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Aldrich, Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Manchester University Pre…
2018
Review of Robert Aldrich, Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018).
De Habsburgos a Borbones. Legistas y canonistas en la Real Universidad de México
2020
A lo largo de todo el periodo colonial, la Universidad de México fue mayoritariamente canonista en cuanto a las preferencias de sus estudiantes juristas. Sin embargo, hemos podido comprobar que para el tránsito de los siglos XVII a XVIII se aprecia alguna diferencia o particularidad, en cuanto que, respecto a algunos parámetros, las referencias sobre Leyes llegan a superar a las de Cánones. La cronología de esta singularidad resulta coincidente con los cambios en la política de nombramiento de las autoridades novohispanas, especialmente para la Audiencia. En este estudio intentamos acercarnos a la relación explicativa que pudiera haber entre estas dos realidades, cuestionándonos algunas pos…
Representations of American Indians and the Irish in educational reports, 1850s–1920s
2002
Modern colonialism, writes Gyan Prakash, ‘instituted enduring hierarchies of subjects and knowledges — the colonizer and the colonized, the Occidental and the Oriental, the civilized and the primitive, the scientific and the superstitious, the developed and the underdeveloped’. Such dichotomies ‘reduced complex differences and interactions to the binary (self/other) logic of colonial power’, and colonial rulers ‘constituted the “native” as their inverse image’. Such perceptions of difference as ‘other’ expressed what ‘civilized’ Westerners believed themselves not to be — but also what they feared they might become, should they lose rational self-control. The ‘other’, writes Eva Kornfelt, ‘t…
Sexual Spectacles Theatricality and the Performance of Sex in Early Encounters in the Pacific
2000
When Europeans first arrived in Tahiti in the mid-18th century, they were sometimes greeted by performances that were aesthetic, ludic, and sexual. These performances of sex constitute another pole to a colonial history otherwise characterized by antagonism and violence.
The Lure of Katanga Copper : Tanganyika Concessions Limited and the Anatomy of Mining and Mine Exploration 1899–1906
2016
This article provides a rare opportunity to follow the inception of mining and mine exploration economy in the first years of the European presence in colonial Zambia and Katanga as seen through the eyes of prospectors and mining experts working for the London-based company Tanganyika Concessions Limited. It draws on company records as well as the personal records of the early company employees who worked in North Western Rhodesia and adjoining Katanga until 1906. The most thought-provoking documents include diaries, letters and photographs, which depict the organisation and processes of early mining work, modes of mine exploration, and relations within the first mining communities and betw…
The Colonial Voyages
2021
In the preceding chapter, we introduced readers to the complex and dense interplay between scientific expeditions, which were moved by scientific interests, and colonialism. In this chapter, we focus on the ways and morphologies of colonial voyages to draw new borders of colonial geographies. Of course, some might speculate both chapters overlap, but one continues the discussion the other leaves. In the introductory chapter, we discussed the imperial machine (and the cultural matrix) that invented, fabricated, and packaged the non-Western “Other” to legitimate the would-be European supremacy. Now it is time to review how Western reasoning develops the gaze to explain and expropriate the new…
Gertrude Bonnin on Sexual Morality
2021
This paper examines attitudes to sexual morality held by the Yankton Dakota author and activist Gertrude Bonnin (1876–1938), better known by her penname Zitkála-Šá (Red Bird in Lakota). Bonnin’s concerns encompass several themes: the victimization of Indian women, disintegration of Native courtship rituals, sexual threats posed by peyote use, and the predatory nature of Euro-American men. This critique as a whole — in which a ‘white invasion,’ in her words, leads to a corruption of Native sexuality — sometimes produces inconsistencies, particularly regarding Bonnin’s statements on the alleged sexual perils of peyote. Her investigations into the Oklahoma guardianship scandals of the 1920s, h…
La campagne française contre la guerre du Maroc ou le difficile apprentissage de la bolchévisation (1924-1926)
2020
National audience; Quand en 1925 la France intervient contre la République rifaine au Maroc, aux côtés des Espagnols, le mouvement communiste entame une vaste campagne d’agitation. Activant les ressorts de l’antimilitarisme, de l’anticolonialisme, de l’anti-impérialisme, et donnant l’occasion de mettre en application le front unique entre le Parti communiste, la CGTU et les organisations socialistes et réformistes, ce mouvement trouve son point d’orgue avec le déclenchement de la grève générale du 12 octobre 1925. Première expérience à grande échelle de mise en pratique des nouveaux principes qui accompagnent la bolchevisation de la galaxie des organisations communistes, les archives nouvel…
Glories and agonies of the Ethiopian past
2007
A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855–1974. By Bahru Zewde The invention of Ethiopia. The making of a dependent colonial state of Northeast Africa. By Bonny K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa