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Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international
historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the
force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial
relations at different points in time and around the globe.
Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European
colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with
comparisons among those cultures. This edited volume focuses on
what historical agents actually do when they compare, rather than
on comparison as an analytic method. Its contributors are thus
interested in the 'doing of comparison', and explore the force of
these practices of comparing in shaping empires and (post-)colonial
relations between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This book
will appeal to students and scholars of global history, as well as
those interested in cultural history and the history of
colonialism.
Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international
historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the
force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial
relations at different points in time and around the globe.
Whenever there was cultural contact in the context of European
colonization and empire-building, historical records teem with
comparisons among those cultures. This edited volume focuses on
what historical agents actually do when they compare, rather than
on comparison as an analytic method. Its contributors are thus
interested in the 'doing of comparison', and explore the force of
these practices of comparing in shaping empires and (post-)colonial
relations between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This book
will appeal to students and scholars of global history, as well as
those interested in cultural history and the history of
colonialism.
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change
the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a
decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies;
but they can also give an impetus to question and change such
structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades
all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume
outlines the program of a new research agenda that places
comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary
exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with
overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can
be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a
seemingly trivial practice - comparing - the subject of in-depth
research.
Comparing various European and American historiographies from
the past two hundred years, "Gendering Historiography" provides
insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power
relations in different societies and outlines the devastating
effects that exclusionary practices can have on each national
canon. This detailed and revealing book will change the face of
history writing, bringing overlooked and previously excluded
histories back into modern historiography.
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