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Imperialism and Colonialism Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

By Alan Macfarlane Copyright 2022
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton is a collection of interviews that are being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the... Read more

Preface

Note on Transcription – Radha Béteille

Introduction – Alan Macfarlane

Empires and the Role of Anthropology – Alan Macfarlane

PART I

Christopher Bayly – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

PART II

Richard Rathbone – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

The Troubled Past of Africa’s History – Richard Rathbone

PART III

Richard Drayton – In conversation with Alan Macfarlane

Biography

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master’s degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.

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