In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency -- or the capacity to resist domination -- of those oppres…
In Tropicopolitans, Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency--or the capacity to resist domination--of those oppressed…
In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha,…
In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha,…
Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.
Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.
"Paradise Overseas" presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits a refreshing analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative fr…
"Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopoli…
Introduction: toward a genealogy of the U.S. colonial present / Alyosha Goldstein -- The specters of recognition / Joanne Barker -- Colonizing Chaco Canyon : mapping antiquity in the territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski -- The prose of counter-sovereignty / Manu Vimalasser…
<Div>The contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays explore U.S. overseas empire and settler colonialism within the same analytic framework, revealing the mutually constitutive histories of U.S. colonialism abroad and at home.<BR></div>
