Colonialism and the Modern World

by Blue,Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780765607720
• ISBN10: 0765607727
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Kevin Reilly
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	3	(22)
Gregory Blue
I RESITUATING COLONIAL HISTORIES
Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena	25	(15)
Thomas R. Metcalf
The Terror and Religion: Brittany and Algeria	40	(11)
Edmund Burke III
Women's History, Gender History, and European Colonialism	51	(20)
Margaret Strobel
II LAND, LAW, AND COLONIAL POLITICS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Landed Property, Agrarian Categories, and the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India	71	(29)
Peter Robb
Native Title in the Shadows: The Origins of the Myth of Terra Nullius in Early New South Wales Courts	100	(20)
Bruce Kercher
European Capital and Its Impact on Land Distribution in Egypt: A Quantitative Analysis (1900-1914)	120	(25)
Samir Saul
``Progressive Civilizations and Deep-Rooted Traditions'': Land Laws, Development, and British Rule in Palestine in the 1920s	145	(22)
Martin Bunton
III GENDERED IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIALISM
All in the Family: Marriage, Gender, and the Family Business of Imperialism in British India	167	(15)
Mary A. Procida
The Imperial Mother of Birth Control: Marie Stopes and the South African Birth-Control Movement, 1930-1950	182	(18)
Susanne Klausen
Militant Masculinity and Female Agency in Indonesian Nationalism, 1945-1949	200	(19)
Frances Gouda
IV REGIMES OF COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE
Science in the Service of Empire; Empire in the Service of Science	219	(15)
Robert W. Rydell
Governors, Politics, and Anthropology: The Fijian Native Lands Question Revisited	234	(12)
Sara H. Sohmer
Imperial Science, Tropical Ecology, and Indigenous History: Tropical Research Stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the Present	246	(19)
Christopher A. Conte
V ORDERING SPACE, BUILDING COLONIALISM
Professional Dreams: Architecture and the Imagery of ``Indonesia'' in the Late Colonial Netherlands East Indies	265	(18)
Abidin Kusno
Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945	283	(16)
Bill Sewell
Bibliography	299	(28)
Index	327	(30)
About the Editors and Contributors	357