1902)
Iain R. Smith and Andreas Stucki; Sleeping sickness epidemics and public health in the Belgian Congo
Maryinez Lyons; Sanitation and security: the imperial powers and the 19th-century Hajj
William R. Roff. Part III The Social World of Empire: The making of race in colonial Malaya: political economy and racial ideology
Charles Hirschman; Making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th-century colonial cultures
Ann L. Stoler; Cultural missionaries
maternal imperialists
feminist allies: British women activists in India
1865-1945
Barbara Ramusack; Empire and the confessio