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MonographDOI
05 Aug 2022
TL;DR: Slavery in the Roman Empire as mentioned in this paper examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman empire and analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.
Abstract: Slavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. It analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.

75 citations


Book
22 Mar 2022

28 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper reassess the standard accounts of taxation and welfare that are claimed to be central to the construction of the nation to demonstrate how taking the empire into account offers the possibility of a different political response to the challenges we are faced with today.
Abstract: Abstract The consolidation of the British welfare state in the mid‐twentieth century did not only coincide with the systematic dismantling of the British Empire but was significantly shaped by the empire that preceded it. The story that tends to be told about the welfare state, however, situates it firmly within the national context. Such understandings go on to shape contemporary political debates centered on questions of entitlement and concerns over legitimacy. In this article, I reassess the standard accounts of taxation and welfare that are claimed to be central to the construction of the nation to demonstrate how taking the empire into account offers the possibility of a different political response to the challenges we are faced with today.

24 citations


MonographDOI
24 Feb 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire.
Abstract: How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by encounters with European colonialism? How would our understanding of sovereignty, as well as our theories about the causes of the decline of Great Powers and international orders, change as a result? For the first time, Before the West offers a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts and debates of international relations, such as order and decline.

18 citations


BookDOI
06 Jan 2022
TL;DR: The first major monograph to situate Eastern Europe within the global history of decolonization is as mentioned in this paper , focusing on the Cold War period, when contacts between a Communist Eastern Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia dramatically intensified in the name of making a new world after Empire, a common embrace of socialist modernization and anti-imperial culture beyond the West helped further to develop solidarities across continents.
Abstract: This collectively written work is the first major monograph to situate Eastern Europe within the global history of decolonization. As the site of the first imperial collapses of the twentieth century, the establishment of the anti-colonial Soviet Union, and a subsequent recolonization under Nazi Empire, the region had long been connected to global processes of imperial defence and dissolution. The heart of the book concerns the Cold War period, when contacts between a Communist Eastern Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia dramatically intensified in the name of making a new world after Empire. A common embrace of socialist modernization and anti-imperial culture beyond the West helped further to develop solidarities across continents. At the same time, the spirit of proletarian internationalism did not efface differences of race and culture, and anti-imperialist ideology would eventually be turned back in revolt against the Soviet Union. To explore the rise and fall of this global project, we scrutinize encounters across many different fields—from health to archaeology, and from economic development to the arts—and through many protagonists—from students to soldiers and from doctors to labour migrants. As forces in the region once again challenge western liberal world-making, so a global history of Eastern Europe’s evolving relationship between a colonial West and anti-colonial world becomes ever more relevant.

13 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This article investigated how four European empires (British, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch) structured current alien floras worldwide and found that compositional similarity is higher than expected among regions that once were occupied by the same empire.
Abstract: The redistribution of alien species across the globe accelerated with the start of European colonialism. European powers were responsible for the deliberate and accidental transportation, introduction and establishment of alien species throughout their occupied territories and the metropolitan state. Here, we show that these activities left a lasting imprint on the global distribution of alien plants. Specifically, we investigated how four European empires (British, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch) structured current alien floras worldwide. We found that compositional similarity is higher than expected among regions that once were occupied by the same empire. Further, we provide strong evidence that floristic similarity between regions occupied by the same empire increases with the time a region was occupied. Network analysis suggests that historically more economically or strategically important regions have more similar alien floras across regions occupied by an empire. Overall, we find that European colonial history is still detectable in alien floras worldwide.

13 citations



Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 2022-VSWG
TL;DR: The "Source Collection on the History of German Social Policy, 1867-1914" as discussed by the authors was founded in 1950 by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and consists of 32 volumes containing sources about the emergence of the welfare state within the German Empire: on health insurance, accident insurance, pension insurance, worker protection, workers' rights and care for the poor.
Abstract: This article reports on the research project “Source Collection on the History of German Social Policy, 1867–1914”, founded in 1950 by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. The project was realized with financial support from the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Hesse between 1989 and 2019. It resulted in a total of 32 volumes containing sources about the emergence of the welfare state within the German Empire: on health insurance, accident insurance, pension insurance, worker protection, workers’ rights and care for the poor. In addition, there is information on the role played by various actors including the Reichstag and political parties, associations and the civil service, with short biographies of all the people mentioned. This article reports in detail on the conception of the project.

11 citations


Book ChapterDOI
18 Aug 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the ways that members of these republics utilized the urban environment in contradistinction to narratives of separation, producing their own hierarchies that intersected with local society.
Abstract: Medieval and early modern Spanish monarchs governed through jurisdictional pluralism, placing corporate groups into competition with one another and delegating tax collection and the management of civil conflict to them. Doing so enabled some autonomy, but also constrained the way they interacted with others. This book examines these subordinate republics in two asynchronous locations: peoples of Muslim, Jewish, and sub-Saharan African descent in fifteenth-century Seville, and Indigenous and (sometimes) Black peoples in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Lima. It does so through two lenses–space and jurisdiction–which enable the reader to reimagine and supplement absent archival materials. At times, those in power wished to separate the subordinate republics: to contain their contamination, or to protect them from predatory influences. Using arcGIS mapping in conjunction with archival documentation, the book explores the ways that members of these republics utilized the urban environment in contradistinction to narratives of separation, producing their own hierarchies that intersected with local society. Jurisdiction was also permeable, as urban residents could venue-shop, but the existence of judges and law within communities meant that they could occasionally enact justice on their own terms. Finally, the book turns to two case studies, of Black republics (one extant in Seville but mostly refused in the empire), and of Lima’s Cercado, an Indian town on the city's outskirts. These cases demonstrate the key functions of the republics but also the ways they participated in the racialization of identities in the Spanish world. The limited autonomy of the subordinate republic could also be a vehicle for producing discriminatory difference.

11 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article , a 785-year-long streamflow reconstruction from spruce tree rings from the Tien Shan Mountains is presented, which suggests that relatively high streamflow rates coincided roughly with the period of Mongol expansion from 1225 to 1260 CE and the rise of the Timurid Empire from 1361 to 1400 CE.
Abstract: Abstract Understanding changes in water availability is critical for Central Asia; however, long streamflow reconstructions extending beyond the period of instrumental gauge measurements are largely missing. Here, we present a 785-year-long streamflow reconstruction from spruce tree rings from the Tien Shan Mountains. Although an absolute causal relationship can not be established, relatively high streamflow rates coincided roughly with the period of Mongol expansion from 1225 to 1260 CE and the rise of the Timurid Empire from 1361 to 1400 CE. Since overall wetter conditions were further found during the Zunghar Khanate period 1693–1705 CE, we argue that phases of streamflow surplus likely promoted oasis and grassland productivity, which was an important factor for the rise of inner Eurasian steppe empires. Moreover, we suggest that the streamflow variation might be critical for plague outbreaks in Central Asia, and propose several explanations for possible links with Europe’s repeated Black Death pandemics. We demonstrate that 20th-century low streamflow is unprecedented in the past eight centuries and exacerbated the Aral Sea crisis, which is one of the most staggering ecological disasters of the twentieth century.

11 citations


BookDOI
28 Jan 2022
TL;DR: Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post-World War II international order signals neither the "decline of the West" nor the rise of the East, but rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: A review of the Republic of Turkey's recent leadership portrays a different narrative as mentioned in this paper , arguing that Erdogan's actions to consolidate presidential power, elect a partisan judiciary and censor criticism made him an autocrat in democrat's clothing.
Abstract: A champion of the common people; a voice against elitism; a beacon of conservatism. These broad statements are the foundation on which Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Republic of Turkey's president, ran his political campaigns; however, a review of his recent leadership portrays a different narrative. Erdogan's actions to consolidate presidential power, elect a partisan judiciary and censor criticism made him an autocrat in democrat's clothing. Now, as Soner Çagaptay provocatively titled his recent book, Turkey is declining within Erdogan's empire. Çagaptay argues that Erdogan's recent authoritarian posturing is a response to his failed attempts to make Turkey ‘great as a stand alone power’, both regionally and internationally (p. xvii). Unlike the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), Erdogan must operate within the confines of democratic norms to shape Turkey ‘in his own image’ (p. 7). Despite significantly loosening the checks and balances on his power, Erdogan must still contend with a polarized populace that is ‘split nearly in the middle between pro- and anti-Erdogan camps’ (p. 7). The result of this division is a ‘deeper political crisis’ that is forcing Erdogan to tighten his grip and buttress his vision for an empire (p. 7).

MonographDOI
31 Jan 2022
TL;DR: The authors investigated court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad.
Abstract: This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments. In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest existing scholarship. By highlighting their competitive, fluid, and dynamic nature, it undermines the historiography viewing these courts as harmonic, hierarchic, and static. Far from being remote, ritualised figures, we find kings and Brahmins contesting with other courtiers for power. At the same time, by stressing continuities with the past, this study questions recent scholarship that perceives a fundamentally new form of Nayaka kingship. Thus, this research has important repercussions for the way we perceive both these kingdoms and their ‘medieval’ precursors.


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TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a good start in mapping the institutional changes and constants of Gelukpa monasteries in Tibetan Buddhist regions, using the genre of "monastic guidelines" (Tib. dge lugs pa).
Abstract: This work is a good start in mapping the institutional changes and constants of Gelukpa monasteries in Tibetan Buddhist regions. In the author’s own words, “This book is an argument for the importance of considering the mechanisms that Buddhist hierarchs stipulated for the administration of their vast system of monastic institutions and for the rhythm of the lives of those institutions’ residents” (172). I have intensively studied and worked with the genre of “monastic guidelines” (Tib. bca’ yig) for over a decade, and therefore it is a great pleasure to see that now other scholars have started to appreciate the genre of texts for their historical value. This book uses this genre extensively to paint a picture of how the Tibetan Buddhist school of the Gelukpa (Tib. dge lugs pa) was organized and how it maintained its success over the centuries. Additionally, Sullivan even asserts that these bca’...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The external condition most conducive to ending religious violence, according to Juergensmeyer, is a government that is willing and able to establish effective and appropriate rule-of-law limitations on the use of violence (through policing, etc.) while avoiding the kinds of excessive violence and extrajudicial police or military action that causes hopelessness, fosters resentment, encourages lawlessness, and provokes violent retaliation as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: emergence of new hope, that is, the possibility of pursuing movement goals through legitimate political action, economic opportunity, etc. The external condition most conducive to ending religious violence, according to Juergensmeyer, is a government that is willing and able to establish effective and appropriate rule-of-law limitations on the use of violence (through policing, etc.) while avoiding the kinds of excessive violence and extrajudicial police or military action that causes hopelessness, fosters resentment, encourages lawlessness, and provokes violent retaliation. Equally important is the government’s willingness to address the grievances and meet the reasonable demands of rebel groups (that is, to offer that “new hope” identified as a key internal condition). Less encumbered by the denser academic discussions and length of some of his earlier books, and featuring many compelling stories that make it easy and enjoyable to read, When God Stops Fighting is eminently accessible for non-specialists. It is therefore worth considering for undergraduate classes, and is also a thoughtful, at times provocative text that will be of interest to specialists as well.

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TL;DR: The first two months of war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: Abstract:The first two months of war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state. Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet empire, Russians are being dragged back in time to when Soviet citizens lived isolated from the rest of the world, in a bubble of failed ideology and misinformation. That system fell apart under just the kind of autarky and autocracy that Putin hopes to reimpose. Just as the Soviet system collapsed, Putin is also failing Russia, erasing the gains of the postcommunist period in a feckless attempt to rebuild a doomed empire.

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TL;DR: The Hot Spring Trilogy as discussed by the authors is a set of three adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that were staged at various locations in northeast Japan that had yet to recover from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Abstract: fundraising campaign to establish the company. The launch of the project coincided with a sabbatical year Shimodate spent in England at the University of Cambridge, where he studied how to produce and direct Shakespearean plays. A principal feature of Shimodate’s translations and adaptations (including The new Romeo and Juliet) is his use of the local Tohoku (northeast Japan) dialect – and a feature of his productions is ‘actors who [can] speak both standardized Japanese and the Tohoku dialect’ (31). For Shimodate, using Tohoku speech is necessary ‘to express a deeper and broader interpretation of Shakespeare’s world’ and ‘to create a new slant on Shakespeare’s plays both in Japan and abroad’ (32). The new Romeo and Juliet was staged for the first time beginning in November 2012 at various locations in northeast Japan that had yet to recover from the March 2011 triple disasters. The play was part of Shimodate’s newly conceived ‘Hot Spring Trilogy’, three adaptations of Shakespeare ‘whose main purpose’, as translator Fumiaki Konno writes, ‘was to bolster through entertainment the spirits of people in the areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake . . . [T]he three adaptations share three features: they are comedies, depict no death and are located in a hot spring setting’ (223). The two other plays in the trilogy were based on King Lear and The merchant of Venice. The translated adaptations and supporting material that make up Re-imagining Shakespeare in contemporary Japan amply fulfill the book’s aim ‘to introduce, contextualize and also reconsider the history and current practice of translating and adapting Shakespeare in Japan’ (1). As the example of The Shakespeare Company Japan’s The new Romeo and Juliet vividly illustrates, innovative approaches to the presentation of Shakespearean dramas are neither limited to artists working in major urban centers nor to artists working in circumstances that are ideal for cultural production. When asked about the future of his northeastJapan-based theatre company, Shimodate has movingly said: ‘I would like to build a theatre in Tohoku and . . . I would like to give children the chance to learn about the lingua franca that is Shakespeare and about dialects. Theatres in Tokyo have an urban character; I would like [my] theatre in Tohoku to be down-to-earth and filled with human warmth’ (234).

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TL;DR: García-Colón et al. as discussed by the authors examined the complexity in the context of Puerto Rican farm labor in the United States and placed Puerto Rican migrant labor in a context of U.S. migrant farm labor as a whole.
Abstract: Puerto Rico became a U.S. colonial territory in 1898 and Puerto Ricans were granted citizenship in 1917, but more than one hundred years later, as President Donald J. Trump so amply demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane Maria (2017), they are yet to be truly accepted as full-fledged citizens. Their status as citizens has been complicated by their colonial relationship, language, and mixed racial characteristics. In Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire, Ismael García-Colón examines this complexity in the context of Puerto Rican farm labor in the United States. This labor history and ethnography is exhaustive, spanning some one hundred years with in-depth research. Moreover, García-Colón places Puerto Rican migrant labor in the context of U.S. migrant farm labor as a whole. For a book whose major themes involve discrimination and racism, it is remarkably dispassionate and evenhanded. The work is sure to be the go-to resource on the topic for years to come.

BookDOI
14 Sep 2022
TL;DR: Parvulescu and Boatcă as mentioned in this paper provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world system in Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.
Abstract: How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Topics range from the question of the region's capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. Creolizing the Modern develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Zarakol as discussed by the authors offers a longue durée account of the history of Eastern "international relations" focusing on the interactions between Eurasian polities and the rise and fall of Eurasian world orders between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Abstract: International relations (IR) research has increasingly explored non-Eurocentric histories by analyzing, for example, different historical international systems, societies, and orders beyond Europe, as well as the agency of non-Western polities in constituting world politics (see Phillips and Sharman 2015; Hobson 2020; Spruyt 2020). Before the West contributes to this burgeoning literature. Zarakol offers a longue durée “account of the history of Eastern ‘international relations’” (p. 6), focusing on the interactions between Eurasian polities and the rise and fall of Eurasian world orders between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. The analysis starts with the rise of the Mongols and their conquests across Eurasia, resulting in the establishment of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century. This historical event constituted the foundation for three successive Eurasian world orders to emerge: the Chinggisid world order of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; the post-Chinggisid world order, consisting of the Timurid Empire (Iran and Central Asia) and the Ming Dynasty (China) in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; and the “global” post-Timurid world order of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which incorporated Eurasian and European polities.

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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors further complicate the us/them dichotomy by asking, is the case of the electric sitar in particular an appropriation or a collaboration? And perhaps Powell's "other side" argument could have been accentuated by expanding it to include Latino/a musicians who performed with Davis (and the others) as well, since they, too, have been marginalized politically and socially in mainstream American culture.
Abstract: Macero used extensively while mixing the album. One could go on and on with other examples similar to the ones given here, such as the fact that the electric sitar, which was an instrument of choice on many African American pop and soul hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, is a white American invention of the late session musician Vinnie Bell. The irony, of course, is that it was the Indian musician Balakrishnan playing the white American electric sitar, which was made to sound like the Indian acoustic one used for northern Indian (i.e., Hindustani) classical music as well as Bollywood films, while a white American also played it on the album along with Balakrishnan. Considering all the issues raised in the previous paragraph, one is compelled to rethink and further complicate the us/them dichotomy by asking, is the case of the electric sitar in particular an appropriation or a collaboration? And perhaps Powell’s “other side” argument could have been accentuated by expanding it to include Latino/a musicians who performed with Davis (and the others) as well, since they, too, have been marginalized politically and socially in mainstream American culture. The point is that the deeper one excavates, the murkier the terrain becomes for seamless analyses. This is not to say that Powell has not made a significant intervention into the history of Indo-American crossovers by focusing solely on Afro-Asian fusion, but the story he tells might be a little too neat by excluding others who were a part of the overall mix.

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TL;DR: This article examined the colonial nature of global news media by examining how the US-UK news duopoly has deep colonial connections: the news agency Reuters was described as an empire within the British empire.
Abstract: The colonial roots of the global news system have received relatively limited academic scrutiny, especially from a global South perspective. This article discusses the colonial nature of global news media by examining how the US–UK “news duopoly” has deep colonial connections: the news agency Reuters was described as “an empire within the British empire”. It then examines the 1970s debates during the Cold War within UNESCO for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), the demand to redress the imbalances in global media systems and flow of news between the West and its erstwhile colonies championed by what was then called the Third World. The article then argues that, in the post-Cold War world of globalized communication, a new kind of neo-colonialism in news media emerged, as Western-owned satellite and cable networks extended their footprints across the world, supplemented by the digital empires of the new millennium.


MonographDOI
06 Feb 2022
TL;DR: Mazurek as discussed by the authors explores the growing popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire, and demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in ways that differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose opinions have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece.
Abstract: In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in ways that differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose opinions have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece. These ideas were expressed in various ways - sculptures of Egyptian deities rendered in a Greek style, hymns to Isis that grounded her in Greek geography and mythology, funerary portraits that depicted devotees dressed as Isis, and sanctuaries that used natural and artistic features to evoke stereotypes of the Nile. Mazurek's volume offers a fresh, material history of ancient globalization, one that highlights the role that religion played in the self-identification of provincial Romans and their place in the Mediterranean world.

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TL;DR: The authors argues that global political and social struggles of the Civil Rights era were crucial in shaping race and racism scholarship, while noting important research has emerged outside the US and Britain informing race relations, immigration and diversity debates and policies.
Abstract: growing field. The author argues that global political and social struggles of the Civil Rights era were crucial in shaping race and racism scholarship. However, the book heavily draws on British and US case studies, while noting important research has emerged outside the US and Britain informing race relations, immigration and diversity debates and policies. A useful addition would be comparative discussions about racial struggles in the Global South including anti-Apartheid struggles and global anti-discrimination campaigns. Yet, this is compensated by focused discussions on xenophobia, populism, and far-right ethno-nationalism, and anti-racism efforts. Overall, the book lucidly tackles current research on race/racism while situating its arguments within contemporary and historical contexts. It critically engages with frontiers of research in the field, setting agendas for further research. The book is an important contribution to race/racism research and will make a good reading for anyone interested in related political debates. It will be a vital text for students who want to engage in deeper theoretical and conceptual debates.


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TL;DR: The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire as mentioned in this paper is a history informed by "two resurgent cultural concerns" in the present: "the possibilities of life writing and the moral legacy of empire".
Abstract: Kate Fullagar’s The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire is a history informed by “two resurgent cultural concerns” in the present: “the possibilities of life writing and the moral legacy of empire” (5). This eminently readable book offers a new history of Britain’s “expansionist mission through the tale of three hitherto unconnected ­­biographies” (5): those of Cherokee ­­“warrior-diplomat” Ostenaco (1710s-c. 1780), British ­­“philosopher-artist” Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), and Ra ‘iatean-voyager Mai (1753-c.1780). The two Indigenous men, one from Cherokee lands near Britain’s colonies across the Atlantic and the other from islands in the Pacific new to European encroachment, never met one another. Their lives intersected around two things they shared in common though. Both visited London—Ostenaco as part of a Cherokee diplomatic entourage in 1762 and Mai as a traveler on one of Captain Cook’s voyages from 1774 to 1775. Both had their...

MonographDOI
06 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , Anderson provides a new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world.
Abstract: Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies, and remote inland and border regions over a period of five centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building, and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions. Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour bondage including enslavement, with convicts a key source of unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in various forms, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary knowledge production.

MonographDOI
29 Aug 2022
TL;DR: In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads of early anthropology, geography, and travel literature, this textual and visual production blurred the lines between art and science. Costume books and albums were not a unique European production: in the Ottoman Empire and the Far East artists and geographers also pictured the dress of men and women of their own and faraway lands hybridizing the Renaissance western tradition. Acknowledging this circulation of knowledge and people through migration, travel, missionary and diplomatic encounters, this Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective.