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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword, by Amy E. Keller and Zac Bleicher -- Introduction -- PART I: CHICAGO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A CULTURAL BACKWATER STRIVING TO CATCH UP -- 1. The Arts in Chicago Before the Fair -- 2. The World's Columbian Exposition Puts Chicago on the Cultural Map -- PART II: ARTIST COLONIES OF THE CHICAGO AREA -- 3. What Is an Artist Colony? -- 4. Keeping the Artists in Chicago: The First-Generation Artist Colonies -- 5. Summering Away: The Bucolic Artist Colonies -- 6. Towertown: Chicago's Left Bank -- 7. The Houses that Sol and Edgar Built: The Old Town Artist Colonies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective

James MacQueen (1778–1870) was one of the most outspoken critics of the British anti-slavery campaign in the 1820s and 1830s. A former manager of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, he was editor of the Glasgow Courier, a paper that favoured West Indian merchant interests and opposed rights for slaves. First published in 1824, this book is a direct attack on contemporary anti-slavery campaigners, such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, whom MacQueen holds responsible for 'the dreadful misrepresentations scattered abroad' about West India colonies and the planters. MacQueen, who insists on calling himself an enemy of slavery 'in the abstract', argues that abolition in the colonies would lead to insurrections, bringing chaos and barbarism to these territories. This, in turn, would lead to the loss of the British colonies. This volume remains an essential document in the context of post-colonial studies