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Book
03 Mar 2011
TL;DR: The Crooked Timber of Humanitarianism as discussed by the authors is a metaphor for the history of humanitarianism and co-dependent co-dependence in the world, and it describes the evolution of humanitarians during war.
Abstract: Introduction: The Crooked Timber of Humanitarianism 1. Co-Dependence: Humanitarianism and the World PART I: The Age of Imperial Humanitarianism 2. The Humanitarian Big Bang 3. Saving Slaves, Sinners, Savages, and Societies 4. Saving Soldiers and Civilians during War PART II: The Age of Neo-Humanitarianism 5. The New International 6. Neo-Humanitarianism 7. Humanitarianism during Wartime PART III: The Age of Liberal Humanitarianism 8. It's a Humanitarian's World 9. Armed for Humanity 10. Politics and Anti-Politics, or the New Paternalism Conclusion: The Empire of Humanity Notes References Index

630 citations


Book
06 Sep 2011
TL;DR: The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability as discussed by the authors, and Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance.
Abstract: Contents Preface: Full Fathom Five Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization 1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry 2. "This Island's Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony 3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability 4. "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship 5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance 6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy" Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism Acknowledgments Notes Index

604 citations


Book
15 Apr 2011
TL;DR: Tilley's "Africa as a Living Laboratory" as mentioned in this paper explores the relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise in the colonisation of British Africa, arguing that the aim of British colonialists was to transform and modernize Africa, but their efforts were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local.
Abstract: Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. "Africa as a Living Laboratory" is an ambitious study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise - environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelation of the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, "Africa as a Living Laboratory" transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.

344 citations


01 Jan 2011

302 citations


Book
20 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The question of status and the subject of protection in the shadow of empire is addressed in this paper, where Hobbes, Schmitt, and the responsibility to protect are discussed, as well as the question of who decides, who interprets, and who decides.
Abstract: 1. Protection in the shadow of empire 2. Practices of protection: from the parliament of man to international executive rule 3. How to recognise lawful authority: Hobbes, Schmitt and the responsibility to protect 4. Who decides? Who interprets?: jurisdiction, recognition and the institutionalisation of protection 5. The question of status and the subject of protection.

196 citations


01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: This article argued that writing American history allowed English writers to navigate, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing Atlantic empire by the end of the seventeenth century, and that the English created a vision of America to compete with the dominant Spanish narrative.
Abstract: This dissertation is the story of how the English wrote the history of America between c. 1500 and c. 1700. Utilizing printed and manuscript sources, it argues that writing American history allowed English writers to navigate, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing Atlantic empire. In doing so, the English created a vision of America to compete with the dominant Spanish narrative by the end of the seventeenth century. The existence of America gave the English an opportunity to explore the prospect of overseas empire. After the Columbian encounter, English thinkers and writers transformed their historical methodology to accommodate the existence of America and write its history in a distinctive English fashion. By the middle of the sixteenth century, Anglo-American histories imagined an English America in a Spanish Atlantic world. Translating Spanish-American texts and verifying them using humanist principles allowed the English to metaphysically construct the New World on their own terms. During the reign of Elizabeth, English writers began to carve their own space in America outside the dominion of the Spanish, both physically and textually, as they invented an English America. In the seventeenth century, the historical methods crafted by English scholars to deal with America began to clash with the experience English colonists were gaining in the Anglo-American colonies. The narratives they created stressed English authority to settle the New World and the importance of establishing a permanent presence in America. By the end of the century, a new imperial history developed in England in response to anti-American sentiments at home. Their arguments, which stressed the economic benefits of American empire to the detriment of colonists' agency in creating those benefits, pushed colonial writers to construct their own histories of America in an attempt to define more favorable terms of empire. The American histories they crafted on both sides of the Atlantic began to find a continental readership, competing directly with the dominant Spanish-American narrative.

179 citations


BookDOI
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and consider the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.
Abstract: The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Frontieres. The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer insights from the anthropology and history of development, from diplomatic history, and from science and technology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, providing new perspectives on the global Cold War.

168 citations


Book
10 Nov 2011
TL;DR: The meaning of liberalism in colonial India has been explored in this paper, where the social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c.1750-1840, are discussed.
Abstract: Preface Introduction: the meanings of liberalism in colonial India 1. The social and intellectual contexts of early Indian liberalism, c.1750-1840 2. The advent of liberal thought in India: constitutions, revolutions and juries 3. The advent of liberal thought in India and beyond: civil society and the press 4. After Rammohan: benign sociology and statistical liberalism 5. Living as liberals: Bengal and Bombay c.1840-1880 6. Thinking as liberals: historicism, race, society and economy, c.1840-1848 7. Giants with feet of clay: Asian critics and Victorian sages to 1914 8. Liberals in the Desh: North Indian Hindus and the Muslim Dilemma 9. 'Communitarianism': Indian liberalism transformed, c.1890-1916 10. Inter-war: Indian discourse and controversy 1919-1935 11. Anti-liberalism, 'counter-liberalism' and liberalism's afterlife, 1920-1950 Conclusion: lineages of liberalism in India Bibliography.

167 citations


Book
Julian Go1
17 May 2011
TL;DR: Patterns of Empire as discussed by the authors comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain, showing how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East and overextended imperial confidence.
Abstract: Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields and the limits of imperial power.

165 citations


Book
01 Jun 2011
TL;DR: Rana as discussed by the authors argues that the contemporary South Asian labor diaspora builds on and replicates the global racial system consolidated during the period of colonial indenture, and that the demonization of Muslim migrants in times of crisis, such as the War on Terror, is then used to justify arbitrary policing, deportation, and criminalization.
Abstract: Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of Pakistani labor migrants as they become part of a larger global racial system. At the same time, he explains how these migrants’ mobility and opportunities are limited by colonial, postcolonial, and new imperial structures of control and domination. He argues that the contemporary South Asian labor diaspora builds on and replicates the global racial system consolidated during the period of colonial indenture. Rana maintains that a negative moral judgment attaches to migrants who enter the global labor pool through the informal economy. This taint of the illicit intensifies the post-9/11 Islamophobia that collapses varied religions, nationalities, and ethnicities into the threatening racial figure of “the Muslim.” It is in this context that the racialized Muslim is controlled by a process that beckons workers to enter the global economy, and stipulates when, where, and how laborers can migrate. The demonization of Muslim migrants in times of crisis, such as the War on Terror, is then used to justify arbitrary policing, deportation, and criminalization.

161 citations


Book
14 Mar 2011
TL;DR: Shattering Empires as mentioned in this paper is a study of the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the early 20th century, focusing on the rivalry and collapse of two great empires, and argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman and Russian borderlands.
Abstract: The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War I.

Posted Content
TL;DR: The Company-State as discussed by the authors explores the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century.
Abstract: The Company-State rethinks the nature of the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century. Taking seriously the politics and political thought of the early Company on their own terms, it explores the Company's political and legal constitution as an overseas corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that followed from it, from tax collection and public health to warmaking and colonial plantation. Tracing the ideological foundations of those institutions and behaviors, this book reveals how Company leadership wrestled not simply with the bottom line but with typically early modern problems of governance, such as: the mutual obligations of subjects and rulers; the relationship between law, economy, and sound civil and colonial society; and the nature of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people, commerce, religion, territory, and the sea. The Company-State thus reframes some of the most fundamental narratives in the history of the British Empire, questioning traditional distinctions between public and private bodies, "commercial" and "imperial" eras in British India, a colonial Atlantic and a "trading world" of Asia, European and Asian political cultures, and the English and their European rivals in the East Indies. At its core, The Company-State offers a view of early modern Europe and Asia, and especially the colonial world that connected them, as resting in composite, diffuse, hybrid, and overlapping notions of sovereignty that only later gave way to more modern singular, centralized, and territorially- and nationally-bounded definitions of political community. Given growing questions about the fate of the nation-state and of national borders in an age of "globalization," this study offers a perspective on the vitality of non-state and corporate political power perhaps as relevant today as it was in the seventeenth century. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/history/9780195393736/toc.html

Book
28 Feb 2011
TL;DR: The authors argued that the origins of the Anglosphere are racial and developed a new framework for analyzing foreign policy, which it then evaluates in case studies related to fin-de-siecle imperialism (1894-1903), the ill-fated Pacific Pact (1950-1), the Suez crisis (1956), the Vietnam escalation (1964-5), and the run-up to the Iraq war (2002-3).
Abstract: The Anglosphere refers to a community of English-speaking states, nations, and societies centered on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has profoundly influenced the direction of world history and fascinated countless observers. This book argues that the origins of the Anglosphere are racial. Drawing on theories of collective identity-formation and framing, the book develops a new framework for analyzing foreign policy, which it then evaluates in case studies related to fin-de-siecle imperialism (1894-1903), the ill-fated Pacific Pact (1950-1), the Suez crisis (1956), the Vietnam escalation (1964-5), and the run-up to the Iraq war (2002-3). Each case study highlights the contestations over state and empire, race and nation, and liberal internationalism and anti-Americanism, taking into consideration how they shaped international conflict and cooperation. In reconstructing the history of the Anglosphere, the book engages directly with the most recent debates in international relations scholarship and American foreign policy

Book
16 Jul 2011
TL;DR: Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914, has served as the central point of reference for every major colonial historian during the four decades since its original publication in 1961.
Abstract: Until the close of the nineteenth century, French colonial theory was based on the idea of assimilation, which gave France the responsibility for "civilizing" its colonies by absorbing them administratively and culturally. By the turn of the twentieth century, this idea had given way to the theory of association, which held that France's new empire could be better served by a more flexible policy in which the colonized become partners with France in the colonial project. Raymond F. Betts examines the pivotal shift in colonial theory within the metropole, the debate that it generated, and its intellectual origins. A landmark book in the field of French colonial theory, Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914, has served as the central point of reference for every major colonial historian during the four decades since its original publication in 1961. Available in paperback for the first time, with a new preface by the author, this edition will interest all students of colonialism and introduce many younger scholars to what remains the best and most original book in the field.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of non-state actors on Canada's support for East Timorese self-determination in the 1990s is discussed in the context of the Timor.Timor.
Abstract: Timor. Though this section of the book is not as rich as the others (a point Webster concedes at the outset), it nevertheless usefully sets events within the larger evolution of Canadian attitudes towards decolonization. Webster’s suggestion that the myth of Canada as a helpful mediator has acquired characteristics of a national interest in its own right is especially interesting. His discussion of how transnational networks influenced Canada’s support for East Timorese self-determination in the 1990s offers useful evidence on this point. The influence of nonstate actors, Webster proposes, helps to explain why Canada in this period began to pursue policies that were not strictly determined by alliance concerns and economic interests. For students of the history and politics of Canadian foreign policy since 1945, and for those interested in the influence of state and nonstate actors on that policy, this is an important book.

Book
29 Nov 2011
TL;DR: The long invisibility of the Native New World is discussed in this article, where the authors present a glossary of Native terms and discuss the history of Indian assimilation in North America.
Abstract: Prologue: The Long Invisibility of the Native New World PART I. DISCOVERY Chapter 1. Place and Belonging in Native North America Chapter 2. The Rituals of Possession and the Problems of Nation PART II. THE NEW WORLD Chapter 3. The Rebirth of Native Power and Identity Chapter 4. European Interlopers and the Politics of the Native New World PART III. THE ILLUSION OF EMPIRE Chapter 5. An Anishinaabe Warrior's World Chapter 6. The Great Peace and Unraveling Alliances PART IV. SOVEREIGNTY: THE MAKING OF NORTH AMERICA'S NEW NATIONS Chapter 7. The Counterfactual History of Indian Assimilation Epilogue: Louis Riel, Native Founding Father Glossary of Native Terms Notes Index Acknowledgments

Book
21 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume, of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy.
Abstract: Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body. This book presents an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume. While providing up-to-date discussions of most significant aspects of the phenomenon, the book also offers a new understanding of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy, as well as the deep-seated ideological concerns to which it gave rise. It locates the freedman in a broader social and economic context, explaining the remarkable popularity of manumission in the Roman world.

Book
09 Sep 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, Sadiah Qureshi tells the story of how such shows developed into commercially successful entertainments, their lasting scientific importance, and the diverse ways in which they were experienced and interpreted by the showmen, performers, and patrons.
Abstract: In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner," an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these living "savages": such shows proved to be some of the most popular public entertainments of their day. By the end of the century, performers were being imported by the hundreds and housed in purpose-built "native" villages for months at a time, delighting the masses and allowing scientists and journalists the opportunity to reflect on racial difference, foreign policy, slavery, missionary work, and empire. "Peoples on Parade" provides the first substantial overview of these human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain. Sadiah Qureshi tells the story of how such shows developed into commercially successful entertainments, their lasting scientific importance, and the diverse ways in which they were experienced and interpreted by the showmen, performers, and patrons. Through Qureshi's vibrant storytelling and stunning images, readers will see how human exhibitions have left behind an institutional legacy both in the formation of early anthropological inquiry and in the creation of broader public attitudes toward racial difference.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The Spanish Scholastics of the sixteenth century are generally known as the precursors of Hugo Grotius in the application of natural law and the law of nations (ius gentium) to the political relations of early modern states.
Abstract: The Spanish Scholastics of the sixteenth century are generally known as the precursors of Hugo Grotius in the application of natural law and the law of nations (ius gentium) to the political relations of early modern states. Their writings on the American Indians have been read as especially significant for the formation of the humanist–colonialist legacy of (European) international law. I have no quarrel with these views. This essay will, however, claim that the principal legacy of the Salamanca scholars lay in their development of a vocabulary of private rights (of dominium) that enabled the universal ordering of international relations by recourse to private property, contract, and exchange. This vocabulary provided an efficient articulation for Europe's ‘informal empire’ over the rest of the world and is still operative as the legal foundation of global relations of power.

Book
04 May 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire is explored, and the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.
Abstract: Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world--both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires--astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.

Book
08 Aug 2011
TL;DR: Koslofsky as mentioned in this paper explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art.
Abstract: What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe He shows how princes, courtiers, burghers and common people 'nocturnalized' political expression, the public sphere and the use of daily time Fear of the night was now mingled with improved opportunities for labour and leisure: the modern night was beginning to assume its characteristic shape Evening's Empire takes the evocative history of the night into early modern politics, culture and society, revealing its importance to key themes from witchcraft, piety, and gender to colonization, race, and the Enlightenment

Book
14 Jul 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the history of constitutions from early modernity to modernity, including states, rights and the revolutionary form of power, and the transition from empire to fascism.
Abstract: 1. Medieval constitutions 2. Constitutions and early modernity 3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power 4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism 5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.

Book
17 Oct 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, Reinert makes a compelling case for the way that England's aggressively nationalist policies, especially extensive tariffs and other intrusive market interventions, were adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before providing the blueprint for independence in the New World.
Abstract: Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and others sought to selectively emulate the British model. In mapping the general history of economic translations between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary's seminal 1695 Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case for the way that England's aggressively nationalist policies, especially extensive tariffs and other intrusive market interventions, were adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before providing the blueprint for independence in the New World. Relatively forgotten today, Cary's work served as the basis for an international move toward using political economy as the prime tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. Reinert's work challenges previous narratives about the origins of political economy and invites the current generation of economists to reexamine the foundations, and future, of their discipline.

Book
21 Nov 2011
TL;DR: The author discusses the non-Traditional Orient, philosophy under Russian Rule, and re-Enchanting the Darkness, which aims to explore the role of language in the development of modern Russia.
Abstract: Introduction Part One. The Non-Traditional Orient Chapter 1. Less than One and Double Chapter 2. Worldliness Part Two. Writing from Scratch Chapter 3. Chasing Rurik Chapter 4. To Colonize Oneself Chapter 5. Barrels of Fur Part 3. Empire of the Tsars Chapter 6. Occult Instability Chapter 7. Disciplinary Gears Chapter 8. Internal Affairs Part 4. Shaved Man's Burden Chapter 9. Philosophy under Russian Rule Chapter 10. Sects and Revolution Chapter 11. Re-Enchanting the Darkness Chapter 12. Sacrificial Plotlines Conclusion

Book
08 Apr 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, Russian Orientology and "Oriental Renaissance" in Fin-de-Siecle Europe are discussed. But the focus is on the East and not on the West.
Abstract: Introduction: Russian Orientology and 'Oriental Renaissance' in Fin-de-Siecle Europe 1. Nation, Empire, and Regional Integration 2. Perceptions of East and West 3. Power and Knowledge 4. Critiques of European Scholarship 5. Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms on the Eve of the 1917 Revolutions 6. Imagining Minorities as Nations in the 1920s Conclusion

Book
01 Nov 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, ethnic and colonized troops and the politics of disavowal are discussed, from Vulgar to Polite Racism, and from Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese.
Abstract: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Romanization and Naming Commonly Used Acronyms Introduction: Ethnic and Colonial Soldiers and the Politics of Disavowal Part One: From Vulgar to Polite Racism 1. Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese 2. "Very Useful and Very Dangerous": The Global Politics of Life, Death, and Race Part Two: Japanese as Americans 3. Subject to Choice, Labyrinth of (Un)freedom 4. Reasoning, Counterreasonings, and Counter-conduct 5. Go for Broke, the Movie: The Transwar Making of American Heroes Part Three: Koreans as Japanese 6. National Mobilization 7. Nation, Blood, and Self-Determination 8. The Colonial and National Politics of Gender, Sex, and Family Epilogue: "Four Volunteer Soldiers" Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Book
01 Sep 2011
TL;DR: The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions as discussed by the authors, and Belkin explores these contradictions in great detail and shows that their invisibility has been central to the concealment of American empire's darkest secrets.
Abstract: The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to beindisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renouncethose things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet at the same time, themilitary has encouraged and even mandated warriors to do exactly the opposite. Bring Me Men explores these contradictions in great detail and shows that theirinvisibility has been central to the concealment of American empire's darkest secrets.By examining case studies that expose these contradictions -- the phenomenon of maleon-male rape at the U.S. Naval Academy, for example, as well as historical and contemporaryattitudes toward cleanliness and filth -- Belkin utterly upends our understanding of the relationship between warrior masculinity, American empire and the fragile processes sustaining it.

Book
15 Mar 2011
TL;DR: A succinct, analytical history of the Monroe Doctrine from its inception in 1823 to its broad extension in the early twentieth century is given in this article, which explains in vivid detail this cornerstone of American foreign policy.
Abstract: A succinct, analytical history of the Monroe Doctrine from its inception in 1823 to its broad extension in the early twentieth century, this book explains in vivid detail this cornerstone of American foreign policy. Covering more than a century of history, Jay Sexton, who teaches American history at the University of Oxford, explores the varying conceptions of the doctrine as its meaning was distorted over the course of decades to further an ever-expanding American empire. When in 1823 President Monroe issued his vaguely worded declaration that the United States would not allow European states to further colonize the western hemisphere, America had little means of enforcing it. The doctrine proclaimed anti-colonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of politicians to pursue expansionist foreign policy agendas. Time and again, debates on the key issues of nineteenth- and early twentieth- century foreign relations - expansion in the 1840s, the imperialism of 1898, entrance into World War I and the League of Nations - were framed in relation to the Monroe Doctrine. In Sexton's adroit hands, the doctrine provides a new lens from which to view the still-unresolved question at the centre of American diplomatic history: the nation's contradictory traditions of anti-colonialism and imperialism.

Book
23 Feb 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the problems of definition of definition overview and propose a set of definitions of the word "proliferation" for science fiction before Gernsback and Campbell's "Revolution" in context.
Abstract: Preface 1. Problems of Definition Overview 2. Science Fictions Before Gernsback 3. Proliferations: the 1930s 4. Campbell's 'Revolution' in Context: the 1940s 5. Cold War, Consumerism, Cybernetics: the 1950s 6. New Realities, New Fictions: the 1960s and 1970s 7. New Voices, New Concerns: the 1960s and 1970s 8. New Politics, New Technologies: the 1980s and 1990s 9. Empire and Expansion: the 1980s and 1990s 10. Possible Futures Works cited Guide to further reading

Book
31 Mar 2011
TL;DR: Wang Hui as discussed by the authors argues that current models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice.
Abstract: In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book's overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that current models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective and placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain on regional language and politics, he draws on China's unique past to expose the inadequacies of European-born standards for assessing modern China's evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way in which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged concerns like Chinese language standardization and "The Tibetan Question." His stance is critical--and often controversial--but he locates hope in the kinds of complex, multifaceted arrangements that defined China and much of Asia for centuries. The Politics of Imagining Asia challenges us not only to re-examine our theories of "Asia" but to reconsider what "Europe" means as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his introduction, "Wang Hui's concerns extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink world history as a whole."