Unexpected voices in imperial parliaments / edited by Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia.
"This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial powers that ruled over them. Revealing an unexplored dimension of the complex political organisation of modern empires, the essays show how early i...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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| Series: | Empire's other histories.
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Table of Contents:
- The value of political representation in modern empires / Josep M. Fradera
- Jean-Baptiste Belley : France's first black legislator/ David Geggus
- Dionisio Inca Yupanqui : a 'lord' in Spain's Cortes de Cádiz / José María Portillo
- Pedro José de Ibarra : a mulatto senator in Colombia's Antioquia / Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila
- Cyrille Bissette : a singular voice in France / Abel Alexis Louis
- Robert Smalls : in majority and in minority in Washington / Stephanie McCurry
- Dadabhai Naoroji : Indian member of parliament in Westminster, 1892-95 / Teresa Segura-Garcia
- Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana : South Africa's first black parliamentarian / Timothy Stapleton
- Gratien Candace : in the name of the French empire / Dominique Chathuant
- Blaise Diagne : French parliamentarian from Senegal / Eric Garcia-Moral.