Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy. 2. Imperial finance under the East India Company, 1762-1859/John F. Richards. 3. Marriage and the morality of exchange: defining the terrain of law in late-nineteenth-century western India/Rachel Sturman. 4. Imperial rivers: irrigation and British visions of empire/David Gilmartin. 5. Imperial brothers, imperial partners: Indian freemasons, race, kinship and networking in the British Empire and beyond/Vahid Fozdar. 6. Victorian imperialism in the making of the British medical profession: an argument/Douglas M. Haynes. 7. Diagnosing the colonial dilemma: tropical neurasthenia and the alienated Briton/Dane Kennedy. 8. Origins stories: missionary project and colonial translations in Tahiti, Northwestern America and Eastern Australia/Anne Keary. 9. Comparative colonialism, moral censorship and governmentality/Deana Heath. 10. The transcolonial world of hunger strikes and political fasts, c. 1909-1935/Kevin Grant. 11. Terrorism in Bengal: political violence in the interwar years/Durba Ghosh. 12. A nationalist 'public' in the imperial world? Swadeshi goods and public space in British India/Lisa N. Trivedi. 13. Visual vocabularies in twentieth-century India: negotiating the imperial and the local through treatment of place/Sandria B. Freitag. 14. Ideologies of the end of the Raj: Burma, India and the world, 1940-50/C.A. Bayly. Bibliography. Index. "This volume charts a new direction in the study of British imperialism, its impact on India and other colonial territories, and its influence in propelling the forces of globalisation. Moving beyond the standard model of a bilateral circuit between imperial centre and colonial periphery, it highlights instead the web of transcolonial and transnational networks that spread across and beyond the empire, operating both on its behalf and against its interests. It suggests that these networks worked in effect to decentre empire, shaping the multidimensional contours of the global modernity we contend with today. Decentring Empire brings together thirteen original essays by some of the leading scholars of British imperialism, their contributions offered in honour of Thomas R. Metcalf, the distinguished historian of colonial India. The essays range widely in scope, moving in time from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, in space from India to Ireland and Australia and elsewhere across the imperial map, and in topic from economic, political, and social to medical, legal, and cultural concerns. Taken together, they demonstrated the analytical richness of current scholarship on British colonialism in India and elsewhere and give fresh insights into its role in the making of the modern world. This is history at the cutting edge, an important contribution to the ongoing debate about empire and its consequences.". Seller Inventory # 60823

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