Abstract: From Maryland to Florida, and westward to Kansas, interviewers for the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) spread out across seventeen states in the 1930s to record formerly enslaved African Americans’ firsthand accounts of slavery in the American South. Unbeknownst to many oral history scholars, the FWP’s “Oklahoma Slave Narrative” archive holds thirteen distinctive interviews with […]

Abstract: This article examines how on-Country healing practices operate as cultural determinants of health for Indigenous men in Australia. Country, understood as ancestral lands that embody lore, kinship, spirituality, and identity, remains central to wellbeing, yet few self-determined studies have explored the therapeutic benefits of such programmes. Health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are […]

Excerpt: Time is out of joint in the opening moments of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park, his blockbuster adaptation of Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel. After the movie’s title appears in its now iconic primitivist, African- safari- inspired lettering, the audience is immersed into an exotic and threatening locale in which state- of- the- art […]

Abstract: I mobilise an analysis of the violent antipathy that Anthony Trollope’s travel writing mediates towards Indigenous Australians to illuminate the under-acknowledged history of genocide in Queensland, a history which, I argue, the author seeks to downplay. Trollope’s expression of profound antipathy towards the racial other stemmed from a collective antipathy pervasive within Queensland’s settler […]

Description: The history of New Zealand explained through powerful beliefs and the people who held them. In this major work, one of our leading historians offers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pākehā settlers – nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism – encountered Māori, and how the two peoples together […]

Summary: All life on earth is affected by the intensifying impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Planetary health science is emerging as a crucial framework to address the health of the planet and its inhabitants. Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems have evolved over millennia and are grounded in principles such as interconnectedness of all […]

Abstract: This study examines whether Japanese colonial settlement in Manchuria has affected contemporary rural income. We construct a novel dataset covering 290 districts across Northeast China, and employ an instrumental variable strategy, based on the 1934 Japanese population share, to identify the effect as cleanly as the historical setting allows. Our district-level analysis reveals a […]

Excerpt: On September 4, 1883, three hundred Lakhˇóta and Dakhˇóta people from the Standing Rock Agency of the Great Sioux Reservation rode into Mandan, Dakota Territory, a boomtown adjacent to the Northern Pacific Railroad just west of the Missouri River (fig. 14.1). With them were the US Indian agent James McLaughlin, who left an account […]

Abstract: ‘Settler carcerality in Southern California’ examines how, during the first half of the twentieth century, US federal officers, local police, and county sheriffs patrolled the territory of what is now known as Southern California – the traditional homelands of the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay, Luiseño, Serrano, and Cupeño peoples – surveilling and arresting California Native people […]