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Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton is a collection of interviews that are being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions form a part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three foremost imperial and global historians. Colonialism is intrinsically linked to its imperial past. Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton, come alive through these conversations in this book. They offer a refreshing perspective to the actions of the colonizer and the colonized, often deriding the actions of the former. Bayly talks at great length about his Indian experience, Rathbone talks about the tempered indifference of the larger academic community towards African history and its oral tradition and Drayton engages his readers with anecdotes and interesting insights into Creole culture. The book will be of enormous value not just to those interested in the subject of History, Culture Studies, Ethnography and Comparative Studies and Literature but also to the uninitiated because of the lucidity which conversations bring to even otherwise opaque discussions.. Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in'empty lands'somewhere else has often been proposed as a solution to growing contradictions. While the lands were never empty, sometimes these communities failed miserably, and sometimes they prospered and grew until they became entire countries. Building on a growing body of transnational and interdisciplinary research on the political imaginaries of settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination, this book uncovers and critiques an autonomous, influential, and coherent political tradition - a tradition still relevant today. It follows the ideas and the projects (and the failures) of those who left or planned to leave growing and chaotic cities and challenging and confusing new economic circumstances, those who wanted to protect endangered nationalities, and those who intended to pre-empt forthcoming revolutions of all sorts, including civil and social wars. They displaced, and moved to other islands and continents, beyond the settled regions, to rural districts and to secluded suburbs, to communes and intentional communities, and to cyberspace. This book outlines the global history of a resilient political idea: to seek change somewhere else as an alternative to embracing (or resisting) transformation where one is.

A history and theory of settler colonialism and social controlMany would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in'empty lands'somewhere else has often been proposed as a solution to growing contradictions. While the lands were never empty, sometimes these communities failed miserably, and sometimes they prospered and grew until they became entire countries. Building on a growing body of transnational and interdisciplinary research on the political imaginaries of settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination, this book uncovers and critiques an autonomous, influential, and coherent political tradition - a tradition still relevant today. It follows the ideas and the projects (and the failures) of those who left or planned to leave growing and chaotic cities and challenging and confusing new economic circumstances, those who wanted to protect endangered nationalities, and those who intended to pre-empt forthcoming revolutions of all sorts, including civil and social wars. They displaced, and moved to other islands and continents, beyond the settled regions, to rural districts and to secluded suburbs, to communes and intentional communities, and to cyberspace. This book outlines the global history of a resilient political idea: to seek change somewhere else as an alternative to embracing (or resisting) transformation where one is.

El ejercicio del dominio colonial tiene una única dirección, de los poderosos a los colonizados. El desplegado por los europeos –y, en la primera mitad del siglo xx, también por norteamericanos y japoneses– fue característica sobresaliente de la historia del mundo desde la Edad Moderna. Todavía hoy perduran las devastadoras implicaciones y terribles consecuencias del colonialismo, y por ello es más necesario que nunca una revisión no solo de su evolución espacial y cronológica, sino que urge un análisis de la variación de las formas y estructuras que el sistema colonial adoptó a lo largo de la historia. En Colonialismo. Historia, formas, efectos, se presentan los métodos de conquista, soberanía y explotación económica, formas de resistencia, el surgimiento de sociedades coloniales especiales, variedades de colonización cultural y de pensamiento tanto en colonias como en metrópolis. Jürgen Osterhammel y Jan C. Jansen, en la presente obra, no solo arrojan luz para comprender la actualidad, sino que nos permiten desentrañar la responsabilidad de nuestras sociedades para con el resto del mundo.

While the study of “indigenous intermediaries” is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson's theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized.

In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany's colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy population. However, the Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Asians they administered to were not passive recipients of these strategies. Rather, their behavior strongly influenced the efficacy and nature of these public health measures. While an apparent degree of compliance was achieved, over time physicians increasingly relied on disciplinary measures beyond what was possible in Germany in order to enforce their policies. Ultimately, through their discourses and actions they contributed to the justification for and the maintenance of German colonialism.

Koloniale Herrschaft von Europäern – und in der ersten Hälfte des 20.Jahrhunderts auch von Nordamerikanern und Japanern – über große Teile der Erde war ein herausragendes Merkmal der Weltgeschichte zwischen etwa 1500 und 1960. Angesichts der extrem unterschiedlichen Entwicklung der früheren Kolonialgebiete in Amerika, Asien und Afrika stellt sich heute die Frage nach einer differenzierten Bewertung der Wirkungen des Kolonialismus. Diese grundlegend überarbeitete Neuauflage unterscheidet Formen und Epochen des Kolonialismus. An Beispielen aus allen Imperien der Neuzeit schildert das Buch Methoden der Eroberung, Herrschaftssicherung und wirtschaftlichen Ausbeutung, Formen des Widerstands, das Entstehen besonderer kolonialer Gesellschaften, Spielarten kultureller Kolonisierung sowie kolonialistisches Denken und Kolonialkultur in Kolonien und Metropolen. Es wird in der Reihe C.H.Beck Wissen ergänzt durch einen eigenen Band zur Dekolonisation.

The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique, whatever the media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism, as like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking at the evolution of other colonial regimes - apartheid South Africa, French Algeria and Australia - Veracini presents a thoughtful interpretation of the dynamics of colonialism.He challenges two important myths: firstly, that the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is unique and defies comparative approaches; and secondly that the struggle is mainly based in nationality and religion and therefore different to typical colonial conflicts.Comparing and contrasting'official'apartheid regimes with the more recent history of Israel and Palestine, he offers a critical perspective on colonialism as well as important new insights into patterns of imperialism today.