ABSTRACT
In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a ‘new imperial history’ and those who can, by default, be termed old imperial historians.
This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled ‘new imperial history’, but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies.
This book is the perfect companion for any student interested in empires and global history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|51 pages
Promoting and explaining ‘new imperial history’
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture’ in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain 1
part 2|41 pages
Intellectual battles and exchanges
part 3|21 pages
Influences from anthropology and psychoanalysis
part 4|38 pages
Imperial cultures as global networks
chapter Chapter 9|8 pages
Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain
part 5|31 pages
Feminism, gender studies, histories of the body
chapter Chapter 12|18 pages
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
chapter Chapter 13|11 pages
Thinking Back: Gender Misrecognition and Polynesian Subversions Aboard the Cook Voyages
part 6|22 pages
Ecological history
chapter Chapter 15|10 pages
Retrospectives on Socio-Environmental History and Socio-Environmental Justice
part 7|42 pages
Racial imaginings
chapter Chapter 17|17 pages
Slower Than a Massacre: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Africa
part 8|52 pages
The impact of colonialism’s cultures on metropoles
chapter Chapter 20|22 pages
‘There’ll Always be an England’: Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948–1968
part 9|33 pages
Colonialism’s afterlives
chapter Chapter 23|17 pages
Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette: Reflections on the Emergence of Postcolonial Britain
part 10|48 pages
Africa and the Caribbean
part 11|29 pages
Other empires, other histories
chapter Chapter 27|15 pages
‘They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery’: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Postcolonial Debate
chapter Chapter 28|12 pages
La République Métissée: Citizenship, Colonialism, and the Borders of French History
part 12|26 pages
New histories, new empires – and the ‘colonial present’