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Feb 13 2012

Ethnic composition of imperial and colonial cities query (response)
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From: John Hennessey <john.hennessey@lnu.se>

Dear Professor Sand,

I wonder if a new book in the Manchester University Press Studies in
Imperialism series, *European Empires and the People* (2011, ed. John M.
Mackenzie), might be of some use to you. The book contains essays about
British, French, Dutch, Belgian, German, and Italian popular imperialism
and is interesting because of its comparative perspective.

While colonial populations in European capitals are not a primary focus of
the book, several chapters include some information about this topic for
countries other than Britain and France. For example, Bernhard Gissibl's
chapter on German popular imperialism mentions that "...with a presence of
several thousands of colonial migrants mainly from Cameroon, Berlin became
a centre for the organisation of anti-colonial resistance..." (p. 167) and
lists several sources about Africans in pre-World War II Germany. The book
also reveals certain differences between different European countries'
policies towards people from the colonies coming to work or study in the *
métropole*. For example, Congolese were forbidden to travel to Belgium, in
contrast with many other colonial powers' travel policies for their
colonial subjects (Matthew G. Standard's chapter, p. 129, 142).

I am also starting a comparative study of Japanese and Western imperialism
(albeit from a slightly different perspective) and think that your project
sounds most interesting. I hope you will post more information about it on
H-Asia when it is completed!

Cordially,

John Hennessey
Doctoral Student, Colonial History
Linnaeus University
john.hennessey@lnu.se

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