Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Interlocking colonial histories: 1. War; 2. Settlement; 3. Plantation; 4. Port; Part II. Elementary aspects of colonial power: 5. Science; 6. School; 7. Debt; 8. Space; 9. Body; Epilogue.

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A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).

Reviews

'If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra's devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism – with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth – and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.' Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles

'Kris Manjapra's global history of colonialism turns the most complex scholarship on colonial experience into a lucid and enjoyable narrative. He shows how legacies of colonialism in race relations and unequal economic structures still shape the most crucial issues of today, and demonstrates how a renewal of global humanities is needed to face these problems.' Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

'Manjapra's luminous book is a nuanced yet accessible contribution to the relational and comparative study of modern colonialism. Moving deftly across entangled geographies, unsettling the discrete temporalizations of empire, Colonialism in Global Perspective compels readers to see the world anew.' Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico

'Refusing to compartmentalize, Kris Manjapra offers readers the long view of colonialism's interlocking logics of power, a tour through time and space that is simultaneously sweepingly global and specifically grounded in the particular.' Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College

'Uncommonly comprehensive and intellectually stimulating … Highly recommended.' B. Tavakolian, Choice

'Colonialism in a Global Perspective is a lucid and enjoyable read that covers a large geographic area over a lengthy period.' Amal Shahid, H-Socialisms

'… the book will leave us with one overarching question in face of socio-economic oppression and post-colonial captivity: should not human rights make us free to be free?' Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, Nordic Journal of Human Rights

'Manjapra's approach is an inspired one … The multi-perspective parallactic view Manjapra has employed in Colonialism in Global Perspective has suited the topic well and produced an accessible study of features of a shared colonial experience.' Joseph M. Snyder, The Middle Ground Journal

'Interdisciplinary scholars and students interested in the history, political economy, and sociocultural dimensions of colonialism will find this book of value.' Marc Kosciejew, Ethnic and Racial Studies