New imperial histories reader

In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a 'new imperial history' and those who can, by default, be termed old imperial historians. This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled 'new imperial history', but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies. The collection includes the work of George Balandier, Antoinette Burton, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Frederick Cooper, Nicholas Dirks, Richard Gott, Bernard Cohn, Ashis Nandy, Alan Lester, Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich, P.S. Zachernuk, Ann Laura Stoler, Kathleen Wilson, Richard Grove, Nancy J. Jacobs, Tony Ballantyne, Jonathon Glassman, Jonathan Hyslop, John Mackenzie, Wendy Webster, Andrew Thompson, Paul Gilroy, Bill Schwarz, Joan Dayan, Deborah A. Thomas, E.S. Atieno Odhiambo, Selim Deringil, Laurent Dubois, Anthony Pagden and Partha Chatterjee. This book is the perfect companion for any student interested in empires and global history.

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Indhold: Promoting and explaining 'new imperial history' (The colonial situation: a theoretical approach / George Balandier. Rules of thumb: British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britian / Antoinette Burton. Provincializing Europe: postcoloniality and the critique of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty). Intellectual battles and exchanges (Postcolonial studies and the study of history / Frederick Cooper. Coda: the burden of the past / Nicholas Dirks / Shoot them to be sure / Richard Gott). Influences from antropology and psychoanalysis (Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: the British in India / Bernard Cohn. The psychology of colonialism: sex, age and ideology in British India / Ashis Nandy). Imperial cultures as global networks (Imperial networks: creating identities in niniteenth-century South Africa and Britain / Alan Lester. Mapping the British world / Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich. The roots of colonial intellectual life / Philip S. Zachernuk). Feminism, gender studies, histories of the body (Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule / Ann Laura Stoler. Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian s…