Colonialism and the Modern World

This collection fills the need for a resource that adequately conceptualizes the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. These essays were selected with special emphasis on their comparative outlook. The chapters range from the British Empire (India, Egypt, Palestine) to Indonesia, French colonialism (Brittany and Algeria), South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism. Within the chapters, key concepts such as gender, land and law, and regimes of knowledge are considered.

Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, Ralph Croizier

Chapter 1 Introduction, Gregory Blue; Part I Resituating Colonial Histories; Chapter 2 Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, Thomas R. Metcalf; Chapter 3 The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria, Edmund BurkeIII; Chapter 4 Women's History, Gender History, and European Colonialism, Margaret Strobel; Part II Land, Law, and Colonial Politics in the British Empire; Chapter 5 Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, And the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India, Peter Robb; Chapter 6 Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts, Bruce Kercher; Chapter 7 European Capital and its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900-1914), Samir Saul; Chapter 8 "Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions": Land Laws, Development, And British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s, Martin Bunton; Part III Gendered Identities and the Politics of Colonialism; Chapter 9 All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, And the Family Business of Imperialism in British India, Mary A. Procida; Chapter 10 The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950, Susanne Klausen; Chapter 11 Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945-1949, Frances Gouda; Part IV Regimes of Colonial Knowledge; Chapter 12 Science in the Service of Empire; Empire in the Service of Science, Robert W. Rydell; Chapter 13 Governors, Politics, And Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited, Sara H. Sohmer; Chapter 14 Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, And Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present, Christopher A. Conte; Part V Ordering Space, Building Colonialism; Chapter 15 Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of "Indonesia" in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies, Abidin Kusno; Chapter 16 Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism In Changchun, 1905-1945, Bill Sewell;