First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got…
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
Introduction. The colonial Cul de Sac -- Province and colony -- Production and investment -- Humanity and interest -- War and profit -- Husband and wife -- Revolution and cultivation -- Evacuation and indemnity -- Epilogue
The "Hikayat Banjar," a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of re…
