Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-426) and index.
The sex life of exploreres -- Captains of empire -- The company of men -- Writers' lives and letters -- Artists and homoerotic 'Orientalism' -- Scandals and tragedies -- Sex in settler societies: the case of Australia -- Sex in the South Seas: Melanesia -- The British (and others) in South Asia -- Forster, Masood, Mohammed and he maharajah -- The French in North Africa -- Anti-colonialism and homosexuality.
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Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or André Gide, and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans and their non-Western lovers. Colonial lands, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century included most of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the islands of the.