The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

After an introduction on the role of colonial medicine in India, each of the following essays deals with a particular aspect of the subject. One takes up the role of British doctors in their assigned duty to protect the health of British soldiers on one hand and Indian prisoners on the other. Three deal with particular diseases-smallpox, cholera, and plague-chosen for the political controversy ...

SIR — The relevance of race-andintelligence research is obvious. The most troubling feature of the world economy today is not the financial crisis, but the enormous difference in wealth, technological and cultural creativity, technical know-how and social organization between countries. The per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) is 30 times higher in the United States than in most African coun...

1. One of the striking features of intellectual discussions of Sanskrit authors in the centuries preceding South Asia's colonial period is the importance of semantic issues, and the sophistication with which these are approached. Major philosophical and religious topics are commonly discussed with reference to the semantic properties of relevant terms. The sophistication had developed in variou...