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Introduction / Gregory Blue -- I: RESITUATING COLONIAL HISTORIES: Empire recentered: India in the Indian Ocean arena / Thomas R. Metcalf -- The terror and religion: Brittany and Algeria / Edmund Burke III -- Women's history, gender history, and European colonialism / Margaret Strobel -- II: LAND, LAW, AND COLONIAL POLITICS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE: Landed property, agrarian categories, and the agricultural frontier: some reflections on colonial India / Peter Robb -- Native title in the shadows: the origins of the myth of Terra Nullius in early new South Wales courts / Bruce Kercher -- European capital and its impact on land distribution in Egypt (1900-1914) / Samir Saul -- "Progressive civilizations and deep-rooted traditions": land laws, development, and British rule in Palestine in the 1920s / Martin Bunton -- III: GENDERED IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIALISM: All in the family: marriage, gender, and the family business of imperialism in British India / Mary A. Prodica -- The imperial mother of birth control: Marie Stopes and the South African birth-control movement, 1930-1950 / Susanne Klausen -- Militant masculinity and female agency in Indonesian nationalism, 1945-1949 / Frances Gouda -- IV: REGIMES OF COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE: Science in the service of empire; empire in the service of science / Robert W. Rydell -- Governors, politics, and anthropology: the Fijian native lands question revisited / Sara H. Sohmer -- Imperial science, tropical ecology, and indigenous history: tropical research stations in Northeastern German East Africa, 1896 to the present / Christopher A. Conte -- V: ORDERING SPACE, BUILDING COLONIALISM: Professional dreams: architecture and the imagery of "Indonesia" in the late colonial Netherlands East Indies / Abidin Kusno -- Railway outpost and puppet capital: urban expressions of Japanese imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945 / Bill Sewell