Seymour Drescher, [email protected], Posvar 3707, Office hours Monday 11-12 or by appointment
Evelyn Rawski, [email protected], Posvar 3507, Office hours
History 2753, CRN 33298:
Historiography of Nineteenth-Twentieth Century Imperialism
Structure of the course.
This graduate readings seminar will survey the theories and scholarly debates on imperialism,
from the writings of J.A. Hobson to the postcolonial discourse on globalization. Its aim is to
introduce graduate students to the evolving scholarship on imperialism in the last century, and to
facilitate a discussion of topics across regional and disciplinary boundaries.
All seminar participants will read one starred reading for discussion each week. In addition, they
will select an additional reading on the week‟s theme, either from items listed in the syllabus or
of their own choosing, to report on. Participants will rotate in reporting on the week‟s starred
reading, and help guide the ensuing discussion.
In addition to participating in weekly discussions, students will write five papers, two to three
pages in length, and a ten-page paper towards the end of the seminar.
Schedule of themes
Unless otherwise designated, the starred items are available on E-Course Reserve for this
course.
January 19: Surveys of the field
Abernethy, David B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 14151980. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Austin, Ralph A. ed. Modern Imperialism, Western Overseas Expansion, and Its Aftermath,
1776-1965. D. C. heath, 1969.
Cain, Peter J. and Mark Harrison, eds. Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies.
London: Routledge, 2001. [JC359 I473 2001]
Baumgart, Winifried. Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial
Expansion, 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Ruth Ben-Giat and Mia Fuller, eds. Italian Colonialism., Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Boahen, Adu, ed. African Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. UNEXCO and Heinemann,
1985.
Grant, Kevin, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann, eds. Beyond Sovereignty: Empire and
Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. [DA 16 B556
2007]
Waites, Bernard. Europe and the Third World: From Colonisation to Decolonisation, c. 15001998. New York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1999.
Wolfe, Patrick. “History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism,”
American Historical Review 102:2 (1997): 388-420. E-Journal
January 26: Hobson‟s choice
Why did imperialism emerge as a new form of analyzing contemporary global events?
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*Cain, Peter J. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887-1938.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Read pp. 103-64. [JV 1011 C173 2002]
Avineri, Shlomo, ed. Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization. Doubleday, 1969.
Burroughs, Peter and A. J. Stockwell, eds. Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honor of
David Fieldhouse. London: Frank Cass, 1998.
Reprint of Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 1998, vol, 26.2, special issue on
imperialism. JV105 M36 1998
Davis, Lance E. and Robert A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political
Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Cambridge, 1986).
Eckstein, M. “Is There a „Hobson-Lenin Thesis‟ on Late Nineteenth Century Colonial
Expansion?” Economic History Review 44 (1991): 297-318.
Etherington, Norman. “Hobson‟s Study of Imperialism,” in Theories of Imperialism: War,
Conquest and Capital (London, 1984).
Fieldhouse, David K. The Colonial Empires: a Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth
Century, 1982.
Hobson, J.A. Imperialism: A Study (1902).
Lieven, Dominic. “The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as Imperial Polities,” Journal of
Contemporary History 30.4 (1995): 607-30.
Locher-Schotten, Elsbeth. “Dutch Expansion in the Indonesian Archipelago around 1900 and the
Imperialism Debate,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 25.1: 91-111.
MacKenzie, John M. “European Imperialism: Comparative Approaches,” European History
Quarterly 22.3 (1992): 415-429.
Ward, J.R. “The Industrial Revolution and British Imperialism, 1750-1850,” Economic History
Review 2nd series, 47 (1994): 144-65.
February 2: Marxist debates
How did the theory of imperialism move to the center of world revolution?
*Bukharin, Nikolai. Imperialism and world economy. Read pp. 96-121, 130-43. [HB501 B84613
1973]
*Lenin, V. I. Imperialism and the Highest Stage of Capitalism. 1916. Read pp. 88-122. [HB501
L332 1969]. Lenin‟s rebuttal of Hobson.
Bauer, P. T. “The Economics of Resentment: Colonialism and Underdevelopment,” Journal of
Contemporary History 4.1 (1969): 51-71.
Brewer, F. Marxist Theories of Imperialism.
Foster-Carter, Adrian. “The Modes of Production Controversy,” New Left Review 107
(1978): 47-78.
Geyer, Michael. “Concerning the Question: Is Imperialism a Useful Category of Historical
Analysis?” Radical History Review 57 (1993): 65-72.
Hobsbawm, E. J. The Age of Empire 1875-1914 (London, 1987).
Mommsen, Wolfgang. Theories of Imperialism. Trans. P. S. Falla. New York: Random House,
1977. chap. 2., “Marxist Theories of Imperialism,” pp. 29-65.
Mrinalini, Sinha and John Ellis , “Teaching Imperialism as a Social Formation,” Radical History
Review 67 (1997): 175-186 (with syllabus).
O‟Laughlin, Bridget. “Marxist Approaches in Anthropology,” Annual Review of Anthropology
4 (1975): 341-70.
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Parrini, Carl P. and Martin J. Sklar, “New Thinking about the Market, 1896-1904: Some
American Economists on Investment and the Theory of Surplus Capital,” The Journal of
Economic History 43.3 (1983): 559-78.
Parrini, Carl. “The Age of Ultraimperialism,” Radical History Review 57 (1993): 7-20.
Roy, M. N. The Russian Revolution. Calcutta: Renaissance Publishers, 1954. [Hillman D727
R888]
Zukas, Alex. “Teaching the Age of Empire,” Radical History Review 67 (1997): 132-146.
February 9: Dependency theories
Dependency theory and postwar disillusionment with the modernization paradigm
*André Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in Paradigms in Economic
Development: Classic Perspectives, Critiques, and Reflections, ed. Rajani Kanth. Armonk,
N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 149-59. GSPIA ECON HD 75 P 36 1994.
*Paul Baran, “On the Political Economy of Backwardness,” pp. 93-104 in Kenneth P. Jameson
and Charles K. Wilber, eds.. The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Baran, Paul A. The Political Economy of Growth (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957),
Baran, P. “On the Roots of Backwardness,” in Paradigms in Economic Development: Classic
Perspectives, Critiques, and Reflections, ed. Rajani Kanth. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, pp.
12-?
Baran, Paul A. and Paul M. Sweezy, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of
the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Brenner, Robert. “The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian
Marxism,” New Left Review 104 (1977): 25-92.
Brett, E. A. Colonialism and Underdevelopment in East Africa: The Politics of Economic
Change, 1919-1939. NY: NOK Publishers, 1973.
Chinchilla, N. S. “Interpreting Social Change in Guatemala: Modernization, Dependency, and
Articulation of Modes of Production.” In Ronald H. Chilcote and Dale L. Johnson, eds.
Theories of Development: Mode of Production or Dependency? (Beverly Hills, 1983), pp.
139-78.
Cooper, Frederick. “Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History,” AHR 99.5
(1994): 1516-45.
Denoon, Donald. Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the southern
Hemisphere. Clarendon Press, 1983.
Dewey, Clive and A. G. Hopkins, eds. The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of
Africa and India. London: Athlone Press for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1978.
Foster-Carter, Adrian. “From Rostow to Gunder Frank: Conflicting Paradigms in the Analysis of
Underdevelopment,” World Development 4 (1976): 167-80.
Huntington, Samuel P. “The Goals of Development.” In Myron Weiner and Huntington, eds.,
Understanding Political Development (Boston, 1987), pp. 283-322.
Magdoff, Harry. Imperialism without Colonies. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003.
[GSPIA HC59.7 M2425 2003]
Seers, Dudley, ed. Dependency Theory: A Critical Reassessment. London, 1981.
Smith, Tony. “Requiem on New Agenda for Third World Studies,” World Politics 36 (1985):
532-61.
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February 16: Core and periphery
Writings on imperialism revisit the balance of forces in imperial expansion
Akita, Shigeru. “Gentlemanly Capitalism: Intra-Asian Trade and Japanese Industrialization at the
Turn of the Last Century,” Japan Forum 8.1 (1996): 51-65.
Armitage, David. “The Contagion of Sovereignty: Declarations of Independence since 1776.”
South African Historical Journal [South Africa] 52 (2005): 1-18.
Atmore, E. “The Extra-European Foundations of British Imperialism: Towards Reassessment.”
In C. C. Eldridge, ed. British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 106-25 (London,
1984).
Aydin, Cemil. “Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism and the Revolt Against the
West,” Journal of Modern European History 4.2 (2006): 204-23. E-Journal
Aydin, Cemil. Politics of Anti-Westernism: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and PanAsian Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. [DS 35.7 A95 2007]
Aydin, Cemil. “A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and
Asian Modernity.” In Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Conceptions of
World Order, ca. 1880-1935: Global Moments and Movements. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
Aydin, Cemil and Juliane Hammer, guest eds. “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Critiques
of the „West‟, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.3 (2006):
347-52.
Cain, Peter J. and Anthony G. Hopkins. “Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion
Overseas, II. New Imperialism, 1850-1945,” Economic History Review 40 (1987): 1-26.
Cain, Peter J. and Anthony G. Hopkins. “The Political Economy of British Expansion
Overseas, 1750-1914,” Economic History Review 33 (1980): 483-85.
Cain, Peter J. and Anthony G. Hopkins. British Imperialism I: Innovation and Expansion 16881914 (London, 1993); II: Crisis and Deconstruction 1914-1990. (London, 1993).
Chamberlain, Muriel. “The Causes of British Imperialism: The Battle Rejoined,” Historian 96
(1993): 10-12.
Ching, Leo. Becoming „Japanese‟: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. [DS 799.7 C484 2001]
Darwen, John. “Imperialism and the Victorians: the Dynamics of Territorial Expansion,” English
Historical Review 112.447 (1997): 614- 642.
Davis, Lance E. and Robert A. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political
Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Daunton, M. “Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Industry, 1820-1914,” Past and Present 122
(1989): 137-140.
Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Dunnett, Raymond E., ed. Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on
Empire. New York: Longman, 1999.
Duus, Peter. Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1995. [DS 882 D88 1995]
Fieldhouse, D. K. “Imperialism: An Historiographical Revision,” Economic History Review
ser.2, 14 (1961): 187-209.
Ingham, Geoffrey. “British Capitalism; Empire, Merchants and Decline,” Social History 20.3
(1995): 339-354.
Kasaba, Resat. “Open Door Treaties: China and the Ottoman Empire Compared,” New
Perspectives on Turkey 7 (1992): 71-89.
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Kennedy, Dane, “The Boundaries of Oxford‟s Empire,” International History Review [Canada]
23.3 (2001): 604-22.
Kimura, Mitsuhiko. “The Economics of Japanese Imperialism in Korea, 1910-1939,” Economic
History Review 3 (1995): 555-574.
Krozewski, Gerold. “Rethinking British Imperialism,” Journal of European Economic
History 23.3 (1994): 619-630.
Miller, Roray, “British Investment in Latin America, 1850-1950: A Reappraisal,” Itinerario
[Netherlands] 19.3 (1995): 21-52.
Norbu, Dawa. “An Analysis of Sino-Tibetan Relationships, 1245-1911: Imperial Power, NonCoercive Regime and Military Dependency.” In Soundings in Tibetan Civilization,
ed.
Barbara N. Aziz and Matthew Kapstein, pp. 176-95. New Delhi: Manohar, 1985.
Paine, S.C.M. Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier. Armonk: M. E.
Sharpe, 1996.
Platt, D.C. M. “‟The Imperialism of Free Trade‟: Some Reservations,” South African Journal of
Economic History [South Africa] 7.1 (1992): 73-87.
Quinn-Judge, Sophie. Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years 1919-1941. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002.
Robinson, Ronald. “Non-European Foundations of European Imperialism: Sketch for a Theory
of Collaboration.” Pp. 73-127. Reprinted in William Roger Louis, ed. Imperialism: The
Robinson and Gallagher Controversy (New York, 1976).
Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher, “The Imperialism of Free Trade,” Economic History
Review ser. 2.6 (1953): 1-15.
Robinson, Ronald and John Gallagher, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of
Imperialism (with A. Denny) (London, 1961).
Stolberg, Eva-Maria, “The Siberian Frontier Between „White Mission‟ and „Yellow Period,‟
1890s-1920s,” Nationalities Papers [Great Britain] 32.1 (2004): 165-81.
Suny, Ronald G. and Terry Martin, eds. A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the
Age of Lenin and Stalin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [DK266 S8 2001]
Tamanoi, Mariko A., ed. Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire (Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
Webster, Anthony. The Debate on the Rise of the British Empire. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2006. Read ch. 4, 7, pp. 68-92, 144-66. [DA16 W335 2006]
February 23: Subalterns
The colonized and “history from below”
Bradley, Mark. “Imagining America: The United States in Radical Vietnamese Anticolonial
Discourse.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 4.4 (1995): 299-329.
Bradley, Mark. “Making Revolutionary Nationalism: Vietnam, America and the August
Revolution of 1945.” Itinerario [Netherlands] 23.2 (1999): 23-51.
Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?
London, 1986.
Chatterjee, Partha. A Princely Imposter? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of
Bhawal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Comaroff, Jean and John Comaroff. OfRevelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and
Consciousness in South Africa. Vol. 1. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Devens, Carol. Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions,
1630-1900. University of California Press, 1992.
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Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press,
2004. [DT33 F313 2004]
Hodgkin, Thomas. “Some African and Third World Theories of Imperialism.” In Roger Owen
and Bob Sutcliffe, eds., Studies in the Theory of Imperialism (London, 1972), pp. 93-116.
Lambert, Michael C. “From Citizenship to Negritude: „Making a Difference‟ in Elite Ideologies
of Colonized Francophone West Africa.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 35.2
(1993): 239-62.
Makki, Fouad, ”Eritrea between empires: Nationalism and the anti-colonial imagination, 18901991,” Ph.D. thesis, SUNY at Binghamton, 2006. Digital Dissertations: AAT 3214765.
Mallon, Florencia E. “The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies: Perspectives from Latin
American History,” AHR 99.5 (1994): 1491-1515.
Mekenye, Reuben Omweri, “The African Struggle against South African Periphery Imperialism,
1902-1966: The Case of Lesotho,” Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.
Online Digital Dissertations, AAT 9700830.
Nederveen, Jan Pieterse, and Bhiktu Parekh, The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture,
Knowledge and Power. London: Zed Books, 1995. [D883 D43 1995]
Saada, Emmanuelle. “Citoyens et Sujets de l‟Empire Français: Les Usages du Droit en situation
Coloniale.” Genèses: Sciences Sociales et Histoire 53 (2003): 4-24.
Scott, James. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Yale University
Press, 1985.
Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds.
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Spivak, Gayatri. “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography.” In Ranajit Guha, ed.
Subaltern Studies IV (New Delhi, 1985), pp. 330-63.
Wihtol de Wenden, Catherine. “Immigrants as Political Actors in France.” West European
Politics 17.2 (1994): 91-109.
March 2: Poststructuralism and Post-Colonialism
Deconstructing the colonial experience
Ansprenger, Franz. The Dissolution of the Colonial Empires. Routledge, 1989.
Barekan, Elazar. “Post-Anti-Colonial Histories: Representing the Other in Imperial Britain,”
Journal of British Studies 33 (1994): 99-113.
Betts, Raymond F. Decolonization. Routledge, 1998.
Burton, Antoinette, ed. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking With and Through the Nation.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Buruma, Ian, and Avishai Margalit. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. New
York: Penguin Press, 2004. [CB245 B875 2004]
Carmichael, Cathie. “The Violent Destruction of Community during the „Century of Genocide.‟
European History Quarterly [Gr. Britain] 35.3 (2005): 395-403.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for „Indian‟
Pasts?” Representations 37 (1992): 1-26.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Poscolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Chatterjee, Partha. “Claims on the Past: The Genealogy of Modern Historiography in Bengal.” In
David Arnold and David Hardiman, eds. Subaltern Studies VIII: Essays in Honor of Ranajit
Guha (New Delhi, 1994), pp. 1-49.
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Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Cohn, Bernard S. “The Command of Language and the Language of Command.” In Ranajit
Guha, ed. Subaltern Studies IV (New Delhi, 1985), pp. 276-329.
Cooper, Frederick. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2005.
Dirks, Nicholas, ed. Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Drescher, Seymour. “The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific
Racism,” Social Science History 14.3 (1990): 415-450.
Duara, Prasenjit, ed. Decolonization: Perspectives From Now and Then. London: Routledge,
2004.
Guha, Ranajit. “A Dominance Without Hegemony and Its Historiography,” in R. Guha, ed.
Subaltern Studies VI, 210-309 (New Delhi, 1989).
Hechter, Michael. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development,
1536-1966 (1975).
Huggan, Graham. “Decolonizing the Map: Post-Colonialism, Post-Structuralism and the
Cartographic Connection.” In Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin, eds., Past the Last Post:
Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, (New York, 1991), pp. 125-38.
Kennedy, Dane. “Imperial History and Post-Colonial Theory,” Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History 24 (1996): 345-63.
Mackenzie, John. “Edward Said and the Historians,” Nineteenth Century Contexts 18.1 (1994):
9-25.
Marshall, Bruce D. The French Colonial Myth and Constitution Making in the Fourth Republic.
Yale University Press, 1973.
O‟Hanlon, Rosalind and David Washbrook, “After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics
in the Third World,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (1992): 141-67.
Rajan, Balachandra. Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, 1999).
Ryang, Sonia. “Japanese Travellers‟ Accounts of Korea.” East Asian History 13/14 (1997): 13352.
Parry, Benita. “Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse,” Oxford Literary Review 9
(1987): 27-58.
Prakash, Gyan, ed. After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Said, Edward. Orientalism (New York, 1978).
Shohat, Ella. “Notes on the „Post-Colonial,‟” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 99-113.
Tanaka, Stefan. Japan‟s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1993.
Teng, Emma. Taiwan‟s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures,
1683-1895. Harvard University Asia Center, 2004.
White, Luise. The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. University of Chicago
Press, 1990. HQ260.5N35W45 1990
_____. Speaking of Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. University of California
Press, 2000. GR355.6W48 2000
March 16: Race
Retrospectives on race and imperialism
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*Ann Laura Stoler, “Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural
Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia,” Comparative Studies in Society and
History 34 (1992): 514-51. E-Journal
Arnold, David. “Race, Place and Bodily Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century India.”
Historical Research 77.196 (2004): 254-73 (E-Journals).
de Alva, Jose Klor. “The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A
Reconsideration of „Colonialism,‟ „Postcolonialism,‟ and „Mestizaje.‟” In Gyan Prakash, ed.
After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995.
Dikőtter, Frank. “Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics,” American
Historical Review 103.2 (1998): 467-78.
Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (NY, 1995).
Bolt, Christine. “Race and the Victorians.” In C. C. Eldridge, ed. British Imperialism in the
Nineteenth Century, (London, 1984), pp. 126-47.
Bremen, Jan, with Piet de Rooy, Ann Atoler, and Wim F. Wertheim. Imperial Monkey Business:
Racial Supremacy in Social Darwinist Theory and Colonial Practice. Ambsterdam: VU
University Press, 2009.
Coombes, Annie E. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in
Late Victorian and Edwardian England. (New Haven, 1994).
Cooper, Frederick and Ann Laura Stoler, eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World. University of California Press, 1997.
Cross, Sherrie. “Prestige and Comfort: the Development of Social Darwinism in Early Meiji
Japan and the Role of Edward Sylvester Morse,” Annals of Science 53.4 (1996): 323-44.
Darby, Phillip. Three Faces of Imperialism: British and American Approaches to Africa and
Asia (New Haven, 1987).
Dikötter, Frank. The Discourse of Race in Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1992.
Dikötter, Frank ed. The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Fyfe, Christopher. “Race, Empire and the Historians,” Race and Class 33.4 (1992): 15-30. EJournal
Herman, Arthur L.. “Empire as Decline: Notes on the Cultural Critique of Imperialism,”
European Legacy 1.1 (1966): 121-125. (Law Library)
Kennedy, Dane. Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia,
1890-1939. Duke University Press, 1987.
Lindfors, Bernth. “Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent.” In Rosemarie
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Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. (New York, 1992).
Rydell, Robert W. All The World‟s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International
Expositions 1876-1916. Chicago, 1984.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault‟s History of Sexuality and the
Colonial Order of Things. Duke University Press, 1995.
-----. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2002.
-----. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Duke University
Press, 2006.
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Vergès, Françoise. Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage
Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Wilder, Gary. The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between
the Two World Wars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
March 23: Science, Medicine, Mentality
Imperial dimensions of medicine
*David Arnold. “Medical Priorities and Practice in Nineteenth-Century British India.” South
Asia Research 5.2 (1985): 167-83. E-Journal
*Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds. Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.
New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. Read “Introduction,” pp. 1-23.
Anderson, Warwick “The Trespass Speaks: White Masculinity and Colonial Breakdown,” AHR
102.5 (1997): 1343-70.
Anderson, Warwick. “The Possession of Kuru: Medical Science and Biocolonial Exchange,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 42.4 (2000): 713-44.
Anderson, Warwick. “How‟s the Empire? An Essay Review.” Journal of the History of Medicine
and Allied Sciences 58.4 (2003): 459-65.
Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in NineteenthCentury India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Arnold, David. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science 1800-1956.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
Bashford, Alison. “‟Is White Australia Possible?‟ Race, Colonialism and Tropical Medicine,”
Ethnic and Racial Studies [Great Britain] 23.2 (2000): 248-71.
Brown, Spencer H. “A Tool of Empire: The British Medical Establishment in Lagos, 18611905,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 37.2 (2004): 309-43.
Curtin,Philip. Death by Migration: Europe‟s Encounter with the Tropical World in the
Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Ernst, Waltraud. “Idioms of Madness and Colonial Boundaries: The Case of the European and
„Native‟ Mentally Ill in Early Nineteenth-Century British India,” Comparative Studies in
Society and History 39.1 (1997): 153-181.
Fitzell, Jill. “Cultural Colonialism and New Languages of Power: Scientific Progress in
Nineteenth-Century Ecuador,” Journal of Historical Sociology 9.3 (1996): 290-314.
Haynes, Douglas M. Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Diseases.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Hochmuth, Christian. “Patterns of Medical Culture in Colonial Bengal, 1835-1880.” Bulletin of
the History of Medicine 80 (2006): 39-72/
Kennedy, Dane. “The Perils of the Midday Sun: Climatic Anxieties in the Colonial Tropics.” In
John M. MacKenzie, ed. Imperialism and the Natural World, (London, 1984), pp. 118-40.
Klein, Ira. “Imperialism, Ecology and Disease: Cholera in India, 1850-1950,” Indian Economic
and Social History Review 31.4 (1994): 491-518.
Krishnamoorthi, Sulochana. “Imperial Medicine and Native Response in British India,” Indica
(India) 39.2 (2002): 153-62.
Levine, Phillipa. “Rereading the 1890‟s: Veneral Disease as Constitutional Crises in Britain and
British India,” Journal of Asian Studies 55.3 (1996): 585-612.
Marks, Shula. “What is Colonial about Colonial Medicine? And What Happened to Imperialism
and Health?” Social History of Medicine 10.2 (1997): 205-219.
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Mills, James H. “Re-forming the Indian: Treatment Regimes in the Lunatic Asylums of British
India, 1857-1880,” Indian Economic and Social History Review [India] 36.4 (1999): 407-29.
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March 30: Gender
The imperialist offshoot of the femininist movement
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April 6: Globalization
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April 13: Europe as Subject
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