New Imperial Histories Reader Book

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: New Imperial Histories Stephen Howe 1

Part 1 Promoting and explaining 'new imperial history' 21

1 The Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach George Balandier 23

2 Rules Of Thumb: British History And 'Imperial Culture' In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Britain Antoinette Burton 41

3 Provincializing Europe: Postcolonialtty And The Critique Of History Dipesh Chakrabarty 55

Part 2 Intellectual battles and exchanges 73

4 Postcolonial Studies And The Study Of History Frederick Cooper 75

5 Coda: The Burden Of The Past Nicholas Dirks 92

6 Shoot Them To Be Sure Richard Gott 106

Part 3 Influences from anthropology and psychoanalysis 115

7 Colonialism And Its Forms Of Knowledge: The British In India Bernard Conn 117

8 The Psychology Of Colonialism: Sex, Age And Ideology In British India Ashis Nandy 125

Part 4 Imperial cultures as global networks 137

9 Imperial Networks: Creating Identities In Nineteenth-Century South Africa And Britain Alan Lester 139

10 Mapping The British World Carl Bridge Kent Fedorowich 147

11 The Roots Of Colonial Intellectual Life Philip S. Zachernuk 160

Part 5 Feminism, gender studies, histories of the body 175

12 Carnal Knowledge And Imperial Power: Race And The Intimate In Colonial Rule Ann Laura Stoler 177

13 Thinking Back: Gender Misrecognition And Polynesian Subversions Aboard The Cook Voyages Kathleen Wilson 195

Part 6 Ecological history 207

14 The Colonial State And The Origins Of Western Environmentalism Richard H. Grove 209

15 Retrospectives On Socio-Envirqnmental History And Socio-Environmental Justice Nancy J. Jacobs 219

Part 7 Racialimaginings 229

16 Knowledge, Empire, Globalization Tony Ballantyne 231

17 Slower Than A Massacre: The Multiple Sources Of Racial Thought In Colonial Africa Jonathon Glassman 238

18 The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself 'White': White Labourism In Britain, Australia, and South Africa Before The First World War Jonathan Hyslop 255

Part 8 The impact of colonialism's cultures on metropoles 271

19 The Persistence Of Empire In Metropolitan Culture John M. MacKenzie 273

20 'There'll Always Be An England': Representations Of Colonial Wars And Immigration, 1948-1968 Wendy Webster 284

21 The Language Of Imperialism And The Meanings Of Empire Andrew S. Thompson 306

Part 9 Colonialism's afterlives 323

22 Has It Come To This? Paul Gilroy 325

23 Claudia Jones And The West Indian Gazette: Reflections On The Emergence Of Postcolonial Britain Bill Schwarz 339

Part 10 Africa and the Caribbean 357

24 Haiti, History, And The Gods Joan Dayan 359

25 Modern Blackness: What We Are And What We Hope To Be Deborah A. Thomas 378

26 Re-Introducing The 'People Without History': African Historiographies E.S. Atieno Odhiambo 391

Part 11 Other empires, other histories 405

27 'They Live In A State Of Nomadism And Savagery': The Late Ottoman Empire Debate And The Postcolonial Selim Deringil 407

28 La Republique Metissee: Citizenship, Colonialism, And The Borders Of French History Laurent Dubois 422

Part 12 New histories, new empires - and the 'colonial present' 435

29 Imperialism, Liberalism And The Quest For Perpetual Peace Anthony Pagden 437

30 Empire After Globalisation Partha Chatterjee 448

Index 461