Many scholars have argued that earliest colonial rulers kept detail records as a matter of life and death. While some were preserved, some were burned down. Evidence of imperial violence was destroyed as is clear from the works of Ian Cobain. The arc of problematizing the archive is long.
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Colleagues,
See below for an announcement about new publications and scholarship from Livingstone Online (http://livingstoneonline.org/), an important digital humanities resource for scholars working on the history of the British empire and on Africa. Please take a moment to review and/or share with anyone that might be interested. Apologies for any cross-listings.
Colleagues,
See below for an announcement about new publications and scholarship from Livingstone Online (http://livingstoneonline.org/), an important digital humanities resource for scholars on the history of slavery and abolition in Africa. Please take a moment to review and/or share with anyone that might be interested. Apologies for any cross-listings.
Call for Papers
Texts in Motion: Materiality, Mobility, and Archiving in World History
12 May 2018
