Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Spain) Fradera, Josep M. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Portillo, Jose Maria (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Segura-Garcia, Teresa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Tere Portillo, José María, Segura-Garcia

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This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial powers that ruled over them. Revealing an unexplored dimension of the complex political organisation of modern empires, the essays show how early imperial constitutions allowed for the emergence of these unexpected members of parliament, asks how their presence was possible, and unveils the reactions across metropolitan circles, local communities and the voters who brought them to office. Unearthing the entanglements between political life in metropolitan and non-European societies, it illuminates the ambiguous zones, the margins for negotiation, and the emerging forms of leadership in colonial societies. From a Hispanicised Inca nobleman, to recently emancipated slaves and African colonial subjects, in linking these individuals and their political careers together, Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments argues that the political organisation of modern empires incorporated the voices of the colonised and the non-European, in an ambiguous relationship that led to a widening of political participation and action throughout the imperial world. In doing so, this book offers a comprehensive but nuanced reassessment of the making and unmaking of modern empires.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-01
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmpire’s Other Histories
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350193192

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Josep M. Fradera is Professor of Modern History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and Senior Fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). He has published extensively on the nineteenth-century Spanish empire and most recently published The Imperial Nation: Citizens and subjects in the empires of Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States (2018).José María Portillo is Professor of Modern History at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He has taught at Georgetown University and University of Chicago, both USA, and El Colegio de México, Mexico. He has published extensively on political culture in the Hispanic world. Teresa Segura-Garcia is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. A historian of Modern South Asia, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation on the global links of the Indian princely state of Baroda. She has previously been a postdoctoral fellow the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and a visiting fellow at Brown University.

List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia1. The value of Political Representation in Modern Empires, Josep M. Fradera2. Jean-Baptiste Belley: France’s First Black Legislator, David Geggus 3. Dionisio Inca Yupanqui: A ‘lord’ in Spain’s Cortes de Cádiz, José María Portillo 4. Pedro José de Ibarra: A Mulatto Senator in Colombia’s Antioquia, Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila 5. Cyrille Bissette: A Singular Voice in France, Abel Alexis Louis 6. Robert Smalls: In Majority and in Minority in Washington, Stephanie McCurry 7. Dadabhai Naoroji: Indian Member of Parliament in Westminster, 1892–95, Teresa Segura-Garcia 8. Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana: South Africa’s First Black Parliamentarian, Timothy Stapleton 9. Gratien Candace: In the name of the French Empire, Dominique Chathuant10. Blaise Diagne: French Parliamentarian from Senegal, Eric Garcia-MoralConclusion, Adrian Shubert Selected BibliographyIndex

In Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments, editors Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia bring together contributors to examine the careers of nine colonial subjects who became legislators in imperial parliamentary institutions from the time of the French Revolution to the Second World War. In exploring the norm-shattering voices of these figures as well as the challenges they faced, this book offers an urgent reflection on the promises and limitations of liberalism in our contemporary moment.