In about a month the fourth Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (GHRA) will meet for one week of academic training at the University of Exeter before continuing with archival research at the ICRC Archives in Geneva. The Research Academy addresses early career researchers who are working in the related fields of humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, peace and conflict studies as well as human rights covering the period from the 18th to the 20th century. It supports scholarship on the ideas and practices of humanitarianism in the context of international, imperial and global
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the workshop "Gender and empire: A trans-imperial approach to gender politics and the colonial state, 1848-1945". The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on 18-20 June 2018.
A dialogue between scholars working on gender in the British, French, and Spanish empires, the workshop will feature papers by Lisa Surwillo (Stanford), Anne Hugon (Paris 1), Dominique Kalifa (Paris 1), Jana Tschurenev (Göttingen), Xavier Andreu-Miralles (València), Romy Sánchez (UNICAEN), Jeanne Moisand (Paris 1), Albert Garcia-Balañà (UPF), and
Dear H-Empire members,
Please continue to send me new and forthcoming publications so that I can include them in this recurrent series of posts.
This is a list of new and forthcoming publications of interest to members:
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Culture has served as a “weapon of the struggle” during the Cold War. It played a central role in leftist literary circles, socialist realist poetry and muralism, as well as in the CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom, whose artist groups embraced Abstract Expressionism and modernist poetry. Scholars agree that the superpowers sought to make culture work for their political interests. Yet until recently, much of the researchers’ attention has focused on high-profile cases such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and generally on Northern (US, Western European and Soviet) variants of the
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Recent Reviews
Rofel, Lisa; Rojas, Carlos, eds.. New World Orderings: China and the Global South. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 268 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478019015.
Reviewed by
Jingbin Wang (Elizabeth City State University)
Published on
H-Empire (December, 2023)
Commissioned by
Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
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)
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
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)