Showing papers on "Empire published in 2005"

Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History

Abstract: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART I. COLONIAL STUDIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARSHIP 1. Introduction: Colonial Questions, Historical Trajectories 2. The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Colonial Studies, 1951--2001 PART II. CONCEPTS IN QUESTION 3. Identity--With Rogers Brubaker 4. Globalization 5. Modernity PART III. THE POSSIBILITIES OF HISTORY 6. States, Empires, and Political Imagination 7. Labor, Politics, and the End of Empire in French Africa 8. Conclusion: Colonialism, History, Politics Notes Index

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgments Note on Names, Dates, Weights and Measures, and Chinese Characters Introduction History, Time, and Memory The Qing Conquests as a World Historical Event PART ONE: THE FORMATION OF THE CENTRAL EURASIAN STATES 1. Environments, State Building, and National Identity The Unboundedness of Central Eurasia Trade, Transport, and Travel The Frontier Zone Isolation and Integration 2. The Ming, Muscovy, and Siberia, 1400-1600 The Ming and the Mongols State Formation in Muscovy and Russian Expansion Siberian and Chinese Frontiers 3. Central Eurasian Interactions and the Rise of the Manchus, 1600-1670 Building the Zunghar State The Rise of the Manchus Mongolian Influence on the Manchu State Early Modern State Building Compared PART TWO: CONTENDING FOR POWER 4. Manchus, Mongols, and Russians in Conflict, 1670-1690 Kangxi the Ruler Galdan's Intervention Kangxi's First Personal Expedition The Treaty of Nerchinsk and the Excluded Middle 5. Eating Snow: The End of Galdan, 1690-1697 The Dolon Nor Assembly The Battle of Jao Modo The Emperor Rewrites History The Final Campaigns and the Fate of Galdan 6. Imperial Overreach and Zunghar Survival, 1700-1731 The Rise of Tsewang Rabdan Three Central Eurasian Travelers The Penetration of Turkestan and Tibet The New Emperor Changes Tack 7. The Final Blows, 1734-1771 Transforming the Barbarians through Trade The Death Knell of the Zunghar State The Conquest of Turkestan The Return of the Torghuts PART THREE: THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POWER 8. Cannons on Camelback: Ecological Structures and Economic Conjunctures Galdan the State Builder Nian Gengyao and the Incorporation of Qinghai Administering the Frontier 9. Land Settlement and Military Colonies Deportation from Turfan Settlement of Xinjiang Colonization and Land Clearance Economic Development 10. Harvests and Relief Harvests and Yields Granary Reserves The Contribution Scandal The Relief Campaign of 1756 11. Currency and Commerce Money on the Frontier, from Song through Ming Integration and Stabilization Commerce as a Weapon of War Tribute and Frontier Trade PART FOUR: FIXING FRONTIERS 12. Moving through the Land Travel and Authority Marking Space in Stone Maps and Power Expanding the Imperial Gaze 13. Marking Time: Writing Imperial History Kangxi's Campaign History Yongzheng and the Dayi Juemilu Qianlong's Account of the Zunghar Mongols A View from the Frontier Nomadic Chronicles PART FIVE: LEGACIES AND IMPLICATIONS 14. Writing the National History of Conquest Statecraft Writers and Empire Geopolitics and Emperor Worship Chinese Historians and the Multicultural State Soviet and Mongolian Attacks on Qing Aggression Empires, Nations, and Peoples 15. State Building in Europe and Asia The Political Ecology of Frontier Conquest European, Chinese, and Inner Asian Models Theories of Nomadic Empires Rethinking the Qing in the World 16. Frontier Expansion in the Rise and Fall of the Qing The End of the Qing State Northwest and Southern Frontiers The Negotiated State Commercialization and Regionalization APPENDIXES A. Rulers and Reigns B. The Yongzheng Emperor Reels from the News of the Disaster, 1731 C. Haggling at the Border D. Gansu Harvests and Yields E. Climate and Harvests in the Northwest Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe

Abstract: Introduction: The Fast Way to Peace 1. The Service Ethic How Bourgeois Men Made Peace with Babbittry 2. A Decent Standard of Living How Europeans Were Measured by the American Way of Life 3. The Chain Store How Modern Distribution Dispossessed Commerce 4. Big-Brand Goods How Marketing Outmaneuvered the Marketplace 5. Corporate Advertising How the Science of Publicity Subverted the Arts of Commerce 6. The Star System How Hollywood Turned Cinema Culture into Entertainment Value 7. The Consumer-Citizen How Europeans Traded Rights for Goods 8. Supermarketing How Big-Time Merchandisers Leapfrogged over Local Grocers 9. A Model Mrs. Consumer How Mass Commodities Settled into Hearth and Home Conclusion: How the Slow Movement Put Perspective on the Fast Life Notes Bibliographic Essay Acknowledgments Index

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire

Abstract: COLOSSUS: The Price of America's Empire Niall Ferguson New York: Penguin Press, 2004. 384pp, $38.00 cloth (ISBN 1-59420-013-0)One of the problems with current history is how swiftly it becomes dated. Historians have never been particularly good at the prognostication business, but they are no better than anybody else at resisting the blandishments of fame and the temptations of fortune. Fame is of course less fickle than fortune, and so it is with Niall Ferguson's latest book, Colossus, in which he struggles to fit the United States to the procrustean bed of empire.Empire is one of those notions that comes round again and again, every couple of generations, to afflict us. Historians study it-how can they help it?-for history is strewn with empires and their ruins. Empires satisfy the aesthetic requirement for scenic grandeur, and so they are a favourite subject for film makers-Alexander (the Great) this year, Gladiator a few seasons ago. And who can forget Lawrence of Arabia, Gunga Din, The Lives of the Bengal Lancers or The English Patient? Who could resist the temptation, even at the cost of a little present-mindedness?Not Niall Ferguson, it seems. Empire is a hot property, he has spent some of his career haunting its archival middens, and so he is well adapted to proffer advice based on that late great empire, the British, to the new empire, the American. And, following the law of averages, some of his advice in Colossus, a vade mecum for the new empire, is good, while some is, well, less good.Canadians should be susceptible to this. We are, or were, a fragment of the British empire. We are close cousins to the Americans and maybe, culturally and economically speaking, a fragment of their empire as well. We should hearken to the voice of empire as it comes down the corridor, informing us of its next adventure. And sometimes the old synapses fire, the muscles twitch. The Book of Job put it best, in the King James Version: "He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting."Certain elements of Canadian society did indeed paw the ground during the Iraq invasion in the spring of 2003-Stephen Harper and his Conservatives in the house of commons, The National Postin Toronto, and so forth. President George W Bush caught the moment in his Star Wars-inspired strut on an American aircraft carrier, under the banner "mission accomplished," a month into the war. But the war went on.It was Ferguson's misfortune to write and publish Colossus before the full effect of the "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq became apparent. There is no doubt that he sees the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush (along with his "mini-me," Tony Blair) as justified both in terms of its particulars and in general principles.As for the particular occasion for war, Saddam Hussein's was "a regime that had repeatedly broken international law, repeatedly defied the United Nations Security Council and...repeatedly murdered its own citizens" (164). Further, Saddam procrastinated, prevaricated, and obstructed. No wonder, Ferguson writes, that the "Bush administration's patience with Saddam ran out in the second half of 2002" (155). Some commentators have placed that date rather earlier, in September 2001, right after the terrorist attack on New York. Bush and his most influential advisers early became fixated on Iraq and no amount of intelligence data afterwards could persuade them to the contrary. The sanctions regime imposed on Iraq by the United Nations was costly and ineffective, Ferguson argues, and the United Nations was itself a useless talk shop. Ferguson believes that Bush and Blair were right to go around the UN, and to reject the delays that other UN delegations, including the Canadian, wished to impose on them, though he does not go into the details of the diplomatic manoeuvrings in New York. Given what followed, it is at least a question whether a sober second look was not worth it; and given the official excuse for the war, the weapons of mass destruction, it is now clear that evidence of their absence might have helped derail Bush's war-bound bandwagon. …

Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

Abstract: David Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a time when the British government is being brought before the Kenyan courts.

Epic encounters : culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East since 1945

Abstract: List of Illustrations Preface to the 2005 Edition Introduction: Middle East Interests 1. "Benevolent Supremacy": The Biblical Epic at the Dawn of the American Century, 1947-1960 2. The Middle East in African American Cultural Politics, 1955-1972 3. King Tut, Commodity Nationalism, and the Politics of Oil, 1973-1979 4. The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam, 1972-1980 5. Iran, Islam, and the Terrorist Threat, 1979-1989 6. Military Multiculturalism in the Gulf War and After, 1990-1999 Conclusion: 9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Reinventing Boston: 1630–2003

Abstract: The three largest cities in colonial America remain at the core of three of America's largest metropolitan areas today This paper asks how Boston has been able to survive despite repeated periods of crisis and decline Boston has reinvented itself three times: in the early 19 th century as the provider of seafaring human capital for a far flung maritime trading and fishing empire; in the late 19 th century as a factory town built on immigrant labor and Brahmin capital; and finally in the late 20 th century as a center of the information economy In all three instances, human capital--admittedly of radically different forms--provided the secret to Boston's rebirth The history of Boston suggests that a strong base of skilled workers is a more reliable source of long-run urban health Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press

War and state formation in ancient China and early modern Europe

Abstract: The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656–221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book, first published in 2005, examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

Hegemony: The New Shape Of Global Power

Abstract: Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent plant closings in the U.S., noted author John Agnew shows how American hegemony has created a world in which power is no longer only shaped territorially. He argues in a sobering conclusion that we are consequently entering a new era of global power, one in which the world the US has made no longer works to its singular advantage.

Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post‐9/11 Geopolitics

Abstract: This article introduces comic books as a medium through which national identity and geopolitical scripts are narrated. This extension of the popular geopolitics literature uses the example of post-11 September 2001 (“9/11”) Captain America comic books to integrate various strands of theory from political geography and the study of nationalism to break new ground in the study of popular culture, identity, and geopolitics. The article begins with an introduction to the character of Captain America and a discussion of the role he plays in the rescaling of American identity and the institutionalization of the nation's symbolic space. The article continues by showing how visual representations of American landscapes in Captain America were critical to constructing geopolitical “realities.” A reading of post-9/11 issues of the Captain America comic book reveals a nuanced and ultimately ambiguous geopolitical script that interrogates America's post-9/11 territorialization.

The New Imperial Order: Indigenous Responses to Globalization

Abstract: * Foreword * Introduction * 1. Of Order and Being. Towards an Indigenous Global Ontology * 2. Indigenous Peoples and the World Order of Sovereign States * 3. Shaping the Liberal International Order * 4. Contested Sites: State Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination * 5. Global Hegemony and the Construction of World Government * 6. Globalization, Regionalization and the Neoliberal State. Local Engagement in New Zealand * 7. Global Governance and the Return of Empire * Conclusion: The Spiral Turns. Crisis and Transformation: An Indigenous Response * Epilogue: Writing as Politics

Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

Abstract: Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Isles and Empire 1 Part I: Blackness and Empire: The World War I Moment 33 1. The New Worldly Negro: Sovereignty, Revolutionary Masculinity, and American Internationalism 35 2. The Women of Color and the Literature of a New Black World 56 3. Marcus Garvey, Black Emperor 74 4. The Black Star Line and the Negro Ship of State 102 Part II: Mapping New Geographies of History 127 5. Claude McKay and Harlem, Black Belt of the Metropolis 129 6. "Nationality Doubtful" and Banjo's Crew in Marseilles 167 7. C. L. R. James and the Fugitive Slave in American Civilization 204 8. America is One Island Only: The Caribbean and American Studies 241 Conclusion: Dark Waters: Shadow Narratives of U. S. Imperialism 269 Notes 283 Bibliography 337 Index 353

The Cambridge companion to the age of Justinian

Abstract: 1. The age of Justinian and its legacy Michael Maas 2. Economy and administration: how did the Empire work? John Haldon 3. Political theory in the Christian-Roman state Charles Pazdernik 4. The Empire at war A. D. Lee 5. Justinian and the barbarian kingdoms Walter Pohl 6. The churches of Italy and Imperial authority during the reign of Justinian Claire Sotinel 7. Relations with Persia and the East Geoffrey Greatrex 8. The background to Islam Fred M. Donner 9. Jews in the Age of Justinian Nicholas de Lange 10. The plague and the Mediterranean Peregrine Horden 11. Gender and the transformation of the social world Leslie Brubaker 12. Classical cities in the sixth century: survival and transformation Kenneth G. Holum 13. Constantinople in the Age of Justinian Brian Croke 14. Did they practice law 'by the book' in the Age of Justinian? Caroline Humfress 15. The legacy of Chalcedon: Christological problems and their significance Patrick Gray 16. Christian piety and practice Derek Krueger 17. Art and architecture Joseph Alchermes 18. Literature and patronage in the Age of Justinian Claudia Rapp 19. Philosophy in the Age of Justinian: the nature of the cosmos Christian Wildberg.

Emotion, restraint, and community in ancient Rome

Abstract: Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions.

Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

Abstract: Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present...its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movements, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory peace, the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.

The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire

Abstract: The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in. New Age of Empire. Cynthia Enloe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 367 pp.

The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars

Abstract: France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of fierce public debate. "The French Imperial Nation-State" focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics - colonial humanism, led by administrative reformers in West Africa, and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state - an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Abstract: The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west's last chance for survival. Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.

Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

Abstract: In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have until now been besotted by the supposed cultural revolution of the Sixties, Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society, the impact of immigration, the invention of modern pop music and the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis and Paul McCartney, and brings to life the experience of the first post-imperial generation, from the Notting Hill riots to the first Beatles hits, from the Profumo scandal to the cult of James Bond. In this strikingly impressive debut, he combines academic verve and insight with colourful, dramatic writing to produce a classic, ground-breaking work that will change forever how we think about the Sixties.

Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture

Abstract: The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and why) that memory manifested itself over the course of the early Principate. Making use of the close relationship between memoria and historia in Roman thought and drawing on modern studies of historical memory, this book offers case-studies of major imperial authors from the reign of Tiberius to that of Trajan (AD 14–117). The memory evident in literature is linked to that imprinted on Rome's urban landscape, with special attention paid to the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan, both which are particularly suggestive reminders of the transition from a time when the memory of the Republic was highly valued and celebrated to one when its grip had begun to loosen.

Where Is Guantanamo

Abstract: This essay argues that Guantanamo lies at the heart of the American Empire. The legal status of the prisoners there must be understood in the context of an imperial history that dates back to the U.S. occupation of Cuba in 1898. This history explains how the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has become an ambiguous space, both inside and outside national and juridical borders and how this ambiguity reinforces the harsh penal regime. The essay argues that the legacies of U.S. imperialism inform key contemporary debates about Guantanamo: the question of national sovereignty, the codification of the prisoners as "enemy combatants," and the uncertainty about whether the U.S. Constitution holds sway there. Turning to the 2004 Supreme Court decision, Rasul v. Bush, the essay argues that the justices are not only interested in restraining executive power to bring Guantanamo within the rule of domestic law; they also show concern with the scope of U.S. power in the world and the extent to which the judiciary should accompany or limit U.S. military rule abroad. A close reading of the Supreme Court's decision and dissent shows that the logic and rhetoric of Rasul v. Bush rely on and perpetuate the imperial history the decision also elides. In concert other recent decisions about civil liberties and national security, Rasul v. Bush contributes to the global expansion of U.S. power by reworking the earlier history of imperial rule. The Court's legal decisions respond to the changing demands of empire today by creating new categories of persons before the law that extend far beyond Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire

Abstract: Richard Hingley here asks the questions:What is Romanization? and Was Rome the first global culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inhabitants of the Roman provinces were able to develop identities they never knew they had until Rome gave them the language to express them. Hingley draws together the threads of diverse and separate study, in one sophisticated theoretical framework that spans the whole Roman Empire. Students of Rome and those with an interest in classical cultural studies will find this an invaluable mine of information.

Migration in world history

Abstract: This fascinating study traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, Manning covers: * earliest human migrations, including the earliest hominids, their development and spread, and the controversy surrounding the rise of homo sapiens * the rise and spread of major language groups * examination of civilizations, farmers and pastoralists from 3000 BCE to 500 CE * trade patterns including the early Silk Road and maritime trade in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean * the effect of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900 * the resurgence of migration in the later twentieth century, including movement to cities, refugees and diasporas.

Jewish occupational selection: education, restrictions, or minorities?

Abstract: Before the eighth-ninth centuries C.E., most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibited them from remaining engaged in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark throughout history. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy prompted by a religious and educational reform in Judaism in the first and second centuries C.E., which gave them a comparative advantage in urban, skilled occupations. We present evidence that supports our argument.

War, aggression and state crime: A criminological analysis of the invasion and occupation of Iraq

Abstract: In this article, we argue that the 2003 US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq was a form of state crime and offer a criminological analysis of the event. First, we describe how the war on Iraq violated the UN Charter and international humanitarian law. Then, we provide a narrative analysis of the historical and contemporary origins of this crime through the lens of an integrated model for the study of organizational deviance that has proved useful in the analysis of a number of other upper-world crimes. A key part of our explanation of this war resides in the dynamics of America’s long-standing will to empire coupled with the imperial designs of neoconservative policy makers within the Bush administration.

Why race still matters

Abstract: Daedalus Winter 2005 Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race and to regard people of different races as essentially different kinds of people? Call this the ‘1⁄2rst question.’ Of course there are many more questions that one must also ask: Why has racial oppression been so ubiquitous? Why racial exploitation? Why racial slavery? Perhaps we tend to think of races as essentially different just because we want to excuse or to justify the domination of one race by another. I shall proceed with the 1⁄2rst question by canvassing 1⁄2ve possible answers to it that variously invoke nature, genealogy (in the sense of Michel Foucault), cognitive science, empire, and pollution rules. One 1⁄2nal preliminary remark is in order. Most parts of this essay could have been written last year or next year, but the discussion of naturalism, medicine, and race could only have been written in November of 2004, and may well be out of date by the time this piece is printed.

Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire

Abstract: Introduction 1. The 'New Frontier' as safety valve: the political and social context of manifest destiny, 1800-60 2. An American Central America: boosters, travelers, and the persistence of Manifest destiny 3. American men abroad: sex and violence in the Latin American travelogue 4. William Walker and the regeneration of martial manhood 5. The irresistible pirate: Narciso Lopez and the public meeting 6. American womanhood abroad 7. Manifest destiny and manly missionaries: expansionism in the Pacific Conclusion: American manhood and war, 1860 to the present.

The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures 1. Elites 2. The Lower Middle Class and the Working Classes at Home 3. The Working Class at Work 4. The Working Class at Play 5. Women and Children 6. Domestic Politics 7. Metropolitan Economics 8. The Forging of British Identities 9. After-Effects Afterword Appendix Bibliography