Introduction Stephen Howe
Part1: Promoting and Explaining ‘New Imperial History’
1. The Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach George Balandier
2. Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture Antoinette Burton
3. Provincializing Europe: Postcoloniality and the Critique of History Dipesh Chakrabarty
Part2: 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
Part3: 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
Part4: 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
Part5: 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
Part6: Ecological Histories
14. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1660?1860 Richard Grove
15. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History Nancy J. Jacobs
Part7: 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 ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa before the First World War Jonathan Hyslop
Part8: The Impact of Colonialism’s 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, 1948?1968 Wendy Webster
21. The Language of Imperialism and the Meanings of Empire Andrew Thompson
Part9: Colonialism’s 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
Part10: Africa and The Caribbean
24. Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan
25. Modern Blackness: ‘What We Are and What We Hope To Be Deborah A.Thomas
26. Re-introducing the ‘People Without History': African Historiographies E.S. Atieno Odhiambo xi) Other Empires, Other Histories
27. They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery’: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate Selim Deringil
28. La Republique Metissee: Citizenship, Colonialism, and the Borders of French History Laurent Dubois
Part11: New Histories, New Empires ? and the ‘Colonial Present’
29. Imperialism, Liberalism and the Quest for Perpetual Peace Anthony Pagden
30. Empire After Globalisation Partha Chatterjee