Colonialism and the modern world
Subtitle: selected studies
By: Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, and Ralph Croizier, editors
Contributors: Blue, Gregory; Bunton, Martin P; Croizier, Ralph C
Series: Sources and studies in world history
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Colonies -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-326) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gregory Blue; title: I: RESITUATING COLONIAL HISTORIES: Empire recentered: India in the Indian Ocean arena / Thomas R. Metcalf; title: The terror and religion: Brittany and Algeria / Edmund Burke III; title: Women's history, gender history, and European colonialism / Margaret Strobel; title: II: LAND, LAW, AND COLONIAL POLITICS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE: Landed property, agrarian categories, and the agricultural frontier: some reflections on colonial India / Peter Robb; title: Native title in the shadows: the origins of the myth of Terra Nullius in early new South Wales courts / Bruce Kercher; title: European capital and its impact on land distribution in Egypt (1900-1914) / Samir Saul; title: "Progressive civilizations and deep-rooted traditions": land laws, development, and British rule in Palestine in the 1920s / Martin Bunton; title: III: GENDERED IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIALISM: All in the family: marriage, gender, and the family business of imperialism in British India / Mary A. Prodica; title: The imperial mother of birth control: Marie Stopes and the South African birth-control movement, 1930-1950 / Susanne Klausen; title: Militant masculinity and female agency in Indonesian nationalism, 1945-1949 / Frances Gouda; title: IV: REGIMES OF COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE: Science in the service of empire; empire in the service of science / Robert W. Rydell; title: Governors, politics, and anthropology: the Fijian native lands question revisited / Sara H. Sohmer; title: Imperial science, tropical ecology, and indigenous history: tropical research stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the present / Christopher A. Conte; title: V: ORDERING SPACE, BUILDING COLONIALISM: Professional dreams: architecture and the imagery of "Indonesia" in the late colonial Netherlands East Indies / Abidin Kusno; title: Railway outpost and puppet capital: urban expressions of Japanese imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945 / Bill Sewell