Richard Drayton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 295664 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Drayton |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Drayton |
| ASSINATURA | DRAYTON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9811-8765 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Globalizing Europe
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) examined, of course, how European imperialism turned Africa into a subordinate zone of the world economy. But beyond that, this essay seeks to show how Rodney explored, with Marxist and Caribbean tools, the complex problem of temporality in world history: how events in one conjuncture form enduring structures; how imperial power orders, and is reproduced by, ways of living in and thinking ab…
The Caribbean Origins of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) is a book about African political economy, written in Tanzania, which Walter Rodney aimed as an intervention in African intellectual life at a revolutionary conjuncture. But its roots lie in the Caribbean, in terms of how it addresses the political economy of
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie
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Material conditions and ideas in global history
Since the rise of a "scientific" historiography in the nineteenth century, the role of ideas in history versus that of material forces has been a key philosophical problem. Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2019), read as a work of global history, offers a provocative rehearsal of this question. On the one hand, the book is an attempt to provide a narrative historical frame for the hard data of the World Inequality Database. On the other, pa…
Histoire sociale de l'Europe et tournant global
Histoire sociale de l'Europe et tournant global Une rencontre tardivePourquoi l'histoire européenne a-t-elle pris si tard le tournant global ? Si le passé de l'Europe s'est bien sûr toujours construit par rapport à ses périphéries islamiques ou mongoles, et plus tard par rapport à ses colonies, ce n'est que récemment que l'on a compris que l'histoire européenne et extra-européenne s'entremêlent dans une relation dynamique d'influences réciproques…
Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
Response to Arjun Appadurai’s “Globalization and the Rush to History”
Article Commentary| August 18 2020 Response to Arjun Appadurai’s “Globalization and the Rush to History” Collections: Section: Culture, Values, and Identities , Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Richard Drayton Richard Drayton 1King’s College London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar [email protected] Global Perspectives (2020) 1 (1): 14275. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.1427…
Rhodes Must Not Fall
Coloniser and colonised were produced as subjectivities through power relations mediated through objects. The erection of public statues of 'great men' in prominent places in European and colonial cities was a political act with an ideological meaning. These survive within the curated space of the city long after the end of imperial domination. In the case of Barbados, for example, a statue to Lord Nelson was erected in the early nineteenth centu…
Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power
Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial domination that leads through a global French federal sovereignty, rather than the nation-state, is an important contribution. But was there really in practice “the possi…
The Commonwealth in the 21st Century
The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century finds itself in a difficult predicament. Neither in the 'Global North' nor the post-colonial 'South' do its stakeholders invest in the organisation as a key instrument for international governance. The space which it once occupied as a mediator between rich and poor nations has either closed or been taken over by other entities. But might the Commonwealth find a new role for itself by returning to its …
Mary Chamberlain, Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
Imperial History and the Human Future
Journal Article Imperial History and the Human Future Get access Richard Drayton Richard Drayton Kings College London Richard Drayton was born in Guyana, grew up in Barbados, has taught at Oxford, Virginia, Cambridge and since 2009 at King's College London. He has just completed the manuscript of 'The Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World', a history of the Caribbean as a theatre of global history, for Penguin. [email protected] Se…
Where Does the World Historian Write From? Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism
The contemporary historian, as she or he speaks to the public about the origins and meanings of the present, has important ethical responsibilities. ‘Imperial’ historians, in particular, shape how politicians and the public imagine the future of the world. This article examines how British imperial history, as it emerged as an academic subject since about 1900, often lent ideological support to imperialism, while more generally it suppressed or a…
Gilberto Freyre and the Twentieth-Century Rethinking of Race in Latin America
This article examines the intellectual origins and meaning of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande. It argues that Freyre's attack on a racial hierarchy of cultural value, and on ideas of racial purity, may be understood from four perspectives: first, as part of a long tradition of pan-American response to the Old World's contempt for the New; second, as a claim for his region, the Northeast of Brazil, the most Africanised part of his country, of a cent…
The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
This is the revised text of the 21st Elsa Goveia Lecture, given at Cave Hill, Barbados in March 2004. It examines, first, how Caribbean historiography, during and after the moment of constitutional decolonization, had had an important investment in the idea of the hero. This way of seeing and writing history through exceptional individuals was an unexamined legacy of the colonial experience, and has distorted our approach to the Caribbean past. I…
West Indian Slavery and British Abolitionism, 1783-1807
West Indian Slavery and British Abolitionism, 1783-1807." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(1), pp. 170–171
The globalisation of France
This study of port cities, focusing on those on the Atlantic facade of France, argues that their economic significance cannot be understood within the canons of an insular French, or even European history. They were often case studies of the more general phenomenon of the early globalisation of Europe. In particular, navigation, fishing, trade, and colonisation, depended not only on the seas and the port but also on the agrarian hinterlands. They…
Putting the British into the Empire
Review of Captives: The Story of Britain’s Pursuit of Empire and How Its Soldiers and Civilians Were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy, 1600–1850. By Linda Colley. New York: Pantheon, 2002. Pp. 438+17. $27.50. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Wilson. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 282+xiii. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Economic Relations Between Britain and Australia from the 1940s-196
In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. T
Nature's Government
Caribbeana
Science in the Service of Empire
"Science in the Service of Empire: SirJoseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses o f Science in the Age of Revolution, by John Gascoigne." Canadian Journal of History, 35(3), p. 557
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. William Kelleher Storey
Rhodes Must Not Fall
Coloniser and colonised were produced as subjectivities through power relations mediated through objects. The erection of public statues of 'great men' in prominent places in European and colonial cities was a political act with an ideological meaning. These survive within the curated space of the city long after the end of imperial domination. In the case of Barbados, for example, a statue to Lord Nelson was erected in the early nineteenth centu…
Where Does the World Historian Write From? Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism
The contemporary historian, as she or he speaks to the public about the origins and meanings of the present, has important ethical responsibilities. ‘Imperial’ historians, in particular, shape how politicians and the public imagine the future of the world. This article examines how British imperial history, as it emerged as an academic subject since about 1900, often lent ideological support to imperialism, while more generally it suppressed or a…
Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power
Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial domination that leads through a global French federal sovereignty, rather than the nation-state, is an important contribution. But was there really in practice “the possi…
Imperial History and the Human Future
Journal Article Imperial History and the Human Future Get access Richard Drayton Richard Drayton Kings College London Richard Drayton was born in Guyana, grew up in Barbados, has taught at Oxford, Virginia, Cambridge and since 2009 at King's College London. He has just completed the manuscript of 'The Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World', a history of the Caribbean as a theatre of global history, for Penguin. [email protected] Se…
The globalisation of France
This study of port cities, focusing on those on the Atlantic facade of France, argues that their economic significance cannot be understood within the canons of an insular French, or even European history. They were often case studies of the more general phenomenon of the early globalisation of Europe. In particular, navigation, fishing, trade, and colonisation, depended not only on the seas and the port but also on the agrarian hinterlands. They…
Science and the Euopean empires
Science and Empires: Historical Studies about Scientific Development and European Expansion edited by Patrick Petitjean, Catherine Jami and Anne Marie Moulin. Pp. xiii + 411. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. £61.00 and $99.00. ISBN 0–7923–1518–9. Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime by James E. McClellan III. Pp. xviii + 393. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. £43.00. ISBN 0–8018–4270–…
Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Commonwealth in the 21st Century
The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century finds itself in a difficult predicament. Neither in the 'Global North' nor the post-colonial 'South' do its stakeholders invest in the organisation as a key instrument for international governance. The space which it once occupied as a mediator between rich and poor nations has either closed or been taken over by other entities. But might the Commonwealth find a new role for itself by returning to its …
Gilberto Freyre and the Twentieth-Century Rethinking of Race in Latin America
This article examines the intellectual origins and meaning of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande. It argues that Freyre's attack on a racial hierarchy of cultural value, and on ideas of racial purity, may be understood from four perspectives: first, as part of a long tradition of pan-American response to the Old World's contempt for the New; second, as a claim for his region, the Northeast of Brazil, the most Africanised part of his country, of a cent…
The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
This is the revised text of the 21st Elsa Goveia Lecture, given at Cave Hill, Barbados in March 2004. It examines, first, how Caribbean historiography, during and after the moment of constitutional decolonization, had had an important investment in the idea of the hero. This way of seeing and writing history through exceptional individuals was an unexamined legacy of the colonial experience, and has distorted our approach to the Caribbean past. I…
Putting the British into the Empire
Review of Captives: The Story of Britain’s Pursuit of Empire and How Its Soldiers and Civilians Were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy, 1600–1850. By Linda Colley. New York: Pantheon, 2002. Pp. 438+17. $27.50. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Wilson. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 282+xiii. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Science and the Euopean empires
Science and Empires: Historical Studies about Scientific Development and European Expansion edited by Patrick Petitjean, Catherine Jami and Anne Marie Moulin. Pp. xiii + 411. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. £61.00 and $99.00. ISBN 0–7923–1518–9. Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime by James E. McClellan III. Pp. xviii + 393. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. £43.00. ISBN 0–8018–4270–…
Imperial London
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science
Science, Medicine, and the British Empire
Science and medicine played a part in British expansion from the age of Ralegh to that of Curzon and Nehru. But the critical history of this involvement is just about thirty years old. The terms of the alliance of science and the British Empire had historiographical consequences which endured well into the 20th century. The suggestion that modern science helped to construct the racial ‘Other’ was rapidly absorbed in the 1970s into the mainstream …
A l'école des Français
This article explores the place of the natural sciences in the making of the Second British Empire. It assesses the moral and strategie crisis which followed the loss of the War of the American Revolution, and suggests that, in the two decades after 1783, geography, zoology, and in particular botany, lent practical and ideological assistance to British power in the Pacific, the West Indies, and India. It argues that where Britain put science at t…
Science in the Service of Empire
"Science in the Service of Empire: SirJoseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses o f Science in the Age of Revolution, by John Gascoigne." Canadian Journal of History, 35(3), p. 557
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. William Kelleher Storey
Economic Relations Between Britain and Australia from the 1940s-196
In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. T
Nature's Government
Caribbeana
Putting the British into the Empire
Review of Captives: The Story of Britain’s Pursuit of Empire and How Its Soldiers and Civilians Were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy, 1600–1850. By Linda Colley. New York: Pantheon, 2002. Pp. 438+17. $27.50. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Wilson. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 282+xiii. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
The globalisation of France
This study of port cities, focusing on those on the Atlantic facade of France, argues that their economic significance cannot be understood within the canons of an insular French, or even European history. They were often case studies of the more general phenomenon of the early globalisation of Europe. In particular, navigation, fishing, trade, and colonisation, depended not only on the seas and the port but also on the agrarian hinterlands. They…
West Indian Slavery and British Abolitionism, 1783-1807
West Indian Slavery and British Abolitionism, 1783-1807." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(1), pp. 170–171
Where Does the World Historian Write From? Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism
The contemporary historian, as she or he speaks to the public about the origins and meanings of the present, has important ethical responsibilities. ‘Imperial’ historians, in particular, shape how politicians and the public imagine the future of the world. This article examines how British imperial history, as it emerged as an academic subject since about 1900, often lent ideological support to imperialism, while more generally it suppressed or a…
Gilberto Freyre and the Twentieth-Century Rethinking of Race in Latin America
This article examines the intellectual origins and meaning of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande. It argues that Freyre's attack on a racial hierarchy of cultural value, and on ideas of racial purity, may be understood from four perspectives: first, as part of a long tradition of pan-American response to the Old World's contempt for the New; second, as a claim for his region, the Northeast of Brazil, the most Africanised part of his country, of a cent…
The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
This is the revised text of the 21st Elsa Goveia Lecture, given at Cave Hill, Barbados in March 2004. It examines, first, how Caribbean historiography, during and after the moment of constitutional decolonization, had had an important investment in the idea of the hero. This way of seeing and writing history through exceptional individuals was an unexamined legacy of the colonial experience, and has distorted our approach to the Caribbean past. I…
Mary Chamberlain, Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
Imperial History and the Human Future
Journal Article Imperial History and the Human Future Get access Richard Drayton Richard Drayton Kings College London Richard Drayton was born in Guyana, grew up in Barbados, has taught at Oxford, Virginia, Cambridge and since 2009 at King's College London. He has just completed the manuscript of 'The Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World', a history of the Caribbean as a theatre of global history, for Penguin. [email protected] Se…
The Commonwealth in the 21st Century
The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century finds itself in a difficult predicament. Neither in the 'Global North' nor the post-colonial 'South' do its stakeholders invest in the organisation as a key instrument for international governance. The space which it once occupied as a mediator between rich and poor nations has either closed or been taken over by other entities. But might the Commonwealth find a new role for itself by returning to its …
Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power
Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial domination that leads through a global French federal sovereignty, rather than the nation-state, is an important contribution. But was there really in practice “the possi…
Rhodes Must Not Fall
Coloniser and colonised were produced as subjectivities through power relations mediated through objects. The erection of public statues of 'great men' in prominent places in European and colonial cities was a political act with an ideological meaning. These survive within the curated space of the city long after the end of imperial domination. In the case of Barbados, for example, a statue to Lord Nelson was erected in the early nineteenth centu…
Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century
Response to Arjun Appadurai’s “Globalization and the Rush to History”
Article Commentary| August 18 2020 Response to Arjun Appadurai’s “Globalization and the Rush to History” Collections: Section: Culture, Values, and Identities , Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Richard Drayton Richard Drayton 1King’s College London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar [email protected] Global Perspectives (2020) 1 (1): 14275. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.1427…
Material conditions and ideas in global history
Since the rise of a "scientific" historiography in the nineteenth century, the role of ideas in history versus that of material forces has been a key philosophical problem. Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2019), read as a work of global history, offers a provocative rehearsal of this question. On the one hand, the book is an attempt to provide a narrative historical frame for the hard data of the World Inequality Database. On the other, pa…
Histoire sociale de l'Europe et tournant global
Histoire sociale de l'Europe et tournant global Une rencontre tardivePourquoi l'histoire européenne a-t-elle pris si tard le tournant global ? Si le passé de l'Europe s'est bien sûr toujours construit par rapport à ses périphéries islamiques ou mongoles, et plus tard par rapport à ses colonies, ce n'est que récemment que l'on a compris que l'histoire européenne et extra-européenne s'entremêlent dans une relation dynamique d'influences réciproques…
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