Tillman W Nechtman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tillman W Nechtman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tillman W |
| FAMILY NAME | Nechtman |
| SIGNATURE | NECHTMAN T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
J ames M. V aughn . The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
How, when, and why did the British Empire come to be? When, where, and how did what historians have called the first British Empire end? Why and how did the so-called second British Empire that replaced it take the shape that it did? These questions stalk British and British imperial historiographies. James M. Vaughn’s The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Impe…
When margins are centres
Pitcairn Island, settled in 1790 by nine mutineers of the British naval vessel Bounty and 19 settlers from Tupua‘i, Huahine, Ra‘iātea and Tahiti, has long maintained an ambiguous status in Pacific scholarship. On the one hand, its attachment to a storied moment in British history and its supposedly remote geographic location have granted it outsized attention. On the other, it has sometimes suffered a concomitant neglect, treated as peripheral to…
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has until now been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny…
Pretender of Pitcairn Island
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s
It is not uncommon for potential students in my courses on the history of British India or of India more broadly to express their concerns. “I’m new to this material,” they say. “I’ve never studied
Anne Spry Rush, Bonds of Empire
Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization Anne Spry Rush New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 viii +274. ISBN 978-1-19-958855-8 (hb). Those familiar with Andr
Educating Seeta
Reviewed by: Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Tillman W. Nechtman Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule By Shuchi Kapila. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 2010. Those who study colonial Indian history are accustomed to reading, thinking, and writing about the colonized subject’s ability (or lack thereof) to speak. The search for the subaltern voice is…
For it was founded upon a Rock’
In 1853–54, cholera in Britain forced the leadership at the tiny British fortress colony of Gibraltar to make a choice. Should the colony quarantine ships from Britain or leave the maritime frontier open to ships from the metropolitan centre of empire? The first choice secured imperial communication between London and the Rock, but it also jeopardised Gibraltar's land access to Southern Spain, as the failure to quarantine British ships would sure…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction Nabobs are hardly a new historical subject. James Holzman's The Nabobs in England (1926) is but one of many studies that focus our attention on the scandals that surrounded not only East India Company employees in late‐eighteenth‐century Britain, but also the broader political debates over British imperial ventures in South Asia in the same period. ‘Nabobs Revisited’, then, returns our attention to an old subject, but, at it…
Nabobs Revisited
Studies of the late eighteenth‐century British empire in India have long used the figure of the nabob to personify political debates collectively known as “the India question.” These nabobs, employees of the East India Company, were (and continue to be) represented as rapacious villains. This article will revisit the history of nabobs to offer a cultural history of British imperialism in late eighteenth‐century India. It will argue that nabobs we…
Wendy Parkins, editor. Dress, Gender, Citizenship
(2003). Wendy Parkins, editor. Dress, Gender, Citizenship: Fashioning the Body Politic. New York: Berg, 2002. Women's Studies: Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 681-683
For it was founded upon a Rock’
In 1853–54, cholera in Britain forced the leadership at the tiny British fortress colony of Gibraltar to make a choice. Should the colony quarantine ships from Britain or leave the maritime frontier open to ships from the metropolitan centre of empire? The first choice secured imperial communication between London and the Rock, but it also jeopardised Gibraltar's land access to Southern Spain, as the failure to quarantine British ships would sure…
Wendy Parkins, editor. Dress, Gender, Citizenship
(2003). Wendy Parkins, editor. Dress, Gender, Citizenship: Fashioning the Body Politic. New York: Berg, 2002. Women's Studies: Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 681-683
Nabobs Revisited
Studies of the late eighteenth‐century British empire in India have long used the figure of the nabob to personify political debates collectively known as “the India question.” These nabobs, employees of the East India Company, were (and continue to be) represented as rapacious villains. This article will revisit the history of nabobs to offer a cultural history of British imperialism in late eighteenth‐century India. It will argue that nabobs we…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction Nabobs are hardly a new historical subject. James Holzman's The Nabobs in England (1926) is but one of many studies that focus our attention on the scandals that surrounded not only East India Company employees in late‐eighteenth‐century Britain, but also the broader political debates over British imperial ventures in South Asia in the same period. ‘Nabobs Revisited’, then, returns our attention to an old subject, but, at it…
Educating Seeta
Reviewed by: Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Tillman W. Nechtman Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule By Shuchi Kapila. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 2010. Those who study colonial Indian history are accustomed to reading, thinking, and writing about the colonized subject’s ability (or lack thereof) to speak. The search for the subaltern voice is…
For it was founded upon a Rock’
In 1853–54, cholera in Britain forced the leadership at the tiny British fortress colony of Gibraltar to make a choice. Should the colony quarantine ships from Britain or leave the maritime frontier open to ships from the metropolitan centre of empire? The first choice secured imperial communication between London and the Rock, but it also jeopardised Gibraltar's land access to Southern Spain, as the failure to quarantine British ships would sure…
Anne Spry Rush, Bonds of Empire
Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization Anne Spry Rush New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 viii +274. ISBN 978-1-19-958855-8 (hb). Those familiar with Andr
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has until now been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny…
Pretender of Pitcairn Island
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s
It is not uncommon for potential students in my courses on the history of British India or of India more broadly to express their concerns. “I’m new to this material,” they say. “I’ve never studied
J ames M. V aughn . The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
How, when, and why did the British Empire come to be? When, where, and how did what historians have called the first British Empire end? Why and how did the so-called second British Empire that replaced it take the shape that it did? These questions stalk British and British imperial historiographies. James M. Vaughn’s The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Impe…
When margins are centres
Pitcairn Island, settled in 1790 by nine mutineers of the British naval vessel Bounty and 19 settlers from Tupua‘i, Huahine, Ra‘iātea and Tahiti, has long maintained an ambiguous status in Pacific scholarship. On the one hand, its attachment to a storied moment in British history and its supposedly remote geographic location have granted it outsized attention. On the other, it has sometimes suffered a concomitant neglect, treated as peripheral to…
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