The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
John Marriott
ISBN: 0-7190-6018-4
Publication date: December 2003
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects - those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of Western civilisation as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, the legacy of which remains to this day.
Imperial persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British advertising
Anandi Ramamurthy
ISBN: 0-7190-6379-5
Publication date: August 2003
TIn the period 1880-1960, advertising pervaded every aspect of British life. It was also the period which witnessed the rise of the British Empire. This is the first book to trace the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. Drawing on archival sources it analyses the various conflicting and changing ideologies of colonialism and racism in British advertising.
Law, history, colonialism: The reach of empire
Edited by Diane Kirkby and Coleborne Catharine
ISBN: 0-7190-6066-4
Publication date: September 2001
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Empire's reach brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection offers exciting new perspectives on the length and breadth of empire. As issues of native title, truth and reconciliation commissions, and access to land and natural resources are contested in courtrooms and legislation of former colonies, the disciplines of law and history afford new ways of seeing, hearing and creating knowledge. By exploring issues such as the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, madness among colonised peoples, property rights of married women, questions of legal and historical evidence and the rule of law - this collection will be an indispensable reference work to scholars, students and teachers.
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