Linda Colley

Bliss Carnochan Lecture: April 17, 1998

Linda Colley

Richard M. Colgate Professor of History at Yale University

"Going Native, Telling Tales:

Captivities and Collaborations

in an Age of Empire"

"Peter Williamson in the Dress of a Delaware Indian." French and Indian Cruelty; Exemplified in the Life and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune of Peter Williamson (1757).

3:30pm, Friday, April 17, 1998

Humanities Center Annex

579 Alvarado Row

Professor Colley joined the Yale faculty in 1982 and has since served in numerous academic and administrative roles, including Director of Graduate Studies. Her research spans the breadth of modern British history, from the Tory Party in the 18th century to the concerns and effects of empire reaching into the present day.

Professor Colley earned her Ph.D. from Cambridge University and thereafter taught at Cambridge for four years before coming to Yale. Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 and Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which won the Wolfson Prize; she has also written numerous articles and contributed to a variety of historical reference works. Her current research involves European expansion into India and other colonies and explores the clash of cultures and issues of colonial identity in the subcontinent and other regions.

Professor Colley's fine-tuned sense of the historical perspective has attracted a large student following. Her lectures have been described as serious, provocative, and always full of keen wit. Professor Colley and her husband David Cannadine, Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University, are looking forward to exploring with participants on this AYA educational program the wonders and rich history of India and the interactions of cultures during its past and present. As Professor Colley comments, "Britain only established itself as the dominant power in India in the late 18th century imitating great parts of Mogul ritual and organization. It is this rich interplay of very different cultures that we shall be investigating on this journey."

Prof. Colley's current research--which is the basis for her lecture--is on British and Irish men and women who were taken captive and/or changed sides in three zones of imperial conquest: the North African coast, North America and Southern India (c.1600- c.1800).

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