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This is a lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth
and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and
slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to
inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of
focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions
to postwar decolonization.
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the
history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise
that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under
colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living
through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of
empire. The experience of the British Empire was not limited to
what happened behind closed doors or on the floor of Parliament. It
affected men, women and children across the globe, making a
difference to what they ate and what kind of work they did, what
languages and lessons they learned in school, and how they were
able to live their lives. This new edition expands its coverage and
discusses the relationship between Brexit and empire as well as the
recent controversies connected to empire that have engulfed
Britain: the Windrush scandal, the fight over the Chagos Islands
and the Mau Mau lawsuits, bringing it up to date and engaging with
key debates that govern the study of empire. Painting a picture of
life for all those affected by empire and supported by maps and
illustrations, this is the perfect text for all students of
imperial history.
From the 1850's until the 1880's, British Colonial administrators established wide-ranging legislation aimed at slowing the spread of venereal disease and the loss of soldier-power it brought about. The legislation, known as the Contagious Diseases (CD) ordinances and regulations, identified female prostitutes as the principal source of infection and required them to register officially and undergo regular examinations designed to detect venereal disease. While most agree that the CD ordinances were put in place primarily to protect the health of British soldiers, a closer examination reveals that the laws were not just about the control of VD but also "a conscious instrument of colonial dominance".
From the 1850's until the 1880's, British Colonial administrators established wide-ranging legislation aimed at slowing the spread of venereal disease and the loss of soldier-power it brought about. The legislation, known as the Contagious Diseases (CD) ordinances and regulations, identified female prostitutes as the principal source of infection and required them to register officially and undergo regular examinations designed to detect venereal disease. While most agree that the CD ordinances were put in place primarily to protect the health of British soldiers, a closer examination reveals that the laws were not just about the control of VD but also "a conscious instrument of colonial dominance".
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
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Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a
comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.
Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early
sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather
insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to
imperial formations outside the West including the Russian,
Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided
into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main
eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the
settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more
by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way,
most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and
rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement,
and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in
colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of
governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in
particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces -
studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each
chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the
same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial
constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad
dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their
relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect
critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached
in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically
about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline.
These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the
current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which
may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad
range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary
scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing
political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation
and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and
social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing
and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the
reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the
maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which
sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion
emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process.
Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the
particularities of individual empires, rather than
over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all
places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and
historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways
precisely what constituted the modern empire.
This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage
from an international perspective. Leading international scholars
explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of
social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and
cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation
and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of
Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the
history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise
that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under
colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living
through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of
empire. The experience of the British Empire was not limited to
what happened behind closed doors or on the floor of Parliament. It
affected men, women and children across the globe, making a
difference to what they ate and what kind of work they did, what
languages and lessons they learned in school, and how they were
able to live their lives. This new edition expands its coverage and
discusses the relationship between Brexit and empire as well as the
recent controversies connected to empire that have engulfed
Britain: the Windrush scandal, the fight over the Chagos Islands
and the Mau Mau lawsuits, bringing it up to date and engaging with
key debates that govern the study of empire. Painting a picture of
life for all those affected by empire and supported by maps and
illustrations, this is the perfect text for all students of
imperial history.
A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and
twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and
slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to
inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of
focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions
to postwar decolonization.
Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of
empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new insights
about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together
disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood,
religion, migration, and many more topics - this new collection of
essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the
lens of gender. This more inclusive look at empire asks not only
why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination
affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new
interpretations of the British Empire offered here will interest
readers across a wide range, and will demonstrate the vitality of
this innovative approach and the new historical questions it
raises. SERIES DESCRIPTION The purpose of the five volumes of the
Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive
study of the Empire from its beginning to end, the meaning of
British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the
significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The
volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose by
exploring themes that were not possible to cover adequately in the
main series, and to provide fresh interpretations of significant
topics.
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly
industrialized England the creation of a "domestic ideology" that
drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though
never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men's and women's
spheres ordered people's values and justified the existing social
structure. Out of this context sprang a women's movement that
celebrated its female identity, its campaigns "concerned as much
with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for
equality with men." Levine traces the changing face of a half
century of England's feminist movement, the personalities who
dominated it, its pressing issues, and the tactics employed in the
fight. Political themes common to the specific protests, she finds,
included women's moral superiority, a close-knit sense of a
supportive female community, and a conscious woman-centeredness of
interests. Along the way, Levine puts to rest many inaccuracies and
assumptions that have dogged the history of presuffragette
feminism, causing it to be discredited or dismissed. She refutes,
for example, the judgement that the movement served only the needs
of bourgeois women, and she warns against the pitfall of defining
feminism by the standards of a male politics whose practices make
comparisons inadequate and unsuitable. Levine has organized her
study with an eye to the breadth of concerns that characterized
England's nineteenth-century feminism: women's entry into education
and the professions; trade unionism, working conditions, equal pay;
suffrage and other political and property rights for women;
marriage and morality issues prostitution, incest, venereal
disease, wife abuse, pornography, and equal rights to divorce.
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late
nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable
transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy
across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in
emerging social-democratic states, to feminist ambitions for birth
control, to public health campaigns, to totalitarian dreams of the
"perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers
the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and
the Holocaust: the popularity of eugenics in Japan, for example,
comes as a surprise. It is the first world history of eugenics and
an indispensable core text for both teaching and research in what
has become a sprawling but ever more important field. Eugenics has
accumulated generations of interest as part of the question of how
experts think about the connections between biology, human capacity
and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to
questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance,
nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In
the current climate, where the human genome project, stem cell
research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so
controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about
the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human
ethical decision-making. This volume offers both a
nineteenth-century context for understanding the emergence of
eugenics and a consideration of contemporary manifestations of, and
relationships to eugenics. It is the definitive text for students
and researchers to consult for careful and up-to-date summaries,
new substantive fields where very little work is currently
available (e.g. eugenics in Iran, South Africa, and South East
Asia); transnational thematic lines of inquiry; the integration of
literature on colonialism; and connections to contemporary issues.
Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic
thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to
the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.
Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political
spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging
social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control,
from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the
"perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers
the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and
the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an
indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics
has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to
connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the
present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and
sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social
implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human
genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive
technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics
has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific
research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.
Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of
empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new insights
about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together
disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood,
religion, migration, and many more topics - this new collection of
essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the
lens of gender. This more inclusive look at empire asks not only
why the empire was dominated by men, but how that domination
affected the conduct of imperial politics. The fresh, new
interpretations of the British Empire offered here will interest
readers across a wide range, and will demonstrate the vitality of
this innovative approach and the new historical questions it
raises.
In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the
word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race
by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory
of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful,
international movement, committed to using the principles of
heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage
unhealthy reproduction. Early in the twentieth century and across
the world, doctors, social reformers, and politicians turned to the
new science of eugenics as a means to improve and strengthen their
populations. Eugenics advocates claimed their methods would result
in healthier, fitter babies and would dramatically limit human
suffering. The reality was a different story. In the name of
scientific progress and of human improvement, eugenicists targeted
the weak and the sick, triggering coercive legislation on issues as
disparate as race, gender, immigration, euthanasia, abortion,
sterilization, intelligence, mental illness, and disease control.
Nationalists eagerly embraced eugenics as a means to legitimize
their countries' superiority and racialized assumptions, and the
Nazis notoriously used eugenics to shape their "final solution." In
this lucid volume, Philippa Levine tackles the intricate and
controversial history of eugenics, masterfully synthesizing the
enormous range of policies and experiments carried out in the name
of eugenics around the world throughout the twentieth century. She
questions the widespread belief that eugenics disappeared after
World War II and evaluates the impact of eugenics on current
reproductive and genetic sciences. Charting the development of such
controversial practices as artificial insemination, sperm donation,
and population control, this book offers a powerful,
extraordinarily timely reflection on the frequent interplay between
genetics and ethics. Eugenics may no longer be a household word,
but we feel its effects even today.
Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a
comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.
Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early
sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather
insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to
imperial formations outside the West including the Russian,
Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided
into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main
eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the
settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more
by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way,
most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and
rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement,
and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in
colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of
governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in
particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces -
studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each
chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the
same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial
constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad
dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their
relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect
critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached
in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically
about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline.
These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the
current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which
may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad
range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary
scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing
political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation
and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and
social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing
and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the
reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the
maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which
sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion
emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process.
Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the
particularities of individual empires, rather than
over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all
places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and
historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways
precisely what constituted the modern empire.
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