Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
A whole archive of this stuff here (‘the old west is a time and a place of heart’) which I stumbled across courtesy of Unauthorised History
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
This state’s official name — The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island’s prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Voters next Tuesday will decide whether to change the name by dropping the words “and Providence Plantations.” The issue […]
Filed under: Political developments, United States | Closed
Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, New Zealand, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
This case was a bit special. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) short-changed some Native Americans; Native Americans finally secure compo (and more). This was a hard fought case, not about land or resource rights, but about a bureaucratic fluff up, which ignored the many obstacles — pertaining to capitalist agriculture — that stand before […]
Filed under: law, United States | Closed
Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Rhonda V. Magee, ‘Slavery as Immigration?’, University of San Francisco Law Review 44, 2 (2009) Abstract: In this essay, the author argues that transatlantic slavery was, in significant part, an immigration system of a particularly pernicious sort – a system of forced migration immigration aimed at fulfilling the nascent country’s needs for a controllable labor […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Civilization is aggressive, as well as progressive – a positive state of society, attacking every obstacle, overwhelming every lesser agency, and searching out and filling up every crevice, both in the moral and physical world; while Indian life is an unarmed condition, a negative state, without inherent vitality, and without powers of resistance. The institutions […]
Filed under: Quote, United States | Closed
lisa ford reviews james belich
American Historical Review: James Belich’s book is useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia. Belich tells a compelling story about economic colonialism in the nineteenth century. In the process, he provides a remarkably accessible synthesis of recent historiography describing economic development in a region […]
Filed under: Australia, Canada, Empire, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Gray H. Whaley, Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers […]
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Alexandra Harmon, Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (UNC Press, 2010). Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Skillfully blending social, cultural, and economic history, Alexandra Harmon examines […]
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