"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has well demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied...

Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on...