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Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Clare Anderson
SeriesCritical Perspectives on Empire
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:238
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history
Colonialism and imperialism
ISBN/Barcode 9781107645448
ClassificationsDewey:909.09824
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 6 Maps; 18 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 5 April 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature and significance of 'networked' Empire. She reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion and sheds new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes. The book also explores the nature of colonial society during this period and embeds subaltern biographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is an important new perspective on British colonialism which also opens up new possibilities for the writing of history itself.

Author Biography

Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. She is currently developing comparative work on European penal colonies, on the interface between 'academic' and 'family' history, and the relationship between history, sociology and anthropology.