Title Experiencing dominion : culture, identity and power in the British Mediterranean / Thomas W. Gallant

Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: European Aborigines and Mediterranean Irish; Chapter Three: Creating Western Civilization'' on a Greek Island; Chapter Four: Indirect Rule and Indigenous Politics; Chapter Five: Turning the Horns; Chapter Six: Dueling with Daggers; Chapter Seven: We're All Whores Here -- Chapter Eight: We Are the Christians -- Chapter Nine: The Imperial Encounter on the Ionian Islands; Notes Summary Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony, power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the imperial encounter, with topics including identity construction, the contestation over civil society, gender and the manipulation of public space, hegemony and accommodation, the role of law and of the institutions of criminal justice, and religion and imperial dominion. Thomas Gallant--widely recognized as one of the leading scholars in historical anthropology-- argues that a great deal can be learned about colonialism in general through an analysis of the Ionian Islands, precisely because that colonial encounter was so atypical. For example, Gallant demonstrates that because the Ionian Greeks were racially white, Christian, and descendents of Europe's classical forebears, the process of colonial identity formation was more ambiguous and complex than elsewhere in the Empire where physical and cultural distinctions were more obvious. Colonial officers finally decided the Ionian Greeks were "Mediterranean Irish" who should be treated like European savages. Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled, foreigners and locals. In this important study, Gallant emphasizes contingency and historical agency, examines intentionality, and explores the processes of accommodation and, when warranted, resistance. In so doing, he reconstructs the world Britons and Greeks made together on the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century through their shared experience of dominion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. Civilization Cultural policy Protektorat Nationalbewusstsein Sociale verhoudingen. Cultuurbeleid. Machtsverhoudingen. Imperialisme. Britten. Ionian Islands (Greece) -- Cultural policy -- History -- 19th century Ionian Islands (Greece) -- Civilization -- 19th century Ionian Islands (Greece) -- History -- 1815-1864. Greece -- Ionian Islands Ionische Inseln Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002510495 ISBN 9780268159610 0268159610 9780268159603 0268159602

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