Welcome to H-Empire, H-Net's interdisciplinary network on colonial and imperial studies!

H-Empire seeks to bring together scholars and others interested in sharing resources, research and questions concerning the origin, development, working and decline of empires, rather broadly defined across academic disciplines and professional interests, chronological time periods, and geographical regions.

Recent Discussions

*Deadline extension* CfP Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices

 

 

2023 PhD Global History of Empires Conference

CfP Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices

Date: 14-15 September 2023

Location: Campus “Luigi Einaudi” (CLE), Lungo Dora Siena 100, Torino

Submission Deadline: 28th May 2023 5th June 2023

Abstract Length: 300 words

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Recent Reviews

Author: 
Elizabeth Elbourne
Reviewer: 
Richard N. Price

Price on Elbourne, 'Empire, Kinship and Violence Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842'

Elizabeth Elbourne. Empire, Kinship and Violence Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 345 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-78279-1.

Reviewed by Richard N. Price (University of Maryland) Published on H-Empire (May, 2023) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Author: 
Ludo De Witte
Reviewer: 
Matthew G. Stanard

Stanard on De Witte, 'The Assassination of Lumumba'

Ludo De Witte. The Assassination of Lumumba. Translated by Renée Fenby and Ann Wright. London: Verso, 2022. 256 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-83976-790-6

Reviewed by Matthew G. Stanard (Berry College) Published on H-Empire (March, 2023) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

Author: 
Charlotte Ann Legg
Reviewer: 
Timothy Roberts

Roberts on Legg, 'The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914'

Charlotte Ann Legg. The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2523-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0850-7.

Reviewed by Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2022) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

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