Taking Fieldhouse further
Post‐colonizing imperial history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9287118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phillip Darby (Institute of International Relations Prague, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-250 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086539808583034 |
| OpenAlex | W2044869311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
Except on the most literal reading of the term post-colonial, it can hardly be said to apply to David Fieldhouse’s history. Certainly, few writers concerned with reconfiguring scholarship along post-colonial lines would admit much affinity between Fieldhouse’s work and theirs. In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said cites with approval a point made by ‘the distinguished conservative historian of empire’, 1 but references to Fieldhouse’s writings are uncommon in the new literature, even to voice disagreement. This situation is emblematic of the relationship between imperial history and post-colonial studies: they pass like ships in the night. In this paper, I will argue that the two need to be brought into engagement. To this end, I propose to examine aspects of Fieldhouse’s work on the history of empire and its aftermath to enquire whether the distance between traditional and emergent approaches is as great as appearances suggest. In doing so, I will concentrate on the significance of the dissolution of formal empire and look mainly at the case of Black Africa. My purpose will not be to pass judgement on substantive issues but to indicate the kind of areas where dialogue might prove fruitful
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · British Empire · CITES · Colonialism · Empire · Epistemology · Judgement · Literature · Political science · Reading (process · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Law, custom, and social order
Africa in History
After Colonialism
The Postcolonial Aura
Edward said and the historians
Lamentations on reality
Imperial history and post‐colonial theory
Can Humpty‐Dumpty be put together again? Imperial history in the 1980s
Post-Anti-Colonial Histories
History and Imperialism
Merchant Capital And Economic Decolonization
Unilever Overseas
Bridging International Relations and Postcolonialism
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
Black Africa, 1945-1980
Citizen and Subject
Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women
Race, empire and the historians
The Postcolonial Aura
Signs Taken for Wonders
After Orientalism
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2002 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |