Humanities & Social Sciences
November 2015
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2016Masters and servants
Cultures of empire in the tropics
by Claire Lowrie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Britain and the formation of the Gulf States
Embers of empire
by Shohei Sato, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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History of medicineMay 2017Leprosy and colonialism
Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950
by Stephen Snelders. Series edited by Professor Keir Waddington
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy, and the political tensions and racial fears originating in colonial slave society, exerting their influence until after the decolonization up to the present day. In the book colonial sources are read from shifting perspectives, of the colonial rulers and, 'from below', the ruled. Though leprosy is today a neglected tropical disease, recognizing influences of our colonial heritage in our global management of health and disease, and exploring the perspectives of other cultures are essential in a time in which migration movements make the permeability of boundaries, and transmission of diseases, more common then perhaps ever before.
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Politics & governmentJune 2017Colonial exchanges
Political theory and the agency of the colonized
by Edited by Burke Hendrix, Deborah Baumgold
Scholars of political thought have given a great deal of attention to the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, especially to whether prominent thinkers supported or opposed colonialism. But little attention has so far been given to the reactions of those in the colonies to European ideas, where intellectuals actively sought to transform those ideas, deploying them strategically or adopting them as their own. A full reckoning of colonialism's effects requires attention to their intellectual choices and the political efforts that accompanied them, which sometimes produced surprising political successes. The contributors to this volume include a mix of political theorists and intellectual historians who seek to grapple with specific thinkers or contexts. Contributors focus on colonised societies including India, Haiti, the Philippines, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, and the settler countries of North America and Oceana, in times ranging from the French Revolution to the modern day.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2015Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97
by Mark Hampton, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2015Insanity, identity and empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910
by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2015Beyond the state
The colonial medical service in British Africa
by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2015Colonial caring
A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Britain and the formation of the Gulf States
Embers of empire
by Shohei Sato, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016New Zealand's empire
by Katie Pickles, Andrew Thompson, Catharine Coleborne, John Mackenzie
This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history, and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the contributors take new directions in both historiographical and empirical research. ;
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MedicineMay 2016Beyond the state
The colonial medical service in British Africa
by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97
by Mark Hampton, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony's return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism. This book will be essential reading for historians of Hong Kong, British decolonisation, and Britain's culture of declinism. ;
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MedicineMay 2016Colonial caring
A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
by Christine Hallett, Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins, Jane Schultz
From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the 'improving' culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and travelled in droves to far-flung parts of the globe to serve their country. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Masters and servants
Cultures of empire in the tropics
by Claire Lowrie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin. Through an exploration of master-servant relationships within British, white Australian and Chinese homes, this book illustrates the centrality of the domestic realm to the colonial project. It is the first comparative history of domestic service and British colonialism in the tropics, and highlights the important role which 'houseboys' played in colonial households in the tropics and the common preference for Chinese 'houseboys' throughout Southeast Asia. The book is meticulously researched, and draws from archives that have never been addressed in this way before. Its highly original and innovative approach, which combines comparative analysis with a focus on transcolonial connections, puts the book at the forefront of current postcolonial scholarship. The insights that Masters and servants provides into the domestic politics of colonial rule make this book essential reading for students and scholars of empire. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
by Charles Reed, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860-1911 examines the ritual space of nineteenth-century royal tours of empire and the diverse array of historical actors who participated in them. The book suggests that the varied responses to the royal tours of the nineteenth century demonstrate how a multi-centred British imperial culture was forged in the empire and was constantly made and remade, appropriated and contested. In this context, subjects of empire provincialised the British Isles, centring the colonies in their political and cultural constructions of empire, Britishness, citizenship and loyalty. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2016Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
by Charles Reed, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Geography & the EnvironmentMarch 2016French colonial Dakar
The morphogenesis of an African regional capital
by Liora Bigon, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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MedicineMay 2016Insanity, identity and empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910
by Catharine Coleborne, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Cultures of decolonisation
Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70
by Ruth Craggs, Andrew Thompson, Claire Wintle, John Mackenzie
Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the 'end of empire' as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed to wider political, economic and social change. This book demonstrates the transnational character of decolonisation, thereby illustrating the value of comparison - between different cultural forms and diverse places - in understanding the nature of this wide-reaching geopolitical change. Individual chapters focus on architecture, theatre, museums, heritage sites, fine art and interior design, alongside institutions such as artists' groups, language agencies and the Royal Mint, across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Offering a range of disciplinary perspectives, these contributions provide revealing case studies for those researching decolonisation across the humanities and social sciences. ;
