Search Results for British Empire

... granted to subjects of a sovereign authority. In this brief essay on how historians and political theorists in recent years have debated the tortuous relationship between the ideas of empire and liberty in British India, I would like to pause on this constricted and negative definition of liberty rather...

...Carl F. Brand The East India Company and the British empire in the Far East . By Marguerite Ever Wilbur . New York : Richard R. Smith , 1945 . xiii, 477 p. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 93 of the Soviet Union. Let us hope...

...Angma D. Jhala Forgotten Voices of the British Empire: How Knowledge Was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma . By Carol Ann Boshier . London : Rowman and Littlefield , 2022 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9781538159880 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Carol Ann...

...Gordon P. Means Honourable Intentions: Talks on the British Empire in South-East Asia, Delivered at the Royal Colonial Institute, 1874–1928 . Edited and introduced by Paul H. Kratoska . New York : Oxford University Press , 1983 . x, 470 pp. Tables, Plates, Maps, Appendixes, Index. $37.50...

... the appearance of a good number of excellent books on the literature and culture of Kerala. This catalogue is a very welcome addition. University of Edinburg R. E. ASHER India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations within the British Empire 1890-1939. BY ROBERT G. GREGORY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971...

... 2022 The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire . By Henrietta Harrison . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2021 . xiv, 341 pp. ISBN: 9780691225456 (cloth). ...

...William W. Reinhardt The British Labour Party and the Indian Independence Movement, 1917–1939 . By Mesbahuddin Ahmed . New York : Envoy Press , 1986 . x, 215 pp. $30.00. Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution . By Carl Bridge...

...Lynn Zastoupil The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism . By Antoinette Burton . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9780199936601 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017...

...Angela Burger Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756–1895 . By Paul C. Winther . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2003 . xviii , 429 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 792 T H E J O U...

...Marina Carter Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery and Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean . By Madhavi Kale . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . ii, 236 pp. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Brandon Marsh Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan . By Alexander Charles Baillie . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2017 . xii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780773551244 (cloth). The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective...

... in the interplay of European colonial powers, scientists, and a host of other groups, including colonial subjects. Rohan Deb Roy's book, Malarial Subjects: Empire , Medicine and Nonhumans in British India , 1820–1909 , and Shinjini Das's volume, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family , Market...

..., teachers and students who seek an insightful case study about a mountain culture enduring in the face of, and often despite, many unintended and unwanted changes imposed from outside. DONALD A. MESSERSCHMIDT Calgary, Canada Trade, Tariffs and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India, 1919 1939...

... and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire . By Ishita Pande . New York : Routledge , 2010 . x, 257 pp. $135.00 (cloth). ...

...Sumathi Ramaswamy Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India . By Matthew H. Edney . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1997 . xxi, 458 pp. $35.00 (cloth). 562 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...David Herwaldt; R. E. Frykenberg The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855–1911 . Texts by Clark Worswick and Ainslie Embree . Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture , 1976 . 149 pp. Plates, Further Reading. $19.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 390...

...Elliot Sperling Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774–1904 . By Gordon T. Stewart . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xiv , 280 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $34.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... the empire. His startling statement that “before 1914, India played little significant role in Britain's projection of power overseas” (p. 390) ignores the repeated use of Indian forces in military campaigns from China to West Africa. And he gives his readers no hint of the fact that British India became...

... extent, to caste. In Religion, Science, and Empire , Peter Gottschalk makes a solid contribution to the study of the ways in which Indian society was described, catalogued, and classified during the rule of the East India Company and the British imperial regime. Gottschalk discusses an impressive...