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This cluster of papers explores the prehistoric movement of plants and animals, maritime trade, and cultural exchange across the Indian Ocean, with a focus on the Swahili society, Austronesian expansion, and archaeological evidence. It delves into the history of East Africa, global trade patterns, and island subsistence strategies in the Indian Ocean region.

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Indian Ocean; prehistoric movement; cultural exchange; maritime trade; Swahili society; Austronesian expansion; archaeological evidence; island subsistence; East African history; global trade

Place: A Short Introduction

2012-11-30

Tim Cresswell

List of Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Defining Place. Space and Place. Place and Landscape. Place as a Way of Understanding. The Remainder of the Book. 2. The … List of Figures. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Defining Place. Space and Place. Place and Landscape. Place as a Way of Understanding. The Remainder of the Book. 2. The Genealogy of Place. Regional Geography. Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography. Place as Home. Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place. Place as 'Being--in--the--world' versus Place as Social Construct. Place, Practice and Process. Place, Openness and Change. The End of Place?. Conclusion: Versions of Place. 3. Reading 'A Global Sense of Place'. Historial Context. Harvey on Place. A Global Sense of Place. Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place. Conclusions. 4. Working with Place. Creating Places. In Place / Out--of--place Anachorism. Conclusions. 5. Place Resources. Key Books on Place. Key papers on Place. Introductory Texts on Place. Other Books and Papers on Place. Other Approaches to Place: Ecology, Planning, Architecture. Key Journals. Web Resources. Student Projects and Exercises. Bibliography. Index.

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Essays on individualism: Modern ideology in anthropological perspective

1988-06-01

Viktor J. Vanberg

Along the Archival Grain

2008-12-31

Ann Laura Stoler

List of Illustrations ix Appreciations xi Chapter One: Prologue in Two Parts 1 Chapter Two: The Pulse of the Archive 17 Part I: Colonial Archives and Their Affective States 55 … List of Illustrations ix Appreciations xi Chapter One: Prologue in Two Parts 1 Chapter Two: The Pulse of the Archive 17 Part I: Colonial Archives and Their Affective States 55 Chapter Three: Habits of a Colonial Heart 57 Chapter Four: Developing Historical Negatives 105 Chapter Five: Commissions and Their Storied Edges 141 Part II: Watermarks in Colonial History 179 Chapter Six: Hierarchies of Credibility 181 Chapter Seven: Imperial Dispositions of Disregard 237 Appendix 1: Colonial Chronologies 279 Appendix 2: Governors-General in the Netherlands Indies, 1830-1930 285 Bibliography 287 Index 000

Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power

2020-06-03

Ann Laura Stoler

Note on Illustrations 1. Genealogies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies 2. Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule 3. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender … Note on Illustrations 1. Genealogies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies 2. Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule 3. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race 4. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: Cultural Competence and the Dangers of Metissage 5. A Sentimental Education: Children on the Imperial Divide 6. A Colonial Reading of Foucault: Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves 7. Memory-Work in Java: A Cautionary Tale Epilogue. Caveats on Comfort Zones and Comparative Frames Notes Bibliography Index

The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History

2000-01-01

Madelyn B. Dick

(2000). The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 139-139. (2000). The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 139-139.

Empires: Perspectives from archaeology and history

2004-01-01

Joan‐Pau Rubiés

Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century.

1998-06-01

Deborah Gewertz , Frederick Errington , James Clifford

Prologue: In Medias Res TRAVELS Traveling Cultures A Ghost among Melanesians Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology CONTACTS Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections Paradise Museums as … Prologue: In Medias Res TRAVELS Traveling Cultures A Ghost among Melanesians Spatial Practices: Fieldwork, Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology CONTACTS Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections Paradise Museums as Contact Zones Palenque Log FUTURES Year of the Ram: Honolulu, February 2, 1991 Diasporas Immigrant Fort Ross Meditation Notes References Sources Acknowledgments Index

Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview

1999-01-01

William I. Hitchcock , Jürgen Osterhammel , Shelley L. Frisch

Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. … Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Virtually all other studies to date have looked at strategies of colonial conquest, exploitation, and rule from the imperial point of view. Osterhammel shows that the colonial situation developed in ways that duplicated neither the metropolis nor the pre-colonial society, but instead blended these and added a new direction characteristic only of colonial realms. He emphasizes that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local populations until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.

Coral Gardens and Their Magic.

1936-12-01

Bernhard J. Stern , Bronisław Malinowski

Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective

1981-10-01

Mark Sullivan , Roger M. Keesing

Preface. List of Cases. Part I: Culture, Society, and the Individual. 1. The Anthropological Approach. 2. Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts. 3. Language and Communication. 4. Culture and the … Preface. List of Cases. Part I: Culture, Society, and the Individual. 1. The Anthropological Approach. 2. Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts. 3. Language and Communication. 4. Culture and the Individual. Part II: Tribal Peoples: Toward a Systematic View. 5. The Tribal World as Mosaic, as Ladder, and as System. 6. Modes of Subsistence, Modes of Adaptation. 7. How Cultures Change. Part III: The Tribal World: The Legacy of Human Diversity. 8. Economic Systems. 9. Kinship, Descent, and Social Structure. 10. Marriage, Family, and Community. 11. Power and Politics. 12. Gendered Lives. 13. Structures of Inequality. 14. Law and Social Control. 15. Religion: Ritual, Myth, and Cosmos. 16. The Integration of Societies, the Structure of Cultures. Part IV: Anthropology and the Present. 17. Response to Cataclysm: The Tribal World and the Expansion of the West. 18. Peasants. 19. Colonialism and Postcolonialism. 20. Cities. 21. Social Science and the Postcolonial World. 22. Toward Human Survival. Postscript. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the 'Mystic East'

2000-07-01

Philip Goodchild

We study the set of no-signalling empirical models on a measurement scenario, and show that the combinatorial structure of the no-signalling polytope is completely determined by the possibilistic information given … We study the set of no-signalling empirical models on a measurement scenario, and show that the combinatorial structure of the no-signalling polytope is completely determined by the possibilistic information given by the support of the models. This is a special case of a general result which applies to all polytopes presented in a standard form, given by linear equations together with non-negativity constraints on the variables.

Literacy in Traditional Societies

1969-01-01

Jan Vansina , Jack Goody

Introduction Jack Goody 1. The consequences of literacy Jack Goody and Ian Watt 2. Implications of literacy in traditional China and India Kathleen Gough 3. Literacy in a Buddhist village … Introduction Jack Goody 1. The consequences of literacy Jack Goody and Ian Watt 2. Implications of literacy in traditional China and India Kathleen Gough 3. Literacy in a Buddhist village in North-East Thailand S. J. Tambiah 4. Literacy in Kerala Kathleen Gough 5. The transmission of Islamic learning in the Western Sudan Ivor Wilks 6. Restricted literacy in Northern Ghana Jack Goody 7. Literacy in a Nomadic Society: the Somali case I. M. Lewiss 8. Astrology and writing in Madagascar Maurice Bloch 9. Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia M. Meggitt 10. The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England R. S. Schofield Bibliography Index.

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

1987-09-01

Prudence M. Rice , Dean E. Arnold

1. Introduction 2. Resources 3. Weather and climate 4. Scheduling conflicts 5. Degree of sedentariness 6. Demand 7. Man/land relationships 8. Technological innovations 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index. 1. Introduction 2. Resources 3. Weather and climate 4. Scheduling conflicts 5. Degree of sedentariness 6. Demand 7. Man/land relationships 8. Technological innovations 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Africans. The History of a Continent

1997-11-01

Elizabeth Isichei , J. H. Iliffe

In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. … In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their earliest human ancestors.

The African colonial state in comparative perspective

1995-09-01

Crawford Young

(1995). The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 39-40. (1995). The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 39-40.

Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830

1993-01-01

Jürgen Osterhammel , C. A. Bayly

Introduction. 1. Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600-1800. 2. Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia. 3. War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790. 4. Britain's … Introduction. 1. Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600-1800. 2. Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia. 3. War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790. 4. Britain's New Imperial Age. 5. Imperial Britain: Personnel and Ideas. 6. The World Crisis, 1780-1820. 7. Proconsular Despotisms: the British empire, c. 1800-40. 8. Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century. Conclusion. Select Bibliography. Maps. Index.

Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean

1985-03-07

K. N. Chaudhuri

Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far East - constituted areas not only of … Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far East - constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development. They were the First World of human societies. This 1985 book examines one of the driving forces of that historical period: the long chain of oceanic trade which stretched from the South China Sea to the eastern Mediterranean. It also looks at the natural complement of the seaborne commerce, its counterpart in the caravan trade. Its main achievement is to show how socially determined demand derived from cultural habits and interpretations operated through the medium of market forces and relative prices. It points out the unique and limiting features of Asian commercial capitalism, and shows how the contribution of Asian merchants was valued universally, in reality if not legally and formally. Professor Chaudhuri's book, based on more than twenty years' research and reflection on pre-modern trade and civilisations, was a landmark in the analysis and interpretation of Asia's historical position and development.

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Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government.

1996-04-01

Michael Adas , Nicholas Thomas

List of illustrations Preface Introduction 1. From Present to Past: the Politics of Colonial Studies 11 2. Culture and Rule: Theories of Colonial Discourse 33 3. From Past to Present: … List of illustrations Preface Introduction 1. From Present to Past: the Politics of Colonial Studies 11 2. Culture and Rule: Theories of Colonial Discourse 33 3. From Past to Present: Colonial Epochs, Agents, and Locations 66 4. Colonial Governmentality and Colonial Conversion 105 5. Imperial Triumph, Settler Failure 143 6. The Primitivist and the Postcolonial 170 Notes 196 Notes to Plates 231 Index 235

Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance.

1990-01-01

Anthony Reid , Michael Adas

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the … Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes European responses to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China, cultures that they judged to represent lower levels of material mastery and social organization. Beginning with the early decades of overseas expansion in the sixteenth century, Adas traces the impact of scientific and technological advances on European attitudes toward Asians and Africans and on their policies for dealing with colonized societies. He concentrates on British and French thinking in the nineteenth century, when, he maintains, scientific and technological measures of human worth played a critical role in shaping arguments for the notion of racial supremacy and the civilizing mission ideology which were used to justify Europe's domination of the globe. Finally, he examines the reasons why many Europeans grew dissatisfied with and even rejected this gauge of human worth after World War I, and explains why it has remained important to Americans. Showing how the scientific and industrial revolutions contributed to the development of European imperialist ideologies, Machines as the Measure of Men highlights the cultural factors that have nurtured disdain for non-Western accomplishments and value systems. It also indicates how these attitudes, in shaping policies that restricted the diffusion of scientific knowledge, have perpetuated themselves, and contributed significantly to chronic underdevelopment throughout the developing world. Adas's far-reaching and provocative book will be compelling reading for all who are concerned about the history of Western imperialism and its legacies.

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Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860

1995-10-01

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Edens, islands and early empires 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature 3. The … List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Edens, islands and early empires 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature 3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763 5. Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800 7. The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768-1838 8. Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857 Conclusion: the colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism Select bibliography, Index.

XCVII. The demagnetizing factors for ellipsoids

1945-12-01

Edmund C. Stoner

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdmund C. StonerCommunicated by the Author. Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdmund C. StonerCommunicated by the Author.

Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference

2010-12-01

Jane Burbank , Frederick Cooper

List of Illustrations vii Preface xi Chapter 1: Imperial Trajectories 1 Chapter 2: Imperial Rule in Rome and China 23 Chapter 3: After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam 61 Chapter … List of Illustrations vii Preface xi Chapter 1: Imperial Trajectories 1 Chapter 2: Imperial Rule in Rome and China 23 Chapter 3: After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam 61 Chapter 4: Eurasian Connections: The Mongol Empires 93 Chapter 5: Beyond the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Spanish Empires 117 Chapter 6: Oceanic Economies and Colonial Societies: Europe, Asia, and the Americas 149 Chapter 7: Beyond the Steppe: Empire-Building in Russia and China 185 Chapter 8: Empire, Nation, and Citizenship in a Revolutionary Age 219 Chapter 9: Empires across Continents: The United States and Russia 251 Chapter 10: Imperial Repertoires and Myths of Modern Colonialism 287 Chapter 11: Sovereignty and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Europe and Its Near Abroad 331 Chapter 12: War and Revolution in a World of Empires: 1914 to 1945 369 Chapter 13: End of Empire? 413 Chapter 14: Empires, States, and Political Imagination 443 Suggested Reading and Citations 461 Index 481

Africa-Its Peoples and Their Culture History

1960-09-01

J. M. Robin , George Peter Murdock

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization

1989-01-01

Minas Savvas , Martin Bernal

Cross-cultural Trade in World History

1985-12-01

Geoffrey Parker , Philip D. Curtin

A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial … A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on insights from economic history and anthropology, Professor Curtin has attempted to move beyond a Europe-centred view of history, to one that can help us understand the entire range of societies in the human past. Examples have been chosen that illustrate the greatest variety of trading relationships between cultures. The opening chapters look at Africa, while subsequent chapters treat the ancient world, the Mediterranean trade with China, the Asian trade in the east, and European entry into the trade with maritime Asia, the Armenian trade carriers of the seventeenth century, and the North American fur trade. Wide-ranging in its concern and the fruit of exhaustive research, the book is nevertheless written so as to be accessible and stimulating to the specialist and the student alike.

The Hadza: hunter-gatherers of Tanzania

2011-01-01

Frank W. Marlowe

In Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the … In Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the to cover the traditional topics in ethnography - subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end, Hadza also articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

2001-01-01

Stanley Hoffmann , David Cannadine

Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History

1994-12-01

Frederick Cooper

The Archaeology of Africa: food, metals and towns

1994-01-01

The journal of the Royal Asiatic society

1888-12-08

The journal of the Royal Asiatic society Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s7-VI, Issue 154, 8 December 1888, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-VI.154.459b Published: 08 December 1888 The journal of the Royal Asiatic society Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s7-VI, Issue 154, 8 December 1888, Pages 459–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-VI.154.459b Published: 08 December 1888

Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change

1983-01-01

Anne Phillips , Cynthia Cockburn

The corrupting sea: a study of Mediterranean history

2000-07-01

Allegories of empire: the figure of woman in the colonial text

1993-12-01

Jenny Sharpe

Worlding Cities

2011-07-01

Ananya Roy , Aihwa Ong

List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I … List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 Lisa Hoffman 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77 Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu 6 Cracks in the Facade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336

East Asia before the West: five centuries of trade and tribute

2011-05-01

David C. Kang

examines East Asia during a time when relations be- tween centers of power were well established but before the Westphalian concepts of "states" and "countries" were established.Kang presents a detailed … examines East Asia during a time when relations be- tween centers of power were well established but before the Westphalian concepts of "states" and "countries" were established.Kang presents a detailed study of the politics and history of the region that challenges the Eurocentric assumptions so often accepted by teachers and students in the West; how power was exerted and trade was conducted between China, Korea, Japan, Việt Nam, and other regions; and the various nomadic cultures in the middle of the second millennia (itself a Western concept).By focusing on the period encompassed by the Ming and Qing dynasties up to the Opium Wars, Kang limits his book to that period of "early modern China" before the large-scale undermining of the power structure in East Asia brought about by European, Japanese, and American intrusions.

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Imperialism, power, and identity: experiencing the Roman Empire

2011-09-01

David Mattingly

List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Foreword by R. Bruce Hitchner xv Preface: My Roman Empire xvii Part One: Imperialisms and Colonialisms Chapter 1: From Imperium to Imperialism: … List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Foreword by R. Bruce Hitchner xv Preface: My Roman Empire xvii Part One: Imperialisms and Colonialisms Chapter 1: From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire 3 Chapter 2: From One Colonialism to Another: Imperialism and the Maghreb 43 Part Two: Power Chapter 3: Regime Change, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Imperialism Ancient and Modern 75 Chapter 4: Power, Sex, and Empire 94 Part Three: Resources Chapter 5: Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources 125 Chapter 6: Landscapes of Imperialism. Africa: A Landscape of Opportunity? 146 Chapter 7: Metals and Metalla: A Roman Copper-Mining Landscape in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan 167 Part Four: Identity Chapter 8: Identity and Discrepancy 203 Chapter 9: Family Values: Art and Power at Ghirza in the Libyan Pre-desert 246 Afterword: Empire Experienced 269 References 277 Index 325

Edge of Empire

2002-09-11

Jane M. Jacobs

1. Travels on the Edge of Empire: Real SpaceItineraries Talking Out of PlaceThe Journey2. Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Space: Colonialism and ImperialismImperialism and SpaceThe Limits of the PostcolonialPostmodern Space and … 1. Travels on the Edge of Empire: Real SpaceItineraries Talking Out of PlaceThe Journey2. Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Space: Colonialism and ImperialismImperialism and SpaceThe Limits of the PostcolonialPostmodern Space and the (Post)colonial Identity, the Past and City Space3. Negotiating the Heart: Place and Identity in the Postimperial City of London: Difference Gathered in the City of LondonMaking Monuments Picturing the EmpirePleasures of the HearthImperial IllusionsContinental EntanglementsColonial Returns4. Eastern Trading: Diasporas, Dwelling and Place: Urban ImperialismsLand UnoccupiedHogarth and Sag Gosht Developing NostalgiasTrading in CommunityRe-inventing Home5. Urban Dreamings: The Aboriginal Sacred in the City: Ordering the UrbanVisioning DevelopmentUrban Nomadism The Erotic CityBrewery DreamingsPlacing the WaugalBack to the NaturePreserving the CrownFringedwelling6. Authentically Yours: De-Touring the Map: Nature, Culture, ColonialismImperial TouringIndigenous Tourings Re-mapping the Colonial7. Conclusion: Geographical EncountersUnruly ImperialismPostcolonial Possibilities.

“Foreign tourists in a colonial situation: the case of winterers in Algeria (1860-1900s)”,

2025-12-19

Majid Embarech

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Portrayal of Pate Island and the Indian Ocean as Characters: Tracing Geocritical Ecologies in The Dragonfly Sea

2025-06-25

P. J. Parmar , Yeddu Vijaya Babu | 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies

Social identities in built environments? Interrogating gendered categories in Gede city during the Swahili civilization

2025-06-25

David Maina Muthegethi | SN Social Sciences

Local History as Global Design

2025-06-24

Jonathan Davies | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract This chapter considers Josephus’ sprawling Jewish Antiquities as a specimen of universal history. A brief introduction establishes the basic elements of the text. The chapter then considers Josephus’ navigation … Abstract This chapter considers Josephus’ sprawling Jewish Antiquities as a specimen of universal history. A brief introduction establishes the basic elements of the text. The chapter then considers Josephus’ navigation of the distinction between ‘myth’ and ‘history’, a common issue among ancient universal historians, arguing that Josephus elides that distinction by simultaneously ‘historicising’ the spatium mythicum and ‘mythicizing’ the spatium historicum. Finally, the chapter reflects on how the work relates to Rome’s imperial claims, exploring how Josephus’ decision to centre a universalizing history on a repeatedly colonized people challenges Rome-centric models of universal history, and how his vision of the universal reach of Judaism through both diaspora and the total power over history of the Jewish God functions as a form of ‘subaltern imperialism’, rendering Jewish ‘local history’ an impossible proposition.

Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905By Matthew Unangst. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 335. Cloth $85.00. ISBN: 978-1487543402.

2025-06-24

Riccardo Bavaj | Central European History

“A Sea without Floor or Shore”

2025-06-24

Jon R. Snyder | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Discordant, dissonant, bizarre, alien, barbaric: from the outset, critics in Italy and Europe flung derogatory terms like these at the literary Baroque. Driving the furor was the emergence of … Abstract Discordant, dissonant, bizarre, alien, barbaric: from the outset, critics in Italy and Europe flung derogatory terms like these at the literary Baroque. Driving the furor was the emergence of practices of textual representation that swerved away from established literary-critical norms such as verisimilitude, decorum, unity, harmony, etc., as well as from the system of genres inherited from antiquity and reinterpreted in the Renaissance. In the seventeenth century, a period of profound epistemological instability, many of the writers that we now call “Baroque” sought to break with ancient and Renaissance poetics in order to establish a radically new basis for literary modernity. Italy was in the vanguard of this transformative project—Baroque anti-classicism—in literature as well as in the other arts, such as painting and architecture, which contributed to the formation of the first truly planetary aesthetic. This chapter investigates Baroque tendencies in such authors as G. B. Marino (poetry), G. B. Andreini (theater), Emanuele Tesauro (literary theory), and G. B. Basile (narrative prose fiction). Privileging the categories of wit (l’argutezza), conceit (il concetto), and figure of wit (l’acutezza) at the expense of all else, their respective writings set into work the programmatic pursuit of the new and the strange that marks much of the Seicento.

Daftar Isi

2025-06-23

Daftar Isi | Journal Economic Management and Business

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Geopolitics, Information, and Logistics: A Narrative on Trading Companies in Imperial Japan

2025-06-23

Masaki Nakabayashi , Hisayuki Oshima | Journal of East Asian Studies

Abstract In-person networks based on imperial legacies, immigrants, and general trading companies that share a common language and culture can help expand trade in differentiated goods. However, little is known … Abstract In-person networks based on imperial legacies, immigrants, and general trading companies that share a common language and culture can help expand trade in differentiated goods. However, little is known regarding how such networks can facilitate deals for differentiated goods. To investigate the role played by general trading companies in this context, we study how major trading companies navigated a sensitive transaction—the procurement of distillation facilities for oil shale in Manchuria—in imperial Japan during the first age of globalization. Our archival research revealed that trading companies logistically supported Japanese buyer engineers when they met in person with engineers associated with Western suppliers, and visited plants in the West with the aim of acquiring tacit knowledge beyond the scope of written specifications. The role played by Japanese trading companies in this context involved promoting knowledge spillover from the West by providing logistic support for such in-person meetings.

Africa

2025-06-20

Matthew Dimmock , Andrew Hadfield | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Although Europeans knew most about the north coasts of Africa and its busy trading centres such as Tunis, through the important work of Al-hassan al Wazzan, more generally known … Abstract Although Europeans knew most about the north coasts of Africa and its busy trading centres such as Tunis, through the important work of Al-hassan al Wazzan, more generally known as Leo Africanus, they also realized that the continent was huge and diverse with very different peoples. The Gambia was known as a source of huge reserves of gold and British merchants chartered voyages up the River Gambia to trade with powerful kingdoms (without great success). There were slaving expeditions too, but the Spanish still controlled this trade and significant British involvement occurred later from the middle of the seventeenth century onwards, the tiny island of São Tomé assuming a pivotal significance. Ancient Africa was also important through the importance of the Nile with its reminders of the power and wealth of ancient Egypt, and the legendary kingdom of Prester John, located in many places but most often in modern Ethiopia. The Cape of Good Hope, around which Vasco da Gama sailed to reach India, featured significantly as the dangerous coast that had to be navigated to reach the wealth of the east.

Abstract: The Multifaceted Active Agent: Reimagining Nature as a Living Entity in Indian Ocean Narratives

2025-06-20

E. Rodrı́guez | Deleted Journal

Zanzibar was a country: exile and citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf

2025-06-20

Timothy R. Nicholson | Global Change Peace & Security

Flags and the Politics of Pageantry in Colonial Uganda

2025-06-20

Jonathon L. Earle | The Historical Journal

Abstract This article explores the politics of pageantry in colonial Uganda. As activists looked toward independence, they engineered competing visions of national material culture. Creating political emblems raised complex questions … Abstract This article explores the politics of pageantry in colonial Uganda. As activists looked toward independence, they engineered competing visions of national material culture. Creating political emblems raised complex questions about the moral and theological significance of party colours. Throughout Uganda’s colonial history, debates about flags reflected sectarian struggles between Protestant and Catholic communities that dated to the late nineteenth century. In imperial and Ugandan history writings, flags are often associated with the pageantry of conquest or eventual post-colonial state building. But we know very little about the internal debates that accompanied the invention of the state’s material culture. This article pushes us past a superficial association of flags with either colonial conquest or Cold War liberation and into the conceptual and religious worlds that undergirded the hoisting of flags. Arguments about flags propelled Ugandan politics throughout the twentieth century. By looking at the varied ways that activists imagined the materiality of post-colonial Uganda, we can develop new approaches to intellectual history writing, moving into highly contested visual terrains where patterns, theologies of colour, and struggles to standardize party and national flags animated political mobilization and dissent.

Reproducing colonial logics

2025-06-20

Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu | Routledge eBooks

புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை காட்டும் தமிழனின் மண்ணுறு தொழில்கள்

2025-06-19

J. Arulmarcia | ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts

தமிழ் மண்ணை ஆண்ட மன்னனையோ, தலைவனையோ, புரவலர்களையோ குறிப்பிடுவதுடன் அவர்களின் வீரம், வெற்றி, கொடை, நிலையாமை இவற்றைக் குறிப்பிட்டு பாடுவதை புறப்பொருள் மரபாக எண்ணப்பட்டது. நாட்டினைக் கைப்பற்றுவதையும் ஆநிரைகளை கவருவதையும், மீட்பதையும் வீரம், வெற்றி என்பதாக புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை கூறுகிறது. அதனோடல்லாமல் … தமிழ் மண்ணை ஆண்ட மன்னனையோ, தலைவனையோ, புரவலர்களையோ குறிப்பிடுவதுடன் அவர்களின் வீரம், வெற்றி, கொடை, நிலையாமை இவற்றைக் குறிப்பிட்டு பாடுவதை புறப்பொருள் மரபாக எண்ணப்பட்டது. நாட்டினைக் கைப்பற்றுவதையும் ஆநிரைகளை கவருவதையும், மீட்பதையும் வீரம், வெற்றி என்பதாக புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை கூறுகிறது. அதனோடல்லாமல் மண்ணிலும், மண் தொடர்பான விளையாட்டுகளிலும் பெற்ற வெற்றிகளையும் எண்ணி மகிழ்ந்திருந்தனர். இவ்வெற்றிகள் அனைத்தும் மண்ணையும், மண் சார்ந்த தொழில்களையும் சிறப்பித்து கூறுகிறது. மண் சார்ந்த தொழில்கள் அனைத்தும், இயற்கைச் சூழலை எவ்விதமும் பாதிக்காத வண்ணமும், ஊறு விளைவிக்காத செயல்பாடுகள் உருவான விதங்களைப் பற்றியும் தெளிவுறுத்துகிறது.

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2025-06-19

| Cambridge University Press eBooks

The Last New World:

2025-06-19

| Northwestern University Press eBooks

Kanji Glossary

2025-06-19

| Amsterdam University Press eBooks

Paw prints in the cloister:

2025-06-19

Jordi Nadal , Philip Banks , Anna Castellano‐Tresserra +3 more | Oxbow Books

Imperial Reach Through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa

2025-06-19

Felicity Jensz | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History

Decolonisation and Information in Postcolonial Egypt, 1952–1967

2025-06-19

Zoe LeBlanc | Routledge eBooks

The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)

2025-06-19

Eugen Pfister | transcript Verlag eBooks

Colonies and colonialism in the Horn of Africa: from the first millennium BC to the nineteenth century

2025-06-18

Alfredo González‐Ruibal | Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

Geopolitical Tensions Around the Horn of Africa

2025-06-18

T. Halası KUN | Honvédségi Szemle

The Red Sea crisis has significantly altered cargo routes in maritime transport, resulting in a ten percent increase in shipping costs and several days longer transportation times. Around the Horn … The Red Sea crisis has significantly altered cargo routes in maritime transport, resulting in a ten percent increase in shipping costs and several days longer transportation times. Around the Horn of Africa, several attacks occurred that were carried out by Houthirebels from Yemen. The Iran-backed group uses these attacks as a form of message to the United States and its allies, showing sympathy for Gaza in the Israel-Hamas War. The neighbouring Djibouti had to reinforce its coast guard patrols to ensure security and respond to the rising tensions in the area. The paper examines the situation in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, analysing the possible reasons behind the strikes against vessels and other targets in the region, where all members of the “Four Policemen” were present in the arrangement of the conflict.

Comoros Country Climate and Development Report

2025-06-18

| Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks

The Household of Omiya Seibei

2025-06-18

Mary Louise Nagata | Routledge eBooks

From City Walls to Country Forts:

2025-06-17

Mónica L. Smith | University of Arizona Press eBooks

OURIKA

2025-06-17

| Harvard University Press eBooks

To Unveil Nature’s Secrets:

2025-06-17

Joanne Yao | Bristol University Press eBooks

Animals and Us:

2025-06-17

| Yale University Press eBooks

Animal Tracks:

2025-06-17

| Yale University Press eBooks

Jinsi Masuala ya Kijinsia Yalivyo Shughulikiwa Katika Tamthilia ya ‘Bembea ya Maisha’ kwa Kuzingatia Jinsia ya Mwandishi

2025-06-17

Naomi Ndumba Kimonye | East African Journal of Swahili Studies

Maumbile ya binadamu yamechukua mikondo miwili; mwanamume na mwanamke. Jamii tofauti hutoa majukumu kwa kuzingatia migao hii miwili. Hivi ni kusema kuwa, shughuli za mtu katika jamii nyingi za Kiafrika … Maumbile ya binadamu yamechukua mikondo miwili; mwanamume na mwanamke. Jamii tofauti hutoa majukumu kwa kuzingatia migao hii miwili. Hivi ni kusema kuwa, shughuli za mtu katika jamii nyingi za Kiafrika humfungamanisha na jinsia ya kiume au kike kama ilivyo katika tamthilia ya Bembea ya Maisha iliyoandikwa na Timothy Arege mwaka wa 2020. Malengo ya Makala haya ni kutathmini jinsi masuala haya ya kijinsia yalivyo shughulikiwa na mwandishi huyu katika tamthilia hii. Nadharia itakayotumiwa kuendeleza kazi hii ni nadharia ya Ufeministi wa Kiafrika iliyoasisiwa na Chioma (1980) na kuendelezwa na watafiti wengine kama Ogundipe (1994), Wamitila (2003), Nnaemeka (2003) miongoni mwa wengine. Nadharia hii inalenga kutoa mwelekeo wa jinsi ya kumnasua mwanamke katika nafasi finyu aliyopewa katika jamii na nyanja tofauti. Data iliyotumika kuendeleza utafiti huu ilitoka maktabani kwa kusoma makala, vitabu, majarida na mambo mengine katika mtandao yanayohusiana na mada hii. Data inayohusiana na jinsia ya wahusika ilitoka katika tamthilia ya Bembea ya Maisha. Tamthilia ya Bembea ya Maisha iliteuliwa kimaksudi kwani mwandishi amewapa nafasi tosha wahusika wa jinsia ya kike na kiume. Wahusika hawa pia ni wa miaka tofauti kuanzia watoto hadi watu wazima. Mtafiti alisoma tamthilia husika na kuchambua wahusika kwa undani ili kupata data. Data iliyohitajika ilikusanywa na matokeo kuwasilishwa kwa njia ya maelezo na jedwali. Matokeo ya utafiti huu yalionyesha kuwa, licha ya juhudi nyingi zilizofanywa ili kumpa mwanamke nafasi katika jamii, bado kuna baadhi ya waandishi ambao wamempa nafasi finyu au ya chini katika kazi zao za fasihi. Usampulishaji dhamirifu ulitumika kuteua tamthilia ya Bembea ya Maisha. Data iliteuliwa kimakusudi. Mtafiti alizingatia nidhamu katika utafiti huu. Utafiti huu utakuwa wa manufaa kwa waandishi wa kazi za kifasihi ambao wanadhamiria kuandika kwani watajua namna ya kumsawiri mwanamke kama kiungo muhimu katika maendeleo ya jamii. Aidha, wasomi wa fasihi za Kiafrika watapa taswira ya nafasi za kila jinsia katika jamii za Kiafrika

Slave Trade in Indian Ocean Africa

2025-06-16

Rafaël Thiébaut | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

Slave trade in Indian Ocean Africa (IOA) was quite different from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Even though the IOA slave trade outlasted the institution in the Atlantic, the study of … Slave trade in Indian Ocean Africa (IOA) was quite different from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Even though the IOA slave trade outlasted the institution in the Atlantic, the study of this area is still relatively new, accelerating only in the late 20th century. The dissimilarities between the two regions are numerous, starting with the presence of local slave traders, the mixed cargos and the shifting destinations of slaves, which made the IOA slave trade heterogeneous, multidirectional, and complex. Different examples spanning from Somalia via the Swahili coast to Madagascar help to illustrate the developments of the IOA slave trade.

Imperial Cities

2025-06-16

Nigel C. Lewis | Routledge eBooks

The Deployment of Medicine in the 1874 Sagrenti War

2025-06-16

Manuel J. Manu-Osafo | Journal of African Military History

Abstract Literature on the 1874 Sagrenti War tend to emphasize superior British weaponry and unravelling sociopolitical conditions in Asante as the factors which determined British victory. This essay takes a … Abstract Literature on the 1874 Sagrenti War tend to emphasize superior British weaponry and unravelling sociopolitical conditions in Asante as the factors which determined British victory. This essay takes a different view. It contends that Asante-British wars before 1874 followed similar patterns where both sides recruited ad hoc with few medical and welfare considerations. This approach resulted in many deaths from diseases. Drawing on primary sources including archival records, medical reports, eyewitness accounts, and newspaper correspondence, this paper posits that the 1874 British army transformed its medical and welfare approach to war with Asante. Fundamental changes such as the provision of healthy food and potable water resulted in a more efficient and battle-ready force. The enhanced medical considerations of the British army therefore led to a quick and decisive victory over Asante.

Unveiling Polyphonies:

2025-06-15

Christos Panagiotopoulos | Berghahn Books

Stick People

2025-06-15

| University of Calgary Press eBooks

Chapter 5 CORPSES AS PATHOGENIC AGENTS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL JAPAN

2025-06-14

Andrew Macomber | Amsterdam University Press eBooks

Study on the Interaction Between Agricultural Practices, Religious Activities, and Cultural Relics

2025-06-13

Fubao Zhou , Isarachai Buranaut | Nakhara Journal of Environmental Design and Planning

Community participation and how socio-cultural practices in cultural landscapes affect the protection of cultural heritage and their importance in the field of heritage protection among countries in the Mekong River … Community participation and how socio-cultural practices in cultural landscapes affect the protection of cultural heritage and their importance in the field of heritage protection among countries in the Mekong River Basin. This is a case study based on qualitative research methods and the theoretical framework of the eco-cultural complex, which aims to explore how community groups in Jianchuan County, Yunnan Province, China, participate in the shaping and protection of the cultural landscape. The study shows that religious activities run through all stages of the agricultural cycle, and agricultural practices have a profound impact on their content and form. Religious activities promote the sustainable development of traditional agricultural practices through repeated rituals. Agricultural practices and religious activities do not exist in isolation but through dynamic interactions, jointly shaping a unique cultural landscape through various elements. Agricultural practices lay the material foundation for the structure of cultural landscapes and determine the cultural forms of the middle and upper layers. This dynamic synergy not only protects and continues the tangible and intangible cultural heritage but also ensures that community members can participate thoroughly in the protection of cultural heritage according to their material and spiritual needs.

Mariana P. Candido. Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 323 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781009055987.

2025-06-13

Gabriel de Souza Miguel | African Studies Review

Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War

2025-06-13

Dónal Hassett | Contemporary European History

The Centenary of the First World War saw unprecedent prominence given to the ‘colonial contribution’ in commemorative discourse. While this newfound public recognition sometimes relied on simplistic and sanitised narratives … The Centenary of the First World War saw unprecedent prominence given to the ‘colonial contribution’ in commemorative discourse. While this newfound public recognition sometimes relied on simplistic and sanitised narratives of the war, scholarship produced in the period has greatly enriched understandings of how conflict was experienced by colonised peoples. In this article, I explore the utility of one of the key conceptual innovations of the Centenary, the Greater War, for the analysis of colonial experiences of the conflict. I do this by considering three key questions: Can the Greater War framework facilitate new comparative histories of violence in the war? How do its expanded chronologies account for colonial contexts? Can we adapt its conceptual frameworks to better integrate colonial histories? Exploring the potential answers to these questions will point to new avenues of research that can ensure the colonial is effectively incorporated into our narratives of the global conflict.

Archipelago as Form

2025-06-13

Glenn Loughran | Routledge eBooks