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Author |
: João Sarmento |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317133865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317133862 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power by : João Sarmento
For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America. At a macro scale, mapping this network of power reveals a gigantic territorial and colonial project. Forts articulated the colonial and the metropolitan, and functioned as nodes in a mercantile empire, shaping early forms of capitalism, transforming the global political economy, and generating a flood of images and ideas on an unprecedented scale. Today, they can be understood as active material legacies of empire that represent promises, dangers and possibilities. Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence, but also timely reminders that buildings never last forever, testimonies of the fluidity of the material world. Illustrated by case studies in Morocco, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Kenya, this book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer valuable insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.
Author |
: João Sarmento |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317133872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317133870 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power by : João Sarmento
For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America. At a macro scale, mapping this network of power reveals a gigantic territorial and colonial project. Forts articulated the colonial and the metropolitan, and functioned as nodes in a mercantile empire, shaping early forms of capitalism, transforming the global political economy, and generating a flood of images and ideas on an unprecedented scale. Today, they can be understood as active material legacies of empire that represent promises, dangers and possibilities. Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence, but also timely reminders that buildings never last forever, testimonies of the fluidity of the material world. Illustrated by case studies in Morocco, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Kenya, this book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer valuable insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.
Author |
: Anne Storch |
Publisher |
: Channel View Publications |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845418397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845418395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impact of Tourism in East Africa by : Anne Storch
This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise – objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
Author |
: Jessica L. Nitschke |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2021-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030608583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030608581 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonialism, Heritage, and the Built Environment by : Jessica L. Nitschke
This book proposes new ways of looking at the built environment in archaeology, specifically through postcolonial perspectives. It brings together scholars and professionals from the fields of archaeology, urban studies, architectural history, and heritage in order to offer fresh perspectives on extracting and interpreting social and cultural information from architecture and monuments. The goal is to show how on-going critical engagement with the postcolonial critique can help archaeologists pursue more inclusive, sensitive, and nuanced interpretations of the built environment of the past and contribute to heritage discussions in the present. The chapters present case studies from Africa, Greece, Belgium, Australia, Syria, Kuala Lumpur, South Africa, and Chile, covering a wide range of chronological periods and settings. Through these diverse case studies, this volume encourages the reader to rethink the analytical frameworks and methods traditionally employed in the investigation of built spaces of the past. To the extent that these built spaces continue to shape identities and social relationships today, the book also encourages the reader to reflect critically on archaeologists’ ability to impact stakeholder communities and shape public perceptions of the past.
Author |
: Karudapuram Eachambadi Supriya |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820467502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820467504 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remembering Empire by : Karudapuram Eachambadi Supriya
Based on an ethnography of Fort St. George Museum in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, Remembering Empire explores the public and private politics of preserving the memory of the British period in the former seat of the British East India Company. K. E. Supriya shows how the preservation of artifacts and paintings from the British period has become a means through which the imperialist politics of empire are reworked in the cultural memory of the South Indian people. Fieldwork in the museum and extensive interviews across three generations show how Indians reconcile with the Britishness of Indian identity. Woven throughout is the author's probing commentary on the significance of affirmative conversations about racialized pasts in the United States. Remembering Empire is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial India and the politics of cultural memory.
Author |
: Andrew Denning |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2024-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501775383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501775383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Automotive Empire by : Andrew Denning
In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole. European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge—the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but revealed weakness as much as it extended power. As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them, automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism itself.
Author |
: Kris Manjapra |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2020-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108425261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108425267 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonialism in Global Perspective by : Kris Manjapra
A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Florencia E. Mallon |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2023-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520914674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520914678 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peasant and Nation by : Florencia E. Mallon
Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the exploitation and the reciprocity, that coexist in popular political struggle. With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism. Placing it squarely within the struggles for power between colonized and colonizing peoples, she argues that nationalism must be seen not as an integrated ideology that puts the interest of the nation above all other loyalties, but as a project for collective identity over which many political groups and coalitions have struggled. Ambitious and bold, Peasant and Nation both draws on monumental archival research in two countries and enters into spirited dialogue with the literatures of post-colonial studies, gender studies, and peasant studies.
Author |
: Eliga Gould |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1073 |
Release |
: 2022-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108317818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108317812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820 by : Eliga Gould
The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.
Author |
: Thomas Benjamin |
Publisher |
: MacMillan Reference Library |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018862182 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450: F-O by : Thomas Benjamin
Provides students and researchers with a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, the set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, and much more.