Taking fieldhouse further: Post-colonizing imperial history

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-250

  Darby, Phillip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Institute of Postcolonial Studies   (Australia)

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EID: 0032329745     PISSN: 03086534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03086539808583034     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London, 1993), 11.
2. For a sardonic account of post-colonialism's successes see Russell Jacoby. 'Marginal Returns: The Trouble with Post-colonial Theory', Linguafranca, 5, 6 (1993), 30 7.
3. According to Steven Feierman, one of the first effects of the appearance of African history was to dissolve world history. See his 'Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives', in Gyan Prakash (ed.), After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (Princeton, 1995), ch.2.
4. See Gyan Prakash, 'Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Pespectives from Indian Historiography', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32 (1990), 383 408 and Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts'. Representations, 37 (1992), 1 26.
5. See Gyan Prakash, 'Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Pespectives from Indian Historiography', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32 (1990), 383 408 and Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts'. Representations, 37 (1992), 1 26.
6. Patrick Wolfe, for instance, has argued that diasporan post-colonialism has derived much of its disruptive energy from a strategically provisional juggling of poststructuralism and Marxism. 'History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism'. American Historical Review, 102, 2 (1997), 388 420 at 408.
7. For representative critiques see Edward Said. 'Orientalism and after: an interview with Edward Said'. Radical Philosophy, 63, (1993), 22 32 at 24 6; Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations. Literatures (London, 1992); Rosalind O'Hanlon and David Washbrook, 'After Orientalism: culture, criticism and politics in the Third World'. Comparative Studies in History and Society, 34 (1992), 141 66.
8. For representative critiques see Edward Said. 'Orientalism and after: an interview with Edward Said'. Radical Philosophy, 63, (1993), 22 32 at 24 6; Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations. Literatures (London, 1992); Rosalind O'Hanlon and David Washbrook, 'After Orientalism: culture, criticism and politics in the Third World'. Comparative Studies in History and Society, 34 (1992), 141 66.
9. For representative critiques see Edward Said. 'Orientalism and after: an interview with Edward Said'. Radical Philosophy, 63, (1993), 22 32 at 24 6; Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations. Literatures (London, 1992); Rosalind O'Hanlon and David Washbrook, 'After Orientalism: culture, criticism and politics in the Third World'. Comparative Studies in History and Society, 34 (1992), 141 66.
10. A study of the reception of post-colonial theory in various parts of the Third World would be instructive. In Beijing in December 1996, a colleague and I were told by one of China's foremost post-modernist scholars that in China post-colonialism is seen as a conservative discourse, closely associated with the government.
11. Dane Kennedy, 'Imperial History and Post-Colonial Theory'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 24, 3 (1996), 345 63 at 346. have argued a somewhat similar case for dialogue between international relations and post-colonialism in 'Bridging International Relations and Postcolonialism', Alternatives, 19 (1994), 371 97 (with A.J. Paolini), and The Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between International and Postcolonialism (London, 1997).
12. Dane Kennedy, 'Imperial History and Post-Colonial Theory'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 24, 3 (1996), 345 63 at 346. have argued a somewhat similar case for dialogue between international relations and post-colonialism in 'Bridging International Relations and Postcolonialism', Alternatives, 19 (1994), 371 97 (with A.J. Paolini), and The Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between International and Postcolonialism (London, 1997).
13. Dane Kennedy, 'Imperial History and Post-Colonial Theory'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 24, 3 (1996), 345 63 at 346. have argued a somewhat similar case for dialogue between international relations and post-colonialism in 'Bridging International Relations and Postcolonialism', Alternatives, 19 (1994), 371 97 (with A.J. Paolini), and The Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between International and Postcolonialism (London, 1997).
14. John M. MacKenzie, 'Edward Said and the Historians', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 18 (1994), 9 25. See also his Orientalism: History, theory and the arts (Manchester, 1995).
15. John M. MacKenzie, 'Edward Said and the Historians', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 18 (1994), 9 25. See also his Orientalism: History, theory and the arts (Manchester, 1995).
16. The latter view has been especially associated with B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature (London, 1989).
17. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London, 1994), especially introduction and ch. 1.
18. Note, however, that after emphasizing that Hancock felt he had a normative role in writing the Survey. Fieldhouse states that in the post-colonial era the economic historian is relieved of this obligation. David Fieldhouse, 'Keith Hancock and Imperial Economic History: A Retrospect Forty Years On', ch.7 in Frederick Madden and D.K. Fieldhouse (eds.), Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth (London, 1982), 162. This, of course, does not settle the issue I have raised.
19. D.K. Fieldouse, Economics and Empire 1830 1914 (London, 1973), 461.
20. Eric J. Hobsbawm, 'The New Threat to History'. New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 1993, 62 4 at 63.
21. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London, 1958); Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons (Nairobi, 1973).
22. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London, 1958); Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons (Nairobi, 1973).
23. Martha L. Hildreth, 'Lamentations on Reality: A Response to John M Mackenzie's "Edward Said and the Historians'". Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 19 (1995), 65 73.
24. David Fieldhouse, 'Can Humpty-Dumpty be put together again? Imperial History in the 1980s'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 12 (1984), 9 23 at 15.
25. MacKenzie, Orientalism, 11.
26. See for example Linda Hulcheon, 'The Post Always Rings Twice: The Postmodern and the Postcolonial'. Textual Practice, 18 (1994), 205 38.
27. Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton, 1996).
28. Fieldhouse, 'Can Humply-Dumpty . . .' , 10, 18 and 9.
29. Martin Chanock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (London, 1985); Michael Crowder, The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh A Tale of Colonial Folly and Injustice: Bechuanaland 1933 (New Haven, 1988).
30. Martin Chanock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (London, 1985); Michael Crowder, The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh A Tale of Colonial Folly and Injustice: Bechuanaland 1933 (New Haven, 1988).
31. Homi Bhabha, 'Signs taken for wonders, questions, of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817'. Critical Inquiry, 12 (1985), 144-65 at 152.
32. See Ashis Nandy, Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness (Delhi, 1987), 26.
33. For some of the difficulties faced by cultural historians in incorporating new theoretical perspectives, see Elazar Barkan, 'Post-Anti-Colonial Histories: Representing the Other in Imperial Britain', Journal of British Studies. 33 (1994), 180 203.
34. Christopher Fyfe's article 'Race, Empire and the Historian', Race and Class, 33 (1992), 15 30 repays careful reading. Fyfe writes as an imperial historian but he could easily wear a post-colonial hat except that his writing is so direct.
35. See Florence Stratton, Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender (London, 1994), ch.2.
36. See for example Lovemore M. Zinyama, Daniel S. Tevera, and Sioux D. Cumming (eds.), Harare: The Growth and Problems of the City (Harare, 1993).
37. This is advanced in some detail in Jacob Songsore and Aloysius Den Kabe. Challenging Rural Poverty in Northern Ghana The Case of the Upper-West Region (Trondheim, 1995).
38. Arif Dirlick, 'The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism'. Critical inquiry, 20 (1994), 328 56 at 337.
39. Ronald Robinson, 'Oxford in Imperial Historiography', ch.2 in Madden and Fieldhouse. Oxford and the Idea of Empire, 47.
40. D. K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa 1945 1980: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development (London, 1986).
41. Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People (London, 1966).
42. Colin Leys, 'Confronting the African Tragedy'. New Left Review, 204 (1994), 33 47 at 46.
43. D. K. Fieldhouse, Unilever Overseas: The Anatomy of a Multinational 1895 1965 (London, 1978), and D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929 1987 (Oxford, 1994).
44. D. K. Fieldhouse, Unilever Overseas: The Anatomy of a Multinational 1895 1965 (London, 1978), and D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929 1987 (Oxford, 1994).
45. Fieldhouse, Unilever Overseas, 341.
46. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest (New York and London, 1995), and Timothy Burke. Lifebuoy Men. Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Durham and London, 1996).
47. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest (New York and London, 1995), and Timothy Burke. Lifebuoy Men. Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Durham and London, 1996).
48. Burke, Lifebuoy Men, 86.
49. S.P. Mohanty, 'Us and Them: On the Philosophical Basis of Political Criticism'. Yale Journal of Criticism, 2, (1989), 5.