Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments

Josep M. Fradera is Professor of Modern History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and Senior Fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). He has published extensively on the nineteenth-century Spanish empire and most recently published The Imperial Nation: Citizens and subjects in the empires of Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States (2018). José María Portillo is Professor of Modern History at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He has taught at Georgetown University and University of Chicago, both USA, and El Colegio de México, Mexico. He has published extensively on political culture in the Hispanic world. Teresa Segura-Garcia is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. A historian of Modern South Asia, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation on the global links of the Indian princely state of Baroda. She has previously been a postdoctoral fellow the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and a visiting fellow at Brown University.

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Introduction, Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia
1. The value of Political Representation in Modern Empires, Josep M. Fradera
2. Jean-Baptiste Belley: France’s First Black Legislator, David Geggus
3. Dionisio Inca Yupanqui: A ‘lord’ in Spain’s Cortes de Cádiz, José María Portillo
4. Pedro José de Ibarra: A Mulatto Senator in Colombia’s Antioquia, Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila
5. Cyrille Bissette: A Singular Voice in France, Abel Alexis Louis
6. Robert Smalls: In Majority and in Minority in Washington, Stephanie McCurry
7. Dadabhai Naoroji: Indian Member of Parliament in Westminster, 1892–95, Teresa Segura-Garcia
8. Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana: South Africa’s First Black Parliamentarian, Timothy Stapleton
9. Gratien Candace: In the name of the French Empire, Dominique Chathuant
10. Blaise Diagne: French Parliamentarian from Senegal, Eric Garcia-Moral
Conclusion, Adrian Shubert

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