Archive for May, 2010
Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Duke University Press 2010). Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have generally worked in […]
Filed under: Canada, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
macca
via the deliciously sceptical Newspaper Rock
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
mythology of eurocentrism
Reason Wafawarova, from the state-owned Zimbabwean newspaper, The Herald (via AllAfricaNews): European history, Western values, as well as Western democracy are all mythological concepts — they are pretty much a well-packaged set of propaganda designed to create in us a personality other than our own, a culture divorced from our own reality, and beliefs that […]
Filed under: media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
african hospitality
Check out the incredible series African Hospitality from photographic artist Andrew Putter (a postcolonial take on the portrait series of the same name, by painter George Morlan, from way back in 1790). From Michael Stevenson Gallery: Putter focuses on the ‘Wild Coast’ of South Africa in his new series of portraits. Many Europeans were shipwrecked […]
Filed under: art, Southern Africa | Closed
j. s. mill on american settlers
The northern and middle states of America are a specimen of this stage of civilization in very favourable circumstances; having, apparently, got rid of all social injustices and inequalities that affect persons of Caucasian race and of the male sex, while the proportion of population to capital and land is such as to ensure abundance […]
Filed under: Quote, United States | Closed
some recent reviews in the jich
By various authors. Books in review: Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought Edited by Duncan Kelly Economies of Representation, 1790-2000: Colonialism and Commerce Edited by Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert The New Oxford History of New Zealand Edited by Giselle Byrnes
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Mark Hickford, ‘”Vague Native Rights to Land”: British Imperial Policy on Native Title and Custom in New Zealand, 1837-53’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38, 2 (2010): 175 – 206. Abstract: What is often referred to as a common law doctrine of aboriginal or customary title neither underpinned imperial policies towards Maori property rights […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2010): Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America: a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
pigeon’s egg head
George Catlin, Pigeon’s Egg Head: Going to and Returning from Washington, 1837-9. Oil. Held at Smithsonian American Art Museum, where else – Washington. Teaching resource here.
Filed under: art, United States | Closed
homelands
Homelands represent the intersection of specific areas of country… That is, they do not represent random settlements ‘where people go for a better lifestyle’ away from the larger communities created by non-Indigenous agents. In contrast, homelands represent particular living areas in which each Indigenous individual and group is based in order to fulfil their own […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 