Insurgent Empire-D (Book) by Tim Green https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm We will utilize Padlet to exchange ideas, summarize chapters, and interact with one another. Introduction Instructions: Please provide at least 3-5 comments, questions, Gifs, Memes, Pictures, or Short Videos that you best summarize major concepts or important points. ***Due by:9/6/20)*** en-us 2020-09-03 03:21:44 UTC 2025-11-06 15:41:44 UTC hello@padlet.com India's Uprising - 1857 kaigutjahr1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/722765803 British rule was a strong presence in India until 1857, which marked a turn of power in the form of a rebellion. While ultimately unsuccessful, it marked the beginning of the end for British presence. Perhaps one of the British Empire's greatest upsets, India claimed its freedom in 1947, 90 years later.
-KG]]> 2020-09-05 18:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/722765803 Great Britain, United Kingdom https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723466545 Maria-Luisa--The main ideas for this introduction surrounded uprisings and rebellions against England. I believe this quote can sum up most of the introduction: "While each crisis- the 1857 'Mutiny' in India, and the 1865 'Governor Eyre affair'- had specific resonances back in Britain, awareness of these early insurgencies, and interpretations of them, broadly prepared the ground for the dialogical expansion of the moral imagination of British dissent to incorporate the consciousness of the rebel as 'an entity whose will and reason constituted the practice called rebellion'"(Gopal 32-33). ]]> 2020-09-06 16:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723466545 Rochester, NY, USA victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723560105 see antartica for rochester image. Anyway another comment I have is on page 6 Gopal mentions dissent in the periphery and metropole and I was wondering what exactly the metropole and periphery were reffering to in this instance? -Victoria D]]> 2020-09-06 18:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723560105 Frederick Douglass Statue in Rochester victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723560624 I tried to put this is Rochester, NY but for some reason it went to antartica instead?? Anyway I thought it was a really interesting way to start the introduction and was definetely a good way to welcome American readers because we very often are very isolationist and don't see the merit in studying something unless it can relate back to us -Victoria D]]> 2020-09-06 18:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723560624 America victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723566923 I tried to put a gif but I dont think it worked. Anyway, I thought the way he talks about how historians are often in denial that the resistance to the British empire in the colonies and the mainland both influenced each other as opposed to just a one way exchange was similar to the way many historians are in denial about how the indigenous culture in the Americas impacted the Europeans coming over as opposed to it just being a one way exchange of ideas. Gopal says "[his ideas in the book] overturn the still prevalent emphasis on political and intellectual influence as radiating outwars from the imperial centre towards the periphery"(Gopal, 7). -Victoria D]]> 2020-09-06 19:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723566923 Theme: victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723587148 I think a definite theme is the way we, as a Global Population and specifically as a Western population, define, or think about freedom. What does freedom mean? Where does it come from? Why is it something we are always 'striving for'? There is an interesting discussion on how the idea of universal freedom should not be discarded but rather reworked from its current understanding on page 17 -Victoria D.]]> 2020-09-06 19:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723587148 Europe victoriademersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723597832 What exactly is European Liberalism? -Victoria D.]]> 2020-09-06 19:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723597832 America peterjaramillo1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723835766 Ok, so basically during the 
Columbian exchange between the years 1518 to 1600 there were 17 major epidemics all across the new world.
-Peter]]> 2020-09-07 01:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723835766 Britain, United Kingdom peterjaramillo1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723878963 By 1800 the world started to escape from the old biological regime and Britain was producing 90% of the world coal output and which was about 10 million tons a year.
-Peter]]> 2020-09-07 01:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723878963 India peterjaramillo1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723892406 In the early 1700s Mughal power began to decline in India so the British moved in and built a colonial empire there. 
-Peter]]> 2020-09-07 01:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/723892406 Australian Coral Reefs https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724150791 The change in ocean acidity has lead to the coral reefs in Australia dying off. The acidity has changes because of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and to ocean absorbs a lot of it changing the acidity levels. 
-hannelore ]]> 2020-09-07 04:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724150791 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724161329  The British began to sell opium from India into China so that they could get their silver back]]> 2020-09-07 04:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724161329 Somerset, UK gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724395660 Many ideas of 'British Character' were weakened by the end of the empire. This happened every time insurgency was followed by repression from the monarchy. -Gabby]]> 2020-09-07 07:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724395660 Saudi Arabia gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724401444 Edward Said claimed that a typical misinterpretation of imperialism is that only Western ideas of liberty influence the fight against colonial rule. This is wrong because the reserves in Arab and Indian culture always resisted colonialism. -Gabby ]]> 2020-09-07 07:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724401444 Hampden County, MA, USA gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724409728 Reading about Britain's colonial past from the perspective of the repressed is quite interesting to me. I like drawing the connections between American dissent and British dissent from the different historical events of each country . The influence that one country's citizens can have on another is fascinating. -Gabby

]]> 2020-09-07 07:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724409728 North Carolina, USA gabbyjohnson1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724421297 How has European liberalism influenced Western ideas of freedom and liberalism? -Gabby]]> 2020-09-07 07:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/724421297 England, UK https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725270567 "the history of the British Empire is also the history of resistance to it"(Gopal, 4). I think that this is a really important concept to understand because it shows how  when the British expanded it often led to resistance. -Aviva]]> 2020-09-07 18:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725270567 Britain, United Kingdom https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725277256 How did resistance to the colonial project fuel opposing sides in Britain? -Aviva

]]> 2020-09-07 18:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725277256 India https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725280268 How did outside critics takes and writings influence the relationship between England and the Americas? -Aviva

]]> 2020-09-07 18:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725280268 Britain, United Kingdom https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725495574 F.A]]> 2020-09-07 22:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725495574 China https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725496632 F.A]]> 2020-09-07 22:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725496632 India https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725500300 F.A]]> 2020-09-07 22:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725500300 Bath, UK christophercarlin https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725692111 "As the empire expanded from the slave colonies of the Caribbean to encompass the settler colonies of North America, Australia and New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent and large swaths of Africa, [Britain] was met with different kinds of resistance, both peaceful and violent, sometimes taking the form of mutinies, revolts and wars, and at others of civil disobedience and passive resistance." (Gopal 4). Essentially Britain, then and 21st century, fails to provide a teaching of how punishment of resistance was swift, and their forthcoming into a modern superpower [the rise and fall model] is "indeed misleading" (gopal 4)

~Chris]]> 2020-09-08 00:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725692111 Nanded, Maharashtra, India https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725717321 The British would deem a colony independence]]> 2020-09-08 01:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725717321 Potenza, Italy christophercarlin https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725912460 "...ironically enough, the focus on 'Eurocentrism' has resulted in a fixation on rejecting European thought generally, and the Enlightenment in particular, without a consideration of multiple lines of cultural and political  engagement in the making of the entity called 'Europe'. " (Gopal 14)

~Chris]]> 2020-09-08 02:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/725912460 Swindon, UK christophercarlin https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726086932 "[Insurgent Empire focuses on] what I identify as exemplary crises of rule and engagement that helped create a tradition of dissent on the question of empire, looked outward to the colonial world, and sought to effect transformation as much in Britain as beyond. This book seeks to be capacious without pretending to be comprehensive." (Gopal 36)

~Chris]]> 2020-09-08 04:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726086932 Haiti https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726203423 The Haitian Revolution changed the view that Britains slaves werent just slaves but that they actually attributed to their liberation. pg 5. Claire ]]> 2020-09-08 05:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726203423 Morant Bay, Jamaica https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726211352 Rebels were told that they were being emancipated as slaves but really they were just shifted to poorly waged labour. pg 7 claire ]]> 2020-09-08 05:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726211352 UK https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726217805 The Britainnic Empire would not grant the "spread of (capitalist) freedom until the colonies people were "fit to receive liberty" pg 11 claire ]]> 2020-09-08 06:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/726217805 sofiaschuyler1 https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/733969276 I think that there were two overarching themes in this introduction, the first emphasizing the role that the enslaved and colonial subjects had on their own liberation, and the second being the effect their dissent and rebellion had on the British conscience and culture. These two ideas really came across, in the words and references that were used, right away. The first time I started to see the first of the two main themes I noticed was on the very first page when I read the line, “restored to their rightful stature as free men and women” (Gopal 1). It stuck out to me that the word ‘restored’ was used because you usually hear the word ‘given’ used in that context, which implies that the liberation was gifted by the colonizers, when it really wasn’t.
Sofia S. ]]> 2020-09-10 05:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/733969276 London, UK - Finn finnhautau https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/734984888 The intro to "Insurgent Empire" claims that the methods of protest and dissent towards imperialism use by enslaved people in Britain informed parts of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century US.
-  Sympathy/solidarity vs. Violence/aggression  as a response to insurgence. 
- The "anti-imperialist" undertone of Europe and the US in the 20th century. 
- Anglobalization: A very narrow, eurocentric view of globalization 
- Discerning of rebel consciousness via a specific event: "

]]> 2020-09-10 13:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/734984888 Atlantic Ocean - Finn finnhautau https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/735139266 "The emergence, at first, of 'sympathy', and subsequently  of variants of 'solidarity', as a metropolitan response to resistance and crises of insurgency, can be broadly located in the intersubjective space of communication" (Gopal 23). 
-Diffusing imperialist movements by acting in "solidarity" instead of directly in support of or against is something that we see today A LOT. ]]> 2020-09-10 14:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/735139266 Finn finnhautau https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/735183001 "the focus on 'Eurocentrism' has resulted in a fixation on rejecting European thought generally, and the Enlightenment in particular, without a consideration of multiple lines of cultural and political  engagement in the making of the entity called 'Europe'. " (Gopal 14)

I know Chris has the same quote in his, but this is a super valuable passage because it illustrates how quickly imperialism or anti-imperialism can be claimed by or associated to one group or country, instead of viewing anti-imperialism as a natural part of civilization and society, as just another piece of the puzzle. ]]> 2020-09-10 14:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/735183001 United Kingdom gracewilkins https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/736954414 The introduction to the Insurgent Empire explains and truly articulates the rise/fall, rebellions and differences that Britain faced.  This can be explored when Gopal says, " The maps of anticolonial insurgency and dissedence are vast and varied. Instead my focus is on what I identify as exemplary crises of rule and engagment that helped create a tradition of dissent on the question of empire, looked outward to the colonial world, and sought to effect transformation as much in Britain as beyond"(Gopal 36). 
-Grace ]]> 2020-09-10 20:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/736954414 How do western and non-western ideas of freedom differ? saskiabauman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741229006 -sb]]> 2020-09-12 20:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741229006 France saskiabauman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741229577 Gopal states that people thought, “the [British] empire ostensibly always was, conquering in order to free” (Gopal 3). In some instances they conquered people who were self governed, but in some instances they conquered people who already had an imperial government. Did those other imperial powers also propagate that they were there to help and the end goal was to allow their colonies to govern themselves once they were ready? Then were these colonial powers semi-allied in their supposed goal to “civilize” their colonies? For example, when the English took over India from the French, did they say they meant to continue the work that the French had been doing or did they tell people the French were horrible oppressors and the British were coming in to save the Indian people from the French?
-sb
]]> 2020-09-12 20:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741229577 Idea saskiabauman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741232211 The often repeated story of colonized peoples using ideas learned from their colonizers to fight back against their colonizers, though it acknowledges that the colonized peoples aided in their own liberation, also perpetuates the idea that the colonizers were there to educate and help the colonized. 
-sb]]> 2020-09-12 20:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741232211 Idea saskiabauman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741232754 Rebellion in the colonies influenced how marginalized people in Britain fought back against their government (Gopal 6). ]]> 2020-09-12 20:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/741232754 (14.145151324899752, -63.325195500000014) branchdemersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801927989 Change can be slow and hard, and acts of revolution approved byt those being revolted against are often very little, such an example is brought up on the 1st page about how the 1807 British abolition of  the slave trade did not free those already enslaved, and how even after their freeing in 1833 they were forced to apprentice to their former owners for another 5 years. -Branch]]> 2020-10-05 05:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801927989 (56.506513101462644, -8.481445500000016) branchdemersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801938616 Gopal disccusses the idea of "a Caliban Model" of colonialism, where the oppressed rises up against their oppression with tools given to them by their oppressor. It is also noted that in this model the rebellion is not soley empowered by the teaching of the oppressed, but is also based on their own culure and historical background. That rebellions are shaped not by whom the rebellion is against, but by whom is rebelling. -Branch]]> 2020-10-05 05:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801938616 India branchdemersseman https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801948374 Large parts of the introduction talk about the idea that large parts of the eventual indian liberation were based on their ability to impress upon the British that they had a signifigant culture before they were colonized]]> 2020-10-05 05:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/timgreen3/r7vphmnxfyl1curm/wish/801948374