Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900"
English | 2020 | pages: 333 | ISBN: 1108716881, 110849255X | PDF | 13,0 mb
In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief By Henry Schwarz(auth.)
2010 | 171 Pages | ISBN: 1405120576 | PDF | 2 MB
Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the "criminal tribe" in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests stereotypes to reclaim their humanity Content: Chapter 1 Placing Criminals, Displacing Thuggee (pages 13-46): Chapter 2 How to Make a Thug (pages 47-80): Chapter 3 Discipline, Labor, Salvation (pages 81-111): Chapter 4 Acting Like a Thief (pages 112-138):

Nathalie Nya, "Simone de Beauvior and the Colonial Experience"
English | 2021 | pages: 125 | ISBN: 1498558119, 1498558097 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity interprets the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and her intellectual trajectory through the perspective of French colonial history. Nathalie Nya considers Beauvoir through this lens not only to critique her position as a colonizer woman or colon, but also as a means of situating her in one of France's most vexing and fraught historical moments. This terminology emphasizes the weight of French colonialism on Beauvoir's identity as a white French woman, as well as the subjective and interpersonal dialectic of colonialism. Nya argues that while the French republic was systematizing colonialism, all of its white citizens were colons whereas natives from France's colonies were the colonized.Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience presents a gendered and female perspective of French colonialism between 1946 and 1962, a time when French intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Franz Fanon rallied against the political system, and which ultimately brought about an end to French colonialism. It adheres to a reading of Beauvoir as foremost an intellectual woman, one who reflected upon the legacy of French colonialism as an author and whose nation-bound status as a colonizer played a role in the alliance she created with Gisele Halimi and Djamila Boupacha. Beauvoir's colonial reflections can help us to better gauge how women-White, Asian, Arab, Caribbean, Latina, mixed race, and Black-decipher the crimes and injustices of French colonialism.

First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales by Julie McIntyre
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1742233449 | 304 Pages | PDF | 250.6 MB
Exploring the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry, this book reveals the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies that assisted small-scale growers, many of whom worked in wine regions that have since vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the 20th century. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip's garden at Circular Quay. Or that botanist and champion of colonial development Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony. In addition, before the assisted migration of German vinedressers in the 1830s, any convict or free settler with a hint of vine-growing or wine-making expertise was quickly drafted to the cause. This colorful history is the first to trace wine growing, making, and drinking in colonial New South Wales.

Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power By Joseph Errington(auth.)
2007 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1405105690 | PDF | 3 MB
Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world. * Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule * Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes * Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference * Brings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first centuryContent: Chapter 1 The Linguistic in the Colonial (pages 1-21): Chapter 2 Early Conversions, or, How Spanish Friars Made the Little Jump (pages 22-47): Chapter 3 Imaging the Linguistic Past (pages 48-69): Chapter 4 Philology's Evolutions (pages 70-92): Chapter 5 Between Pentecost and Pidgins (pages 93-122): Chapter 6 Colonial Linguists, (Proto)?National Languages (pages 123-148): Chapter 7 Postcolonial Postscript (pages 149-171):

Daniel Tödt, "The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo "
English | ISBN: 3110708698 | 2021 | 350 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of an African bourgeoisie, the book illuminates the so-called évolués' social worlds, cultural self-representations, daily life and political struggles.

Ferdinando Sardella, "The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal "
English | ISBN: 1138561797 | 2019 | 266 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book offers a focused examination of the Bengali Vaiṣṇava tradition in its manifold forms in the pivotal context of British colonialism in South Asia.

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin By Rod Edmond
1998 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0521550548 | PDF | 25 MB
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history, and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting colonial discourses of the Pacific. Among its themes are the persistent mythmaking around the figure of Cook, the Western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism and leprosy, the Pacific as a theater for adventure, and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.

Rosemarijn Hoefte, "Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 1032097353 | 2021 | 210 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called 'Three Guianas' (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex shifts in the regional, hemispheric and global context. Shaped decisively by their respective historical experiences, Guyana, in tandem with the laissez-faire approach of Britain toward its Caribbean colonies, was decolonised relatively early, in 1966, and has maintained a significant degree of distance from London. The hold of The Hague over Suriname, however, endured well after independence in 1975. French Guiana, by contrast, was decolonised much sooner than both of its neighbours, in 1946, but this was through full integration, thus cementing its place within the political economy and administrative structures of France itself. Traditionally isolated from the Caribbean, the wider Latin American continent and from each other, today, a range of similar issues - such as migration, resource extraction, infrastructure development and energy security - are coming to bear on their societies and provoking deep and complex changes.

Ian Aitken, "The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia"
English | ISBN: 147440720X | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrate the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region.