Colonial History - Science topic

In the mid-twentieth century, English literature faced several post-colonial challenges as a result of the decline of the British Empire. Authors from former colonies started to gain prominence and began challenging the traditional Western perspectives prevalent in English literature. They brought their own unique cultural backgrounds and experiences into their writing, offering alternative narratives that questioned colonial ideologies and power structures. Some key issues that emerged during this period include the reevaluation of colonial history, the representation of indigenous cultures, identities and the impact of imperialism, racism, and societal inequalities on literature. Authors such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, and Derek Walcott are examples of writers who addressed these post-colonial problems in their works, contributing to a more diverse and inclusive literary landscape.

Hello friends,

I want to get my Ph.D. in social movements and protest politics in Pakistan. Are there authoritative research books/articles written on the history of social movements and protest politics in Pakistan?

After a month of search, I couldn't find a single book, though there are several research articles written on the topic but these are just case studies of some events.

Is there any theoretical work done or going on in the field?

Thanks

we lost a large number of intellectuals, critics and writers during the years from 2003-2020.

I have been following your researches, because they cover partly my area of scientific research interest? The international trade was mainly reorganized during and after the second World War, although ancient times and afterwards long colonial history shaped trade paths that remained as a heritage of the trade roads.

Since 2015 I have been deeply analysing the Belt and Silk Road Initiative and the AIIB establishment (already in 2015 as a competitive solution to TPP Trade Deal of the US and 11 other Pacific Rim nations). Unfortunately TPP was abandoned by US and is being revamped, now. (The TPP part is not my strength)

More important from my point of research is to find out the key expansion goals of China or rather empirically verify my thesis about long term process of internationalization, which in my perception is the final stage of China's attendance in globalization - mean World supremacy.

I am not judging positive and negative aspects of that process, at least at this stage, but I am trying to verify macroeconomic drivers of such decisions, apart from political once. In my opinion the New Silk Road project, supported by various financial means (solely Chinese or more complex international), due to its scale is comparable with the Marshall Plan that created Western countries' economies after the Second World War and which set economic global connection, existing till present times.

The second part of my scientific research is focused more towards the AIIB itself and perspectives of its role, towards internationalisation of RMB, at least in investment settlements and then in trade once. The ultimate question is whether China wants to internationalize RMB and if yes whether its economy is ready for that. This question is important in relation to the establishment of clearing offices around the World and relatively tiny share of RMB in trade deals clearance. Most of them is cleared in USD.

Bearing the above in mind I would like to ask you the following questions:

1. What are the main goals of your project: "International trade"?

2. Are you planning to utilize gravity model?

3. What scope will it have? Asia-Pacific Rim?

4. Are you in the process of setting up a team? I would like to participate.

Waves of power in the form of colonization crashed into the South Pacific Islands in the 18th to 19th century, leaving behind monuments and pillars that have much impacted the society. Consider, inasmuch as it has impacted South Pacific islanders, did it have a negative or positive impact?

My main questions would include input regarding colonial relics which still remain today and the possible impact it could have on tourism.

Can those colonial relics be used as a touristic amenity?

I'm interested in accounts (long or short, doesn't matter) of Spanish settlers who returned from Spain's American colonies, and especially New Spain, to the Iberian peninsula in the period 1600-1700. I realize personal accounts form a limited category within the overall body of colonial documentation, so any leads are most appreciated. Gracias!

I suppose that some speculation about the rat introduction and their infestation in the ships in XV-XVI Century  are published?

Crosby books dont talk about the topic.

Hi, I was wondering if there were any books or articles that make reference to the inquisition in Mexico during its colonization? And that includes the Tribunal

Want more literature on German colonial activities in northern Ghana.

What about the colonial culture in former colonies? What if most citizens fail to recognize that as worth cherisihng?

Salcedo was born in Málaga, Spain in 1776 and executed in Bexar (San Antonio) Texas, April 3, 1813. He was governor of Spanish Texas from 1808 until his execution. Salcedo gained leadership experience helping his father Juan Manuel de Salcedo, the 11th and last Spanish governor of Louisiana, (1801–November 30, 1803, when it was handed back to the French). In 1807, the younger Salcedo was appointed governor of Texas, and he officially assumed that role on November 7, 1808. As governor, he and his uncle Nemesio Salcedo, the Commandant General of the Interior Provinces of Mexico, often disagreed, especially on immigration issues. Gov. Salcedo was overthrown by Juan Bautista de las Casas in January 1811 and imprisoned for several months in Monclova. After he persuaded his captor, Ignacio Elizondo, to switch allegiances, Salcedo assisted in capturing documents detailing the movements of Miguel Hidalgo's insurgent army. The entire rebel army and all its generals and officers was captured one week later, at the Well of Bajan, and Salcedo led the military tribunal which eventually sentenced the rebel leaders to death. After fulfilling his duties with the tribunal Salcedo returned to Texas, but he refused to resume his duties as Governor for several months as a result of a dispute with his uncle and whether he had been at fault for his own capture.

In 1812, Salcedo led the Spanish army in Texas against the filibusters (known as the Gutierrez-Magee expedition) calling themselves the Republican Army of the North. He was never able to defeat that army, and he surrendered on April 2, 1813. Despite assurances that he would be spared, extremists of the filibuster forces executed him the following day.

I am also most interested in finding ANY contemporary image produced of him. Although I have searched high-and-low for several years, I have never found one (nor a mention of one) in any published source. Manuel Maria de Salcedo was a favored-son from a very influential and politically well-connected noble family; surely some drawing or painting was done of him for a family keepsake as he was about to embark for the New World? Or perhaps one exists somewhere in a private collection or an unpublished source in New Orleans, San Antonio de Bexar, Cadiz, Madrid, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Chihuahua, Saltillo, Monterrey, or Monclova? Please, if you have the slightest clue, will you be so kind as to point it out to me?

I am working on a thesis and I want to understand why East India Company came to India and what was their agenda. I am particularly understanding EIC policies during 1780 - 1830 A.D.

I would like to know if former colonial activities have contributed to the conflict in the country.

Ignacio Elizondo was born 9 March 1766 in the Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of Leon, New Spain, in the village of Salinas (now Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, Mexico). He was the son of José Marcos de Elizondo and María Josefa de Villarreal. He was of Spanish and Basque ancestry. He was a New Leonese militia officer, mostly known for his successful plot capturing the most important leaders of the early Mexican War of Independence, including Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama at Baján, Coahuila, in 1811.

During his childhood, Elizondo lived in the village of Pesquería Grande (present-day Garcia, Nuevo León). His father owned many ranch and agricultural properties then known as haciendas. In 1787, at the age of twenty-one he married María Gertrudis. She died on March 6, 1797, when she was giving birth to his son, José Rafael Eusebio.

Ignacio Elizondo started his military career in 1798, after being designated Lieutenant of Pesquería's provincial militia company. Two years later, he was honoured by being appointed Captain of Punta de Lampazos' provincial Dragoons, one of the largest military 'presidios' of the New Kingdom of León. However, one year later Elizondo occupied again his former position at the Pesquería's provincial militia. In 1806, governor Pedro de Herrera y Levya, recommended him for command of the Eighth Dragoons company, who would help Texas against recurrent Apache attacks, already present in northern towns of the New Kingdom of León. Through a letter to the viceroy Elizondo demanded that he be exempted from his military command position because of serious financial losses he was suffering in some of his ranches and stock properties, among some he had previously bought from the church. In the same letter, he expressed he was also suffering under reprisals from governor Pedro de Herrera, that would force his desertion. After falling out with Herrera, indebted with the purchase of several haciendas from the church, and marrying María Romana Carrasco the same year, he then decided to change his residency to the Hacienda of San Juan de Canoas, in the province of Coahuila, from where he also administered the Hacienda of Alamo, in the jurisdiction of Monclova.

Elizondo briefly left his military service prior to the Grito de Dolores and the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence. In the Eastern Internal Provinces, the independence movement was not well received at first. Coahuila, Nuevo Santander, and Texas declared themselves for the royalists, but several towns eventually joined the cause. The governor of Nuevo León, Manuel de Santa María, eventually joined the rebels. Within Texas, Lt. José Menchaca and various filibuster expeditions acted to support the rebellion. Elizondo also joined the rebellion and commanded a small force in the Casas Revolt, in January 1811. However, Elizondo, vacillated in his support, marched through Nuevo León, Nuevo Santander and Texas for the royalists, confronting the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition in San Antonio, at the Battle of Alazan Creek, in 1813. Governor Santa María was removed from his post for the royalist Simón de Herrera. Some historians debate whether General Ramon Díaz de Bustamante or Bishop Primo Feliciano Marín de Porras finally won Elizondo over to the royalists, while others believe, he was converted by Manuel María de Salcedo of Texas and Simón de Herrera of Nuevo León, while the royalist governors were his prisoners, during his participation in the Casas Revolt. He was instrumental in the capture of Father Hidalgo, General Allende, and other rebel leaders at the Wells of Bajan (Norias de Bajan) in February 1811, which effectively ended the first phase of the rebellion. On August 18, 1813, at the Battle of Medina, leading a cavalry division of the Royal Spanish Army under command of Commandant-General of the Eastern Internal Provinces, Joaquin de Arredondo, he played a key role in defeating the Republican Army of the North and crushing the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition, as well as the insurrection in Texas

Elizondo's victory was praised by royalists, and even King Fernando VII, rewarded him with a promotion to Lt. Col. in the royalist army. However, his well-being didn't last too long, while returning from mopping-up operations in eastern-Texas (and having executed and imprisoning hundreds), he gained many enemies, hence hated by many insurgents, Ignacio Elizondo was critically wounded by one of his own aides, Lieutenant Miguel Serrano (who, it is said, had gone crazy from witnessing the scenes of merciless executions relentlessly carried-out by his commander over the preceding days), while sleeping in his tent at the edge of the Brazos River. Most historians aver that he was buried a few days later on the banks of the San Marcos River, in Texas, New Spain, where he expired, as he was being carried back to the capital on a litter. If Col. Elizondo was, indeed, first interred on the banks of the San Marcos River, where he expired on his return to San Antonio, then his remains must have been exhumed later and re-buried in San Antonio, where on 9 October 1815, his burial is recorded in the campo santo record book at San Fernando cathedral as No. 715: "Ignacio Elizondo, Lt. Col. of the cavalry. Spanish, married to Romana Carrasco. He died of wounds received in a fist fight."

Can we investigate Edward Said's Orientalism and any colonial influences, as well as  studying Homi Bhabha's theory of location of culture in the Sun Also Rises? 

The influence of colonizers on educational systems of the Indian subcontinent which has a mixed reaction among educationists – some of whom consider colonization as an actor of educational development and most of whom found the devastating impact of colonization on education. This deserves rethinking the role of colonization on educational systems because without reflecting on it, current  educational development would be impractical even it would be unknown to the citizens that how the present came into being and what trends will dominate in the near future.

I'm studying the foundation of Tagalog pueblos in the 16th-17th century. They were held by the Franciscans. Can someone tell me how documents on this topic are classified in the Archivo de Indias?

Here in the Philippine National Archives, documents are classified under "Ereccion de Pueblos". I can't seem to find such a classification in the Indias.

Thanks!

I am working on the Spanish forest colonial economy between 1900 and 1968 and I would like to know about other such cases.

Sincerely

Would appreciate any references. My current research is entering into this domain. Colonial Rule in India had its impact on every facet of life. Perhaps, genuine people's movements for protecting their livelihood through forest production and exploitation of the environment through traditional methods got branded as political revolt and suppressed by the colonial rulers. If there is anyone who has researched into people's movements from an environmental angle in India between 1857-1947, please provide some inputs.

I am writing a historical survey about german colonial empire through colonial imagery.