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Recent Discussions

CFC: Verge Issue 12.1 CfP

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1

Special Issue: Trade in Humans

Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel

Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024

A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.

Trade in humans is a vast and age-old engine of migration between regions in the Asia-Pacific and, since the sixteenth century, from Asia to the Americas, Africa, and Europe. This special issue of Verge seeks to illuminate both the ubiquity of the trade in Asian people and its particularities across time

ANN: 3rd Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (Ljubljana, September 2023)

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the 3rd Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, scheduled to be held at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 13 to 17 September 2023.

For a comprehensive overview of the conference, including the preliminary conference program, location map, registration details, and details on accompanying events, we invite everyone to visit the official conference website.

Please share this news with anyone who may be interested. Should you have any further inquiries, do not hesitate to reach out to our

CFC: Colonialism and Development

Yearbook for the History of Global Development

ed. Iris Borowy, George Bob-Milliars, Nicholas Ferns, and Corinna R. Unger

Colonialism and Development

Joseph Hodge, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, and Sarah Stockwell, coords.

Call for Papers

The historical understanding of the multifaceted trajectories of development – as a set of contested discourses, as multiple institutional complexes and as a heterogenous repertoire of policies and practices – has evolved significantly in the past few years. This scholarship has included a fresh historical assessment of ‘colonial development’, critically engaging

CFP: The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)

Call for Papers

International Conference: Online and In-Person

Lisbon, 22-23 September 2023

Venue: NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

In January 1963, the PAIGC (Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde – African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde) engaged in an armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau. Soon afterwards, the movement started to claim control over part of the Guinean territory, the so-called liberated areas. From 1965 onwards, liberated areas became a key concept and one of the linchpins of the PAIGC diplomacy and were

Recent Reviews

Hague on White, 'Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World'

Author

White, Ashli

Reviewer

Hague, Stephen

White, Ashli. Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 392 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300259018.

Reviewed by Stephen Hague (Rowan University)
Published on H-Empire (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Smith on Walcott, 'The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom'

Author

Rinaldo Walcott

Reviewer

Kenneth Smith

Rinaldo Walcott. The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 144 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2136-0; 423.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1405-8.

Reviewed by Kenneth Smith (Kansas State)
Published on H-Empire (June, 2023)
Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57864

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

Author

Elizabeth Elbourne

Reviewer

Richard N. Price

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)

Stanard on De Witte, 'The Assassination of Lumumba'

Author

Ludo De Witte

Reviewer

Matthew G. Stanard

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)