Andrew J Rotter

Datos Biográficos

ID1024456
NOMBREAndrew J Rotter
NOMBRESAndrew J
APELLIDORotter
FIRMAROTTER A J
AFILIACIONESColgate University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS43
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1984
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H5

  • The End of Ambition

    Open AccessAndrew J RotterARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era Get access The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era. By Mark Atwood Lawrence. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xiv, 386 pp. $35.00.) Andrew J Rotter Andrew J Rotter Emerita, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …

  • Mark M. Smith. A Sensory History Manifesto

    Open AccessAndrew J RotterARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Primer, prospectus, and jeremiad, this small, ­­elegantly written book, A Sensory History Manifesto, is addressed to those interested in the state of sensory history, and especially to those who presume to write it. Mark Smith’s claim that he is “in very small part, responsible for” (3) the growth of the field is almost ridiculously modest: author, coauthor, or editor of many books and articles on the history of the senses; editor of two book ser…

  • Empire, Bureaucracy, and the Opium Trade in Southeast Asia

    Open AccessAndrew J RotterARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    At the heart of Diana S. Kim’s Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia lies a mystery: At a time when the Southeast Asian colonies of Great Britain and France generated more than half their tax income from sales of opium, why did both governments move first toward control, then prohibition, of the drug? From an economic standpoint, the decisions make no sense. Given the undeniable racism of white colonial officials, t…

  • On Thinking and Working Through a Pandemic

    Open AccessAndrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2021

  • Sanitizing

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter looks at the sense of smell, which it argues was a very important sense in the encounters that the Britons and Americans had with the people of India and the Philippines. They talked of the smell of the people, the food, the drink, and the environment. As is true of all senses, there is a biological and a cultural basis for perceptions of odor. Most smells also have complicated meanings, which have shifted over time and depend on pla…

  • The Senses and Civilization

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter introduces the idea of how the senses were important to Britons arriving in India and Americans arriving in the Philippines. It provides examples of reactions in terms of sensual responses to illustrate this. British and American senses told them many things about their hosts. Indians and Filipinos were, they believed, different from themselves, or, in other words, fundamentally Other. The chapter asks what this Other was to the new …

  • Nourishing

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter argues that taste is in many respects the most malleable of all the senses. Food plays an important part in shaping new encounters of empire. Along with smell, taste is an intimate sense, one drawn deep into the body by its presence in the mouth and through the nose. It profoundly affected the perceptions of the Others encountered by Britons and Americans. Metaphors of empire were haptic, as the previous chapter argues, but many were…

  • Educating

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    The chapter provides a sensory history of empire in the two countries, India and the Philippines, at the turn of the twentieth century. By that point, the process of visualizing Indian and Filipino subjects was well underway by their colonizers. The chapter looks at sight and sound and how they can be used to narrate the story at this point. The dynamics of Anglo-American soundscapes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transferre…

  • Maps

    Andrew J RotterOTHEREmpires of the Senses2019

    Subject History of the Americas Modern History (1700 to 1945) Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

  • Dedication

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

  • Governing

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter explores the reactions of the senses once war has abated. It begins with an examination of sight. Once the period of war had ended in India and similarly in the Philippines, it asks, who were the people of India and the Philippines? How many of them were there? Where did they live? What did they look like? These were the questions the conquering Britons and Americans would have asked. The chapter comments on the “magic” witnessed in …

  • Touching, Feeling, and Healing

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter considers touch in empire: it asks us to imagine how the body would feel being moved to a completely new environment. Hapticity, the chapter argues, is both the pauper and king of the senses. It is generally relegated to the realm of the lower senses, beneath even smell and taste. Conversely, touch can also be seen as the most powerful of the senses. It was of great importance in medieval Europe, for example. The metaphors used to de…

  • Fighting

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter focuses on the sensual response to violence in the first few years of empire in India and the Philippines. It outlines the history of how the British came to India in the mid-nineteenth century, and the Americans to the Philippines at the end of the century. It also shows how important a part violence and war played in the creation of these two empires. The chapter relates violence and rebellion to the senses of taste and sight. It e…

  • Conclusion

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEREmpires of the Senses2019

    This chapter asks: how does a nation leave its imperial possessions when the period of empire ends? There are complicated logistics involved in this. The main focus of the conclusion is what happens when the conquerors leave the conquered—in other words, when empire is over. It gives an historical account of how independence occurred in each of the two countries, and relates the history of the end to the senses. The end of empire in India and the…

  • Copyright Page

    Andrew J RotterOTHEREmpires of the Senses2019

  • Empires of the Senses

    Andrew J RotterBOOKEmpires of the Senses2019Citada por: 12

    This book offers a sensory history of the British in India from the formal imposition of their rule to its end and the Americans in the Philippines from annexation to independence. A social and cultural history of empire, it focuses on quotidian life. It analyzes how the senses created mutual impressions of the agents of imperialism and their subjects and highlights connections between apparently disparate items, including the lived experience of…

  • Gregory A. Daddis. Withdrawal

    Open AccessAndrew J Rotter, Andrew RotterARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Lieutenant Colonel Gregory A. Daddis served as the Multinational Corps’s command historian in Iraq in 2009, “with follow-on orders to teach in the Department of History at West Point” following his tour (xi). Among the books on the shelves of his fellow officers, he found just one on the Vietnam War: Lewis Sorley’s A Better War (1999), in which Sorley, like Daddis a West Point graduate, argued that the United States and its South Vietnamese ally …

  • The Blood of Government

    Andrew J RotterDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017Citada por: 7

  • The Mental Geography of the Cold War

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2016

    More than thirty-five years ago, Alan K. Henrikson wrote: “Statesmen respond to the world as they perceive and imagine it—which may not be the way the world really is.” He said they deployed “mental maps,” cognitive constructions of a geography that represented international conditions in ways that shaped their responses to them. 1 Historians of U.S. foreign relations have embraced (though perhaps implicitly) that part of Henrikson’s insight conc…

  • South Asia

    Andrew J RotterCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the Cold War2013

    This chapter examines the history of the Cold War in South Asia. It describes the position of South Asia in the Cold War, and investigates the reasons why Pakistan decided to side with the United States while India sought to avoid great power alliances and keep the Cold War at arm's length. The chapter highlights the negative reaction of India on the decision of the U.S. government to provide military aid to Pakistan, its main rival, and also con…

  • Civil Rights, Satyagraha, and the Bonds of Race

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2013

    Journal Article Civil Rights, Satyagraha, and the Bonds of Race Get access Nico Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India. Cambridge, MA, 2012. 254 pp. Notes and index. $39.95. Andrew J. Rotter Andrew J. Rotter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 5, November 2013, Pages 1154–1157, https://doi.org/10.10…

  • Nuclear Weapons and the Conundrum of Race in Asia

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2013

    Journal Article Nuclear Weapons and the Conundrum of Race in Asia Get access Matthew Jones, After Hiroshima: The United States, Race and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945-1965.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 514 pp. $121.00. Andrew J. Rotter Andrew J. Rotter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 403–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht005 Publishe…

  • Empires of the Senses

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2011

  • Once More, With Feeling

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEDiplomatic History2011

  • Nuclear Apartheid

    Andrew J RotterARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Shane J. Maddock's excellent new book has a straightforward thesis: “Since 1945,” he writes, “the United States has worked diligently to preserve its nuclear supremacy” (p. ix). That conclusion is unlikely to shock most readers. What is new about Maddock's account is its description of precisely how U.S. decision makers attempted to achieve that goal. Starting with the Truman administration's effort to remake the international system in the wake …