The Colonial Machine

The Colonial Machine
Title The Colonial Machine PDF eBook
Author James Edward McClellan (III)
Publisher Brepols Publishers
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre France
ISBN 9782503532608

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The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power, as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade. Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Academie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state, the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism: cartography and navigation; medical care of sailors, colonists, and slaves; and applied botany and commodity production. Historians of globalization and European overseas expansion, of Old-Regime France, and of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will henceforth take this stimulating volume as a necessary starting point for further reflection and research. Nominated for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.

Metallic Modern

Metallic Modern
Title Metallic Modern PDF eBook
Author Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 191
Release 2014-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 1782382437

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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.

The Colonial Dream

The Colonial Dream
Title The Colonial Dream PDF eBook
Author Damien Tricoire
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 400
Release 2023-03-06
Genre History
ISBN 3110715317

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The series aims at publishing works operating at the intersections of political theory, intellectual and conceptual history, and empirically dense socio-economic and political analyses of power. The works published in this series will place particular emphasis on the transregional – transimperial, transnational, transcultural – and the transtemporal orientation of political concepts and practices of power, with a special focus on idioms of rulership, political normativity and order, as well as subversion and rebellion against such regimes.

The Colonial Printer

The Colonial Printer
Title The Colonial Printer PDF eBook
Author Lawrence C. Wroth
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 436
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9780486282947

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Beautifully illustrated study explores every aspect of the American printer and his craft from 1639 to 1800.

The Impossible Machine

The Impossible Machine
Title The Impossible Machine PDF eBook
Author Adam Sitze
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 393
Release 2013-07-30
Genre History
ISBN 0472118757

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A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Dismantling the Racism Machine

Dismantling the Racism Machine
Title Dismantling the Racism Machine PDF eBook
Author Karen Gaffney
Publisher Routledge
Pages 124
Release 2017-11-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351712098

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While scholars have been developing valuable research on race and racism for decades, this work does not often reach the beginning college student or the general public, who rarely learn a basic history of race and racism. If we are to dismantle systemic racism and create a more just society, people need a place to begin. This accessible, introductory, and interdisciplinary guide can be one such place. Grounded in critical race theory, this book uses the metaphor of the Racism Machine to highlight that race is a social construct and that racism is a system of oppression based on invented racial categories. It debunks the false ideology that race is biological. As a manual, this book presents clear instructions for understanding the history of race, including whiteness, starting in colonial America, where the elite created a hierarchy of racial categories to maintain their power through a divide-and-conquer strategy. As a toolbox, this book provides a variety of specific action steps that readers can take once they have developed a foundational understanding of the history of white supremacy, a history that includes how the Racism Machine has been recalibrated to perpetuate racism in a supposedly "post-racial" era.

Main Currents in American Thought: 1620-1800. The colonial mind

Main Currents in American Thought: 1620-1800. The colonial mind
Title Main Currents in American Thought: 1620-1800. The colonial mind PDF eBook
Author Vernon Louis Parrington
Publisher
Pages 456
Release 1927
Genre American literature
ISBN

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