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Biocultural Empire : New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds /

<B>Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today.</b> This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the effect of biocultural, che...

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Other Authors: Burton, Antoinette (Editor), Frost, Samantha (Editor), Mawani, Renisa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Empire's other histories.
Subjects:
Imperialism.
Impérialisme.
Colonialism & imperialism.
General & world history.
Indigenous peoples.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Biocultural Empires as an Anti-colonial Method, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, USA) Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia, Canada), Samantha Frost (University of Illinois, USA) 1. Very Like a Whale: Animal Metaphors and the Biocultural Imagination, Jamie Jones (University of Illinois, USA) 2. Biocultural Histories of the Black Anthropocene: Energy, Consumption, and Non-Human Worlds in The History of Barbados and The History of Mary Prince, Anna Feuerstein, (University of Hawaii, USA) 3. A Victorian Parliament of Animals; or, the Biocultural as Imperial Political Form, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, USA) 4. Ganja and the Godhead: Plant Matter and the Sacral Binds of the Excise Principle in British India, Utathya Chattopadhyaya (UC-Santa Barbara, USA) 5. The Royal Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah: Human Difference and Biocultural Empire in the Nineteenth Century, Jonathan Saha, (Durham University, UK) 6. History in the Water(s): Water and Empire in North America's Wet Centre", Adele Perry, (University of Manitoba, Canada) 7. Strangers, Difference and the Darkness of Empire: The HMB Endeavour in New Zealand, Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand) 8. Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene, Debjani Bhattacharya (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Bibliography Index