Abstract: This research undertakes a comparative analysis of the historical experiences of displacement and resistance encountered by Native American communities in the USA and Palestinian populations in Israel and the occupied territories. Utilizing a qualitative approach, the study explores parallels in displacement, cultural stereotyping, diversity, resistance efforts, historical rhetoric, and the impact on identity. By employing settler […]

Abstract: Regarding technology, “modularity” typically refers to an apparatus’ interchangeability, reproducibility, or transposability, i.e., “plug and play” applications. However, critical scholars contend that modularity is laborious and aspirational, not to be taken for granted. Where promoters of modularity often focus on material dimensions of technology, this article intervenes in these debates by revealing the necessary […]

Description: Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860 and 1900, when each of these colonies gained some degree of self-government, yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire. The book applies the conceptual framework of imperial citizenship to nine case studies […]

Description: This edited volume comprehensively explores narrative survival in Indigenous film and literature, forging a literary and transitional approach to native writing. It navigates the evolution of Indigenous voices, spanning the oral tradition and literary forms from colonial times to the present. It covers a range of issues related to indigenous inequalities and diversities in […]

Description: Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled in Europe, and the divisions between them only grew—until, with […]

Abstract: Numerous scholars have argued that sport is a vessel through which to enforce settler-colonial domination; however, sport can also represent a domain in which to support Indigenous-settler reconciliation. Nevertheless, differing understandings of reconciliation, particularly within diverse global contexts, can lead to ambiguity in its definition and application. Therefore, as part of a broader project […]

Description: German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes. Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, […]

Description: In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control […]

Abstract: In the wake of its separation from New South Wales in December 1859, Queensland’s growth was predicated largely by its value as a ‘new frontier’ for European colonists seeking to expand their pastoral and agricultural wealth. The process of settler colonialism was facilitated by the Queensland colonial (later, state) government, who routinely used the […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the intertwined histories of slavery and settler colonialism in Louisiana and the greater Gulf South from the Mississippian era through the early American republic, centering the violences that structured imperial expansion, racial capitalism, and territorial conquest. Rather than treating African enslavement and Indigenous elimination as parallel but distinct processes, this dissertation […]