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Gender and Empire
Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire, this is a volume of insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields — politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics — this collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This is a more inclusive look at empire, which asks not only why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination affected the conduct of imperial politics.
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Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
How the suppression of the slave trade and the \"disposal\"
of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern
humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's
Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships,
\"re‑capturing\" almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and
resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra
Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and beyond.
In this wide-ranging study, Maeve Ryan explores the set of imperial
experiments that took shape as British authorities sought to order
and instrumentalise the liberated Africans, and examines the dual
discourses of compassion and control that evolved around a people
expected to repay the debt of their salvation. Ryan traces the
ideas that shaped \"disposal\" policies towards liberated Africans,
and the forms of resistance and accommodation that characterized
their responses. This book demonstrates the impact of
interventionist experiments on the lives of the liberated people,
on the evolution of a British antislavery \"world system,\" and on
the emergence of modern understandings of refuge, asylum, and
humanitarian governance.
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Uncommon wealth : Britain and the aftermath of empire
\"Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britain's former territories in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were trapped in poverty. However, the reinforcement of capitalist power across the world also ricocheted back home. Now it has left many Britons wondering where their own sovereignty and prosperity has gone... Decolonisation was not just a trendy buzzword. It was one of the great global changes of the past hundred years, yet Britain - the protagonist in the whole, messy drama - has forgotten it was ever even there. A blistering uncovering of the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire, Uncommon Wealth shows the decisions of decades past are contributing to the forces that are breaking Britain today\"--Publisher's description.
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Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Enoch Powell's explosive rhetoric against black immigration and anti-discrimination law transformed the terrain of British race politics and cast a long shadow over British society. Using extensive archival research, Camilla Schofield offers a radical reappraisal of Powell's political career and insists that his historical significance is inseparable from the political generation he sought to represent. Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain follows Powell's trajectory from an officer in the British Raj to the centre of British politics and, finally, to his turn to Ulster Unionism. She argues that Powell and the mass movement against 'New Commonwealth' immigration that he inspired shed light on Britain's war generation, popular understandings of the welfare state and the significance of memories of war and empire in the making of postcolonial Britain. Through Powell, Schofield illuminates the complex relationship between British social democracy, racism and the politics of imperial decline in Britain.
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Multiracial Britishness: Global networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45
Review(s) of: Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45, by Vivian Kong, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 276 pages. ISBN 978-100-920- 294-7, US dollar 110
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Memory, identity and the colonial encounter in India : essays in honour of Peter Robb
\"This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to re-think entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. The volume re-evaluates central, long-standing debates about the historical impact of the British Raj by deviating from hegemonic and top-down civilizational perspectives. It focuses on interactions, relations and underlying meanings of the colonial experience. The narratives of memory, identity, and the legacy of the colonial encounter are woven together in a diverse range of essays on subjects such as colonial and nationalist memorials; British, Eurasian, Dalit and Adivasi identities; regional political configurations; and state initiatives and patterns of control. By drawing on empirically rich, regional and chronological historical studies, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of history, political science, colonial studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Empire and Jihad : the Anglo-Arab wars of 1870-1920
A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 The Ottoman Sultan called for a \"Great Jihad\" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency. Ranging from the forests of Central Africa to the deserts of Egypt, Sudan, and Somaliland, Neil Faulkner explores a fatal collision between two forms of oppression, one rooted in the ancient slave trade, the other in modern \"coolie\" capitalism. He reveals the complex interactions between anti-slavery humanitarianism, British hostility to embryonic Arab nationalism, \"war on terror\" moral panics, and Islamist revolt. Far from being an enduring remnant of the medieval past, or an essential expression of Muslim identity, Faulkner argues that \"Holy War\" was a reactionary response to the violence of modern imperialism.
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