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Echoes of Empire Echoes of Empire Echoes of Empire Identity, Memory and Colonial Legacies Edited by Kalypso Nicolaïdis, BerNy sèBe aNd GaBrielle Maas Published in 2015 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright Editorial Selection and Introduction © 2015 Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe, Gabrielle Maas Copyright Individual Chapters © 2015 John Darwin, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Dimitar Bechev, Sarmila Bose, Jacques Frémeaux, Peo Hansen, Christopher Harding, Feng Jicheng, Emily Jones, Steffan Jonsson, Dane Kennedy, Elena Korosteleva, Zhu Liqun, Gabrielle Maas, John M. MacKenzie, Alexander Morrison, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Nora Fisher Onar, Ali Parchami, Bernard Porter, Karoline Postel-Vinay, Rahul Rao, Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira, Juan José Rossi, Jean-Frédéric Schaub, Berny Sèbe, Clara Weinhardt, Robert J. C. Young The right of Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe and Gabrielle Maas to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 9781784530501 (HB) ISBN: 9781784530518 (PB) A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Designed and Typeset by Riverside Publishing Solutions, Salisbury SP4 6NQ Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Contributors xi Echoes of Empire: A Multi-Disciplinary Appraisal 1 Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sèbe and Gabrielle Maas Part I: Colonialism and Modernity: Views from the Receiving End 17 Imperial Parasitism: British Explorers and African Empires 19 Dane Kennedy Colonial Modernities: A View from the Imperial Verandah, c. 1880–1960 33 Jan-Georg Deutsch Fading Echoes: Legacy of Empire and Democracy in India 45 Sarmila Bose The Imperial Question in the History of Ibero-America: The Importance of the Long View 61 Jean-Frédéric Schaub Epilogue The History, Identity, Crisis, and Endemic Submission of the American Continent 79 Juan José Rossi Part II: Return to Sender? Imperial Visions, Imperial Legacies 101 The Echoes of Rome in British and American Imperial Ideology 103 Ali Parchami vi Echoes of Empire Towards Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Empires and their Echoes? The Case for a European Framework 121 Berny Sèbe Between Memory, History, and Historiography: Contesting Ottoman Legacies in Turkey, 1923–2012 139 Nora Fisher Onar The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Too Soon to Talk of Echoes? 153 Alexander Morrison State of Insecurity: Self-Defence and Self-Cultivation in the Genesis of Japanese Imperialism 173 Christopher Harding Epilogue Analysing ‘Echoes of Empire’ in Contemporary Context: The Personal Odyssey of an Imperial Historian (1970s–present) 187 John M. MacKenzie Part III: From Imperial to Normative Power: the EU Project in a Postcolonial World 205 Building Eurafrica: Reviving Colonialism through European Integration, 1920–60 207 Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson Echoes of Colonialism in Trade Negotiations between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries 225 Emily Jones and Clara Weinhardt From the Soviet Bloc to the New Middle Age: East-Central Europe’s Three Imperial Moments 249 Dimitar Bechev The EU and its Eastern Neighbours: Why ‘Othering’ Matters 265 Elena Korosteleva Southern Barbarians? A Postcolonial Critique of EUniversalism 281 Kalypso Nicolaïdis Epilogue Chinese Empire Meets the West: A Centennial Conundrum for China 303 Zhu Liqun and Feng Jicheng Table of Contents vii Part IV: Globalism: From the Colonial to the Postcolonial Worlds 319 European Power and the Mapping of Global Order 321 Karoline Postel-Vinay Legal Child vs Step Child? The Impact of Colonial Legacies on Brazil’s and India’s Global Trajectories 335 Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira Echoes of Imperialism in LGBT Activism 353 Rahul Rao From the Anti-Colonial Movements to the New Social Movements 371 Robert J. C. Young Colonization and Globalization 381 Jacques Frémeaux and Gabrielle Maas Epilogue After-Images of Empire 391 Bernard Porter Afterword 405 John Darwin Acknowledgements This book draws on discussions initially at the inter-disciplinary workshop Echoes of Imperialism: Rethinking European Colonialisms organized and funded jointly by Oxford University’s Modern History Faculty, the Department of Politics and International Relations, the European Studies Centre, and the Maison française d’Oxford, with additional support from OxPo. The book also benefitted from subsequent annual workshops of the programme RENEW (Rethinking European in a Non-European World) supported by the European Studies Centre and Oxpo. The co-editors would also like to thank the Beit Fund and the European Research Group for co-funding the workshop, as well as the co-convenors Jan-Georg Deutsch, Judith M. Brown, John Darwin and Rahul Rao, and Alexis Tadié, then director of the Maison française d’Oxford, for his active support of the initiative. Finally, we would like to thank Victoria Petitjean and Dorian Singh for their thorough organizational and editing work. The editors would also like to thank the following institutions for their financial support to the publication of this book: RAMSES programme (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence), FP7 funding (European Union), the School of Languages and Cultures, Art History and Music at the University of Birmingham and the Institut universitaire de France. Note: Unless otherwise stated, titles in English are published in London. Contributors John Darwin is the Beit University lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Oxford. Jan-Georg Deutsch is a university lecturer in African history at the University of Oxford. Dimitar Bechev is a senior policy fellow and head of the office of the European Council on Foreign Relations in Sofia. Sarmila Bose is Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Jacques Frémeaux is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and member of the Institut universitaire de France. Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Reserach on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden. Christopher Harding is Lecturer in Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. Feng Jicheng is Associate Professor of International Studies at China Foreign Affairs University. Emily Jones is Deputy Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford. Steffan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the Institute for Reserach on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden. Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. Elena Korosteleva is Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of International Politics and Director of the Global Europe Centre in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent. xii Echoes of Empire Zhu Liqun is Professor of International Relations and Vice President at China Foreign Affairs University Gabrielle Maas completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford, and is a former fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. John M. MacKenzie is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander Morrison is Professor of History at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. Kalypso Nicolaidis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Nora Fisher Onar is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bahcesehir University and Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford. Ali Parchami is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at RMA Sandhurst. Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle. Karoline Postel-Vinay is Directrice de recherche at Sciences-Po in Paris. Rahul Rao is Lecturer in Politics at SOAS, University of London. Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira is a doctoral student in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Juan José Rossi is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina), and director of the ethnographical and historical museum Ivy marä ey (‘the land without evil’). Jean-Frédéric Schaub is Professor of Early Modern history at Ecole hautes études en sciences sociales (PARIS). Berny Sèbe is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Birmingham. Clara Weinhardt is a research associate at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and associated academic staff at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University. Echoes of Empire: A Multi-Disciplinary Appraisal Kalypso Nicolaidis, Berny Sèbe and Gabrielle Maas [F]or the pattern is the action And the
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