Colonialism and the Modern World (Sources & Studies in World History) Book

"This innovative work places non-European histories into the larger narrative of world history by focusing on colonialism and its legacy around the world. Selected with special emphasis on being comparative, these essays range from the British Empire (India, Egypt, Palestine, and Australia) to French colonialism (Brittany and Algeria), South Africa, Indonesia, German East Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism. They are organized topically around themes such as resituating colonial histories; land, law, and politics; gender; science and regimes of colonial knowledge; and architecture and urbanization. Gregory Blue is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the coeditor of 'China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge'(1998). Martin Bunton is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. Raph Croizier is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. He is president of the World History Association and author of 'Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951' (1988). 359 pages, copyright 2002.Read More