Engaging Colonial Knowledge

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

"Overall, the contributions emphasise the potential of the colonial archives in providing access to a historical reality through the addition of analytical criticism. The case studies convincingly indicate omissions of 'post-Orientalist' criticism....The high quality of the individual contributions is undeniable." - Nathanael Kuck, Comparativ

SUSAN BAYLY Reader in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University, UKNIELS BRIMNES Associate Professor, Aarhus University, DenmarkLEIGH DENAULT Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK and Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, UKCAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Leicester, UKANN LAURA STOLER Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research, New York, USAALAN STRATHERN Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UKNICHOLAS THOMAS Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UKPAULINE VON HELLERMANN Research Fellow, the University of York, UKANDREW ZIMMERMAN Associate Professor of History, the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA