Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture

Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is weste

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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

This informative series covers the broad span of modern imperial history while also exploring the recent developments in former colonial states where residues of empire can still be found. The books provide in-depth examinations of empires as competing and complementary power structures, encouraging the reader to reconsider their understanding of international and world history during recent centuries. Titles include: Tony Ballantyne ORIENTALISM AND RACE Aryanism in the British Empire Peter F. Bang and C. A. Bayly (editors) TRIBUTARY EMPIRES IN GLOBAL HISTORY Gregory A. Barton INFORMAL EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF ONE WORLD CULTURE Rachel Berger AYURVEDA MADE MODERN Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900–1955 Roy Bridges (editor) IMPERIALISM, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICA Studies Presented to John Hargreaves Rachel Bright CHINESE LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1902–10 Race, Violence and Global Spectacle Larry Butler and Sarah Stockwell THE WIND OF CHANGE Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization Kit Candlin THE LAST CARIBBEAN FRONTIER, 1795–1815 Nandini Chatterjee THE MAKING OF INDIAN SECULARISM Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960 Esme Cleall MISSIONARY DISCOURSES OF DIFFERENCE Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840–1900 T. J. Cribb (editor) IMAGINED COMMONWEALTHS Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English Jost Dülffer and Marc Frey (editors) ELITES AND DECOLONIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Bronwen Everill ABOLITION AND EMPIRE IN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA

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General Editors: Megan Vaughan, King’s College, Cambridge, and Richard Drayton, King’s College London

Brian Ireland THE US MILITARY IN HAWAI’I Colonialism, Memory and Resistance Robin Jeffrey POLITICS, WOMEN AND WELL-BEING How Kerala Became a ‘Model’ Gabriel B. Paquette ENLIGHTENMENT, GOVERNANCE, AND REFORM IN SPAIN AND ITS EMPIRE, 1759–1808 Sandhya L. Polu INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN INDIA, 1892–1940 Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk Sophus Reinert and Pernille Røge (editors) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMPIRE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Ricardo Roque HEADHUNTING AND COLONIALISM Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870–1930 Jonathan Saha LAW, DISORDER AND THE COLONIAL STATE Corruption in Burma c.1900 John Singleton and Paul L. Robertson ECONOMIC RE