...This book offers a look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. The book argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial...

...This chapter examines the connection between factor endowments and the immigration and land distribution policies of colonial governments. The main argument is that elites allowed broad access to land only when they needed to attract labor. Where labor was scarce, even political and economic elites...

...This chapter uses the methods of cultural history to analyze the photography of prisoners of war (POWs) as a further means of examining how anthropologists constructed the racial and colonial “other” in the context of war. In the camps, anthropologists went to great lengths to capture (and thus...

... the contradictions of colonial governance. Bombay Presidency anti caste movements cutcherry petitions as bureaucratic technology 167– Asiatic Society and Monthly Miscellany bureaucracy caste and attestation intermediaries as collaborators alterity cultural and racial corruption allegations of as tactic...

... for colonial reform were the common threads that held the project together during its many transformations. The institute's redirection had as much to do with “watertight” compartments of knowledge as it did with institutional and personal politics. The creation of the Scientific Sub-Committee formalized what...

...This chapter explores how the teaching pattern of the Northeast came about (focusing chiefly on New England). The story has roots in the earliest colonial arrangements and evolves over two centuries of growth and transformation, from colonial outposts to established rural communities...

...Chapter 7 further elaborates on one of the forms of survival of Latin Americanism –in literary, “coloniality,” post-colonial, and cultural studies-- and its proud lack of historiographical accountability. It includes an exploration of the endurance of the exotic in the term Latin America. Gaos José...

... on empire as Christian duty Orientalist stereotypes of Philippines architecture as backward Spanish American War Appadurai Arjun cartography and facilitation of empire colonialism American in Philippines behavior of American military abroad Cuba Guam parades Philippine American War chronology...

..., as it were, living in the Stone Age,” and thus had no ability to decide their own fate. The chapter examines the contemporary problems caused by this assumption, and then offers a brief history of the idea of the Stone Age. Then it introduces the book’s argument on how a particular experience of colonial...

... it possible for colonial officials to imagine they were capable of taking control of New Guinea. The chapter focuses on the feelings technologies inspire, and the feelings that fuel them, to show how van Eechoud trained his body for his new role in the course of setting out to train the Stone Age Papuans...

... and, thus, presumably, slaves before 1791 or that they managed plantations for someone else; they were, thus, solidly integrated into colonial society and directly affected by the challenge to its principal institution. All these first-person accounts also describe incidents too insignificant or too private...

... life before and during the revolutionary years. It discusses the process by which newly arrived whites from France learned to play their roles in the colonial system and provides a full description of a major atrocity committed by whites against people of color. “Manuscrit d̓un voyage de France à Saint...

..., the final episode in what was considered to have been ancient Jewish national existence and sovereignty in their homeland. This effort of (arti)fact collecting configured a distinctive form of settler-colonial space. This chapter analyzes this work of Jewish archaeology by considering the relationship...

... no. 0348; reproduced with permission from Archives du Sénégal). Note the metal cooking pot in the foreground. 32 Two views of Foundiougne. Top, “Port of Foundiougne” (ANS, Iconographie, no. 0696; reproduced with permission from Archives du Sénégal). Bottom, old colonial...

...The introduction explores the concept of passionate mobility in relation to French colonial history and independent women’s migratory practices between France, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. This chapter shows why a focus upon intimacy, affect and emotion belongs in a study of colonial history...

... to how ideologies of collective ownership and of genericness suffuse much larger social projects, such as American colonial urban planning in Manila, and the stereotypes of heritage and authenticity on display at nineteenth-century Irish world’s fairs. In doing so, this chapter explores the relationships...

...This chapter outlines the emergence of African art as a field of study. The focus is on the interplay of scientific and political interests that shaped the early formation of the field. At the center of the discussion stand the processes of colonial collecting and the manifold ways by which a host...

... of Encounter and Exploration, and colonial expansion of European powers in general. Their maps based on the first-hand knowledge made a crucial link between early outline maps of Americas in cosmographers and modern 18th century maps produced by colonial and military authorities. In their cartographic...

...In the early seventeenth century English empire, plundering the Spanish and engaging in illicit trade was a viable economic activity. Mariners and other men of violence gathered in English and other colonies to pursue that goal in a free-for-all of maritime violence. Later in the century, however...

...Art historian Jennifer Saracino analyzes a 1560 map of colonial Teotihuacan, Mexico found in the Newberry Library’s Ayer Collection, as well as subsequent copies of the map. Indigenous actors offered a distinctive challenge to the imperialism and dispossession captured in European maps. Recognizing...