British Colonial Government after the American Revolution, 1782-1820

Mark Peterson's The City-State of Boston is a formidable work of history—prodigiously researched, lucidly written, immense in scope, and yet scrupulously detailed. A meticulous history of New England over more than two centuries, the book argues that Boston and its hinterland emerged as a city-state, a “self-governing republic” that was committed first and foremost to its own regional autonomy (p. 6). Rather than as a British colonial outpost or the birthplace of the American Revolution—the site of a nationalist struggle for independence—the book recovers Boston's long-lost tradition as a “polity in its own right,” a fervently independent hub of Atlantic trade whose true identity placed it in tension with the overtures of both the British Empire and, later, the American nation-state (p. 631).

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HONG KONG SAR IMMIGRATION IN THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICS, POLICY AND INSTITUTION

Jurnal Ilmiah Kajian Keimigrasian ◽

10.52617/jikk.v1i2.22 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 69-81

Author(s):

Andry Indrady

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Transition Period ◽

Executive Power ◽

Power Domination ◽

The Public ◽

Hong Kong Sar ◽

British Colonial ◽

The Government ◽

Colonial Government ◽

And Control

The Bureaucratic System of the Immigration Department of Hong Kong SAR is one of the legacies from British Colonial Government seen from legal and also immigration bureaucratic perspectives reflect the executive power domination over immigration policymaking. This is understandable since Hong Kong SAR adopts “Administrative State Model” which means Immigration Officer as a bureaucrat holds significant roles at both stages of policymaking and also its implementation. This research looks at transition period of the Immigration Department and its policies since the period of handover of Hong Kong SAR from the British Government to the Government of China especially throughout the concern from the public including academics about the future of immigration policies made by the Department that arguably from colonial to current being used as political and control tools to safeguard the interest of the Ruler. This situation ultimately will question the existence of Hong Kong SAR as one of the International Hub in the Era of Millennium.

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W. R. Bascom and the Ife bronzes

Africa ◽

10.2307/1160114 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 425-434 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert L. Tignor

Keyword(s):

American Anthropologist ◽

Department Of State ◽

The Us ◽

Eventual Return ◽

British Colonial ◽

Opening Paragraph ◽

The Third World ◽

Colonial Government ◽

The City ◽

Small Museum

Opening ParagraphIn 1938 an African building a house in the city of Ife, the cultural capital of the Yorubas and the mythical cradle of Yoruba civilisation, came upon an extraordinary cache of ancient Nigerian bronzes. In all, at least fifteen bronzes were uncovered in 1938 in a compound only 100 yards from the palace of the Oni of Ife. These bronzes were to prove of great historical and artistic significance. Until that time only two other bronzes had been unearthed in the Yoruba area, and one of those had disappeared, leaving Nigeria only a single original and a replica. In the disposition of the priceless new finds there ensued a tale of intrigue, prevarication, outraged nationalism, and narrow-minded ethnocentricism that drew into its maelstrom the British colonial government of Nigeria, the US Consulate in Lagos, and the USA's Department of State. Although the Ife bronzes, which today reside in a handsome if small museum in the city of Ife, are not so well known as, for example, the Elgin marbles or certain other antiquities taken from the Third World, the controversy surrounding their removal from Nigeria and their eventual return was filled with the same emotion and employed the same arguments heard today over the rightful location of national cultural treasures. The Nigerian dispute is made all the more poignant in that one of the major protagonists was not a money-seeking antiquities dealer, but a young American anthropologist destined to be one of the most astute and sympathetic interpreters of Yoruba culture.

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The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1850557 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 80 (2) ◽

pp. 406

Author(s):

Carl Ubbelohde ◽

Neil R. Stout

Keyword(s):

American Revolution ◽

Royal Navy ◽

Colonial Policy ◽

British Colonial

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“In the mouth of an aborigine”: language ideologies and logics of racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India

International Journal of the Sociology of Language ◽

10.1515/ijsl-2018-0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 (252) ◽

pp. 97-123

Author(s):

Hannah Carlan

Keyword(s):

Language Ideologies ◽

Minority Languages ◽

Social Difference ◽

Linguistic Differences ◽

Systematic Effort ◽

British Colonial ◽

Colonial Government

AbstractTheLinguistic Survey of India(LSI), edited and compiled by George Abraham Grierson, was the first systematic effort by the British colonial government to document the spoken languages and dialects of India. While Grierson advocated an approach to philology that dismissed the affinity of language to race, theLSImobilizes a complex, intertextual set of racializing discourses that form the ideological ground upon which representations of language were constructed and naturalized. I analyze a sub-set of theLSI’s volumes in order to demonstrate how Grierson’s linguistic descriptions and categorizations racialize minority languages and their speakers as corrupt, impure, and uncivilized. I highlight how semiotic processes in the text construct speakers as possessing essential “ethnic” characteristics that are seen as indexical of naturalized linguistic differences. I argue that metapragmatic statements within descriptions of languages and dialects are made possible by ethnological discourses that ultimately reinforce an indexical relationship between language and race. This analysis of the survey sheds light on the centrality of language in colonial constructions of social difference in India, as well as the continued importance of language as a tool for legitimating claims for political recognition in postcolonial India.

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