... as its comparative critical analysis of the British and US empires. Finally, it raises several questions about empire, informal empire, and anti-imperialism as a way of furthering the dialogue the book seeks between political studies writ large and postcolonial studies. © 2014 by Duke University Press...

...Rohan Deb Roy The themed section “Nonhuman Empires” contributes to a critique of anthropocentrism in the field of imperial history. It reveals the variety of ways in which the historical trajectories of nonhuman animals and empires both intersected and informed one another. Beyond merely...

... Empire. Romanian officials were particularly critical, complaining about the IIA's slowness in delivering the information it promised as well as its secrecy. 40 In each instance, the officials Lubin and Llanos spoke with expressed their interest and often appreciation for the work of the IIA, but some...

... and the Hijaz—two provinces that are often treated as exceptionally exceptional—serve as productive sites to examine how Ottomans engaged with the international legal order and posed alternative visions of authority that informed not only the end of the empire but also its afterlife. Copyright © 2020 by Duke...

...Priti Ramamurthy Abstract The urban experience remains inextricably entangled with the rural for millions of poor migrants to cities in the global South who labor in informal economies. Translocal households, households that share the labor and costs of social reproduction spatially across the city...

...Amy Mills Turkey emerged from the ruins of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire to become a secular, ethnically Turkish, and culturally Sunni Muslim nation. While the Ottoman legacy refers to an ideal of multiethnic tolerance located in the distant past, and is deployed as a critique against a presumably...

...Heba Alnajada Abstract Historically, Islamic sharia courts across the Ottoman empire used a document called a hujja for registering property transactions. In present-day Jordan hujaj are illegal, yet in Palestinian refugee camps hujaj continue to be used for inheritance, buying and selling houses...

... difference between the Native Agent Indian 1810–40 traditional view of Britain’s informal empire in the Native Agent Arab, Persian 1843–61, 1866–7 Gulf and the reality of how it actually functioned Bushire, Gulf Residency HQ (Persia): during the nineteenth century. Native Resident...

... of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf . New York : Oxford University Press , 2007 . Onley James . “ The Raj Reconsidered: British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa .” Asian Affairs 40 , no. 1 ( 2009 ): 44 – 62...

... empire and ered the war an incontrovertible case of American the one being forged by the United States, sug- imperialist aggression. In retrospect, I can see that gesting that the two peoples’ common origins as my efforts to make sense of that war informed, if Anglo-­Saxons gave them a shared...

... of time and sovereignty that inform and shape to movement conceive of empires not as stable en- understandings of ongoing geopolitical conflicts. tities that ascend and decline but as mobile and Periodization, for Davis, is “not simply the drawing mutable political forms that demand comparisons...

... . Evans B. L. Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics of New Zealand, 1861-1954 . Wellington, NZ : R. E. Owen, Government Printer , 1956 . Ferns H. S. “ Britain’s Informal Empire in Argentina, 1806-1914 .” Past and Present 4 ( November 1953 ): 60 – 75 . ———. “ Investment...

...: ‘Privatization’ and Political Economy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire .” Politics and Society 21 ( 1993 ): 393 – 423 . Savage Jesse Dillon . “ The Stability and Breakdown of Empire: European Informal Empire in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt .” European Journal of International...

.... rule and later informal empire that the British Parker, Kunal. Common Law, History, and Democracy in had done in places like India, Africa, and Latin America, 1790 – 1900: Legal Thought before Modernism. America, it was not exceptional...

...- ers. The history of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company jectory of infinite progress.”14 and of the Iraq Petroleum Company is indicative Drawing attention to the multifaceted prop- of how British informal empire functioned in the erties...

... Peninsula, “American” imperialism in Saudi Arabia never materialized in a formal protectorate. 10 In 1933, a year after the creation of Saudi Arabia, King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz granted a massive oil concession to Standard Oil of California. Renamed Aramco in 1944, the oil company built an “informal empire...

... and the British “informal empire” from the 1880s to the Ottomans can be partly attributed to the long- 1930s in what became Iraq. They have begun to surviving incubus of the late-nineteenth-century delineate the strong connections between Bom- geographer-strategist Halford Mackinder. It was bay and Basra...

... a national framework while maintaining an “informal empire” in the region by framing the national in terms of a “majoritarian-civilizational core” that excludes Kashmiri as a “peripheral identity.” 21 Goldie Osuri points out that simply the fact that India denies Kashmiris a “popular sovereignty...

...—assumed in the British and French Empires: 150,000 francs which could have been better used from providing information, to serving under the elsewhere Other issues of this same paper often colonial flag, to attempting to carve out an autono- opined that les pires ennemis de la France étaient mous...

.... In gen- movement? eral, Ahmadi missions met with greatest success On a very practical level, the empire facili- in Africa (particularly Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra tated access to information. Although a mundane Leone33) and faced the greatest difficulties...