In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively cha…
Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political …
Alkohol als individuelle und kollektive Herausforderung: die Anti-Alkohol-Bewegung im Spannungsfeld von Mission, Wissenschaft und Kolonialismus. Begegnungen mit dem trunkenen>>Anderen<<warfen und werfen Grundsatzfragen der menschlichen Existenz auf: Welches Verhalten ist uns zug…
"This book focuses on one of the formative moments in the theoretical representation of empire. By looking at a variety of British narratives about India, from the later eighteenth century to the end of the 1860s, it shows how the discourse of crime was a major tool employed by …
The essays here explore the varied nature of commodity fetishism in colonial & post-colonial spaces. Using case studies the contributors call for the inclusion of material things within the wider human experience.
The essays here explore the varied nature of commodity fetishism in colonial & post-colonial spaces. Using case studies the contributors call for the inclusion of material things within the wider human experience.
"This book is the first historically contextualised analysis of Yanaihara's commentary on Japanese colonial policy. It is both an intellectual biography and a wide-ranging analysis of his theories of colonisation and imperialism and his empirical studies of conditions in the Jap…
Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies - a kind of c…