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Spoken words come alive in written verse.In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices and impersonated foreign speakers, Mulholland uncovers an innovative global aesthetics of poetic voice that arose as authors invented new ways of crafting textual voices and appealing to readers. As poets drew on cultural forms from around Great Britain and across the globe, impersonating “primitive” speakers and reviving ancient oral performances (or fictionalizing them in verse), they invigorated English poetry.Mulholland situates these experiments with oral voices and foreign speakers within the wider context of British nationalism at home and colonial expansion overseas. Sounding Imperial traces this global aesthetic by reading texts from canonical authors like Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, and Felicia Hemans together with lesser-known writers, like Welsh antiquarians, Anglo-Indian poets of colonialism, and impersonators of Pacific islanders. The frenetic borrowing, movement, and adaptation of verse of this time offers a powerful analytic by which scholars can understand anew poetry’s role in the formation of national culture and the exercise of colonial power. Sounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry’s unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.

Colonialism & imperialism

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Thailand, unique among the nations of Southeast Asia, has no colonial history. The Thai government, unlike those of neighboring counties, has not evolved under imposed foreign systems. While counties all around her were experiencing domination by foreign governments, Thailand, free of such domination, was developing its own bureaucratic form of government. The incendiary conditions surrounding the Indo-chinese section of the world, especially Viet-Nam, Laos, and Thailand, make mandatory an attempt to understand the baffling political milieu in which these conditions occur.The author carefully traces the processes of change that have taken place in Thai politics and administration from the mid-nineteenth to the mid twentieth century, then takes a close look at contemporary Thai government as a bureaucratic polity. The final chapters are devoted to a more microscopic view of the bureaucratic life in Thailand. Taking the administration of the rice program as a focus, the author probes and dissects the cultural and social changes now taking place.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.

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Colonialism --- Colonialism --- Geography --- Geography --- Morocco --- Morocco

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Der moderne europäische Kolonialismus hat die Ordnung der Welt tiefgreifend und dauerhaft verändert. Dies gilt für politische und wirtschaftliche, vor allem aber auch für "mentale" Strukturen. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der kolonialen Vergangenheit und ein Gedenken der Opfer sind in den ehemals kolonisierenden Gesellschaften dabei bisher weitgehend ausgeblieben. Dieser Befund trifft in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß auf Deutschland und die Niederlande zu, wie die Beiträge des Sammelbandes zeigen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren den gegenwärtigen Stand der nachkolonialen Erinnerungskulturen in der Pädagogik, in literarischen Werken und im öffentlichen Gedenken. Neue Herausforderungen an ein bislang national geprägtes kollektives Gedächtnis ergeben sich durch die zunehmende Pluralisierung der beiden Einwanderungsgesellschaften. Schließlich wird nach der Zukunft von Erinnerung in einer sich entwickelnden Weltgesellschaft gefragt. Mit Beiträgen von Micha Brumlik, Kathrin Gawarecki, Matthias Heyl, Nicole Jansen, Anne Kerber, Reinhart Kössler, Rudolf Leiprecht, Helma Lutz, Gert Oostinde, Pamela Pattynama, Frank van Vree, Hasko Zimmer.

Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism --- Political science

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Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state', and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation. The book is an indispensable document in the intensive debate among German and international scholars about the postcolonial expansion of German history, and it offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and also the 'Third Reich'.

Auschwitz. --- Holocaust. --- colonialism. --- genocide.