Legitimacy,Honor, and Sexuality in Colonial South America

Long, Norman, and Bryan Roberts. Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ix + 288 pp. including maps, bibliography, and index. $49.50 cloth.

Figueroa, Adolfo. Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xii + 140 pp. including maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $29.95 cloth.     

Women beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India during the Second World War

In British India in 1943, a rapidly escalating Allied coal crisis resulted in the lifting of a six-year-old ban on women’s employment underground. Over 70,000 low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) women, battling the war-induced Bengal Famine, sustained production levels and prevented the monthly loss of 385,000 tons of coal between August 1943 and February 1946. Their employment sparked unprecedented outrage among the public, in the press, and in parliaments, generating a transnational discourse on Indian women workers for the very first time. Meanwhile the desperate colonial government disciplined miners through the threat of starvation, information that has so far remained concealed.     

Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History

Book reviewed in this article: Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History, by Srimati Basu.     

伪满殖民统治时期的东北女性

伪满洲国时期,日本殖民主义者为束缚、禁锢中国妇女的思想,便利用各种宣传手段进行“王道教化”,以消除她们的民族意识和反抗斗志.成立伪妇女组织,对中国妇女进行严密的控制,强迫她们为日伪军义务服务.逼迫中国妇女为娼,使中国妇女惨遭残害和蹂躏.但广大的中国妇女并未因此而消沉,他们或拿起刀枪奔赴战场与敌人展开殊死搏斗,或愤然挥毫揭露日本帝国主义的侵华罪行,为中华民族的解放事业做出了重大贡献.     

论英国对印度殖民统治体制的形成及影响

从美国独立到拿破仑战争结束这32年时间内,英国调整了对印度的殖民统治政策。受工业革命以及福音教派运动的影响,英国政府改变了过去那种赤裸裸的殖民掠夺、殖民压迫政策,而在表面上代之以为土著人殖民地建立良好的政府,消除暴政、杜绝腐败、发展教育,这在一定程度上促进了殖民地经济文化的发展,从而“充当了历史的不自觉的工具”。英国对印度殖民新的统治体制的形成,对于英帝国的发展壮大意义重大。     

从西方化到本土化:英国的殖民统治与马来西亚的政治发展

马来西亚是政治发展较为成功的发展中国家。马来西亚政治发展的成功,在很大程度上是由于对殖民时期的政治遗产进行了适当的本土化改造,使民主与权威同时为政治稳定提供支撑,形成了介于民主与权威之问的政治体制。马来西亚政治发展的经验说明,发展中国家只有根据本国国情对继承而来的政治遗产进行本土化的改造,才能建立适合本国社会与历史特点的稳定的政治体制。西方的政治发展模式并不是普适性的真理,发展中国家在探寻政治发展道路过程中也可以形成自己的政治发展模式,从而使人类文明的发展变得更加丰富多彩。     

英国殖民统治时期下缅甸的外来移民与民族关系

英国殖民主义者占领下缅甸后,为了攫取缅甸的资源,大量引进劳工开发下缅甸。大量移民的涌入,为下缅甸的经济发展做出了巨大的贡献。然而英国殖民主义者实行的“分而治之”和“为己所用”的统治政策阻碍了不同民族之间的文化交流与融合,给下缅甸的民族关系和社会发展带来了许多负面影响,使下缅甸成为一个民族矛盾集中、民族关系脆弱的地区。     

Languages as Women: The Feminisation of Linguistic Discourses in Colonial North India

This article locates and analyses the gendered discourses of Hindi and Urdu linguistic identity in late nineteenth‐century colonial north India. Using a new concept of language woman, it characterises the multiple discourses of feminisation through three distinctive terms of linguistic femininity, linguistic morality and linguistic patriarchy. These three modes of representation and articulation of feminised discourses over Hindi and Urdu languages are explored using the concept of heteronormativity as a political, ideological and social–cultural construct. The paper argues that language woman established an intimate bond between nationalisation and feminisation of the dominant Hindi linguistic identity in private and public domains as not mutually opposed but complementary and reproducible of each other.     

The Failure of Restored British Rule in Revolutionary Charleston,South Carolina

The two-year occupation of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Revolution demonstrates that umbrages suffered under military rule played a significant role in turning civilians in the 13 colonies against the British Empire. Despite British attempts to encourage loyalty by giving loyalists a say in government, stabilising the economy and guaranteeing the safety of slave property, Charleston's occupation regime failed to win local hearts and minds due to inconsistent and arbitrary policies, conflicts between military and civilian authorities and the unwillingness of imperial officials to restore full civil government to the province. As a result, South Carolinians lost faith in Charleston's restored royal administration long before British defeat on the battlefield secured American independence.     

The Management of Public Records under the British Colonial Administration in Cyprus

CHRISTOPHER ALLMAND. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300–c.1450. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 207. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by John Bell Henneman, Jr.

L.N. GUMILEV. Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John, trans. R.E.F. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 420. £37.50. Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen

JOHN B. HATTENDORF. England in the War of the Spanish Succession: A Study of the English View and Conduct of Grand Strategy, 1702–1712. New York: Garland, 1987. Pp. 408. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

DAVID A. WILSON. Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. 218. $27.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Hannah Gay

DESMOND GREGORY. Sicily: The Insecure Base: A History of the British Occupation of Sicily, 1806–1815. London: Associated University Press, 1988. Pp. 184. £18.00. Reviewed by Charles John Fedorak

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815–1922: An International Perspective. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 250. $29.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Patrick O'Farrell

PATRICK J.N. TUCK. French Catholic Missionaries and the Politics of Imperialism in Vietnam, 1857–1914. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1987. Pp. 352. £12.50. Reviewed by J. Kim Munholland

HAGEN SCHULZE, ed. Nation-Building in Central Europe. German Historical Perspectives, Vol. III. Leamington Spa, U.K.: Berg Publishers Ltd; dist. New York; St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 208. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Geoff Eley

DANIEL J. HUOHES. The King's Finest: A Social and Bureaucratic Profile of Prussia's General Officers, 1871–1914. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1987. Pp. ix, 215. $42.95 (US). Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener

HELMUTH STOECKER, ed. German Imperialism in Africa: From the Beginnings until the Second World War. London: C. Hurst &; Company, 1986. Pp. 446. $38.50 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen

MARK R. PEATTTE. Nan'yō The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Pp. xxii, 416. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Felix Moos

DAVID FRENCH. British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp. 274. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Cameron Hazlehurst

BILL ALBERT, with the assistance of PAUL HENDERSON. South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 388. £27.50. Reviewed by Robert N. Seidel

TIMOTHY EDWARD O'CONNOR. Diplomacy and Revolution: G.V. Chicherin and Soviet Foreign Affairs, 1918–1930. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 250. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Rex A. Wade

A.J. CHRISTOPHER. The British Empire at Its Zenith. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. xii, 260. £30.00. Reviewed by Ged Martin

MARY C. WILSON. King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxii, 289. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Neil Caplan

PETER J. COLEMAN. Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. Pp. 247. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee

MORRIS H. MORLEY. Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952–1986. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 571.$59.50 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. Welch, Jr.

THOMAS R.H. HAVENS. Fire across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 264. $37.50 (US), cloth; $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ernest P. Young     

民族国家形成时期英国殖民扩张特点探析

民族国家形成之际 ,也正是英国人大力推进海外贸易和殖民扩张之时。新君主制的巩固、英帝国的萌芽和海外殖民贸易扩张是民族国家形成时期几个重要的互动因素。新君主制和民族国家日益成为新兴市民阶级追求其经济利益的政治保障 ,市民阶级则构成新君主制和民族国家赖以存在与发展的阶级基础。除了资本原始积累的需要外 ,传播上帝的福音 ,对金银财富的追逐 ,以及民族意识的觉醒和新君主制的建立 ,也构成英国海外殖民扩张的动因。本文拟选取“民族国家形成时期”这个全新视角 ,考察现代“民族国家”和“帝国”之间的关系 ,探讨英帝国形成的内在机制 ,揭示英国海外殖民贸易扩张的根本特点。