Empires and Boundaries Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings [Hardcover]

Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settingsis an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions  including South Asia, South-East Asia, and Africa  the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British, French, Dutch, German, and Italian colonial contexts.

Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology, literary and film studies, and gender studies, Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings,is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study.

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and the Production of Difference. Harald Fischer-Tin? and Susanne Gerhmann. 2.  Education for Work in Colony and Metropole:The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914. Sebastian Conrad. 3. Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). Harald Fischer-Tin?. 4. Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited. Vincent J.H. Houben. 5. Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876-1901. Satoshi Mizutani. 6. Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946-60. Frederick Cooper. 7. Gendering the Colóí