Synopses & Reviews
Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world,
Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and behind these inherited borders in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean.
and#160;Scars of Partition draws on political science, anthropology, history, and geography to examine six cases of indigenous, indentured, and enslaved peoples partitioned by colonialism in West Africa, West Indies, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, South India, and the Indian Ocean. William F. S. Miles demonstrates that sovereign nations throughout the developing world, despite basic differences in culture, geography, and politics, still bear the underlying imprint of their colonial pasts. Disentangling and appreciating these embedded colonial legacies is critical to achieving full decolonizationand#8212;particularly in their borderlands.
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"These excellent essays are a joy to read. Together they question assumptions about pre-modern culture and offer new and interesting interpretations of queenship."and#8212;Retha Warnicke, Sixteenth Century Journal
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and#8220;This splendid volume is a seminal contribution to the comparative study of colonialism, decolonization, and colonial legacy. . . . A magnum opus embodying a lifetime of careful research, and a strikingly original research design.and#8221;and#8212;Crawford Young, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsinand#8211;Madison and author of
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of IndependenceReview
andquot;By focusing on the experiences of partitioned peoples in specific borderlands, Miles offers a rigorous political assessment of the global legacies of colonialisms in the twenty-first century.andquot;andmdash;Kate Marsh, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Synopsis
In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the and#8220;normaland#8221; male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituentsand#8217; perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were represented in medieval and early modern England. They also give modern readers a glimpse into the early modern worldview, particularly regarding order, hierarchy, rulership, property, biology, and the relationship between the sexes. Considering topics as diverse as how Queen Elizabethand#8217;s unmarried status affected the perception of her as a just and merciful queen to a reevaluation of and#8220;good Queen Anneand#8221; as more than just an obese, conventional monarch, this volume encourages readers to reexamine previously held assumptions about the role of female monarchs in early modern history.
About the Author
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraskaand#8211;Lincoln. She is the author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. Robert Bucholz is a professor of history at Loyola University. He is the author of several books, including The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture, and the coauthor (with N. E. Key) of Early Modern England, 1485and#8211;1714: A Narrative History.and#160;Contributors: Charles Beem, Robert Bucholz, Sarah Duncan, Timothy G. Elston, Elaine Kruse, Amber Harris Leichner, Carole Levin, Michele Osherow, Anna Riehl, Linda S. Shenk, Marjorie Swann, John Watkins, Michelle A. White, and Richardine Woodall.