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The Subaltern Indian Woman
This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.
Realm Between Empires
"The Dutch Atlantic during an era (following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century) in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. A revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, a counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories"--
Abolitions as a Global Experience
The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What part of the abolition decision was due to international pressure, and what part due t...
Colonisations
Réunissant plus de deux cent cinquante chercheuses et chercheurs issus du monde entier, ce livre nous invite à regarder la colonisation française en face, avec les yeux des colonisés et des colonisateurs. Les meilleurs spécialistes mettent à notre disposition une connaissance profondément renouvelée de la domination coloniale, de ses formes parfois surprenantes, de ses effets dévastateurs, de ses limites longtemps ignorées, ainsi que de ses rémanences actuelles. Dans une époque tout entière dominée par les questionnements identitaires et les affrontements mémoriels, ce livre collectif restitue de manière lucide, accessible et passionnante, la grande diversité et la complexit...
The Difficult Flowering of Surinam
In the months immediately preceding Surinam's independence, November 25, 1975, warning signals went up on both sides of the Atlantic. This small, ethnically plural society was torn by severe political conflict. Elections in November 1973 had brought an end to political collaboration between Creoles and Hindustanis, the country's two largest ethnic groups; and the Creoles, now in control of the government, were resolutely pushing (over Hindustani opposition) to sever their colonial ties with the Netherlands. But defections from the Creole benches during the summer of 1975 had produced a virtual stalemate in the legislature, heightening fears that the government would act unilaterally. The fai...
Les Empires coloniaux
Les empires coloniaux Cet ouvrage propose, pour la première fois en langue française, une synthèse retraçant l’histoire de l’ensemble des empires coloniaux contemporains (européens, japonais, états-unien), aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Dans une perspective comparée et croisée, des spécialistes français et étrangers analysent les principaux éléments de l’histoire du fait colonial, tout en restituant les apports des grands courants historiographiques qui, depuis une trentaine d'années, en ont profondément renouvelé les approches. Avec les contributions d'Hélène Blais, Frederick Cooper, Armelle Enders, Bouda Etemad, Claire Fredj, Emmanuelle Sibeud, Pierre Singaravélou, Marie-Albane de Suremain, Isabelle Surun et Sylvie Thénault. Pierre Singaravélou (dir.) Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l’université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et membre de l'Institut universitaire de France, il a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur l’histoire des empires coloniaux français et britannique aux XIXe et XXe siècles.
Ideology, Regionalism, and Society in Caribbean History
This volume collects new angles and perspectives on issues shaping the development of the Caribbean. Bringing together essays on regional integration, identity, and culture and focusing on foundational personalities and institutions in the region, this book opens up new lines of inquiry on twentieth-century Caribbean history. Essays examine popular perspectives of the West Indies Federation; the intersections of ideology and governance through key figures such as C. L. R. James and Rawson William Rawson; the socioeconomic context of Caribbean foodways; and Carnival as a tool of cultural diplomacy. Integration is a critical theme throughout. Pointing to the region’s rich cultural and historical heritage, this book explores how Caribbean unification may provide a way forward for this patchwork of island territories facing the challenges of the twenty-first century.
