Hi all, I'm a PhD student who is curious if any historians have written (or are writing about) empire and its intersection with the Internet and Web in any regard. Most books that I have read about the Internet and Web more generally have not been authored by historians, but by people specializing in media studies, programming, computing, and so on. Putting togehter a historiography about the Internet and Web has been a bit tricky due to this. I am really stuck on finding any material dealing with empire and the Web and Internet, however, and would love to read any texts that may be suggested
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The rhetoric of racial and/or civilizational superiority was unequivocally the basis on which imperialism and colonial rule were legitimised in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Difference between ‘colonisers’ and the ‘colonised’, and the incapability of the latter to rule themselves evidently provided the justification for colonial rule. Such difference was, however, unfixed, thus Ann Laura Stoler posited, in her formative essay, to examine the ‘coloniser’ and the ‘colonised’ as “an historically shifting pair of social categories”.
In colonial societies, concepts of whiteness
Deadline Extended!!! The Midwest Conference for British Studies is proud to announce that its 70th Annual Meeting will be held at Bowling Green State University on October 13-14, 2023.
The MWCBS 2023 has extended its deadline for paper and panel proposals to May 26, 2023. The MWCBS 2023 will feature a wide variety of papers and panels from established and early career scholars, and a keynote speech from Christopher Otter, professor of history at the Ohio State University and author most recently of Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology (2020).
The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal
July 10-12, 2024 | Durham University, Durham, UK
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CFP Website: https://in-csa.com/call-for-papers/
This Call for Papers is the first from the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, launched to promote interdisciplinary, international, and intertemporal study of this era.
How do we understand the nineteenth century from different disciplinary perspectives? Where in the world do we continue to see its reach? What are its legacies today?
For its inaugural conference, INCSA invites proposals
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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)
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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)