A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean
Edited by David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and David Barry Gaspar (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
Colonialism
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
By Emília Viotti da Costa (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns … Continued
Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750
By Kenneth Mills (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error — the Extirpation of idolatry — that occurred in the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Archdiocese of Lima come to life here as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on a largely neglected period, 1640 to 1750, and moving beyond portrayals that often view … Continued
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays
Edited by Bill Schwarz (NHC Fellow, 2015–16), Stuart Hall, David Featherstone, Michael Rustin, and Sally Davison Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, … Continued
Violence, Resistance, and Survival in the Americas: Native Americans and the Legacy of Conquest
Edited by William B. Taylor (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) and Franklin G. Y. Pease Despite Europeans’ often violent and bloody attempts at conquest, Native Americans have survived five centuries of European occupation. This book documents the variety of roles they played in the westernization of the Americas, revealing a range of responses to European aggression from … Continued
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
Edited by Richard Bjornson (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) and Isaac James Mowoe This volume, written by leading African and Western specialists, is among the first to provide a broad interdisciplinary view of African culture that allows contemporary Africa to be understood on its own terms–freed from Western ethnocentric preconceptions and values. The book begins with an … Continued
Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question
Edited by Angelika Bammer (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Cultural displacement—physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture—is one of the most formative experiences of our century. These essays examine the impact of this experience on contemporary notions of cultural identity from the perspectives of anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and psychology.
Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore
By Mary Ellis Gibson (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about … Continued
Selling a New World: Two Colonial South Carolina Promotional Pamphlets
By Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) and John Norris The two tracts presented here were written in an effort to attract immigrants to the American colonies during the earliest days of settlement. They provide systematic contemporary discussion of the nature and conditions of South Carolina during its early years of English settlement
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
By Kevin K. Gaines (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans–including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali–visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. … Continued