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Black Experience and the Empire
Edited by Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins
436 pages
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1 map, 2 tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-929067-3
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Paperback
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01 June 2006
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- Wide chronological and geographical range
- Written by leading historians of the subject
- Each chapter includes a focused list of further reading
This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and
dislocated; or travelled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive study of the Empire from its beginning to end, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose by exploring themes that were not possible to cover adequately in the main series, and to provide fresh interpretations of
significant topicsReadership: Readers with an interest in the British Empire; students and scholars of the history of the African diaspora.
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Edited by Philip D. Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, and Sean Hawkins, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto Contributors:
PHILIP MORGAN is Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University.
SEAN HAWKINS is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the New College African Studies Program at the University of Toronto.
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and a member of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
VIVIAN BICKFORD-SMITH is
a Professor in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town.
CHRISTOPHER L. BROWN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.
FREDERICK COOPER is a Professor in the Department of History at New York University.
GAD HEUMAN is Reader in the Department of History, University of Warwick.
WINSTON JAMES is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University.
DIANA JEATER is Head of the History School at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
HOWARD JOHNSON is Professor in Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware.
T. C. McCASKIE is Professor of Asante History in the Centre of West African Studies at
the University of Birmingham.
DAVID NORTHRUP is a Professor in the Department of History at Boston College and President of the World History Association.
TIMOTHY PARSONS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St Louis.
DAVID RICHARDSON is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull.
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"...stimulating essays..." - Laura Tabili, Journal of British Studies "[an] excellent volume." - David Killingray, The Round Table, Vol. 96, No. 389
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1: Sean Hawkins and Philip D. Morgan: Blacks and the British Empire: An Introduction
2: David Northrup: West Africans and the Atlantic 1500-1800
3: David Richardson: Through a Looking Glass: Olaudah Equiano and African Experiences in the British Slave Trade
4: Philip D. Morgan: The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810
5: Christopher L. Brown: From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire without Slavery 1772-1834
6: Gad Heuman: From Slavery to Freedom: Blacks in the Nineteenth Century British West Indies
7: T. C. McCaskie: Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century
8: Vivian Bickford-Smith: The Betrayal of Creole Elites 1880-1920
9: Diana Jeater: The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century
10: Timothy H. Parsons: African Participation in the British Empire
11: Frederick Cooper: African Workers and Imperial Designs
12: Howard Johnson: The Black Experience in the British Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
13: Winston James: The Black Experience in Twentieth Century Britain
14: Kwame Anthony Appiah: Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire
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