Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
J. P. Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area […]
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Matt Kaplan for the National Geographic: As in cities today, the earliest towns helped expose their inhabitants to inordinate opportunities for infection—and today their descendants are stronger for it, a new study says. In areas of ancient urbanization, it turned out, “we found very high frequency” for the TB-resistance gene, study co-author Thomas said. But, […]
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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland 1615–1870’, History Compass 8, 11 (2010) In 1787, the First Fleet was dispatched from the British Isles to find a penal settlement at Botany Bay, Australia. By this time, the British government had already experimented with convict transportation for over 160 years. The aim of this article is […]
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As many of you will know, in Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), Chief Justice John Marshall declares the sovereignty of the United States government over American Indian property. According to Marshall, the government had inherited this dominion from Great Britain, which had acquired it through the doctrine of “discovery.” The case granted American Indians a “right […]
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peter coclanis reviews belich
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41, 3 (2010) [O]ne cannot gainsay the fact that Replenishing the Earth is a relatively comprehensive, highly original, largely convincing, and always fascinating account of Greater Britain’s will to power, with which account scholars perforce will grapple for years to come.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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