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Islands in Global History Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Laura Dierksmeier
Islands have played a much larger role in global history than their small size may suggest. The study of islands, once a part of maritime history, has since 2006 grown into its own interdisciplinary field of “island studies.” The three books analysed in this review all stand to contribute to the new field. The books under review are The Boundless Sea (2019), A World at Sea (2020), and África y sus
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Riotous Lives and Subversive Literatures: New Directions in Global Histories of Resistance Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Zaib un Nisa Aziz
Over the past two decades, the relatively young field of global history has generated remarkable excitement among students, scholars, and readers who want to read scholarship that crosses borders and brings many worlds to a single methodological framework. Global perspectives have been particularly fruitful for telling political histories that have defined the modern world. Today, there is increasing
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Eastward across the Western Sea: The Indian Oceanic Trafficking of Africans into China Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Don J. Wyatt
Despite its greater extensiveness in comparison to the ferrying of their West African counterparts across the Atlantic Ocean into bondage in the New World, the history of the extraction of East Africans to serve as slaves in the various lands that ring the Indian Ocean is barely known to most of us. Particularly as Westerners, our knowledge of even the sketchiest outlines of the latter phenomenon pales
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Geninka and Slavery: Jesuit Casuistry and Tokugawa Legislation on Japanese Bondage (1590s–1620s) Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Rômulo Ehalt
Based on Japanese and Portuguese sources, this paper aims at recovering local categories of bondage in order to identify mechanisms by which people were subjected to bonded labour in early modern Japan. The analysis focuses on crossing local forms of bondage, here referred to as genin, and the processes of subjecting individuals to this condition, the so-called called geninka, with the European notion
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Is Global History Global? Convergences and Inequalities Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Thomas David, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Pierre Singaravélou
Over the last twenty years, global history has experienced a considerable boom, breaking with traditional historical approaches that privileged the national framework and very often adopted a Eurocentric perspective. This triumphalist discourse about the field of global history should not, however, obscure the local and national specificities of this field of research, be they epistemological, institutional
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Arming Slaves in Early Modern Maritime Asia Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Stuart M. McManus
While there are large literatures on both Islamic slave soldiers and the phenomenon of “arming slaves” in the Atlantic world, military slavery in early modern Asia is still poorly understood. Using a variety of Chinese, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese sources, this article will argue that enslaved labour was frequently directed towards violence across early modern Asia, colonial or otherwise. At the
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Political Experimentation in the Age of Global Revolutions Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Nicolás Alejandro González Quintero
This essay reviews six recent books that explore how revolutionary upheavals pushed imperial and republican projects alike to experiment with novel political ideas and mechanisms. These initiatives came in response to calls for representation and equality throughout the Age of Revolution. In doing so, these books reveal the failures and successes of these projects in responding to these demands. The
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Untangling (Missionary) Entanglements: Recent Work on Christianisation and Cross-Cultural Contact and the Case for an Entangled Approach Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Eva Schalbroeck
This article discusses recent work on cross-cultural interactions between missionaries and Central Africans, including Images on a Mission by Cécile Fromont, Religious Entanglements by David Maxwell, and “What Is Religion in Africa?” by Birgit Meyer. These works adopt an entangled approach, examining how Christianisation engendered interconnections between Central Africans and missionaries and between
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The Elephant in the Archive: Knowledge Construction and Late Eighteenth-Century Global Diplomacy Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Birgit Tremml-Werner
This article explores the dynamics behind global diplomacy and knowledge in Asian maritime empires in the late eighteenth century. The short-lived diplomatic exchange between the Kingdom of Mysore and the Spanish Philippines in 1776–7 provides a rich resource for an analysis of how global diplomatic agents coproduced material objects, images, and written records which in turn impacted politics and
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Welfare for War Veterans: How the Dutch Empire Provided for European Mercenary Families, c. 1850 to 1914 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Philipp Krauer, Bernhard C. Schär
The largest “multinational” employers (avant la letter) were European India companies and colonial armies. Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, they recruited millions of mercenaries and soldiers from all over Europe, mostly from lower social classes. Beginning in the nineteenth century, they offered certain welfare-state services to these men and their legitimate and illegitimate families
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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions in the Spanish Empire Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
This article examines two different missionary areas where the Society of Jesus was sent to evangelise the native population: the Andean territories previously under Inca domination and the remote Mariana Islands in the Pacific Rim. The gathering of “other barbarians” living outside “civilised” societies was a tool of early modern colonisers within Europe and beyond. The English did so in sixteenth-century
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Silent Heritage: Investigating Ruxton's Nigeria Collection at the Horniman Museum and Gardens Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Fleur Martin
Museums which display all of their colonial collections are rare, and those which offer clear information on collection provenances and colonial histories in displays are rarer still. Absence and silence surrounding the colonial past in Europe's museums places them at odds with international pressure to account for the custodianship of colonial-era collections. This is examined here through investigating
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“An Imperial Clearing House for Commercial Information and Suggestions:” The British Imperial Council of Commerce, 1911–1925 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ayodeji Olukoju
This paper departs from the preoccupation in the literature with the pressure group activity of single chambers of commerce by examining an influential but previously neglected federated business pressure group, the British Imperial Council of Commerce (BICC). Set within interlocking dynamics of British Imperial and global history and the clamour for imperial preference, it focuses on BICC's interface
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A Parochial Approach: Colonial Entomology on the Plantations of Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Matthew Holmes
The coffee plantations of late nineteenth-century Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) were rocked by a series of crises, including the appearance of numerous insect pests. Scholars have demonstrated that nineteenth-century plantations were both ecologically vulnerable and reliant on exploited labour, with entomology deployed in their defence across the British Empire. Yet this paper argues that, despite
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The Native Militia in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Philippines: A Space of Power for the Indigenous Elite Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Grace Liza Concepcion
The history of the indigenous militia and its role in consolidating the native elite's place in the seventeenth-century colonial Philippines is an understudied topic. This paper addresses that gap. Using lists of media anata payments gathered from the Contaduría section of the Archivo General de Indias for the province of Laguna, this paper examines the beginnings of the native militia and the positions
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Truths from Morocco: Knowledge Production and Danish-Moroccan Encounters in the Eighteenth Century Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Svein Atle Skålevåg
In the 1750s the Danish kingdom and the Moroccan Empire came into contact, and concluded a bilateral treaty. As part of the accord, a Danish chartered company was established. The company was short-lived and the “special relationship” between the two powers soon withered. A result of this episode was a handful of texts that sought to describe Morocco to a Danish audience—an adventure tale, a captive
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The Politics of Printing and Knowledge Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Daniela Samur
In this review essay I examine how recent books about print culture and knowledge production in Latin America and the Caribbean have addressed the relationship between printing and power, and in doing so have contributed to global discussions about the hierarchies of knowledge production. The study of print culture in a broader social framework shows how printed materials matter beyond the realm of
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Britain's Involvement in Chile's Cambiaso Mutiny, 1851–2: A Case of Political Dependency at the Dawn of the Republic Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Juan Navarrete-Montalvo
In mid-1851 a civil war erupted in Chile following a presidential election in which Manuel Montt defeated José María de la Cruz. Many of Cruz's supporters were sent to the distant penal colony of Magallanes. In November 1851, Lieutenant Miguel José Cambiaso, who was part of the garrison, was jailed for insubordination and subsequently led a bloody mutiny disguised as a revolt by Cruz's supporters.
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“Internal Frontiers”: Whiteness, Intimacy, and the Expatriate Home in Britain's African Colonies during the Postwar Period Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Nathalie Cooper
Using archival oral history interviews with ex-colonial officers from the Scottish Decolonisation Project and the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, this article examines the intimate lives and domestic spaces of white expatriates in Britain's African colonies during the postwar period, often described as the “people's empire.” In doing so, it seeks to better understand the socio-historical
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Tipu and the Turks: An Islamicate Embassy in the Age of British Expansion Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Rishad Choudhury
In 1786, several hundred subjects of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–99), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in southern India, travelled to the Ottoman Empire on a diplomatic mission. This essay revisits the embassy's travels, and travails, across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean by drawing attention to a rich cache of administrative documents. I suggest that this collection, hitherto unexamined, can illuminate some
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New Angles on Whiteness and the Making of the Modern World Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Angela Woollacott
These four new books on whiteness show its continuing vitality as a scholarly field, while broadening its purview to encompass North America, Africa, India and Australia from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Thematically they draw together the Enlightenment, intellectual and affective history, gender, economics, the field of international relations, labour and immigration. All will help us
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From Borderlands to the Sea: Recent Studies of Indigenous Atlantic Travellers Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Jesse Zarley
The dominions, political strategies, and diverse lifeways of Indigenous peoples in the early modern Atlantic world have been treated generally as rural and terrestrial—ending at the shore—while European supremacy over the high seas has been taken for granted. These conceptual assumptions have extended into methodological approaches to encounters between Indigenous polities and European empires that
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Forum Introduction: Gender, Intimate Networks, and Global Commerce in the Early Modern Period Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Aske Brock Laursen, Misha Ewen, Lucas Haasis, Margaret R. Hunt, Annika Raapke
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new patterns of knowledge, credit, and capital were created by global expansion. These, in turn, created new opportunities for groups of people who previously had little access to global trade. These individuals—women as well as men—increasingly engaged in commercial transactions, some of them relatively autonomous, others challenged and hindered by various
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An English East India Company Ship's Crew in a Connected Seventeenth-Century World Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Margaret R. Hunt
This contribution to the forum Gender, Intimate Networks, and Global Commerce in the Early Modern Period follows the career of a single late seventeenth-century English East India Company ship and her crew, in order to challenge the claim that long-haul ships were isolated spaces. Specifically, it looks at the many kinds of connections —intimate and otherwise—that characterised early modern ships and
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Capital and Kin: English Women's Intimate Networks and Property in Barbados Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Misha Ewen
This article explores how women in England, using a range of economic and legal tools and methods, managed wealth and property in Barbados during the seventeenth century. Being distant from the colony had implications for how English women managed their property in Barbados, as direct oversight was impossible. Instead, women were forced to broker arrangements with overseers and agents who could act
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Petites Affaires: Pacotille Commerce and the Intimate Networks of Free Women of Colour in the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Annika Raapke
This article looks at the specific early modern trade practice of the pacotille and at pacotille commercial networks, particularly of free women of colour, as a means of approaching female trade knowledge and intimate networks in the ancien régime Caribbean colonies. Surviving documentation of this flexible commerce allows us to approach women of highly different backgrounds as knowledgeable and skilled
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“Your sister growes rich by her great trade”: Catherine Nicks's Intimate Economy Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Aske Laursen Brock
“Catherine Nicks's Intimate Economy” introduces an intimate network that spanned Europe and Asia in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, underlining how women created opportunities for themselves and their extended network. Using the case study of Catherine Nicks, the article examines how a trading company's network, in spite of the company's desire for impermeable monopolies, lent
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Colonial Education Goes International: A Micro-History of Knowledge Production and Circulation in an Age of Imperial Crisis Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Damiano Matasci
By focusing on the individual trajectory of Albert Charton (1893–1980), a French educationalist and civil servant who was active in West Africa and Indochina during the 1930s and 1940s, this article offers an original approach to the analysis of knowledge production and circulation in relation to the colonial world. More specifically, the study of Charton's involvement in several imperial, international
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Settler Worldmaking: Reconfiguring the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953–62 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Brooks Marmon
As soon as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed in 1953, disgruntled white settler politicians in the new polity pushed for the reconfiguration of its borders. Driven by decolonisation struggles across Africa and a surge of anti-colonial nationalism in Nyasaland in particular, these debates were particularly vibrant among the political establishment in Southern Rhodesia, the Federation's
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Spheres of Life and Scales of Action among Gujarati and Omani Merchants in the African Great Lakes Region, 1920s–1930s Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Geert Castryck
Based on bankruptcy and inheritance files and on population and business registers from Ruanda-Urundi, this paper reconstructs the local and long-distance professional and affective relations of Indian and Arab merchants operating in and around Bujumbura in the two decades before and after the Great Depression (1920s–1930s). The story complements the historiography on Asian diasporas in East Africa
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Buying Patience: Ordering and Purchasing Wedding Jewellery and Furniture through Intimate Networks during Eighteenth-Century Mercantile Marriage Initiation and Preparation Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Lucas Haasis
This article deals with the practice of buying wedding jewellery and furniture for a new home during mercantile marriage initiation in the eighteenth century. At the centre of the paper is the act of marriage initiation between the Hamburg burgher's daughter Ilsabe Engelhardt and wholesale merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens, who travelled France in the two years preceding his marriage. Luetkens postponed
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Dangerous Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Buddhist Laṅkā and Siam Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Tyler A. Lehrer
The kingdoms of Kandy (now Sri Lanka) and Ayutthaya (now Thailand) were briefly connected across Indian Ocean waters in the mid-eighteenth century by Dutch East India Company (hereafter VOC) traders, leading to the importation of valuable Siamese Buddhist monks and their ordination lineage to the island. Two series of events related to the VOC's search for and delivery of these monks demonstrate that
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Companies in the Early Modern World: A Review of Recent Literature Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Erik Odegard
Chartered companies provided one solution for the problems posed by long-distance trade in the early modern world. Accordingly, these organisations have been studied exhaustively. Yet the field is by no means depleted, as the books reviewed here attest. These six books cover questions ranging from whether the chartered companies acted as real business organisations or rather as appendages of state
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Reciprocal Mobilities in Colonial Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Luzon Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Mark Dizon
The article sheds new light on colonial encounters in eighteenth-century Luzon by viewing them through the lens of mobility. Historical actors—both Spaniards and indigenes—created and sustained ties with each other through reciprocal visits punctuated by feasts. Encounters were not singular events but rather pertained to a series of multiple mobilities and multisited celebrations. The very act of travelling
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Towards a More Intimate Understanding of Black Female Lives in Slavery Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Tijl Vanneste
Historians working on slavery always must perform a balancing act between narrating the atrocities of oppression and the possibilities of resistance to and escape from it. The three books under review all do a wonderful job in showing us a way out of this conundrum. Jessica Johnson and Sophie White do so by analysing the intimate lives of enslaved women in early modern New Orleans and West Africa (Johnson)
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Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s: An Introduction to Its Connected and Global History Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Milinda Banerjee, Kerstin von Lingen
When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually
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Disease, DPs, and DDT: A Global Health Perspective on the History of Refugee Relief Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Roderick Bailey
At the end of the Second World War, millions of men, women, and children shared a similar experience: delousing, at the hands of Allied armies and relief agencies, to prevent the spread of infectious disease. The procedure lasted seconds. In studies of displaced populations in this period, its effects upon them are commonly presented as invasive, humiliating, and, for some, reminiscent of Nazi abuse
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From POW to Cold War DP: A Global Microhistory of Former Yugoslav Soldiers in Occupied Germany, 1946–48 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Christian Höschler
There are still many historical blind spots in research on Europe's displaced persons (DPs) after the Second World War. In particular, there are relatively few studies that link microhistorical perspectives on repatriation and resettlement with global contexts. This essay addresses this gap, in empirical as well as methodological terms, by focusing on a group of DPs that hitherto has received little
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Rethinking the Postwar International Migration Regime from the Global South: Venezuela in a Global History of White Immigration Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Sebastian Huhn
Between 1947 and early 1952, the International Refugee Organization (IRO), which was established within the framework of the United Nations to “solve” the so-called European refugee problem after the end of the Second World War, resettled one million European refugees—victims of Nazism as well as East European refugees who escaped the Red Army—all over the world. The IRO's resettlement project is regarded
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Histories of Empire and Environmental Legacies in Africa Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Iva Peša
Societal debates about climate change have rekindled interest in environmental history approaches. This review article considers three recent books in African environmental history, on the Kruger National Park, the East African Groundnut Scheme, and on infrastructure in postcolonial Dar es Salaam. Why is it important to study the empire–environment nexus? How do African experiences relate to discussions
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European Imperial Rule through Ottoman Land Law: British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Alexis Rappas
This paper focuses on the articulation between property, sovereignty, and the construction of new political subjectivities in post-Ottoman provinces. Drawing on the cases of British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese, and French Mandatory Syria, it shows that European sovereign claims on these territories were pursued through the perpetuation of Ottoman land laws and the reorganisation of the judicial
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“Press the thumb onto the eye”: Moral Effect, Extreme Violence, and the Transimperial Notions of British, German, and Dutch Colonial Warfare, ca. 1890–1914 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Tom Menger
Historiography on the extreme violence of fin de siècle colonial wars has often remained nationally fragmented or actively invested in theories of national exceptionality. Focusing on the British, German and Dutch empires, this article seeks to understand the extreme violence as a transimperial phenomenon and asks how we can conceptualise and give empirical substance to this transimperial dimension
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Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Joseph Wagner
This article examines the legal and sociopolitical position that Scots held in the English Atlantic world from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the restoration of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. It demonstrates that Scots gained access to colonial opportunities through the royal patronage of James VI and I and Charles I. The policy of those monarchs also largely supported Scottish endeavours in the transatlantic
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Conversations along the Mbwemkuru: Foreign Itinerants and Local Agents in German East Africa Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Lorne Larson
The underlying theme of this essay is how intelligence was gathered and expertise dispersed in an emerging colonial environment in Africa, and how that knowledge was captured, credited and distributed between local Africans and (largely) itinerant Europeans. It sets that discussion within a more recent debate on the mechanics of European exploration during the wider nineteenth century. The expanded
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Coercing Mobility: Territory and Displacement in the Politics of Southeast Asian Muslim Movements Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Joshua Gedacht, Amrita Malhi
This introductory article explores the recent turn in Asian history towards work that foregrounds mobility, circulation, and cosmopolitan connections, decentring colonial territoriality and postcolonial geo-bodies as the primary units of historical analysis. In it, and to frame our own special issue on Muslim movements in Southeast Asia, we point out that some of this mobility was coerced via projects
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Women, Violence, and Gender Dynamics during and after the Five Patani-Siam Wars, 1785–1838 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Francis R. Bradley
This article examines five wars that occurred on the Malay-Thai Peninsula in the period 1785–1838 and the deep impact they had upon women's lives during and after the conflicts. Constituting the majority of surviving refugees, women rebuilt their lives in the wake of war through business and trade in Malaya, as Islamic teachers in Mecca and Southeast Asia, and as servants and slaves in Bangkok. In
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Exile, Mobility, and Re-territorialisation in Aceh and Colonial Indonesia Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Joshua Gedacht
For centuries, trading companies and colonial officials have sought to manipulate indigenous Asian kingdoms by banishing recalcitrant elites, thereby discouraging resistance and ensuring compliance. Less examined by scholars is how colonial officials adapted this tool in their efforts to manage mobility and achieve territorialisation at the turn of the twentieth century. Applying Josiah Heyman and
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Dis/connection: Violence, Religion, and Geographic Imaginings in Aceh and Colonial Indonesia, 1890s–1920s Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 David Kloos
This article draws attention to the case of Aceh to analyse the mechanisms through which ideologically driven geographic imaginings obscured the role of place and class in colonial and anti-colonial violence in Indonesia. Its main perspective is the region's West Coast. In the course of the long and brutal Dutch-Acehnese war (1873–1942), the West Coast of Sumatra was transformed from a dynamic centre
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Displacing Political Islam in Indonesia Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Chiara Formichi
This article investigates the narrative of Islamic nationalism in twentieth-century Indonesia, focussing on the experience of, and discourse surrounding, the self-identified Islamist Darul Islam movement and its leader, S. M. Kartosuwiryo (1905–1962). I offer a narrative of the independence struggle that counters the one advanced by Indonesia's Pancasila state, and allows us to capture subtleties that
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School Teachers and Soft Decolonisation in Dutch–Indonesian Relations, 1945–1949 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Agus Suwignyo
The emergence of two states in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Second World War, namely the Republic of Indonesia and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration, instigated a war that imposed citizenship, which schoolteachers had to choose carefully. By examining the quest for professional trajectories of Dutch and Indonesian schoolteachers during the 1945–1949 period, this paper argues that expanding
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A Dissenting Voice: The Clash of Trade and Warfare in Giovanni da Empoli's Account of His Second Voyage to Portuguese Asia Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Matteo Salonia
Giovanni da Empoli's second voyage to Asia (1510–1514) was eventful and violent, characterised by the emergence of conflicting agendas among different groups of Portuguese. The Florentine merchant's long letter about the voyage is an extraordinary document, and provides insights in three important areas. First, it allows us to fill some of the gaps in the history of the early phases of Portuguese empire
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Managing Expertise: The Problem of Engineers in the English East India Company, 1668–1764 Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Tim Riding
This article challenges the assumption that the early modern engineer acted as a reliable agent for colonial authorities. Far from acting as trusted mediators between colony and metropole, experts could exacerbate tensions. The English East India Company knew this, and avoided engineers throughout its early history. This article considers the interplay between authorities in London and their subordinates
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Classifications at Work: Social Categories and Dutch Bureaucracy in Colonial Sri Lanka Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Dries Lyna, Luc Bulten
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living in coastal Sri Lanka during the eighteenth century. A thorough analysis of three spheres of Dutch bureaucracy (reporting, registering, and litigating) makes it clear that there was no uniform ideology that steered
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From the United States to Rural Europe: The New Immigration, Homecoming Migrants, and Social Remittances in Hungary Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Bálint Varga
A high number of migrants returned from their transatlantic sojourn to their native Hungary between the 1880s and the 1930s. Despite being pauperised and marginalised in the United States, they encountered norms and mechanisms of a democratic society and cultural patterns unknown to the rural society they hailed from. Upon returning, they implemented some of these practices. The paper investigates
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The African Dimension to the Anti-Federation Struggle, ca. 1950–53: “It has united us far more closely than any other question would have accomplished” Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Rob Power
The documentary record of African opposition to the CAF (Central African Federation) has been the subject of renewed historiographical interest in recent years.2 This paper seeks to contribute to the existing debate in three principle ways. Firstly, it will show that opposition to the scheme was fatally undermined by the pursuits of two very distinct strands of NAC (Nyasaland African Congress) and
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Histories of Indian Citizenship in the Age of Decolonisation Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Kalyani Ramnath
This essay discusses the important contributions of three new works on Indian citizenship by Ornit Shani, Uditi Sen, and Oliver Godsmark. Their books discuss the territorial partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947, the framing and inauguration of the Indian Constitution in 1950, the preparation of voter rolls and the first democratic elections, and linguistic reorganisation of
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Looking for Agency in Transnational Refugee Trajectories during the Second World War Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Rosa de Jong
The authors of three recent monographs, The Escape Line, Escape from Vichy, and Nearly the New World, highlight in particular the relevance of transnational refugee and resistance networks. These books shed new light on the trajectories of refugees through war-torn Europe and their routes out of it. Megan Koreman displays in The Escape Line the relevance of researching one line of resistance functioning
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An Ethiopian Scholar in Tridentine Rome: Täsfa Ṣeyon and the Birth of Orientalism Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Matteo Salvadore, James De Lorenzi
This article surveys the diasporic life and legacy of the Ethiopian ecclesiastic Täsfa Ṣeyon. After examining his origins in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and the circumstances of his arrival in mid-sixteenth-century Rome, the article outlines his contributions to the evolving Latin Catholic understanding of Ethiopia. Täsfa Ṣeyon was a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community
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“Against Right and Reason”: The Bold but Smooth French Take-Over of Dutch Cayenne (1655–1664) Itinerario (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Martijn van den Bel
The Dutch loss of Brazil in 1654 favoured the resettlement of Dutch merchants along the Wild Coast and in the Lesser Antilles and the establishment of new colonies. Cayenne Island was one of them. One WIC patent was handed to Jan Claes Langedijck, who settled at the former French fort of Cépérou, and another patent was given to David Nassy, who settled in the Anse de Rémire, situated at the opposite