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... to emphasize the ability of officers to infiltrate communities and the importance of immigrant detectives. Francis Vinton Greene Philippines US Empire Spanish-American War colonial policing ...

... The relationship between translation and empire in the United States is the topic of this chapter. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the history of Americanization, which is to say translation, of English from an imperial...

... The encounter that accompanies the spread of empire silences the voices of the colonized and missionized, making it difficult to make the historical narratives of empire audible. In this essay, Bohlman opens the space of imperial encounter by employing the methods and metaphors of triangulation...

... This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role of hip hop as the “soundtrack to the revolution(s)” in the Arab Spring. These artists illustrate the concept of “post-9/11 Brown”—an antiracist global...

... This chapter reconstructs the entanglements that brought Māori and Europeans into sustained connection and which incorporated New Zealand into the discourses and economic networks of the British Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It demonstrates that this long...

... between the ability of Māori to shape everyday forms of knowledge production on the ground at the edge of the empire and their limited control over missionary and humanitarian texts produced in the imperial metropole, a divergence that is central in making sense of the colonization of New Zealand...

...Preface<subtitle>Empire in Life</subtitle> The preface argues that the rising attention in the humanities and social sciences to theories of biopolitics and posthumanism offers postcolonial studies an opportunity to develop an account of politics that tracks how international inequalities...

... This chapter explores Spanish foreign and colonial policy at midcentury. By 1861, moderate governments had held power in Spain for the previous eighteen years, and economic growth, internal tranquility, and stable alliances benefited the empire. Liberal reforms on the peninsula did not reflect...