"From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In P…
"From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In P…
Colonial Africa
by Christopher, A.J., (Anthony John)
fromCroom Helm historical geography series
Francophone Africa at fifty
This remarkable volume discusses, for the first time, the nature of the interaction between western medical science and local knowledge and practices in late 19th century Bengal through excerpts from important Bengali medical and scientific journals published between 1850 and 19…
"This volume discusses, for the first time, the nature of the interaction between western medical science and local knowledge and practices in late 19th-century Bengal through excerpts from important Bengali medical and scientific journals published between 1850 and 1900. The ar…
"Using colonial Algeria as the starting point of her analysis, Patricia Lorcin explores the manner in which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions are developed and used in society. She focuses on the colonial images of 'good' Kabyle and 'bad' Arab (usually referred to as t…
