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Black Experience and the Empire
Edited by Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins
434 pages
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1 map, 1 table
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926029-4
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Hardback
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27 May 2004
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- Part of the companion series to the Oxford History of the British Empire
- Broad scope covering four centuries and four continents of the black experience
- Draws together to a common theme fourteen distinguished experts in various fields
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 traveled 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 topics.Readership: Readers with an interest in the British Empire, and scholars and students of the history of the Caribbean and Africa
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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.
DAVID NORTHRUP is a Professor in the Department of History at Boston College and President of the World History Association.
DAVID RICHARDSON is
Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull.
CHRISTOPHER L. BROWN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.
GAD HEUMAN is Reader in the Department of History, University of Warwick.
T. C. McCASKIE is Professor of Asante History in the Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham.
VIVIAN BICKFORD-SMITH is a Professor in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town.
DIANA JEATER is Head of the History School at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
TIMOTHY PARSONS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St.
Louis.
FREDERICK COOPER is a Professor in the Department of History at New York University.
HOWARD JOHNSON is Professor in Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware.
WINSTON JAMES is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University.
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and a member of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
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"a substantial volume which should be of as much benefit to historians of modern Britain as to those of its empire, [...] Black Experience and the Empire is, in all, a considerable achievement, and its individual contributors are to be commended for presenting complex processes and ideas in so concise and accessible a way." - Bill Nasson, Twentieth Century British History "...stimulating essays..." - Laura Tabili, Journal of British Studies "[an] excellent volume." - David Killingray, The Round Table, Vol. 96, No. 389 "This volume has a great deal to recommend it: highly qualified experts combine a wealth of information with interpretive 'edge' in chapters that are readable
and instructive." - The English Historical Review
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Preface
Sean Hawkins and Philip Morgan: Introduction
1: David Northrup: West Africans and the Atlantic 1500-1800
2: David Richardson: Through a Looking Glass: Olaudah Equiano and African Experiences in the British Slave Trade
3: Philip Morgan: The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810
4: Christopher L. Brown: From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire without Slavery 1772-1834
5: Gad Heuman: From Slavery to Freedom: Blacks in the Nineteenth Century British West Indies
6: T. C. McCaskie: Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century
7: Vivian Bickford-Smith: The Betrayal of Creole Elites 1880-1920
8: Diana Jeater: The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century
9: Timothy Parsons: African Participation in the British Empire
10: Frederick Cooper: African Workers and Imperial Designs
11: Howard Johnson: The Black Experience in the British Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
12: Winston James: The Black Experience in Twentieth Century Britain
13: Kwame Anthony Appiah: Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire
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