Diversity and Empires
Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 2. June 2023
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-1-032-32584-2 (ISBN)
Description
Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity.
These questions range from the local to the supra-regional, and from the management of people to that of political and judicial systems. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories such as race, religion, subjecthood, and social and legal status, the contributions of the volume show how old and new modes of creating social difference took shape in an increasingly globalized early modern world, and what contemporary legacies these 'diversity formations' left behind. This volume shows diversity and imperial projects to be both contentious and mutually constitutive: on the one hand, the conditions of empire created divisions between people through official categorizations (such as racial classifications and designations of subjecthood) and through discriminately applied extractive policies, from taxation to slavery. On the other hand, imperial subjects, communities, and polities within and adjacent to the empire asserted themselves through a diverse range of affiliations and identities that challenged any notion of a unilateral, universal imperial authority.
This book highlights the multidimensionality and interconnectedness of diversity in imperial settings and will be useful reading to students and scholars of the history of colonial empires, global history, and race.
These questions range from the local to the supra-regional, and from the management of people to that of political and judicial systems. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories such as race, religion, subjecthood, and social and legal status, the contributions of the volume show how old and new modes of creating social difference took shape in an increasingly globalized early modern world, and what contemporary legacies these 'diversity formations' left behind. This volume shows diversity and imperial projects to be both contentious and mutually constitutive: on the one hand, the conditions of empire created divisions between people through official categorizations (such as racial classifications and designations of subjecthood) and through discriminately applied extractive policies, from taxation to slavery. On the other hand, imperial subjects, communities, and polities within and adjacent to the empire asserted themselves through a diverse range of affiliations and identities that challenged any notion of a unilateral, universal imperial authority.
This book highlights the multidimensionality and interconnectedness of diversity in imperial settings and will be useful reading to students and scholars of the history of colonial empires, global history, and race.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen, 3 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-32584-2 (9781032325842)
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Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity
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Persons
Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp) is an economic and social historian of French and Dutch early modern colonialism and colonial trade. She is the author of the 2020 monograph The Agency of Empire : Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) and has published in English, French, and Dutch.
Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.
Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.
Content
Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belonging
Chapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian Worlds
Tamar Herzog, Harvard University
Chapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa
Angela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon
Chapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coast
Alexander Geelen, International Institute of Social History
Part 2: Slavery and legal status
Chapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)
Andre Luis Ferreira, Federal University of Para
Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curacao, 1730-1740
Stef Vink, Leiden University
Chapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire - the example of the Cape and the Guianas
Rafael Thiebaut, Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Part 3: Subjecthood and imperial states
Chapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675
Timo McGregor, London School of Economics
Chapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century Guadeloupe
Tessa de Boer, Leiden University
Part 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue duree perspective
Chapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Margret Frenz, University of Stuttgart
Chapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia
Jane Burbank, New York University
Chapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian Worlds
Tamar Herzog, Harvard University
Chapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa
Angela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon
Chapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coast
Alexander Geelen, International Institute of Social History
Part 2: Slavery and legal status
Chapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)
Andre Luis Ferreira, Federal University of Para
Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curacao, 1730-1740
Stef Vink, Leiden University
Chapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire - the example of the Cape and the Guianas
Rafael Thiebaut, Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Part 3: Subjecthood and imperial states
Chapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675
Timo McGregor, London School of Economics
Chapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century Guadeloupe
Tessa de Boer, Leiden University
Part 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue duree perspective
Chapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Margret Frenz, University of Stuttgart
Chapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia
Jane Burbank, New York University