Black Experience and the Empire
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 May 2004
- ISBN 9780199260294
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 242x154x28 mm
- Weight 788 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map, 1 table 0
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Short description:
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. 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
West Africans and the Atlantic 1500-1800
Through a Looking Glass: Olaudah Equiano and African Experiences in the British Slave Trade
The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810
From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire without Slavery 1772-1834
From Slavery to Freedom: Blacks in the Nineteenth Century British West Indies
Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century
The Betrayal of Creole Elites 1880-1920
The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century
African Participation in the British Empire
African Workers and Imperial Designs
The Black Experience in the British Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
The Black Experience in Twentieth Century Britain
Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire
