Spatial Appropriations in Modern Empires, 1820-1960: Beyond Dispossession
About this ebook
In modern empires, spatial appropriations amounted neither to a material and violent dispossession orchestrated by European or Japanese powers, nor to an ongoing and unquestioned resistance by subaltern peoples. They were rather sites of complex interactions, in which the part of each actor owed as much to “foreign” domination as to other political, social, economic and environmental factors.
Cutting across common historiographical boundaries, the chapters of this book bring to light the declination and conjugation of various forms of spatial appropriation in the modern imperial age (1820-1960), taking readers on a journey from Russia to China, from the United States to South America, and from the Mediterranean world to Africa.
About the author
Iris Seri-Hersch is an Assistant Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History at Aix-Marseille University, France. Her work, published in both English and French, explores the history of Mahdist and colonial Sudan, Sudan Studies, and Palestine/Israel. She is the author of Enseigner l’histoire à l’heure de l’ébranlement colonial. Soudan, Égypte, empire britannique (2018).
