Archive for April, 2010
After doing the same for the JCCH, I thought I’d do have a look at the feature articles published in the Journal of Imperialism and Commonwealth History as well. Interesting results (some unexpected). Comparative or transnational topics (total: 15) Comparative or transnational topics relating to ‘British world’ (total: 5) Comparative or transnational topics relating to […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Today I tabled up the topics covered in feature articles published by the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History since the start of 2007. There’s surprisingly little content relating to settler colonial histories, along with a number of other regional gaps as well. See for yourself: Comparative or transnational topics (total: 3) Comparative or transnational […]
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the colonizability of africa
Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920, Colonizability of Africa, Map from Johnson, A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races, 1899. Also held at the New York Picture Library. via yeah, victorians! my-ear-trumpet ahypertrophiedmemory
Filed under: Africa, art | Closed
Mark Rifkin, Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space, Cambridge University Press, 2009. The expansion of the U.S. in the antebellum period relied on the claim that the nation’s boundaries were both self-evident and dependent on the consent of those enclosed within them. While the removal of American Indians and racism toward former […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Among the thousands who cross the Plains, there are many who have never been refined by either mental or moral culture. The sum total of their religious and political faith consists in Squatter Sovereignty – the right to do as they choose, regardless of all but selfish interests. When such as these get beyond the […]
Filed under: Quote, Sovereignty | Closed
Joe Singer, ‘The Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity”, Indian Law Journal, forthcoming. via TurtleTalk Abstract: First possession is said to be the root of title but the first possession theory suffers from two major defects. First, land titles in the United States originate in acts of conquest, […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Larry J. Zimmerman, ‘”White People will Believe Anything!””: Worrying about Authenticity, Museum Audiences, and Working in Native American-focused Museums’, Museum Anthropology 33, 1 (2010) via indigenouspeoplesissues.com Abstract: The core argument of this opinion is that in museums focused on Native Americans, staff members must abandon colonial and stereotypic views about Native Americans. They also must […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the […]
Filed under: Australia, Genocide, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
War and pestilence! Two young ladies taken prisoners by the savages, 1833 woodcut, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C.
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the course of empire
Cole Thomas, The Course of Empire (series), 1836. Oil on canvas.
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