The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I

Owen White is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware, USA.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Land and Labour: Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land, Sara Berry; Sugar factory workers and the emergence of ’free labour’ in 19th-century Java, R.E. Elson; Peasants at work: forced cotton cultivation in northern Mozambique, 1938-1961, Allen Isaacman and Arlindo Chilundo; Reinterpreting a colonial rebellion: forestry and social control in German East Africa, 1874-1915, Thaddeus Sunseri; Geography, race and nation: remapping ’tropical’ Australia, 1890-1930, Warwick Anderson; Between fixity and fantasy: assessing the spatial impact of colonial urban dualism, William Cunningham Bissell; The control of ’sacred’ space: conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore, 1880-1930, Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Part II Mechanisms of Rule: Bringing the state back: the limits of Ottoman rule in Jordan, 1840-1910, Eugene L. Rogan; State, enterprise, and the alcohol monopoly in colonial Vietnam, Gerard Sasges; ’Martial races’: ethnicity and security in colonial India, 1858-1939, David Omissi; ’Circle of iron’: African colonial employees and the interpretation of colonial rule in French West Africa, Emily Lynn Osborn; Negotiated spaces and contested terrain: men, women, and the law in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1939, Elizabeth Schmidt; The colonial development of concentration camps (1868-1902), Iain R. Smith and Andreas Stucki; Sleeping sickness epidemics and public health in the Belgian Congo, Maryinez Lyons; Sanitation and security: the imperial powers and the 19th-century Hajj, William R. Roff. Part III The Social World of Empire: The making of race in colonial Malaya: political economy and racial ideology, Charles Hirschman; Making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th-century colonial cultures, Ann L. Stoler; Cultural missionaries, maternal imperialists, feminist allies: British women activists in India, 1865-1945, Barbara Ramusack; Empire and the confessio