Showing papers on "Empire published in 2010"

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference

Abstract: 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

Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism

Abstract: Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism 21 CHAPTER TWO: Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory 56 CHAPTER THREE: Codification in the East andWest 89 CHAPTER FOUR: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property 119 CHAPTER FIVE: Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule 148 CODA: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered 179 Notes 189 Bibliography 227 Index 255

Globalization and the decolonial option

Abstract: 1. Introduction: Coloniality of Power and De-Colonial Thinking Walter D. Mignolo I The Emergence of An-Other-Paradigm 2. Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality Anibal Quijano 3. Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program Arturo Escobar 4. The Epistemic Decolonial Turn: Beyond Political-Economy Paradigms Ramon Grosfoguel 5. Shifting the Geopolitics of Critical Knowledge: Decolonial Thought and Cultural Studies 'Others' in the Andes Catherine Walsh II (De)Colonization of Knowledges and of Beings 6. On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the Development of a Concept Nelson Maldonado-Torres 7. Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, and Binary Thinking Freya Schiwy III The Colonial Nation-States and the Imperial Racial Matrix 8. The Nation: An Imagined Community? Javier Sanjines 9. Decolonial Moves: Trans-locating African Diaspora Spaces Agustin Lao-Montes 10. Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste: Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, Martinez's 'Parrot in the Oven', and Roy's 'The God of Small Things' Jose David Saldivar IV (De)Coloniality at Large 11. The Eastern Margins of Empire: Coloniality in 19th Century Romania Manuela Boatca 12. (In)edible Nature: New World Food and Coloniality Zilkia Janer 13. The Imperial-Colonial Chronotype: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad Madina Tlostanova V On Empires and Colonial/Imperial Differences 14. The Missing Chapter of Empire: Postmodern Reorganization of Coloniality and Post-Fordist Capitalism Santiago Castro-Gomez 15. Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-Coloniality Walter D. Mignolo 16. The Coloniality of Gender Maria Lugones 17. Afterword Arturo Escobar

ECOLOGIES OF EMPIRE: On the New Uses of the Honeybee

Abstract: This essay examines the rise of the honeybee as a tool and metaphor in the U.S. “war on terror.” At present, the largest source of funding for apiary research comes from the U.S. military as part of efforts to remake entomology in an age of empire. This funding seeks to make new generations of bees sensitive to specific chemical traces—everything from plastic explosives, to the tritium used in nuclear weapons development, to land mines. Moreover, in an explicit attempt to redesign modern battlefield techniques, the Pentagon has returned to the form and metaphor of the “swarm” to combat what it takes to be the unpredictability of the enemy in the war on terror. At the same time, honeybee colonies are collapsing. Rethinking material assemblages of bees and humans in the war on terror, this essay moves beyond the constrained logic and limited politics of many epidemiological investigations of colony collapse. Honeybees are situated within a more expansive understanding of the role of and consequences for the animal in modern empire building.

Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective

Abstract: 1. Explaining levels of colonialism and postcolonial development 2. Spain and its colonial empire in the Americas 3. Mercantilist colonialism 4. Liberal colonialism 5. Warfare and postcolonial development 6. Postcolonial levels of development 7. British and Portuguese colonialism 8. Conclusion.

Lectures on the relation between law and public opinion in England: during the nineteenth century

Abstract: The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again. Dicey was the most influential constitutional authority in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Modern politicians have often invoked the phrase "rule of law." So commonplace has it become that few recognize its source in the work of Dicey. Law and Public Opinion in England is written with simplicity, wit and a sense of purpose that marks it as a book apart. It did much more than fortell the decline of empire, it developed the forms in which such decline comes about. In many ways this book represents a pioneering statement on the libertarian tradition as a consequence of rather than rebellion against the legal norms of an advanced civilization. This is a central book for students of society and politics alike.

Regional powers and their strategies: empire, hegemony, and leadership

Abstract: Regional powers are often conceived of as ‘regional leading powers’, states which adopt a cooperative and benevolent attitude in their international relations with their neighbours. The article argues that regional powers can follow a much wider range of foreign policy strategies in their region. Three ideal-typical regional strategies are identified: empire, hegemony, and leadership. The article is devoted to a theory-led distinction and clarification of these three terms, which are often used interchangeably in the field of International Relations. According to the goals pursued, to the means employed, and to other discriminating features such as the degree of legitimation and the type of self-representation by the dominant state, the article outlines the essential traits of imperial, hegemonic, and leading strategies and identifies sub-types for better classifying hegemony and leadership.

Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire

Abstract: 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

Migration, Membership, and the Modern Nation-State: Internal and External Dimensions of the Politics of Belonging

Abstract: The politics of belonging—political struggles about the membership status of populations both within and outside the geographical confines of particular nation-states—derive from four conditions: (1) the migration of borders over people, (2) the deep and enduring inequalities between mainstream and minority populations, (3) the persisting legacies of empire, and (4) the migration of people over borders. New forms of external membership represent an extension and adaptation of the nation-state model, not its transcendence.

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Abstract: Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoe Laidlaw 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall Bibliography.

Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914

Abstract: Introduction 1. Reconfiguring empire: the British world 2. Networks and the British world 3. Overseas migration 4. Markets and consumer cultures 5. Information and investment Conclusion.

Technological Momentum Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract: The nineteenth century was a very significant period in the history of modern India. It was during this period that the country witnessed the emergence of many intellectual currents in all aspects: religious, social, political, economic and cultural. For the colonial power, by the beginning of the nineteenth century, the empire had more or less been won. The job was to keep it, and to use it for profit. Colonialism was not the result of mere Western superiority, but of the unleashing of overwhelming force backed by technology at minimal cost. Technological changes affected the timing and location of European conquests and thus determined the economic relations of colonialism. It made European expansion swift, thorough and cheap. The new ability of Europeans in the nineteenth century to conquer other territories arose from relatively few inventions like iron-hulled steam ships, improved firearms, telegraph, railways and so on. With these tools, Europeans brought about a shift in global relations. The curre...

Settler Sovereignty : Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836

Abstract: * Introduction *1. Jurisdiction, Territory and Sovereignty in Empire *2. Pluralism as Policy *3. Indigenous Jurisdiction and Spatial Order *4. Legality and Lawlessness *5. The Limits of Jurisdiction *6. Farmbrough's Fathoming and Transitions in Georgia *7. Lego'me and Territoriality in New South Wales *8. Perfect Settler Sovereignty * Conclusion

Islamophobia, culture and race in the age of empire

Abstract: This paper offers a genealogical sketch of the figure of the Muslim Other as it is figured in the post-Cold War popular and political imaginary. It explores why ‘culture’ has acquired a putative explanatory power in the post-Cold War (geo)politics. In addressing differentialist racism, it posits Islamophobia as an ideological response that conflates histories, politics, societies and cultures of the Middle East into a single unified and negative conception of an essentialized Islam, which is then deemed incompatible with Euro-Americaness. In this context, the category of brown, once the signifier of an exotic Other, is undergoing a transformation in conjunction with the deepening of Islamophobia, a formation that posits brown, as a strategy of identification, as alterity to the Euro-Americanness, and as terror and threat.

The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties

Abstract: The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation "The Troubled Empire" explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather Asia, like Europe, experienced a "Little Ice Age", and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders Against this background - the first coherent ecological history of China in this period - Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world

Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire

Abstract: Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part I: Networks of Empire Chapter 1: Webs of Communication 13 Chapter 2: Missionary Lives, Transnational Networks: The Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch 28 Part II: Origins of American Empire Chapter 3: The Missionary Impulse 49 Chapter 4: The Matrix of Moral Reform 74 Chapter 5: Blood, Souls, and Power: American Humanitarianism Abroad in the 1890s 98 Part III: The Challenge of American Colonialism Chapter 6: Reforming Colonialism 123 Chapter 7: Opium and the Fashioning of the American Moral Empire 146 Chapter 8: Ida Wells and Others: Radical Protest and the Networks of American Expansion 166 Part IV: The Era of World War I and the Wilsonian New World Order Chapter 9: States of Faith: Missions and Morality in Government 191 Chapter 10: To Make a Dry World: The New World Order of Prohibition 209 Conclusion: The Judgments of Heaven: Change and Continuity in Moral Reform 227 Notes 247 Index 309

The Silk Road in World History

Abstract: The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, and spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west, the Han Empire extended its dominion over the oases around the Takla Makan Desert and sent silk all the way to the Mediterranean, either through the land routes leading to the caravan city of Palmyra in Syria desert, or by way of northwest India, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, landing at Alexandria. The Silk Road survived the turmoil of the demise of the Han and Roman Empires, reached its golden age during the early middle age, when the Byzantine Empire and the Tang Empire became centers of silk culture and established the models for high culture of the Eurasian world. The coming of Islam extended silk culture to an even larger area and paved the way for an expanded market for textiles and other commodities. By the 11th century, however, the Silk Road was in decline because of intense competition from the sea routes of the Indian Ocean. Using demand and supply as the framework for analyzing the formation and development of the Silk Road, the book examines the dynamics of the interactions of the nomadic pastoralists with sedentary agriculturalists, and the spread of new ideas, religions, and values into the world of commerce, thus illustrating the cultural forces underlying material transactions. This effort at tracing the interconnections of the diverse participants in the transcontinental Silk Road exchange will demonstrate that the world had been linked through economic and ideological forces long before the modern era.

Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Abstract: More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Legal Revivals" explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences - and considering how those experiences have laid the foundation for those societies' legal profession today. Deftly tracing the transformation of the relationship between law and state into different colonial settings, the authors show how nationalist legal elites in countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea came to wield political power as agents in the move toward national independence. Including fieldwork from over three hundred and fifty interviews, "Asian Legal Revivals" illuminates the recent past and the present of these legally changing nations and explains the profession's recent revival of influence, as spurred on by American geopolitical and legal interests.

Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow

Abstract: This book attempts to document diaspora among neighbors. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In "Forging Diaspora", Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans and black Americans helped to shape the political strategies of both groups as they attempted to overcome a shared history of oppression and enslavement. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, Guridy traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans. These hidden histories of cultural interaction - of Cuban students attending Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, the rise of Garveyism, the Havana-Harlem cultural connection during the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-Cubanism movement, and the creation of black travel networks during the Good Neighbor and early Cold War eras - illustrate the significance of cross-national linkages to the ways both Afro-descended populations negotiated the entangled processes of U.S. imperialism and racial discrimination. As a result of these relationships, argues Guridy, Afro-descended people in Cuba and the United States came to identify themselves as part of a transcultural African diaspora.

Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice

Abstract: What role did the Roman legal concept of res nullius (things without owners), or the related concept of terra nullius (land without owners), play in the context of early modern European expansion? Scholars have provided widely different answers to this question. Some historians have argued that European claims based on terra nullius became a routine part of early modern interimperial politics, particularly as a response by the English and French crowns to expansive Iberian claims supported by papal donations. Others have countered that allusions to terra nullius marked a temporary phase of imperial discourse and that claimants relied more often on other rationales for empire, rarely mentioning res nullius or terra nullius and often explicitly recognizing the ownership rights, and even the sovereignty, of local polities and indigenous peoples.

The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries

Abstract: 1. Introduction: the politics of granting citizenship 2. Wide measures with synthetic and dynamic methods Part I. The Colonizers and Settlers: 3. Colonization in reverse: the degrees of empire in the UK and France 4. From manifest destiny to multi-culturalism in the settler countries Part II. Matched Case Studies and Exceptions: 5. European colonizer versus short term occupier: Austria and Germany 6. World colonizer versus late occupier: The Netherlands and Belgium 7. Left and green politics trump regime types in Nordic countries Part III. The Comprehensive Analysis of Naturalization Rates: 8. Explaining naturalization rates in eighteen countries: regimes over centuries and politics and institutions over decades 9. Conclusion - explanations and future of citizenship.

Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

Abstract: Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire, edited by Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi + 37...

Life, death, and entertainment in the Roman Empire

Abstract: "[T]his handsomely-produced volume performs admirably as a series of introductions to sources, approaches, and the state of scholarship on major topics in Roman social history . . . Collections of essays come and go, but this one will stay in wide use. Each essay can stand alone but, tied together by the theme of dominance, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."---Donald Kyle, "Bryn Mawr Classical Review""This collection of essays is intended to serve as a coursebook for introductory lecture series on Roman civilization; the essays are concentrated on fundamental aspects of Roman society, and no prior knowledge of antiquity on the reader's part is assumed. . . . The book as a whole is entirely successful in its projected aim: an immense range of detailed information about antiquity is presented in readable and largely sophisticated discussion. . . . Increasingly we need to be able to suggest to our students reading that is introductory but also in-depth and challenging, and this book is one possible reading that we can offer."---Ellen O'Gorman, "Classical Review""Life, Death, and Entertainment" gives those with a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point, informed by the latest developments in scholarship, for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, slavery, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment---all crucial parts of the Roman world---are discussed here, in a single volume that offers an approachable guide for readers of all backgrounds. The collection unites a series of general introductions on each of these topics, bringing readers in touch with a broad range of evidence, as well as with a wide variety of approaches to basic questions about the Roman world.The newly expanded edition includes historian Keith Hopkins' pathbreaking article on Roman slaves. Volume editor David Potter has contributed two new translations of documents from emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian's letters document a reorganization of the festival cycle in the Empire and reassert the importance of the Olympic Games; the letter to Marcus provides the most important surviving evidence for how gladiatorial games were actually organized.Contributors to the volume include Greg S. Aldrete, Hazel Dodge, Bruce W. Frier, Maud W. Gleason, Ann E. Hanson, Keith Hopkins, David J. Mattingly, and David S. Potter.D.S. Potter is Professor of Classics and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan.D.J. Mattingly is Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester, and a Fellow of the British Academy.Cover illustrations: top left, Karanis Excavation, courtesy Kelsey Museum; bottom right, Monte Testacchio, courtesy David J. Mattingly; center, "Pollice Verso" by Jean-Leon Gerome, courtesy Phoenix Art Museum, Museum Purchase."

Political Theory of Empire and Imperialism

Abstract: The past decade has seen a spate of new work on empire in political theory and the history of political thought. Much of this work has focused on the place of empire in the thought of many canonical thinkers and in the formation of modern liberalism and related arenas, such as postcolonial settler societies and the discipline of international law. Political theory's turn to empire has been belated in comparison to other fields, such as history, literature, and anthropology, which had been grappling with the histories and legacies of modern European empires since the 1970s. Despite intense attention to the question of American imperialism during the Bush administration, political theory arguably continues to fail to deal adequately with the imperial features of the current global order, including the substantial responsibility on the part of the great powers for conditions such as extreme poverty, ecological crisis, civil conflict, and tyranny around the world.

The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire

Abstract: The Unknown Nation is an illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity. James Curran and Stuart Ward document how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people. With the sudden disappearance in the 1960s and 1970s of the familiar coordinates of the British world, Australians were cast into the realm of the unknown. The task of remodelling the national image touched every aspect of Australian life where identifiably British ideas, habits and symbolsandmdash;from foreign relations to the national anthemandmdash;had grown obsolete. But how to celebrate Australia's past achievements and present aspirations became a source of public controversy as community leaders struggled to find the appropriate language and rhetoric to invoke a new era.

Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia

Abstract: My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...-From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word -a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it was built on shaky foundations. That instability made its demise inevitable, asserts Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of Russia and architect of the "shock therapy" economic reforms of the 1990s. Yet a growing desire to return to the glory days of empire is pushing today's Russia backward into many of the same traps that made the Soviet Union untenable. In this important new book, Gaidar clearly illustrates why Russian nostalgia for empire is dangerous and ill-fated: "Dreams of returning to another era are illusory. Attempts to do so will lead to defeat." Gaidar uses world history, the Soviet experience, and economic analysis to demonstrate why swimming against this tide of history would be a huge mistake. The USSR sowed the seeds of its own economic destruction, and Gaidar worries that Russia is repeating some of those mistakes. Once again, for example, the nation is putting too many eggs into one basket, leaving the nation vulnerable to fluctuations in the energy market. The Soviets had used revenues from energy sales to prop up struggling sectors such as agriculture, which was so thoroughly ravaged by hyperindustrialization that the Soviet Union became a net importer of food. When oil prices dropped in the 1980s, that revenue stream diminished, and dependent sectors suffered heavily. Although strategies requiring austerity or sacrifice can be politically difficult, Russia needs to prepare for such downturns and restrain spending during prosperous times. Collapse of an Empire shows why it is imperative to fix the roof before it starts to rain, and why sometimes the past should be left in the past.

Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial

Abstract: In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences of desire, taste, and appetite as well as new technologies of the embodied self. For colonizers, Indian nationalists, diasporic persons, and others in the colonial and postcolonial world orders, the alimentary tract functioned as an important corporeal, psychoaffective, and ethicopolitical contact zone, in which questions of identification, desire, difference, and responsibility were staged. Interpreting texts that have addressed cooking, dining, taste, hungers, excesses, and aversions in South Asia and its diaspora since the mid-nineteenth century, Roy relates historical events and literary figures to tropes of disgust, abstention, dearth, and appetite. She analyzes the fears of pollution and deprivation conveyed in British accounts of the so-called Mutiny of 1857, complicates understandings of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s vegetarianism, examines the “famine fictions” of the novelist-actor Mahasweta Devi, and reflects on the diasporic cookbooks and screen performances of Madhur Jaffrey. This account of richly visceral global modernity furnishes readers with a new idiom for understanding historical action and cultural transformation.

Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire

Abstract: Preface Maps Illustrations Part I: Russian Turkestan and the Revolt of 1916 1 Judgments on a Flawed Imperial Undertaking 2 Visions of Imperial Integration 3 Colonial Uniqueness and Authoritarian Rule Part II: Constructing Russia's New Colony 1 Creating Colonial Turkestan 2 Kaufman's Colonial Plans 3 Colonial Knowledge of Turkestan Part III: The Colony in the Empire 1 Civil Order and the Statute of 1886 2 Language Politics and Cultural Missionaries 3 Colonial Profits and Productivity Part IV: Islam in Russian Turkestan 1 Colonial Conflict and Islam 2 Turkestan in a "New Civilization" 3 Resurgent Popular Islam Part V: The Making of a Settler Colony 1 Plans for Settler-Soldiers 2 Pioneers and Nomads 3 Colonization and the Empire Part VI: Turkestan and the Fall of the Russian Empire 1 War and Colonial Crisis 2 Colonial Collapse Epilogue: The Colonial Dilemma Resolved Select Bibliography Index