Empire and education

Racism, Empire and Sociology

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

Education and Empire: Colonial Universities in Mexico, India and the United States

This article reviews the educational policies of Spain and England in their most emblematic colonies, Mexico and India, respectively, and compares them to those of the United States. Mexico and India share one important historical feature: both were colonies in which the native population greatly outnumbered European colonists and in which native cooperation was crucial to the colonial enterpri...

Verbatims and "Empire Matters".

Globish and the empire.

Malaria and Empire Decay

We have read with very great interest this little book published bj7 Mr. W. H. S. Jones, with added chapters by Major R. Ross, F.R.S., C.B., and Dr. C. G. Ellett * The chief author, Mr. Jones, is a classical scholar of distinction, and his views are, therefore, entitled to respect. We may agree with much of what Major Ross says in the introductory chapter that widespread disease is an important...