Archive for February, 2011
Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (University of North Carolina Press: 2011). A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans’ grand geopolitical […]
Filed under: Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Hlonipha Mokoena, ‘The Frontier Remix’, History and Theory 50, 1 (2011). In The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts, Premesh lalu claims to offer a critique of apartheid’s colonial past. emblematic of this colonial past is the 1835 killing and mutilation of the Xhosa king Hintsa. lalu uses this […]
Filed under: postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
more on the transnational maori
Maori made their way willingly to Sydney to trade, acquire skills and learn new ideas. Many undoubtedly arrived as crew on whaling and trading ships. There’s a ‘Maori Lane’ in The Rocks in central Sydney which commemorates the Maori whalers who lived there. A significant number of Maori entering Australia may have also been slaves […]
Filed under: Australia, New Zealand | Closed
The Alberta Court of Appeal has sided with the Alberta government and against the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in a case involving oil and gas rights. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation argued that the Alberta Government through the Energy Minister can not grant resource rights in the form of long term oil sands leases without […]
Filed under: Canada, law, Political developments | Closed
Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, 1 (2011), pp. 219–226. The field of settler colonial studies is attracting broad scholarly attention. Although it is comparative and transnational by definition, few scholars working in the field have made sustained inquiries into the historical particular- ity of the phenomenon across different sites. Arguing that settler statehood […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
huckabee on israel
Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands. “I cannot imagine as an American […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, Political developments, public lecture, United States | Closed
In recent times, a number of academics and commentators have sought to offer a revisionist history of colonialism that sees it as something that wasn’t as bad as some others make out, that actually made the modern world as we now know it and so was essentially a good thing, or was something to be […]
Filed under: Call for papers, Empire | Closed
Satadru Sen, ‘Re-Orienting Whiteness, and: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region’ (review), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11, 3 (2010). Excerpts: Both volumes reviewed here take off from what has now become a familiar launching point for studies of whiteness: Ann Stoler’s contention […]
Filed under: Asia, Australia, Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Duncan Kelly, ed. Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 247 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-726439-3. Reviewed by Daniel Gorman (University of Waterloo) Published on H-Albion (January, 2011) Commissioned by Thomas Hajkowski excerpt: Despite work by scholars such as David Armitage, Uday Singh Mehta, Jennifer […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights | Closed
scs update
Dear all, I have been between countries and computers frantically over the last few weeks, but the blog should return back to normal soon. Our first issue of the settler colonial studies (the journal) is coming along nicely and should be published and available online — in open access — in March. I will publish […]
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