Studying the development, expansion, and eventual collapse of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through 1945, Beasley here discusses the dynamic relationship between a successful industrial economy and the building of an empire.

This book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time concerning world history and world geography. This is the doctrine of European diffusionism, the belief that the rise of Europe to modernity and world dominance is due to some unique European quality of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world results from the diffusion of European civilization. J.M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of history and geography, but in the ideology of colonialism. It is the world model which Europeans constructed to explain, justify, and assist their colonial expansion.

In fall 1984, Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell urged Donald E. Chipman, his colleague at the University of North Texas, to take an active role in writing entries on colonial Texas for Th e New Handbook of Texas, then targeted for publication in the mid-1990s. It was a fortuitous suggestion. Initially, hipman approached the early history of the Lone Star State as a part of colonial Mexico, or New Spain. In riting entries for the New Handbook of Texas, he soon saw the need for a one-volume synthesis of the Spanish experience in Texas and its continuing legacies in the Lone Star State. The result was Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 (1992), an award-winning publication. Initially, we wish to express appreciation to Mike for opening the vistas of Texas’s colonial history, and for his assistance in improving the fi rst and second editions of this book. Since 1984 we have received aid and encouragement from many individuals and institutions. Remembering them and expressing our gratitude is one of the more pleasant aspects of writing a book. In spring 1990, Chipman received a Faculty Development Leave from the University of North Texas (unt) that permitted him to conduct research in Spanish archives. He also received grants from unt’s Faculty Research Committee to cover airfare expenses, map preparation, and photo duplication. Off campus, Chipman was assisted by a grant from the Ottis Lock Foundation that helped underwrite research expenses at the Barker Texas History Center (now the Center for American History) and the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection in Austin. In Spain, doña Rosario Parra Cala of the Archivo General de Indias and doña Esperanza Salán Paniagua of the Archivo Central y Biblioteca del Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda and their staff s provided courteous and vital assistance. Professor Joseph W. McKnight of the Southern Methodist University School of Law and Professor Emeritus Thе omas N. Campbell of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin read parts of the fi rst edition manuscript that related to Spanish law and Texas Indians. As manuscript referees for the University of Texas Press and the fi rst edition, Donald C. Cutter, Professor яmeritus of the University of New Mexico and St. Mary’s University, and David J. Weber, Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, provided excellent suggestions for improving the work. At Texas Southmost College/the University of Texas at Brownsville, the Department of History and College of Liberal Arts gave assistance and encouragement to Harriett Denise Joseph, as did the staff of the Hunter Room of the Arnulfo L. Oliviera Memorial Library. Both authors wish to thank Romeo Revuelta for his assistance in compiling bibliographic citations to articles on colonial Texas that appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly from 1990 to 2007. The impetus to revise and expand the fi rst edition of Spanish Texas must be credited to anthropologist Maria F. Wade at the University of Texas. Wade, who uses the book in her classes, twice implored Chipman to undertake the project, and it took two entreaties before he listened. Th en it was Th eresa J. May, assistant director and editor-in-chief of the University of Texas Press, who in spring 2007 gave the green light to a second edition and agreed to the addition of a co-author. We extend our greatest appreciation to her. Th eresa May’s approval, however, was only the start of resolving issues relating to publication. Th e fi rst edition was written on an ancient Kaypro personal computer, and lacking were both the computer and the 5¼–inch fl oppy disks. At considerable expense, the University of Texas Press underwrote the cost of scanning hard copy from the book itself, which made revision doable within a reasonable time frame. F. Todd Smith in the Department of History at unt read the second edition manuscript of Spanish Texas and made valuable suggestions for its improvement. Todd also pointed us to recent research and publication on Texas Indians. Robert S. Weddle of Bonham, Texas, the reigning “dean” of colonial Texas historians, reread early chapters of the fi rst edition and emphasized the importance of keeping the focus more on colonial Texas and less on developments in Mexico. Jim Bruseth of the Texas Historical Commission pointed us to the latest publications on the archeology of Texas missions and presidios. Harry F. Williams of the Department of Geography at unt helped by scanning maps and placing them in tiff format. Adrian R. Lewis, chair of the Department of History at unt, provided us with a small research grant to under write the cost of new illustrations. Finally, we especially want to acknowledge Victoria Davis, who ushered the work through production at the University of Texas Press. We off er thanks to all these good people.

Unlike other conventional histories, the unifying thread of A History of the Philippines is the struggle of the peoples themselves against various forms of oppression, from Spanish conquest and colonization to U.S. imperialism. Constantino provides a penetrating analysis of the productive relations and class structure in the Philippines, and how these have shaped—and been shaped by—the role of the Filipino people in the making of their own history. Additionally, he challenges the dominant views of Spanish and U.S. historians by exposing the myths and prejudices propagated in their work, and, in doing so, makes a major breakthrough toward intellectual decolonization. This book is an indispensible key to the history of conquest and resistance in the Philippines.

Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation. Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing light to the darker corners of the earth. Richard Gott's magisterial work recounts the empire's misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the red-patched imperial globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence. Recounting events from the perspective of the colonized, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream British histories.

The book is a good read, and will be the text of reference for many years to come. It is impossible to think of a better guide through the intricacies of Java sugar than Knight.' Peter Boomgaard, KITLV, Leiden; University of Amsterdam; European University Institute, Florence

In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois recited prayers and sang hymns in their Native language, a display that astonished the residents of New Orleans. The "Catholic" calumet and the Native-language prayers and hymns were the product of long encounters between the Illinois and Jesuit missionaries, men who were themselves transformed by these sometimes intense spiritual experiences. The conversions of people, communities, and cultural practices that led to this dramatic episode all occurred in a rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context. In The Catholic Calumet, historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines interactions between Jesuits and Algonquian-speaking peoples of the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country, including the Illinois and Ottawas, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Leavelle abandons singular definitions of conversion that depend on the idealized elevation of colonial subjects from "savages" to "Christians" for more dynamic concepts that explain the changes that all participants experienced. A series of thematic chapters on topics such as myth and historical memory, understandings of human nature, the creation of colonial landscapes, translation of religious texts into Native languages, and the influence of gender and generational differences demonstrates that these encounters resulted in the emergence of complicated and unstable cross-cultural religious practices that opened new spaces for cultural creativity and mutual adaptation.

In 1859 the Finnish-Swedish aristocrat and naval officer, Hampus Furuhjelm arrived in Alaska as one of the Russian colony's last ambassadors. He brought with him his young wife Anna Furuhjelm, who wrote many long letters in English to her mother. These letters, for the first time, give us a vivid picture of everyday life in the colonial capital, Sitka, in the period shortly before the USA. took over Alaska. The letters have been edited and commented by Anna Furuhjelm's great-granddaughter, Anni Christensen.

Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law, and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.

This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating the theory, history, and roots of imperialism, which extend the analysis developed in Magdoff's The Age of Imperialism.

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