The collaboration between political and religious authorities, directed at imposing religious uniformity and at establishing denominational boundaries in the course of Early Modern times, has traditionally been investigated within the interpretative framework of ‘Confessionalization’ - a concept originally developed and applied only to the European (and especially German) case
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.
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The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library is offering a research travel award to educators, graduate students, and independent researchers who would benefit from access to the rich and unique historical and cultural holdings in the Archives Research Center. Available for research are rare books and over 106 collections of manuscripts, photographs, and archival records documenting the African
ANN: "Trade, Governance and Empire: The History of the East India Company" Webinar (25 January 2017)
Join us on Wednesday 25th January for a special webinar taking a look at the history of the East India Company.
25th January 2017
7am PST / 8am MT / 9am CST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT
Using recently digitised documents from the India Office Records housed at the British Library in London, we'll explore the origins of the Company by Royal Charter, its dominance over global trade for over 200 years
Call for Papers
Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 30 (PLCS 30)
Transnational Africas: Visual, Material and Sonic Cultures of Lusophone Africa
Editors: Christopher Larkosh, Mario Pereira and Memory Holloway
The next volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) focuses on the visual, material and sonic cultures of Lusophone Africa from the pre-colonial period to
Pagination
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)