Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
William and Mary Quarterly 69, 3 (2012). FORUM: COLONIAL HISTORIANS AND AMERICAN INDIANS James H. Merrell, ‘Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians'(pp. 451-512). Andrew Cayton, ‘Not the Fragments but the Whole’ (pp. 513-516). Wendy A. Warren, ‘More than Words: Language, Colonization, and History’ (pp. 517-520). Juliana Barr, ‘The Red Continent and the Cant […]
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Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (2011-12). Contains, among others: Tammy Murphy, ‘“Courses and Recourses”: Exploring Indigenous Peoples’ Land Reclamation in Search of Fresh Solutions for Israelis and Palestinians’. Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, ‘Host-Settler Relations, Conflict Dynamics, and Threatened Identity in Kano’
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Kristyn Harman and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Colonial Australia, 1805–1860’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 13, 2 (2012). The majority of the 160,000 convicts transported to Australia in the nineteenth century were European, yet a small number of colonial subjects were also incorporated into Britain’s Antipodean penal settlements. These included Aboriginal […]
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Blake A. Watson, Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012). The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the […]
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Frédéric Giraut and Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, ‘Mapping places and people in a settler society: From discrepancy to good fit over one century of South African censuses’, Mappemonde 106 (2012). The dynamics of population and urbanization in South Africa have been recorded by a remarkable set of censuses during the 20th century. These censuses indicate a changing […]
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Daniel Ingram, Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America (Florida University Press, 2012). This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with […]
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Carole Shammas (ed.), Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies (Brill: 2012). Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt […]
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Arena Journal 37/38 (2012). Introduction John Hinkson, ‘Why settler colonialism?’. Time Edward Cavanagh, ‘History, time and the indigenist critique’. Elizabeth Strakosch and Alissa Macoun, ‘The vanishing endpoint of settler colonialism’. Sarah Maddison, ‘Seven generations behind: Representing native nations’. Bodies Mary O’Dowd, ‘Embodying the Australian nation and silencing history’. Gaia Giuliani, ‘The colour lines of settler […]
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Postcolonial Studies 15, 2 (2012). Special Issue: Making Indigenous place in the Australian city.
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This book shows that the Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. Cavanagh argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in South Africa’s national narrative: an impediment that has precluded the […]
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