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Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John
Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and
decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John
Darwin's contribution to the study of empire and its endings.
Written by his former students and colleagues, the book's chapters
discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first
centuries. While each author has contributed according to their
expertise, they also reflect on how John's ideas and approaches
continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the
experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the
authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin's writings,
including his earlier work on decolonisation, 'decline', and 'the
dynamics of territorial expansion'. As such, the work in this
volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis:
from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and
military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial
comparison, and global historical frameworks. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of
Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of
California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years
later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated
worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies.
A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the
United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell
the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a
global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism:
it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the
integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected
the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns.
Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed
the world.
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of
California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years
later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated
worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies.
A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the
United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell
the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a
global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism:
it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the
integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected
the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns.
Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed
the world.
Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation
of the imperial global order, what role have they played in
resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what
extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and
anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as
they are read across the world? This updated edition of Fighting
Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a
cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long
twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together
literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this
collection explores the ways in which books have circulated
anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects
and commodities within regional, national and transnational
networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and
multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the
form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the
postcolonial world.
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