Archive for November, 2010
Lisi Krall, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010). Krall uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States. On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in Wyoming, was shot by his neighbor in a dispute […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Cole Harris, ‘The Spaces of Early Canada’, Canadian Historical Review 91, 4 (2010) Abstract: This article considers the relationship between the increasingly humanized spaces of early Canada and the patches of settlement that, at Confederation, were assembled into a country. It suggests that Harold Innis correctly identified some of the essential spaces of early Canada […]
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Dean Itsuji Saranillio, ‘Colliding Histories: Hawai‘i Statehood at the Intersection of Asians “Ineligible to Citizenship” and Hawaiians “Unfit for Self-Government”’, Journal of Asian American Studies 13, 3 (2010) Abstract: This essay examines competing narrations of the fiftieth anniversary of Hawai‘i statehood by tracing two mutually constitutive but opposing projects in the post-World War II period—the […]
Filed under: Hawaii, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Elaine Freedgood, ‘Fictional Settlements: Footnotes, Metalepsis, the Colonial Effect’, New Literary History 41, 2 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. I am going to argue that the nineteenth-century novel is anomalous using as an example an anomalous nineteenth-century novel. The anomalous novel, Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes (1852), […]
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Bess Nungarrayi Price, ‘We need to change our law’, Australian Review of Public Affairs Oct. 2010. My mother and father were born in the desert. They lived their childhood out of contact with whitefellas. They were terrified when they first saw a whitefella. They taught me the Old Law that our people lived by. That […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Frankie Quinn and Gabbi Murphy, ‘Streets Apart: Photographs of the Belfast Peacelines’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) This issue’s “Curated Spaces” features the work of the Belfast photographer Frankie Quinn, with an introductory essay by Gabbi Murphy. The photographs included come from a series taken between 2002 and 2008 that documents life along the walls […]
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David Correia, ‘”Retribution Will Be Their Reward”: New Mexico’s Las Gorras Blancas and the Fight for the Las Vegas Land Grant Commons’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) This essay traces the struggle for the commons on New Mexico’s Las Vegas Land Grant, a community property claim in New Mexico. Following the U.S.–Mexican War, waves of […]
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Gary Fields, ‘Ex-Communicated: Historical Reflections on Enclosure Landscapes in Palestine’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) “Ex-Communicated” tells a story about enclosure on the Palestinian landscape through photographic images that reference themes from the enclosures in early modern England and highlight the historically long-standing interplay of power and space. Using Michel Foucault’s spatial notion of power […]
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Ben Maddison, ‘Radical Commons Discourse and the Challenges of Colonialism’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) The association among commons, rights, and freedom has been central to the radical historiographical tradition. This article investigates the origins and limitations of this association. First, it examines the evolution of the association among the three concepts, identifying the important […]
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An Imperial County Indian tribe has filed suit to stop a big solar project on which San Diego Gas & Electric is counting to get large amounts of green power. The Quechan Indian tribe filed suit in San Diego federal court Friday, seeking an injunction against the Imperial Valley Solar Project, one of the first […]
Filed under: law, United States | Closed
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