Introduction Stephen Howe Part 1: Promoting and Explaining âNew Imperial Historyâ 1. The Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach George Balandier 2. Rules of Thumb: British History and âImperial Culture Antoinette Burton 3. Provincializing Europe: Postcoloniality and the Critique of History Dipesh Chakrabarty Part 2: Intellectual Battles and Exchanges 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History Frederick Cooper 5. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India Nicholas Dirks 6. Shoot Them to Be Sure Richard Gott Part 3: Influences from Anthropology and Psychoanalysis 7. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India Bernard Cohn 8. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism Ashis Nandy Part 4: Imperial Cultures as Global Networks 9. Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-century South Africa and Britain Alan Lester 10. Mapping the British World Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich 11. Colonial Subjects: An African intelligentsia and Atlantic ideas P.S. Zachernuk Part 5: Feminism, Gender Studies, Histories of the Body 12. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule Ann Laura Stoler 13. Thinking Back: Gender Misrecognition and Polynesian Subversions Aboard the Cook Voyages Kathleen Wilson Part 6: Ecological Histories 14. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1660â"1860 Richard Grove 15. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History Nancy J. Jacobs Part 7: Racial imaginings 16. Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire Tony Ballantyne 17. Slower Than a Massacre: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Africa Jonathon Glassman 18. The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself âWhiteâ: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa before the First World War Jonathan Hyslop Part 8: The Impact of Colonialismâs Cultures on Metropoles 19. The Persistence of Empire in Metropolitan Culture John Mackenzie 20. There'll Always be an England: Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948â"1968 Wendy Webster 21. The Language of Imperialism and the Meanings of Empire Andrew Thompson Part 9: Colonialismâs Afterlives 22. After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? Paul Gilroy 23. Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette: Reflections on the Emergence of Post-colonial Britain Bill Schwarz Part 10: Africa and The Caribbean 24. Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan 25. Modern Blackness: âWhat We Are and What We Hope To Be Deborah A.Thomas 26. Re-introducing the âPeople Without History': African Historiographies E.S. Atieno Odhiambo xi) Other Empires, Other Histories 27. They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savageryâ: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate Selim Deringil 28. La R©publique M©tiss©e: Citizenship, Colonialism, and the Borders of French History Laurent Dubois Part 11: New Histories, New Empires â" and the âColonial Presentâ 29. Imperialism, Liberalism and the Quest for Perpetual Peace Anthony Pagden 30. Empire After Globalisation Partha Chatterjee