This chapter begins with a brief introduction to the elaboration of technical development policies in Rhodesia. It then turns to the rise and demise of the most elaborate version of the trend in developmental science and to the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA) of 1951. The implementation of the NLHA had to be slowed down so as to 'deal with human factors'. The Act marked the height of Rhodesian technical development and would significantly transform African as well as white politics. Sociology and the 'human factor' displaced economics and agricultural science. The institution charged with administering and developing Rhodesia's African reserves was the Native Affairs Department (NAD). Changes in the Rhodesian economy after World War II created the context for the rise of technical development and the dominance of technical officials within Native Affairs.

In the imperial history of inter-war France, memories of the First World War should figure large. The experience of the Great War shaped interwar French attitudes to empire more than any other single event. After heightened French settlement following the First World War, colon representation was again increased to nine Deputies in 1927. In spite of the advances in military technology in the inter-war period, on the eve of the Second World War, French defence planners viewed the empire in terms reminiscent of the earlier conflict. Although both French civil and military planning for imperial defence became increasingly sophisticated from 1936 onwards, it was none the less assumed that fighting men would constitute the empire's major contribution to European war. As the Haut Comite Mediterraneen was taking on a new role as a quasi-intelligence agency, colonial reform acquired unprecedented importance within inter-war French politics.

Drawing on the successive decisions in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, this chapter examines the ways in which historians have been used as expert witnesses in native title claims in Australia. Since the 1992 Mabo decision and the passing of the Commonwealth Native Title Act in 1993 historians have become increasingly involved in the native title process. In Australia, the oral evidence of the native title applicants, including Aboriginal-way-of-life evidence, is being used in the court process to determine native title, as is the evidence of expert witnesses, including historians. Historical research in the native title context raises complicated questions about the nature of historical evidence. The paucity of existing research on contact history in Australia leaves serious gaps in the story of regional settlement and its impacts. The chapter focuses on the litigation process, particularly in relation to native title claims, and question the role of historians in this process.

This chapter addresses the African context that defined the issues around which activism developed. It examines women who were more directly involved in left-wing or liberal pressure group activities in Britain, highlighting individuals such as Nancy Cunard, Winifred Holtby and Sylvia Pankhurst. The chapter presents the evaluation of relationships between white women and black men in progressing debate over the 'colour problem' in Britain and the Empire. While the majority of white women activists did not overtly breach sex/race taboos, the minority who did added a new dimension to race and imperial politics in inter-war Britain. The inter-war years saw a new genre of travel writing by independent, 'emancipated' women. While the African hinterland provided the context for female activism, however, it was London, the junction-box of empire that became the centre of political activity, both pro- and anti-imperialist.

In India, a modest domestic establishment required the services of at least half-a-dozen servants to achieve a level of comfort approximating that of the middle-class home in Britain. The average wife viewed servants more as loyal retainers than as potential despoilers of British womanhood. Relationships with Indian servants, created and maintained primarily by women, were a complex mixture of intimacy and trust counterbalanced by feelings of fear and suspicion. Anglo-Indian women's occupations in the empire did not fit into any of the existing and acceptable categories of feminine activities. The peculiar construction of Anglo-Indian domesticity facilitated women's engagement with the empire and with imperial politics. Given the supposed peculiarities of imperial domesticity new arrivals to India, whatever their household management experiences in Britain, needed guidance on how to manage their homes in the empire. Indians were both the brains and the brawn of the British Raj and the Anglo-Indian home.

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinjhi had played the prince in order to gain the acceptance of England's cricketing institutions and receive the highest acclaim they could offer. It is uncertain how necessary it was for Ranjitsinjhi to be perceived as a prince in order for him to play first-class cricket in England. For Ranjitsinjhi's cricket was of his own country; when he batted a strange light was seen for the first time on English fields, a light out of the East'. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book shows how rank mattered in practical terms that affected people's careers, financial well-being, and even health. It examines the most important government institution to interact with Indians in Britain: the India Office. The book looks at the most popular forum for interaction among Indians in Britain and Britons interested in India: the National Indian Association.

Pilate's Wife's Dream', the first poem in the Charlotte Brontes' first published work, Poems by Currer Ellis and Acton Bell, meditates on the relationship between past and future, life and afterlife. Charlotte's 'attempts' at achieving an afterlife for her poetry in her early novels explore this relationship via a set of intertextual exchanges that perform the failure of the Romantic lyric within the Victorian novel. The Professor and Jane Eyre house the ghost of an original verse composition, the inclusion of which allows both novels to participate together in a conversation about the novel's capacity to embody and sustain a lyric afterlife. The opening paragraphs of Shirley closely resemble her Wordsworthian preface to The Professor. From the outset, Bronte's poetry is given such a shallow burial that its forms continue to shape Shirley's generic and narrative landscape.

This introductory chapter outlines the challenges that centre-left parties face in the European Union, explaining that the EU limits their room for manoeuvre. It then explains how the analysis fits into and builds on existing research on intra-party democracy, centre-left parties in Europe, the Europeanisation of political parties, and multi-level party politics. Next, this chapter briefly introduces the principal-agent framework that will be applied to Labour, PS and SPD throughout the book. Finally, the introductory chapter outlines the main research questions that this study addresses, the methodology, including the sources used and original data collection, and introduces the format and structure of the book.

Over the course of his career, Ginsberg became known as much for his political activism as for his poetry. In fact, Ginsberg didn’t necessarily see a strong distinction between his poetry and his political activism, and this chapter traces how his political consciousness emerged in the early 1960s at the same time he was developing new kinds of poetics to articulate this political consciousness. During the 1960s, Ginsberg became a central figure in the growing and increasingly visible counterculture. The war in Vietnam was a major catalyst for his embrace of countercultural political activism, and as the 1960s unfolded, he came to see language, the corruption of language, and its bad faith use by politicians and others in power as symptom of a callous, violent American culture that seemed to revel in oppression, self-repression, and in escalating the war. He turned to poetry as a counter to this “black magic language,” notably in poems such as “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” and this chapter shows how Ginsberg saw his socially and politically engaged poems of the era as doing the crucially important work of raising or changing consciousness about the war and a host of other social and political issues.