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Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra-and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Bernard Z. Keo
Abstract: The city of George Town, Penang has always been enmeshed in complex circulations of trade, people, and ideas. By the end of the nineteenth century, George Town developed a multicultural and polyglot society that included a kaleidoscopic mix of ethnic groups. This article investigates the role played by George Town’s cosmopolitan population in developing the port-city into a global hub for
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Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Anjuli Webster
Abstract: Over the nineteenth century, England and Portugal contested the possession of Delagoa Bay in south eastern Africa. Using documents from a British hydrographical survey mission of the east coast of Africa, and British Parliamentary Papers recording the dispute over possession of the bay in the 1870s, I demonstrate that bordermaking in the region was rooted in interimperial claims and disputes
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Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sophie-Jung Hyun Kim
Abstract: Universalism has driven many imaginations of the world. From civilizational discourse to cosmopolitan ethics, universalism as an idea and ideal have mobilized various political units, social activism, and religious movements. This article introduces a hitherto neglected expression of religious universalism in the fin-de-siècle—Indo-U.S. brotherhood. Unlike other colonial Indian and U.S.-American
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Britain's Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American "Special Relationship," 1945–1959 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Kenzo Okuda
Abstract: Atomic energy has played an important role in international relations as a means of state power. From 1945 to 1959, Japan was significantly influenced by developments in atomic energy as a result of the Anglo-American “special relationship.” During World War II, Britain and the United States cooperated to develop atomic weapons to use against Japan. In the ensuing Cold War era, the two countries
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The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Martha K. Robinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus Martha K. Robinson The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By cindy ermus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiii + 253 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-48954-6
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Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire by Kwasi Konadu (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jane Hooper
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire by Kwasi Konadu Jane Hooper Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire. By kwasi konadu. London: Hurst, 2022. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-78738-697-6
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Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842 by Elizabeth Elbourne (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Christoph Strobel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842 by Elizabeth Elbourne Christoph Strobel Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842. By elizabeth elbourne. Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mark Meuwese
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari Mark Meuwese Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples. By mohamed adhikari. Critical Themes in World History. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2022. xliv + 179 pp. ISBN 978-1-64792-049-4. $18.00 (paper). Mohamed Adhikari rightly
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Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Scott C. M. Bailey
Abstract: During the late nineteenth century large numbers of long-distance travelers, often elites from imperial states, ventured abroad. The purposes of these travels included for scientific or academic research, for reporting or other information-gathering purposes, and for touristic experiences. These imperial travelers' observations and experiences can be analyzed to provide us a fuller picture
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Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Alex Goodall
Abstract: This article explores encounters between U.S. tourists and British imperial actors in the British West Indies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing on published traveller accounts from the period, it argues that literary cross-fertilization and practices of colonial sociability encouraged shared understandings of the Caribbean framed around visions of global white supremacy
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Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890S Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Igor Iwo Chabrowski
Abstract: The article focuses on two authors who in the 1890s contributed towards the European knowledge of two Asiatic societies—the Acehnese in Sumatra and the Yakuts in Syberia. They arrived in Asia in very different capacities: a Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje as an advisor to the Dutch colonial government, and a Pole Wacław Sieroszewski as a political prisoner. Whereas Snouck Hurgronje was
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Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Matthew J. Schauer
Abstract: This article examines several collecting expeditions to the Philippines and Sarawak, Borneo between 1898 and 1909. Collectors on these expeditions collected Indigenous cultural objects, human remains, anthropological data, and natural specimens in order to build up museum collections in Sarawak, England, and the United States. This article argues that to varying degrees, these expeditions
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Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Jack Bouchard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Water, Bodies, Space:New Directions in World Environmental History Jack Bouchard Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. By faisal husain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 278 pp. ISBN 9780197547274. $35.00 (hardcover); $35.00 (ebook). An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration
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Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Elizabeth M. Schmidt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal Elizabeth M. Schmidt Piracy in World History. Edited by stefan eklöf amirell, bruce buchan, and hans hägerdal. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 289 pp. ISBN 978-94-6372-921-5. $124.00 (hardcover). Conventionally, piracy has been
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The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Tyson Reeder
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy Tyson Reeder The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. By tessa murphy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. iii + 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-5338-2. $45.00 (hardcover). With this well-researched book
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Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters by Junko Thérèse Takeda (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Susan Mokhberi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters by Junko Thérèse Takeda Susan Mokhberi Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters. By junko thérèse takeda. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Recently scholars have
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New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Mattia Steardo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby Mattia Steardo New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. By brian p. owensby. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. ISBN 9781503627512. $95.00 (hardcover). In the
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African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 William D. Carrigan, Clive Webb
This article reveals the impact of mob violence against foreign nationals in the United States on the African American campaign to outlaw lynching and secure justice for families of victims. From the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government responded to diplomatic pressure by paying indemnities to the relatives of foreigners lynched on American soil. Washington hoped thereby to protect the international
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Captive Colonizers: The Role of the Prisoners of War from Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the Russian Subjugation of Eastern Siberia Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
Abstract: The article focuses on non-Russians who participated in the Russian conquest of eastern Siberia in the seventeenth century. As a result of recurrent wars fought by seventeenth-century Russia against Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate, numerous Polish-Lithuanian as well as Tatar nobles and soldiers found themselves as captives or prisoners of war in the tsar's service and willy-nilly
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Chains of Custody, Oceans of Instability: The Precarious Logistics of the Natural History Trade Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Vanessa Finney, Jarrod Hore, Simon Ville
Abstract: A global trade in zoological specimens arose from the expansion of natural history collecting in the nineteenth century. This paper examines the precarious logistics faced by the trans-continental movement of these oftenfragile specimens. Cycles of trans-shipment and oceanic passages, transfers along chains of custody, all threatened physical and informational loss. We investigate these challenges
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Abie Nathan and his Double-Edged Missions: The Transnational Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist during the Nigeria-Biafra War Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Taiwo Bello
Abstract: The Nigeria-Biafra War occupied a prominent position among the brutal conflicts fought in the 1960s. Some scholars have compared the war both in terms of human cost and material destruction to the Vietnam War. But despite that there is a growing literature on the humanitarian or human rights aspects of the conflict, some key actors have been left out from the narrative. Much of the available
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Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al. (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Clare Griffin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al. Clare Griffin A Global History of Early Modern Violence. Edited by erica charters, marie houllemare, and peter h. wilson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 302 pp. £80.00 (hardcover); ebook (open access). A Global History of Early Modern Violence
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The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Eric Hinderaker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar Eric Hinderaker The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire. By kate fullagar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN 97803000243062. $40.00 (hardcover). Scholars once separated the history
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Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Timothy Yang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter Timothy Yang Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines. By andrew j. rotter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 392 pp. ISBN 9780190924706. $41.95 (hardcover). The British and Americans
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Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Brian J Griffith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley Brian J Griffith Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Edited by julia adeney thomas and geoff eley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0376-2. $27.95 (paper);
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Erratum Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum In Journal of World History Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 2021), the following error has been corrected: Article: Burrill, Emily. "Sorting and Seeing: Digitization and Ways of Reading the Archives of French West Africa." Journal of World History, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 199–217. Correction: The citation for footnote 27 is incorrect. The
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Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Timothy Yang
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Abie Nathan and his Double-Edged Missions: The Transnational Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist during the Nigeria-Biafra War Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Taiwo Bello
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Chains of Custody, Oceans of Instability: The Precarious Logistics of the Natural History Trade Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Vanessa Finney,Jarrod Hore,Simon Ville
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Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al. Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Clare Griffin
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Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700 by Ron Harris Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Steven M. Harris
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Captive Colonizers: The Role of the Prisoners of War from Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the Russian Subjugation of Eastern Siberia Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
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Breaking the Containment: Horse Trade between the Ming Empire and its Northern Neighbors, 1368–1570 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Liping Wang,Geng Tian
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Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Brian J Griffith
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The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Eric Hinderaker
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Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era ed. by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Steven Seegel
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“Missions and Conversions in World History: An Introduction” Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Stephen S. Francis
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Flows of Bullion and the Perception of Maritime Space: Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Aasim Khwaja
Abstract: The historiography of the Mughal empire offers a study in contrasts. At one level, there is forceful articulation of the Mughals as preeminent political force with vast dominions, high culture, sophisticated administrative apparatus, and powerful military. However, it is somewhat ironical that when the focus veers to the maritime space, the consensus seems to hold that the Mughals were largely
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"Almost as it is Formulated in the So-Called 'Homestead Act'": Images of the American West in French Settlement of French Algeria Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Timothy Roberts
Abstract: Nineteenth-century American expansion has been shown as a type of Anglo-American "settler revolution," but the United States was also connected with France in France's ideas for the imperial development of Algeria. The two countries alike were ambitious empires, their leaders committed to expansion as a means of political and economic regeneration. More than this, the French empire "borrowed"
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The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her New Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Mona L. Russell
Abstract: The New Woman appeared on the world stage between 1850 and 1950. One of her distinguishing features was new habits of consumption. Outside of Europe and the United States, these new forms of consumption were tied to new forms of education. Missionary education played a significant role in the process of this education, promoting competition among other schools, and creating a discourse about
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Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Christopher S. Rose
Abstract: The "Spanish influenza" pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were redirected to serve military needs. Rural and poor Egyptians
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Toward a "New Humanism"? Time and Emotion in UNESCO's Science of World-Making, 1947–1951 Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Kevin Myers, Arathi Sriprakash, Peter Sutoris
Abstract: This article examines how the newly formed United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) aimed to construct a programme of social science research that would dispense with determinist theories of racial evolution and promote a new humanism for a postwar world. As scholars and politicians debated the shape of a new world order, they turned toward apparently universal
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Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change ed. by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Samuel Dolbee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change ed. by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett Samuel Dolbee Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. Edited by ulrike Kirchberger and brett m. bennett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 278 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-2
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The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment by Alessandro Antonello (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 John McCannon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment by Alessandro Antonello John McCannon The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment. By alessandro antonello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN 9780190907174. $78.00. A perennial challenge in the writing of polar history
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Refugee Crises, 1945—2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison ed. by Jan C. Jensen and Simone Lässig (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Jeff Crisp
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Refugee Crises, 1945—2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison ed. by Jan C. Jensen and Simone Lässig Jeff Crisp Refugee Crises, 1945—2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison. Edited by jan c. jensen and simone lässig. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781108835138
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Erratum Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum In Journal of World History Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 2021), the following error has been corrected: Article: Guldi, Jo. "The Official Mind's View of Empire, in Miniature: Quantifying World Geography in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates." Journal of World History, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 345–370. Correction: The captions for Figures
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The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her New Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Mona L. Russell
Abstract: The New Woman appeared on the world stage between 1850 and 1950. One of her distinguishing features was new habits of consumption. Outside of Europe and the United States, these new forms of consumption were tied to new forms of education. Missionary education played a significant role in the process of this education, promoting competition among other schools, and creating a discourse about
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Human Excreta: Hazardous Waste or Valuable Resource? Shifting Views of Modernity Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Iris Borowy
Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, a water-carried system of flush toilets and sewage pipes came to be regarded as "modern" and "Western" and became part of the package of transformations conceived as "development," which international organizations endorsed after 1945. However, in promoting sanitation, the World Health Organization and other organizations faced contradictory demands: protecting
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Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith (review) Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Pinar Emiralioğlu
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith Pinar Emiralioğlu Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo. By yossef rapoport and emilie savage-smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. iii + 349 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-54088-7
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Sorting and Seeing: Digitization and Ways of Reading the Archives of French West Africa Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Emily Burrill
Abstract: This essay provides a brief overview of themes that emerge in historical research when we consider the low-technology and simple methods of digital photography in archives of empire. A brief consideration of how to incorporate aspects of digital capture in the classroom is also discussed. The core of the article is a case study of gun permit applications and the circulation of guns between
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Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Stephen Doherty, Lisa Ford, Kirsten McKenzie, Naomi Parkinson, David Roberts, Paul Halliday, Zoe Laidlaw, Alan Lester, Philip Stern
Abstract: This article tests the value of corpus linguistics in analyzing nineteenth-century commissions of inquiry into British colonies. It examines and improves the capacity of a computerized text analysis tool called the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to identify word meaning, sentiment, and psycholinguistic constructs in nineteenth-century sources. By augmenting its dictionary with nineteenth-century
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Crime, Penal Transportation, and Digital Methodologies Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Barry Godfrey, Caroline Homer, Kris Inwood, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Rebecca Reed, Richard Tuffin
Abstract: This article argues that the ability to systematically analyze hundreds of thousands of life course events provides an opportunity to explore the ways in which an Australian convict archive was originally intended to be used, as well as a means of placing information supplied by subalterns within context. We also show how the digital reconstruction of the bureaucratic instruments of colonial
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Between Oceans and Continents: Slavery in Portuguese Mozambique through Digital Methods in Collaborative Research Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Abigail Fields, Elcídio Rui Macuácua, Aneri R. Modi, Ivan C. Zacarias
Abstract: Any imperial power requires a bureaucratic machine to help rule its possessions. Traces of such machinery can be found in archives around the world. Although previously restricted, access to these archives' collections has widened thanks in part to the Digital Revolution. This article examines the digitization of imperial sources through analysis of a research project aimed at building a
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Lajos Kossuth and Multiple Imperialisms: Computational Analysis and the International Assessment of Empire Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 James Parker
Abstract: This paper uses international newspaper corpora from the Oceanic Exchanges digital humanities project to examine transnational perceptions of imperialism in the nineteenth century. Through the figure of Lajos Kossuth, whose publicity tour of the United States in 1852 generated support for Hungarian independence, this paper demonstrates that big-data and digital analysis tools such as topic
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Digital Tools and Ancient Empires: Using Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to Study Imperial Networks in Hellenistic Anatolia Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Ryan Horne
Abstract: An increasing number of historians and sociologists have theorized empires as a series of interlocking networks of social and political interactions. Less attention has been paid to how digital techniques can be deployed to study the structure of those networks, their geospatial context, or their visualization, especially in the construction of maps. Advances in digital gazetteers, social
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The Official Mind's View of Empire, in Miniature: Quantifying World Geography in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Jo Guldi
Abstract: For many scholars who are not themselves historians of political thought, the major use of official records is as a benchmark for studying other kinds of development. Official records of modern political bodies are widely available in digitized form and provide one of the primary sources with which digital historians have trained their methods. This article applies the process of "reducing"
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Graduate Pedagogy at the Intersection of Colonial Histories and Digital Methods Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Sharon Block
Abstract: The influence of digital methods on pedagogy has been primarily discussed in terms of undergraduate education. However, basic advances in digital humanities, including digitization, multimedia projects, social media, and common online applications can fundamentally transform graduate student teaching in ways that are particularly useful for empire and colonial histories. Standard digitally
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Introduction: South Asian Migrations in Modern Global Histories Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Neilesh Bose
Abstract: This introduction to the special forum "Indenture and its Afterlives" offers a snapshot of three articles by Ashutosh Kumar, Riyad Koya, and Andrea Wright, on topics such as contract, legal history and the abolition of indentured labor, and consent. It situates these contributions within a brief historiography of the study of South Asian migrations in global historical frameworks.
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Subaltern Mobility and Labor Contract: Indian Indenture in New World History Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Ashutosh Kumar
Abstract: Recent work in global history has defined the long-distance labor migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, following the demise of Trans-Atlantic slavery, as a global phenomenon. Though an important component of migration studies as well as the history of globalization, this framework struggles to consider the significance of indentured migration from India to the sugar plantations
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From Slaves to Contract Workers: Genealogies of Consent and Security in Indian Labor Migration Journal of World History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Andrea Wright
Abstract: This article examines how the mechanisms used by the British Empire to move indentured workers during the nineteenth were implemented in the twentieth century in order to move Indian workers to the oilfields of the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the continuation of this process into the present. Using archival and ethnographic material, this article explores shifting legal engagements with the