Indhold: Promoting and explaining 'new imperial history' (The colonial situation: a theoretical approach / George Balandier. Rules of thumb: British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britian / Antoinette Burton. Provincializing Europe: postcoloniality and the critique of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty). Intellectual battles and exchanges (Postcolonial studies and the study of history / Frederick Cooper. Coda: the burden of the past / Nicholas Dirks: Shoot them to be sure / Richard Gott). Influences from antropology and psychoanalysis (Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: the British in India / Bernard Cohn. The psychology of colonialism: sex, age and ideology in British India / Ashis Nandy). Imperial cultures as global networks (Imperial networks: creating identities in niniteenth-century South Africa and Britain / Alan Lester. Mapping the British world / Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich. The roots of colonial intellectual life / Philip S. Zachernuk). Feminism, gender studies, histories of the body (Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule / Ann Laura Stoler. Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversion abroad the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson). Ecological history (The colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism / Richard E. Grove. Retrospectives on socio-enviromental history and socio-enviromental justice / Nancy Jacobs). Racial imaginings (Knowledge, empire, globalization / Tony Ballantyne. Slower than a massacre: the multiple source of radical thought in colonial Africa / Jonathan Glassman. The imperial working class makes itself 'white': white labourism in Britian, Australia, and South Africa before the first world war / Jonathan Hyslop). The impact of colonialism's cultures on metropoles (The persistence of empire in Metropolitan culture / John M. MacKenzie. 'There'll always be an England': representations of colonial wars and immigration, 1948-1968 / Wendy Webster. The language of imperialism and the meanings of empire / Andrew S. Thompson). Colonialism's afterlives (Has it come to this? / Paul Gilroy. Claudia Jones and the 'West Indian Gazette': reflections on the emergence of postcolonial Britain / Bill Schwarz). Africa and the Caribbean (Haiti, history, and the Gods / Joan Dayan. Modern blackness: what we are and where we hope to be / Deborah A. Thomas. Re-introducing the 'people without history': African historiographies / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo). Other empires, other histories ('They live in a state of nomadism and savagery: the late Ottoman empire and the postcolonial debate / Selim Deringil. La République Métissée: citizenship, colonialism, and the borders of french history / Laurent Dubois). New histories, new empires - and the 'colonial present' (Imperialism, liberalism and the quest for perpetual peace / Anthony Pagden. Empire after globalisation / Partha Chatterjee).