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This cluster of papers explores the Transatlantic Slave Trade, its historical impact, and the experiences of enslaved Africans in the Americas. It delves into topics such as slave resistance, colonial economies, racial identity, legal rights, and the African diaspora in the Atlantic world.

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Transatlantic Slave Trade; Atlantic History; Slavery; African Diaspora; Slave Resistance; Colonial America; Enslaved Africans; Racial Identity; Legal Rights; Plantation Economy

The Social Life of Things

1988-01-01

Arjun Appadurai

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how … The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. They discuss a wide range of goods - from oriental carpets to human relics - to reveal both that the underlying logic of everyday economic life is not so far removed from that which explains the circulation of exotica, and that the distinction between contemporary economics and simpler, more distant ones is less obvious than has been thought. As the editor argues in his introduction, beneath the seeming infinitude of human wants, and the apparent multiplicity of material forms, there in fact lie complex, but specific, social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade, and desire. Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists, archaeologists, and historians of art.

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

1992-06-01

Leland M. Roth

(1992). The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 181-182. (1992). The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 181-182.

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900

2003-11-01

Víctor M. Uribe-Urán

Without consent or contract: the rise and fall of American slavery

1990-04-01

Robert W. Fogel

Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and … Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and fall of the peculiar institution, as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down a seemingly impregnable system.

Third sex, third gender: beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history.

1995-12-01

A. Marina Iossifides , Gilbert Herdt

In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on … In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, as a means of critiquing thinking that privileges standard male/female gender distinctions and rejects the natural basis of other forms of sexuality.The essays cover a wide range of times and cultures, starting in the Byzantine Empire and moving eclectically forward, with a special focus on the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The anthropological studies include the Native American berdache, the Indian Hijras caste, hermaphrodites in Melanesia, third genders in Indonesia and the Balkans, and transsexuals in America.Third Sex, Third Gender emphasizes desires on the margins of society, and pleasures and bodies outside the assumed arenas of social reproduction. It opens up the possibility of understanding in new ways how, for example, Byzantine palace eunuchs and the Hijras of India met the criteria of special social roles that necessitated self-castration, and how heartfelt yet forbidden desires were expressed among seventeenth-century Dutch Sodomites, the Mollys of eighteenth-century England, and the Intermediate Sex or so-called hermaphrodite-homosexual of nineteenth-century Europe and America.Gilbert Herdt is Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of a dozen books, including Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia, Gay and Lesbian Youth, and Intimate Communications.The essays: Introduction, Gilbert Herdt. Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium, Kathryn M. Ringrose. London's Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture, Randolph Trumbach. Sodomy and the Pursuit of the Third Sex in Early Modern Europe, Theo van der Meer. Woman Becomes Man in the Balkans, Rene Gremaux. A Female Soul in a Male Body: Sexual Inversion as Gender Inversion in Nineteenth Century Sexology, Gert Hekma. The Hijras: An Alternative Sex and Gender Role in India, Serna Nanda. How to Become a Berdache: Toward A Unified Analysis of Gender Diversity, Will Roscoe. The., Third Sex Among the Sambia, Gilbert Herdt. The Waria of Indonesia: A Traditional Third Gender Role, Robert Oostvogels. Transcending and Transgendering. Male to Female Transsexuals in the United States, Anne Bolin. Historical and Cultural Reconsideration of the Mabu Third Gender in Tahitia, Niko Besnier.

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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

1969-01-01

David Brion Davis , Winthrop D. Jordan

Originally published in 1968 by UNC Press, White over Black is Winthrop Jordan's award winning work on the history of American race relations. Originally published in 1968 by UNC Press, White over Black is Winthrop Jordan's award winning work on the history of American race relations.

Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery.

1975-02-01

Frank B. Tipton , Clarence E. Walker , Robert W. Fogel +1 more

This book, originally published in 1974 by Little, Brown and Company, is a sweeping reexamination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. Based upon a vast research effort, this … This book, originally published in 1974 by Little, Brown and Company, is a sweeping reexamination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. Based upon a vast research effort, this volume constitutes an entirely new portrayal of slavery's past. It challenges traditional assumptions about the material condition and management of slaves, their work habits, domestic welfare, and the economy of the antebellum South in general.

A colony of citizens: revolution and slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

2004-11-01

Laurent Marc Dubois

In A Colony of Citizens, Laurent Dubois has given us a fascinating account of the revolution in Guadeloupe.The history of the abortive abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe has attracted some … In A Colony of Citizens, Laurent Dubois has given us a fascinating account of the revolution in Guadeloupe.The history of the abortive abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe has attracted some attention in French scholarly circles, thanks to the recently passed 2002 bicentennial of the re-imposition of slavery there.[1]To the extent that students of Latin America in the English-speaking world have noticed the revolutions in the French West Indies at all, the tendency has been to pay attention to the striking example of Saint-Domingue and assume that conditions in other colonies paralleled those found in the "pearl of the Antilles."Laurent Dubois's work provides needed contrast to our easy over-generalization.For Guadeloupe was not Saint-Domingue.First, of course, the outcome was different --Saint-Domingue's slaves became Haiti's citizens, peasant farmers, and sometime laborers in the first black republic.Meanwhile, Guadeloupe's slaves, after a brief, shining moment as "new citizens" of France, went back to slavery until 1848.Saint-Domingue's white rulers were slaughtered or driven out of the colony, to spend their declining years playing up their victimization at the hands of barbarous slave rebels and pressuring the French government for reimbursement for their lost "property."Guadeloupe's white ruling class forced the slaves back into their chains, returned to plantation farming, and to prosperity, for a while.And Saint-Domingue's intermediate class of free people of color, after vacillating between pressing for equal treatment within the plantation system and support for the black revolutionaries, generally took their place at the head of the rebel armies and entered the era of independence as a new ruling class.Guadeloupean free coloreds participated in the struggles for equal rights, first for their own class, then for all people of African descent.Ultimately, though, they were defeated and ended up being oppressed even more brutally than before the revolution.

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The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

1940-02-01

Ludwell Lee Montague

The property the owners parliament and property the San Domingo masses begin and the Paris masses complete the rise of Toussaint the Mulattoes try and fail the white slave-owners again … The property the owners parliament and property the San Domingo masses begin and the Paris masses complete the rise of Toussaint the Mulattoes try and fail the white slave-owners again the expulsion of the British Toussaint seizes the power the black consul the bourgeoisie prepares to restore slavery the War of Independence.

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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

2001-01-01

Kenneth Maxwell , Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker

For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been … For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged.

Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.

1998-06-01

Helen Callaway , Frederick Cooper , Ann Laura Stoler

Starting with premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate … Starting with premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which civilizing missions in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being study of the colonized, it must account for shifting political terrain on which very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act

1979-02-01

David C. Itzkowitz , E. P. Thompson

Venus in Two Acts

2008-06-01

Saidiya Hartman

This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn't already been stated. As … This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn't already been stated. As an emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atlantic world, Venus makes plain the convergence of terror and pleasure in the libidinal economy of slavery and, as well, the intimacy of history with the scandal and excess of literature. In writing at the limit of the unspeakable and the unknown, the essay mimes the violence of the archive and attempts to redress it by describing as fully as possible the conditions that determine the appearance of Venus and that dictate her silence.

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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

1976-02-01

Marion Kilson , Eugene D. Genovese

Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640.

1996-12-01

Patricia Seed

Introduction 1. Houses, gardens, and fences: signs of English possession in the New World 2. Ceremonies: the theatrical rituals of French political possession 3. The requirement: a protocol for conquest … Introduction 1. Houses, gardens, and fences: signs of English possession in the New World 2. Ceremonies: the theatrical rituals of French political possession 3. The requirement: a protocol for conquest 4. 'A New Sky and New Stars': Arabic and Hebrew science, Portuguese seamanship, and the discovery of America 5. Sailing in the wake of the Portuguese Conclusion: the habits of history.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census.

1970-11-01

Peter Duignan , Philip D. Curtin

Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests … Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their colonies. Curtin s work will not only be the starting point for all future research on the slave trade and comparative slavery, but will become an indispensable reference for anyone interested in Afro-American studies. Journal of History Curtin has produced a stimulating monograph, the product of immaculate scholarship, against which all past and future studies will have to be judged. Journal of Studies Professor Curtin s new book is up to his customary standard of performance: within the limits he set for himself, The Atlantic Slave Trade could hardly be a better or more important book. American Historical Review

Myths of Empire

2018-10-09

Jack Snyder

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

1993-01-01

Bailus Walker , Paul Farmer

Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia

1986-01-01

Joan Vincent , Martin Chanock

This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part … This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part of the history of the social and economic transformation of African societies under colonial rule, it also provides an interpretation of the ways in which people tried to control the disrupting effects of the changes which they experienced. Martin Chanock shows how African ideas, aspirations and activities regarding law were shaped by interaction with the legal ideas of the British colonisers, their understandings of African societies, and the judicial institutions of the colonial state. These thematic considerations are illustrated by studies of how the customary law developed alongside criminal law in colonial society in Malawi and Zambia as part of the moral weaponry of a changing social order, and more specifically by describing the role of the customary law of the family in conflicts between men and women in the new colonial political economy.

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

1974-06-01

Keith Hart , Talal Asad

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England

1976-09-01

Ian Taylor , Douglas Hay , Peter Linebaugh +3 more

The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History.

1981-04-01

Ghillean Τ. Prance , Michael Goulding

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census

1970-06-01

David Brion Davis , Philip D. Curtin

Journal Article The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. By Philip D. Curtin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. xix + 338 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. … Journal Article The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. By Philip D. Curtin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. xix + 338 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Queen's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 119–120, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900557 Published: 01 June 1970

On the Methods of Long-Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation and the Portuguese Route to India

1984-05-01

John Law

It is argued that long-distance control depends upon the creation of a network of passive agents (both human and non-human) which makes it possible for emissaries to circulate from the … It is argued that long-distance control depends upon the creation of a network of passive agents (both human and non-human) which makes it possible for emissaries to circulate from the centre to the periphery in a way that maintains their durability, forcefulness and fidelity. This argument is exemplified by the empirical case of the fifteenth and sixteenth century Portuguese expansion and the reconstruction of the navigational context undertaken by the Portuguese in order to secure the global mobility and durability of their vessels. It is also suggested that three classes of emissaries – documents, devices and drilled people – have, together and separately, been particularly important for long-distance control, and that the dominance of the West since the sixteenth century may be partly explained in terms of crucial innovations in the methods by which passive agents of these three types are produced and interrelated.

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

2000-03-01

Gay W. Seidman , Kevin Bales

Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande

1977-01-01

T. O. Beidelman , E. E. Evans‐Pritchard

The Intimacies of Four Continents

2016-11-09

Etsuko Taketani

Reading The Intimacies of Four Continents will change the way we look at global (and national) histories forever. In this groundbreaking book, Lisa Lowe offers a genealogy of European liberalism—often … Reading The Intimacies of Four Continents will change the way we look at global (and national) histories forever. In this groundbreaking book, Lisa Lowe offers a genealogy of European liberalism—often narrated according to “a linear temporal progression”—in a broadly conceived “spatial dynamic” (p. 16). Lowe argues that settler colonialism in the Americas, the African slave trade, and East Indies and China trading were the conditions for modern liberalism. Lowe's “global geography” is a fourfold continental system (Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas) that constituted Europe's imperial discourse rather than a given reality (p. 18). Christopher Columbus's journey west across the Atlantic instead of east around Africa in search of a new trade route to Asia, resulting in the “discovery” of a “new world,” irrevocably altered Europe's three-part planetary imagination. Reading across the four continents, Lowe interprets that a post-Columbus cartography created and perpetuated basic global divisions and enabled “Western liberalism to think the universality of human freedom” (p. 16).

The Colonizer and the Colonized:

2018-10-03

Lillian Jorunn Helle

Victorian Anthropology

1990-01-01

Robert A. Segal

Journal Article Victorian Anthropology Get access Victorian Anthropology. By George W. Stocking. New York. Free Press, 1987. 429 pages. $27.50. Malinowski, Riverss, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality. … Journal Article Victorian Anthropology Get access Victorian Anthropology. By George W. Stocking. New York. Free Press, 1987. 429 pages. $27.50. Malinowski, Riverss, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality. Edited by George W. Stocking. History of Anthropology, Vol. 4. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. 257 pages, $25.00. Robert A. Segal Robert A. Segal Robert A.Segal is Professor in the Religious Studies Program, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 469–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVIII.3.469 Published: 01 October 1990

The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.

1940-02-01

Ludwell Lee Montague , Cyril Lionel Robert James

Performing Remains

2011-03-01

Rebecca Schneider

Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule

2003-04-01

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

1979-12-31

Talal Asad

Atlantic Crossings

1998-12-31

Daniel T. Rodgers

Colonial Governmentality

1995-01-01

David L. Scott

Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest

1996-06-01

Crime and Custom in Savage Society

1927-04-01

C. O. Weber , Bronisław Malinowski

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Irresistible Empire

2005-12-31

Victoria de Grazia

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

1967-04-01

Frank Tannenbaum , David Brion Davis

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

1989-01-01

Carlo Ginzburg

Putting Women on a Pedestal: Rethinking Female Inclusion in Colonial Monuments

2025-06-24

Erwin Dhondt | Journal of Modern European History

As with many other types of public sculptures, there is a near-total absence of colonial monuments showing women, demonstrating a public failure to recognise their impact as colonisers and colonised … As with many other types of public sculptures, there is a near-total absence of colonial monuments showing women, demonstrating a public failure to recognise their impact as colonisers and colonised people. When included at all, women are often portrayed as allegorical figures in colonial monuments. Their place is at the side-lines, serving and celebrating male colonial heroes. Indeed, very rarely is a woman at the centre of a colonial monument. But there are such monuments too. Two statues of Hannah Duston, an English colonist in North America, are illustrative examples of this; they have also become contested after the Rhodes Must Fall protests. However, recent attempts to decolonise public spaces have also increasingly tried to feminise them, not only by replacing contested monuments but by adding new female figures. This article examines how women have been included in colonial monuments by addressing both past and recent portrayals in different countries. It addresses questions of and relationships between colonial power, identity and gender, showing parallels and divergences in female inclusion in colonial monuments across different places and times.

The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry

2025-06-24

Renaud Morieux | Comparative Studies in Society and History

Abstract In February 1799, the British East India Company rounded up French civilians in Pondicherry and put them on a ship loaded with prisoners of war. The ship continued its … Abstract In February 1799, the British East India Company rounded up French civilians in Pondicherry and put them on a ship loaded with prisoners of war. The ship continued its journey to Portsmouth in England, by way of the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. Handwritten lists were the main tool used to select these deportees. If analyzed superficially, colonial lists can seem to depoliticize the violence of deportation by presenting it as the answer to technical problems. Instead, this article approaches the list as a media technology employed by colonial and military officials, and thereby highlights its iterative rather than fixed nature. The lists were unstable and based on contingent and constantly evolving information that bureaucrats and army officers on the ground inherited from previous colonial regimes, as well as from local populations. The act of listing encapsulates a tension between the agents who identified, categorized, selected, and trapped people on paper, and the tactics of these people, who sometimes found creative ways to jam this process. As illustrated by the breakup of “mixed race” families, these paper documents also reveal the conflicts and contradictions that ran within the imperial state between the twin imperatives of maintaining both security and humanitarian principles.

their eyes were watching Phillis

2025-06-24

| Duke University Press eBooks

Forms of what Nellie Y. McKay termed “sharing community”—seminars, study groups, festivals, dinners, intimate meetings, and more—are the backbone of print culture. Looking to Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their … Forms of what Nellie Y. McKay termed “sharing community”—seminars, study groups, festivals, dinners, intimate meetings, and more—are the backbone of print culture. Looking to Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God—brought back into print in the 1970s due to what Ann duCille terms “illicit bookmaking”—forms of informal photocopying and sharing have been key generators of critical interest in Black literary works. Chapter 2 uses the Black feminist critical history of Their Eyes as a methodology for reading Phillis outside of the mainstream British and American literary critical privileging of definitive poems or demonstrable facts at the expense of the importance of histories of critical desire. Indeed, this chapter turns to several critics, including Robert Hayden and Margaret Walker, who aligned with Phillis as figures who also could not be as transparent in their work as they might have wished.

Signifying Satan

2025-06-24

W. Scott Poole | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract The problem of evil also became a problem of cultural representation from the end of the Great War in 1918 into the early 21st century. The last hundred year’s … Abstract The problem of evil also became a problem of cultural representation from the end of the Great War in 1918 into the early 21st century. The last hundred year’s tumultuous, and inhuman, history of violence has created an impossible dilemma for the theodicies born in the Enlightenment. Popular culture has, meanwhile, severed the question of evil from its interest in the diabolical. The Satan of modernity owes more to popular culture than classical Christian thought. Popular culture has, in turn, shaped current pop theology in ways that further obscure questions about the meaning of violence and suffering, along with questions about the systemic nature of evil.

Notes

2025-06-24

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Domestic life at Orile-Owu, Nigeria (c. AD 1456–1661): an initial insight

2025-06-23

Kingsley Chinedu Daraojimba , Macham Mangut , Emmanuel Oluwatimilehin Adeara +2 more | Antiquity

This study explores early domestic life at the historic Yoruba site of Orile-Owu. Excavations and ethnography reveal insights into diet and food processing, medicinal practices and the daily routines of … This study explores early domestic life at the historic Yoruba site of Orile-Owu. Excavations and ethnography reveal insights into diet and food processing, medicinal practices and the daily routines of occupants during the mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries AD.

Rahul Govind. The King’s Plunder, The King’s Bodies. Prize Laws, the British Empire and the Modern Legal Order Tulika Books [etc.], New Delhi [etc.] 2023. xii, 348 pp. $50.00; £42.00.

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Faisal Chaudhry | International Review of Social History

Conclusion

2025-06-20

Matthew Dimmock , Andrew Hadfield | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract The establishment of a British plantation on the Caribbean island of Barbados is the focus of this chapter and links earlier themes of the book (slavery; early sugar plantations; … Abstract The establishment of a British plantation on the Caribbean island of Barbados is the focus of this chapter and links earlier themes of the book (slavery; early sugar plantations; Spanish and Portuguese imperial models) to the expansionary dynamics of the newly transoceanic British Empire. The chapter argues that the British acquisition of this small Caribbean island paved the way for the social and economic dynamics of the slave-owning British Empire, and the consequent spread of a belief in the fundamental superiority of ‘whiteness’.

Women in the colonial and indigenous world

2025-06-20

Francesca Fulminante , Tamar Hodos | Routledge eBooks

Explorers, traders, pirates and refugees

2025-06-20

Davide Tanasi | Routledge eBooks

The Americas

2025-06-20

Matthew Dimmock , Andrew Hadfield | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract The chapter surveys British and Spanish colonization of the Americas and their competition in the seventeenth century, with the Britons emulating and copying the long-established Spanish Empire through the … Abstract The chapter surveys British and Spanish colonization of the Americas and their competition in the seventeenth century, with the Britons emulating and copying the long-established Spanish Empire through the analysis of a series of relevant areas, geographical features, and myths that characterized the place of the Americas in British culture. The first British colonies were established in and off the shores of Virginia, making Jamestown the centre of the early colonial world; later, colonies were established in New England as Protestants sought to escape religious persecution at home. Both involved fierce conflict with native Americans and genocidal destruction. Mythical representations also shaped British perceptions, notably through the Amazon River with the legends of warrior women, as well as the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. The Spanish were denigrated through the Black Legend and accounts of the brutal cruelty of Spanish settlers since the first landing of Columbus on Hispaniola in 1492. The Straits of Magellan enabled sailors to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific and provided glimpses of more mythical creatures, the Patagonian giants.

Horizontes oceánicos Mann, Michael and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (eds.). Beyond the Line: Cultural Narratives of the Southern Oceans. Berlin: Neofelis, 2014. 272 pp. Phaf-Rheinberger, Ineke. Modern Slavery and Water Spirituality. A Critical Debate in Africa and Latin America. Aachener Beiträge zur Romania. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017. 258 pp.

2025-06-20

Alexandra Ortiz Wallner | TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World

Legal Consciousness, Gender, and the Manumission of Ana de los Ángeles, an Enslaved Woman in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City

2025-06-19

U. Rall | Slavery and Abolition

The Walls of Benin Reconsidered: Interpreting West African Linear Earthworks Using A. J. H. Goodwin’s Unpublished Excavation Data

2025-06-19

Tomos Llywelyn Evans | African Archaeological Review

Unveiling the past:

2025-06-19

Andrea Sanz Boscà , Andreu Falcó , Lluís Lloveras +1 more | Oxbow Books

Male rape, female dominance and new sexual economics in Gereon

2025-06-19

Mikhail Yu. Osokin | Porn Studies

Colonial Political Economies of Information

2025-06-19

Jessica Ratcliff | Routledge eBooks

Racialised Language in Colonial Newspaper Advertisements During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

2025-06-19

Natália da Silva Perez | Routledge eBooks

Merchants without Borders: Lançados and Luso-Africans in Upper Guinea, 1450s–1600s

2025-06-19

Fernando Mouta | BRILL eBooks

Gyzikoa: Twin-Folk and Threshold on the Orange River Border, Southern Africa 1686–1796

2025-06-19

Ettore Morelli | BRILL eBooks

Family legacies

2025-06-18

Cayetano García-Castrillón Armengou | Routledge eBooks

The Defense of Santa Catarina Island

2025-06-17

Jéferson dos Santos Mendes | IGI Global eBooks

This chapter will analyze the Spanish invasion on the island of Santa Catarina in 1777, and the strategies for maintaining territorial control in Portuguese America. The geographic space and its … This chapter will analyze the Spanish invasion on the island of Santa Catarina in 1777, and the strategies for maintaining territorial control in Portuguese America. The geographic space and its political functions will be examined, with a particular focus on the importance of maintaining, defending and preserving the Portuguese empire. This geopolitical space underwent significant changes. The fear of invasions, conquests, raids or even small enemy advances, transformed the island. Firstly, several forts and strongholds were built, and, gradually, the arrival of Azorean and Madeiran migrants transformed the island's environment. This policy was nevertheless unable to contain the advance of Spanish troops. In 1777, D. Pedro de Cevallos invaded the island without any resistance. In the same year, Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Santo Ildefonso, which returned the territory to the Portuguese.

Schipper, Mineke. Widows: A Global History.

2025-06-17

Charul Kanwat , Nagendra Kumar | Women s Studies

It's Not Always the Sea's Fault: Hydrocarbon Poisoning Killed Two Migrants in the Central Mediterranean.

2025-06-17

Giuseppe Pulin , Fortunato Pititto , Roberto Bellacicco +5 more | PubMed

The Central Mediterranean migration route is as a vital yet perilous pathway for individuals attempting to reach Europe, particularly via Italy, from North African countries such as Libya and Tunisia. … The Central Mediterranean migration route is as a vital yet perilous pathway for individuals attempting to reach Europe, particularly via Italy, from North African countries such as Libya and Tunisia. This journey, motivated by conflict, poverty, persecution, and the impacts of climate change, frequently involves treacherous sea crossings to destinations like Lampedusa and Sicily. Tragically, this route is the deadliest globally, with over 17,000 deaths and disappearances recorded since 2014. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, 367 confirmed fatalities were reported, predominantly due to drowning. This case report explores the tragic deaths of two sub-Saharan African women, aged 19 and 33, who lost their lives while attempt-ing to cross the Central Mediterranean on an overcrowded vessel. Recovered by a non-governmental search and rescue organization, the younger woman was found deceased aboard the boat, while the older woman, critically injured, succumbed shortly after rescue. Both victims exhibited characteristic chemical burns caused by fuel exposure on their skin (so called "fuel burns"). Although drowning was initially considered the cause of death, autopsy and toxicological findings identified acute hydrocarbon intoxication as the primary cause. Elevated hydrocarbon levels in their blood suggested severe pulmonary damage leading to cardiorespiratory arrest.These findings challenge the preliminary diagnosis and highlight the complexities of distinguishing between drowning and hydrocarbon intoxication. Accurate determination of causes of death in migration contexts is crucial for ensuring accountability and justice. This study underscores the indispensable role of forensic expertise in addressing the legal, political, and ethical dimensions of such tragedies.

The problem with social histories of the modern seaside and what to do about it

2025-06-16

Tony Blackshaw | Routledge eBooks

Introduction: uneasy neighbours: proximity, sociability and difference in the colonial city, c. 1870–1940

2025-06-16

Avner Ofrath , Norman Aselmeyer | Urban History

Abstract This introductory essay establishes the site of the neighbourhood and the social fact of urban proximity as crucial, conflicted and volatile conditions of colonial society. We show that the … Abstract This introductory essay establishes the site of the neighbourhood and the social fact of urban proximity as crucial, conflicted and volatile conditions of colonial society. We show that the colonial neighbourhood was a highly contested space where diverse populations, stark inequalities and asymmetric power distributions played out in the most palpable manner. At the same time, it also emerged as an incubator of sociability, solidarity and protest across communal lines. The constant tension between physical proximity and profound inequality defined much of the social dynamics in the colonial city, making neighbours and neighbourhoods a most promising terrain of enquiry.

British Occupation of American Port Cities during the Revolutionary War

2025-06-16

Donald Johnson | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

Military occupation shaped many Americans’ revolutionary experiences and had a profound effect on the outcome and legacies of the Revolutionary War. Between 1775 and 1781, the British military occupied every … Military occupation shaped many Americans’ revolutionary experiences and had a profound effect on the outcome and legacies of the Revolutionary War. Between 1775 and 1781, the British military occupied every major port city in the rebellious colonies, most for years-long stretches of time. These towns became operating bases for the British army and zones where political operatives on both sides competed for inhabitants’ loyalties. Many residents of these cities initially welcomed the restoration of royal government, hoping for a return to the stability and prosperity of the prewar empire. In the short term, occupation did indeed restore the flow of manufactured products to American shores and showed the promise of allowing exports of agricultural goods to resume. However, military rule also brought the hardships of overcrowding, food shortages, increased labor competition, and martial law. And despite the efforts of the officers and officials who governed garrison towns, inhabitants suffered daily abuses from an ill-disciplined soldiery, ranging from personal insult to theft to physical assault. Still, for some, the occupation’s unique social and political atmosphere provided irresistible opportunities for personal advancement. Enterprising merchants made small fortunes shuttling goods and people across enemy lines. Women defied their male relations by courting and marrying soldiers, for example, and many others parlayed their positions as purveyors of food and shelter into independent economic and social power. After the British army offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the king’s standard, tens of thousands of African Americans flocked to occupied cities and began to build new, free lives within these zones. Despite these opportunities, the material hardships and daily traumas of military rule alienated a majority of the citizens who lived under it. By the time the Battle of Yorktown in October of 1781 decided the outcome of the war, British military governments had so lost the confidence of the people they ruled that most Americans who had previously welcomed the troops now prepared to embrace life in the new republic.

Reparative Commemorations of Emancipation in the Modern World

2025-06-16

Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie | Routledge eBooks

Monuments and Memorials

2025-06-16

Valerie Ann Johnson | Routledge eBooks

Debt during the Colonial Period

2025-06-16

Aaron Thegeya | Routledge eBooks

THE BIRTH OF THE BRAZILIAN QUILOMBO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND ITS ORIGIN ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT IN THE 16TH CENTURY

2025-06-16

Jean Pierre de Cristo | Revista Gênero e Interdisciplinaridade

This article aims to bring the origins of the birth of what we understand as quilombo, since in 17th century Brazil the first mocambos and quilombos began to have a … This article aims to bring the origins of the birth of what we understand as quilombo, since in 17th century Brazil the first mocambos and quilombos began to have a new meaning in the language by the Portuguese colonizer, and to create a new concept for oral to combat the colonial erasure that summarized a largely strong society in just a hiding place for blacks. Understand the differences between the quilombo in Africa and in Brazil in the condition of refuge for the survival of a new socioeconomic and cultural society in the formation of new peoples between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

2025-06-16

Insa Nolte | Gender & History

ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn , a distinct oral … ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn , a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity. Reflecting the importance of patrilineal kinship as a template for social and political organisation, marriage associated husbandly roles with power and belonging by birth, and wifely positions with support and origin from the outside. While women were excluded from some forms of authority, a primarily relational understanding of gender meant that husbandly roles were frequently open to women. Equally, wifely roles provided a template for the incorporation of dependants and enslaved people. Thus, conjugally defined gender relations reflected both the region's political and economic participation in the global slave trade and a distinctly Yoruba understanding of difference as a source of value and innovation.