... and political positions. In the work of early twentieth-century missionary John Batchelor, for example, research into Ainu grammar became not only a medium for conjecture about Ainu racial origins and other topics of colonial concern. In addition, there are vibrant and ongoing traditions of collaborative work...

...This chapter examines the origins and impact of the notions of loyalty and liberation among the Chamorro people in the Mariana Islands in the time before World War II, with particular emphasis on colonial and indigenous efforts to produce the so-called “loyal Chamorro subject.” The chapter first...

... as a means of justifying the expansion of Western sovereignty through the process of colonialism. Despite this, traditional histories of international law have remained resolutely impervious to the significance of imperialism for the discipline and, equally significantly, of the enduring consequences...

.... The chapter then explores Filipino feminisms in the local and international contexts, including the nation's history of colonialism which has since shaped contemporary Filipino womanhood. And although there is no doubt that Filipino feminist theory was influenced by international literature on the topic...

... with which to flesh out the existing Fijian histories, and the theoretical approaches mentioned here will shape discussions in the succeeding chapters. chiefs colonialism historiography subaltern people capitalism oral history reading against the grain missionaries resistance agency indentured...

... of religious rivalries by villagers to evade communal obligations, and the use of education as a means to break free from the cycle of chiefly exaction, tax work, and agricultural labor. absenteeism chiefs colonial administration colonialism education Gordon A H indentured Indian labourers land...

...This chapter explores the circumstances under which women questioned and confronted colonial and patriarchal power. Two kinds of records are available for this task. The first is the seemingly haphazard intervention of women in the colonial record by way of individual acts that required...

... to the Department’s operations. The stories of these indigenous agents illustrate the complex and overlapping ways identities were articulated in colonial Indochina, and how they evolved under the impact of education, increasing professionalization, new forms of association, and new habits of consumption and leisure...

... opportunity created by the highly taxed, unfamiliar tasting alcohol. The result was multiple forms of “everyday resistance” made possible by the complicity and collusion of broad swaths of colonial society, from village mayors to French infantry officers. Not all resistance can be characterized as everyday...

... everything from distilleries to coal mines to bicycle factories. Fontaine’s was one of the colonial conglomerates that played a central role in the economy’s “Indochinese moment,” introducing new technologies and familiarizing Indochinese with new ways of working, consuming and being. However, the downturn...

..., to the Khmer Distilleries Company producing “Super Whisky” at US$1.00 per bottle, legacies of the long-ago monopoly endure. Yet while colonial rule has long since ended and the SFDIC is a footnote to French economic history, the same convergence of science, state, and industry that drove the creation...

... of the submissive and compliant Hawaiian male label to show that these emasculating portrayals not only defined the imagined boundaries of Hawaiian and Polynesian manhood prior to the 1970s, but also served to justify and validate colonialism—or more specifically, justify the overthrow of Hawaii's sovereign kingdom...

...This introductory chapter examines how the ubiquity of physical practices in modern Laos demonstrates the extraordinary reach of physical culture in colonial and postcolonial societies and a global interconnectedness that belies the image of an isolated or “untouched” Laos. These practices have...

...This introductory chapter briefly reexamines the past and present roles that Asians have played in the U.S. colony of Hawai‘i. It identifies settler colonialism as the basis of Hawaiian critiques of U.S. colonialism, moreover arguing that Asians have also played the role of settlers within...

...This book examines the ways in which modernity and colonialism intersected in the formation of a cultural empire in East Asia. Using an interdisciplinary and multitextual approach, it investigates the social and cultural experiences of individuals living in this cultural sphere that was created...

...This chapter examines the increasing circumscription of minoritized and feminized Burmese subjectivities in the late colonial and early postcolonial period through an analysis of Ma Ma Lay's 1955 anticolonial novel Not Out of Hate. Not Out of Hate offers an alter...

...This chapter examines the history and nature of French colonialism and postwar decolonization, with particular emphasis on how and why the post-World War II development of local self-government in New Caledonia was interrupted and reversed in the 1960s. It first provides an overview of French...

...This chapter discusses why and with what consequences prevailing approaches to conflict resolution have neglected to engage many local traditions. Addressing the question of colonialism in more detail, the chapter argues for actively embracing difference in our efforts to know and address...

...This concluding chapter reviews that the book has examined the complexities of colonialism and modernity in Burma by focusing on the women of the khit kala. It has considered how the modern woman, including the housewife-and-mother and the fashionable khit hsan thu...

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