Spatial Histories of Occupation

David Baillargeon is Assistant Professor of History at University of Texas at Arlington, USA. A specialist in the history of Modern Britain and the British Empire, he was a European Research Council (ERC) research associate and research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas (2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia'.

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Introduction: Spatial Histories of Foreign Occupation and Colonialism
David Baillargeon and Jeremy E. Taylor

Part I: Urban Spaces
Chapter 1. Displacement, Urban Transformations and Resistance in Indonesian-occupied Dili, East Timor
Vannessa Hearman

Chapter 2. Displacing the Laws of the Indies with the City Beautiful: Daniel Burnham’s 1905 Plan for Manila
Ian Morley

Part II: Inland and Rural Spaces
Chapter 3: Conflicting Modes of Colonial Occupation in British Malaya, 1874–95
Joanna Lee

Chapter 4. The Unsuccessful Development of Southern Burmese Tin Mines in the Nineteenth Century
Yi Li

Chapter 5. Mapping China under Japanese Occupation: Spatial Configurations of State Power during Wartime (1937–45)
David Serfass

Part III: Island and Maritime Spaces
Chapter 6. Corral and Confine: Colonial Occupation and the Politics of Space in the Andaman Islands
Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar

Chapter 7. Occupation at Sea: Rethinking the ‘In-Between’ Spaces of Empire in Colonial Indonesia and China
Kris Alexanderson

Chapter 8. Hydroponic Imperialism: Race, Hygiene and Agro-Technology in Occupied Japan, 1945–60
Abhishek Nanavati

Chapter 9. From Military Base to Conservation Site: Reimagining the Demilitarization of the Yambaru Forest in Okinawa
Sayaka Sakuma