ABSTRACT
Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe.
Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with comparisons among those cultures. This edited volume focuses on what historical agents actually do when they compare, rather than on comparison as an analytic method. Its contributors are thus interested in the ‘doing of comparison’, and explore the force of these practices of comparing in shaping empires and (post-)colonial relations between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of global history, as well as those interested in cultural history and the history of colonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Women, Marriage Practices, and Morals
chapter 1|19 pages
Bridging the Gap
chapter 2|19 pages
Constructing the Literati
chapter 3|27 pages
‘Our’ Women, ‘Their’ Women
part II|87 pages
Politics, Polemics, and Propaganda
chapter 5|22 pages
Global Benchmarks of Princely Rule in the Early Eighteenth Century?
chapter 6|20 pages
Spain and Its North-African ‘Other’
part III|69 pages
Literature, Science, and Literary Discourse
chapter 8|23 pages
Same Sky, Different Soil
chapter 9|27 pages
Between Nature and Culture
part IV|96 pages
Race, Civilization, and Religion
