"The Audacious Raconteur tells the story of how between 1868 and 1930, four unknown Indian raconteurs, who were political subjects of a colonial regime, audaciously claimed sovereignty through their rambunctious storytelling and put empire in its place"--.
"The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain's ally Japan had vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to British interests in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British po…
"This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance"--.
"This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance"--
Empire Is Cruelty, and You Cannot Refine It -- A Spanish Typology of Black Resistance: The Rebel Slaves of Panama -- Symerons, Sultans, and Specimens: Binary Opposition(s) in English -- Vernacular Imperialism -- Ambulatory Cartography: The English De-Hispanicization of America -…
"This book contains a bold, multifaceted interpretation of early English imperial actions by examining the ways in which English empire-builders and travellers interacted with Indigenous and African peoples during the long process of colonization in the Americas. Ignacio Gallup-…
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For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always…
"Empires between Islam and Christianity uses the innovative approach of "connected histories" to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imp…
"Empires between Islam and Christianity uses the innovative approach of "connected histories" to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imp…
South America as a field of inquiry -- Five traveling scholars -- Research designs of transnational scope -- Yale at Machu Picchu : Hiram Bingham, Peruvian indigenistas, and cultural property -- Hispanic American history at Harvard : Clarence H. Haring and regional history for i…
A Palestinian Christian theologian shows how the reality of empire shapes the context of the biblical story, and the ongoing experience of Middle East conflict.
