Subaltern Lives
Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920
1st Edition
Published on 20. May 2012
978-1-139-36898-8 (ISBN)
Description
Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature and significance of 'networked' Empire. She reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion and sheds new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes. The book also explores the nature of colonial society during this period and embeds subaltern biographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is an important new perspective on British colonialism which also opens up new possibilities for the writing of history itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 Maps; 18 Halftones, unspecified
File size
7,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-139-36898-8 (9781139368988)
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Book
04/2012
Cambridge University Press
€73.30
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Person
Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. She is currently developing comparative work on European penal colonies, on the interface between 'academic' and 'family' history, and the relationship between history, sociology and anthropology.
Content
1. Subaltern lives: an introduction; 2. Dullah; 3. George Morgan; 4. Narain Singh; 5. Liaquat Ali and Amelia Bennett; 6. Edwin Forbes; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.
