Free Download Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India By Rohan D'Souza
2006 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0195682173 | PDF | 6 MB
The volume deals with major debates in India's environmental history. It critiques existing discourse by discussing colonial flood control strategies in eastern India. It explores the idea and practice of flood control and argues for a comprehensive reconsideration of the debate on thecolonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy and questions contemporary enthusiasm for flood control in post-independent India. The emphasis is on revealing how colonial flood control measures were implicated in attempts to consolidate capitalist relations in ownership, production, andtowards commanding the deltaic rivers as a 'natural resource' for capitalist accumulation. The idea and practice of flood control was not merely a technical intervention but principally a political project, deeply implicated in the social, economic and political calculations of capitalism in generaland colonialism in particular. Such an analytical perspective also provides a useful backdrop to understanding several aspects of the contemporary water crisis in postcolonial India. The book also intends to be a necessary corrective and a useful addition to the otherwise limited writings on theIndian subcontinent's hydraulic histories.

Free Download Colonial America: A Captivating Guide to the Colonial History of the United States and How Immigrants of Countries Such as England, Spain, France, and ... (European Exploration and Settlement) by Captivating History
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09QMH35Z1 | 108 pages | EPUB | 2.45 Mb
Did you know that the first English settlement in the New World was a disaster?

Free Download Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s By Evan N. Dawley
2019 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 067423720X | PDF | 43 MB
What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan's modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the formation of new identities: the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung).Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, Becoming Taiwanese offers new insights into ethnic identity formation. Evan Dawley examines how people from China's southeastern coast became rooted in Taiwan; how the transfer to Japanese colonial rule established new contexts and relationships that promoted the formation of distinct urban, ethnic, and national identities; and how the so-called retrocession to China replicated earlier patterns and reinforced those same identities. Based on original research in Taiwan and Japan, and focused on the settings and practices of social organizations, religion, and social welfare, as well as the local elites who served as community gatekeepers, Becoming Taiwanese fundamentally challenges our understanding of what it means to be Taiwanese.

Free Download A Passage to China: Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan By Chien-hsin Tsai
2017 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 067497512X | PDF | 4 MB
This book, the first of its kind in English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. It analyzes the ways in which writers from colonial Taiwan--including Qiu Fengjia, Lian Heng, Wu Zhuoliu, and others--creatively and selectively employed loyalist ideals to cope with Japanese colonialism and its many institutional changes. In the process, these writers redefined their relationship with China and Chinese culture.Drawing attention to select authors' lesser-known works, author Chien-hsin Tsai provides a new assessment of well-studied historical and literary materials and a nuanced overview of literary and cultural productions in colonial Taiwan. During and after Japanese colonialism, the islanders' perception of loyalism, sense of belonging, and self-identity dramatically changed. Tsai argues that the changing tradition of loyalism unexpectedly complicates Taiwan's tie to China, rather than unquestionably reinforces it, and presents a new line of inquiry for future studies of modern Chinese and Sinophone literature.

Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa: The Zambian Experience By Horman Chitonge
2021 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 0367699605 | PDF | 17 MB
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia's industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the colonial economy have not just survived six decades of independence in most African countries, but they have continued to shape the nature, scope and pace of economic activities on the continent. The book argues that since the colonial economy in Africa was not intended to serve the interests of Africans, it is imperative that the structures and the underlying rationale of the colonial economy are radically reoriented if economic activities in Africa are to benefit the majority of Africans. Drawing from the Zambian experience, the book shows that the transformation of the colonial economy in Africa is urgently needed. Whilst this has proved to be difficult over the past six decades, it can be done. The book outlines a specific type of industrial policy, Frontier Industrial Policy, as a key instrument for transforming the structure of African economies. At a time when economic growth across Africa is under considerable pressure due to COVID-19, the insights in this book will be of interest to researchers across Economics, Development, Postcolonial Studies, and African Studies.

Diogo Ramada Curto, "Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries"
English | ISBN: 1789207061 | 2020 | 514 pages | EPUB | 1008 KB
Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire's life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Catherine Bishop, "Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1742234321 | 304 pages | EPUB | 12.6 MB
Minding Her Own Business populates the streets of colonial Sydney with women in small business earning their living in a variety of enterprises - from millinery and dressmaking to ironmongery and bookselling; from running hotels and boarding-houses to butchering and taxidermy; from school teaching to ginger-beer manufacture. These women have been hidden in the historical record but were visible to their contemporaries. There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look, you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. This book brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional juicy scandal. Until now we have imagined colonial women indoors as wives, and mothers, domestic servants or prostitutes. This book sets them firmly out in the open.

Kent Lightfoot, "Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0520249984, 0520208242 | 355 pages | PDF | 4.6 MB
California's earliest European colonists-Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries-depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past-including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations-to present a vivid new view of how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. Kent Lightfoot's innovative work, which incorporates the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the surprising ramifications of these long-ago encounters for the present-day political status of native people in California.

Anthony Pagden, "Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800"
English | ISBN: 069100840X | | 303 pages | EPUB | 1184 KB
The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.

Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies) by Freddy Foks
English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0520390326, 0520390334 | True EPUB/PDF | 280 pages | 3.95/5.95 MB
Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire.