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Colonialism and the Modern World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2001Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (372 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315499321
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colonialism and the Modern WorldDDC classification:
  • 909/.09719
LOC classification:
  • JV105.C63 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I RESITUATING COLONIAL HISTORIES -- 2 Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena -- 3 The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria -- 4 Women's History, Gender History, and European Colonialism -- II LAND, LAW, AND COLONIAL POLITICS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE -- 5 Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, and the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India -- 6 Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts -- 7 European Capital and Its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900-1914) -- 8 "Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions": Land Laws, Development, and British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s -- III GENDERED IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIALISM -- 9 All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, and the Family Business of Imperialism in British India -- 10 The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950 -- 11 Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945-1949 -- IV REGIMES OF COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE -- 12 Science in the Service of Empire -- Empire in the Service of Science -- 13 Governors, Politics, and Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited -- 14 Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, and Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present -- V ORDERING SPACE, BUILDING COLONIALISM -- 15 Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of "Indonesia" in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies -- 16 Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: This work conceptualises the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. Chapters cover the British Empire, Indonesia, French colonialism, South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I RESITUATING COLONIAL HISTORIES -- 2 Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena -- 3 The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria -- 4 Women's History, Gender History, and European Colonialism -- II LAND, LAW, AND COLONIAL POLITICS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE -- 5 Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, and the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India -- 6 Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts -- 7 European Capital and Its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900-1914) -- 8 "Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions": Land Laws, Development, and British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s -- III GENDERED IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIALISM -- 9 All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, and the Family Business of Imperialism in British India -- 10 The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950 -- 11 Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945-1949 -- IV REGIMES OF COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE -- 12 Science in the Service of Empire -- Empire in the Service of Science -- 13 Governors, Politics, and Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited -- 14 Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, and Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present -- V ORDERING SPACE, BUILDING COLONIALISM -- 15 Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of "Indonesia" in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies -- 16 Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

This work conceptualises the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. Chapters cover the British Empire, Indonesia, French colonialism, South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism.

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