Archive for October, 2011
david clark on comparative law
David S. Clark, ‘Comparative Law in Colonial British America’, American Journal of Comparative Law 59, 3 (2011). American comparatists are unfamiliar with thinking about Roman, civil, and canon law influence on colonial British American laws and legal institutions or about American colonial lawyers using Roman and civil law examples in their legal argument or reform […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
700 people were arrested that day, several of them Columbia students, in an ongoing national campaign that began three weeks ago on Wall Street, where hundreds of mostly young people have been camping out or showing up for daily demonstrations. Karla Jimenez of Columbia Spectator.
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Neophytos Loizides, ‘Contested migration and settler politics in Cyprus’, Political Geography (2011). Immigration and settler literatures provide contrasting approaches to the evaluation of conflict between ‘newcomers’ and ‘indigenous’ groups. On the one hand, immigration studies emphasize that newcomers, particularly migrants, almost never fight civil wars; on the other hand, studies on settlers in contested territories […]
Filed under: Europe, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Hilary M. Carey. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801-1908. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Tables. xxiii + 421 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19410-5. Reviewed by David Lindenfeld (Louisiana State University) In this study, Hilary M. Carey sheds light on a relatively neglected aspect of missionary activity in the British Empire, […]
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andrea smith on the local museum
Andrea L. Smith, ‘Settler Historical Consciousness in the Local History Museum’, Museum Anthropology 34, 2 (2011). In what ways does America’s settler colonial heritage shape how its citizens imagine the national past? I address this question through a study of county historical museums in rural Arizona, with a particular focus on the Navajo County Museum. […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
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