Author: Sir Henry Sumner MainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Village-communities in the East and West, 6 lectures
Author: Sir Henry Sumner MainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Village-communities in the East and West; Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford to which are Added Other Lectures, Addresses and Essays
Author: Henry Sumner MainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Village-communities in the East and West. Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford to which are Added Other Lectures, Addresses and Essays
Author: Henry Sumner MainePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385526337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Village-communities in the East and West
Author: Maine“The” Academy
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900
Author: Frederick Wilse BatesonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Define and Rule
Author: Mahmood MamdaniPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071271
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference. A mid-nineteenth-century crisis of empire attracted the attention of British intellectuals and led to a reconception of the colonial mission, and to reforms in India, British Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies. The new politics, inspired by Sir Henry Maine, established that natives were bound by geography and custom, rather than history and law, and made this the basis of administrative practice. Maine’s theories were later translated into “native administration” in the African colonies. Mamdani takes the case of Sudan to demonstrate how colonial law established tribal identity as the basis for determining access to land and political power, and follows this law’s legacy to contemporary Darfur. He considers the intellectual and political dimensions of African movements toward decolonization by focusing on two key figures: the Nigerian historian Yusuf Bala Usman, who argued for an alternative to colonial historiography, and Tanzania’s first president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who realized that colonialism’s political logic was legal and administrative, not military, and could be dismantled through nonviolent reforms.
The American Bibliopolist
Author: Alibis of Empire
Author: Karuna MantenaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed the dangers and difficulties of trying to "civilize" native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine's sociotheoretic model of "traditional" society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of modern empire.