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in the history of political thought between the post-First World War emergence of a form of ‘sovereignist’ Québécois nationalism and the political underpinnings of the Quiet Revolution movement of the 1960s. In the case of Cyprus, Andrekos Varnava highlights that enosis – the union of Cyprus to Greece – could no longer be supported by British imperialists by the end of the Great War, as they wished to maintain British control over the island, reaffirming the ‘great potential value’ narrative which they had slowly but surely moved away from prior to and in the
. Chapters Three , Four and Five examine the place of political thought, including humanitarian ideals, in tying together the cultural British world. Yet, as Philip Harling, Michelle Tusan and Martin Wiener all show in various ways, the role of political thought was not straight-forward. Harling and Tusan show, for example, that any attempt to import British humanitarian ideals, whether free trade and
, ‘“Decidedly the Most Interesting Savages on the Globe”: An Approach to the Intellectual History of Maori Property Rights, 1837–1853’, History of Political Thought (2006), 27 (1), pp. 122–67. 41 Karen Laughton, ‘Children and Empire: The Institutionalisation of Children and British Colonisation in New South Wales, 1750–1828’ (PhD thesis
effect, in other words, the intellectual labour of decolonisation. In outline, with necessary brevity, I’ve described the main contours of Padmore’s political thought from the days of The Negro Worker to the time of the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in October 1945. The Congress marks a turning point in Padmore’s political life. Present were Nkrumah, Kenyatta and Hastings
institution that ultimately symbolised the British Empire and presided over its dissolution’ 7 – and the place of republicanism in anti-colonial Indian nationalist political thought. It offers a perspective on these phenomena from the vantage point of a minority, diasporic South Asian population in the Indian Ocean city of Durban in South Africa’s most Anglophone province. 8 It juxtaposes the varying Indian
religious, scientific and political thought drew from Irish institutions, methods and personnel, and how an awareness of these processes can be used to inform our understanding of the extent to which ‘Britishness’ was influenced by ‘Irishness’, and how British imperial culture was suffused with distinctly ‘Irish’ elements. 14 Moreover, the examples in this chapter serve to demonstrate how nineteenth
’s National Monument in Independence Square in Jakarta. It may be viewed on many websites, including https://spiceislandsblog.com/2017/08/17/the-indonesian-proclamation-of-independence/ . 19 Ridho al-Hamdi, ‘The Jakarta Charter in post-Soeharto Indonesia: political thoughts of the elites in Muhammadiyah’, Jurnal Masyarakat Indonesia , 41 (2015), 43–56. 20 Sabang lies off the northern tip of Sumatra. Merauke was the Dutch administrative town situated at the border with East Papua. Indonesia’s resolve to retain the western province of New Guinea within the state is
depend on his firsthand experience as an itinerant imperial subject. Mobility within and beyond Britain’s empire shaped Macintosh’s life and defined his contribution (ambiguous and disputed as it was) to political thought in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Notes 1 G. Macintosh , Biographical Memoir of the Late Charles Macintosh, F.R.S. of Campsie and Dunchattan ( Glasgow : W. G. Blackie & Co ., 1847 ). 2 A. Burr , The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During his Residence of Four Years in Europe; With Selections from his Correspondence , ed
discourse on the subject from those who served in both theatres and sought to reconcile the competing agendas of both camps. Just as political discourse between proponents of competing philosophies generated a debate that helped transform political thought, so it was in military discourse, where competing perspectives helped fuel debate and innovative thinking about war. This manifested in several ways, but of interest here is the evolving way in which military personnel conceptualised the geography and environment in which they were to fight. In the thirty years between
Prayers volumes that consider the particular acts of special worship. These volumes contain comments and some details on special worship in the colonies, particularly for those instances when the inhabitants of the empire observed special acts of worship that had previously been ordered in Britain. 5 There is also a rich literature on special days of worship in colonial America; indeed, scholars regard the sermons delivered on days of fasting and thanksgiving as foundational for the development of American political thought. 6