In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In the twentieth century these migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empire's Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the settlement of more than one million...
In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled i...
In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omission - Jewish socialist history is absent from heritage tourist sites. Daniel Walkowitz analyses this gap in public history, presenting the absence of Jewish socialism as a case study in the politics of history and memory.
In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omissi...
In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omission - Jewish socialist history is absent from heritage tourist sites. Daniel Walkowitz analyses this gap in public history, presenting the absence of Jewish socialism as a case study in the politics of history and memory.
In recent decades, Jewish heritage tourism has grown to occupy a major space within the world of museums and memorials. But there is a critical omissi...
