Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Craig Yirush, Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675–1775 (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Craig Yirush Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory […]
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In Perspectives on Politics 9 (2011), Andrea Smith reviews: The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations. By Kevin Bruyneel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 320p. Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution. By Frank Pommersheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. a bit of it: Both of these books provide […]
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At a Lincoln lecture, a history professor will discuss the lasting consequences of the forced assimilation of American Indian and Australian aboriginal children into the dominant culture. The lecture will be given by University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Margaret Jacobs. A university news release says her lecture will build on her book, “White Mother to a […]
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Join your host, J Kēhaulani Kauanui, for Part I of a two-part episode that focuses on the Palestinian struggle as an indigenous people’s struggle. How is indigeneity contested in the Israeli state project? How do the frameworks of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide work in Zionist projects of occupation? What are the parallels between […]
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The American Indian Quarterly 35, 2 (2011) Patty Loew and James Thannum, ‘After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty-Five Years after the Voigt Decision’, pp. 161-191. Arnold Krupat, ‘Chief Seattle’s Speech Revisited’, pp. 192-214. Rauna Kuokkanen, ‘Indigenous Economies, Theories of Subsistence, and Women: Exploring the Social Economy Model for Indigenous Governance’, pp. 215-240. Maria A. […]
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Norman Etherington,’Barbarians Ancient and Modern’, American Historical Review 116, 1 (2011). from the intro: Two noteworthy historical controversies have proceeded in parallel fashion since the early 1980s without the protagonists in either debate being aware of the other. One concerns warfare and migration among early-nineteenth-century African societies and their contribution to the ethnic divisions that […]
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Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Mechthild Leutner, Hauke Neddermann, eds. Frauen in den deutschen Kolonien. Berlin: Links, 2009. 284 pp. EUR 24.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86153-526-3. Reviewed by Daniel Walther (History Department, Wartburg College) Published on H-German (March, 2011) Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher Frauen in den deutschen Kolonien expands the breadth and depth of our understanding of women’s […]
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Brian Rutledge, ‘Premesh Lalu’s Post-colonial Push: Is it Time to Dismantle the Discipline?’, South African Historical Journal 63, 1 (2011) In The Deaths of Hintsa, Premesh Lalu argues that South African history remains trapped by colonial modes of thinking. As a necessary consequence, he claims that the field needs a post-colonial moment, suggesting that historians […]
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Anne Solomon, ‘Writing San Histories: The /Xam and ‘Shamanism’ Revisited’, Journal of Southern African Studies 37, 1 (2011) The oral narratives and personal accounts given by the /Xam of the northern Cape, and recorded by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, have played a key role in interpretations of rock art and of southern San culture, […]
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