Search results for "Colonial"

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

Alexander Keese. Ethnicity and the Colonial State. Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1…

2017

Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden’s Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century

2019

Kontturi’s chapter focuses on two Swedish physicians reporting from London and Caribbean Swedish colony St. Barthélemy to Swedish medical college in 1798. The emphasis is on their participation in the global networks of colonial medicine, shaping and sharing medical information from colonies outside of Europe. Their reports show how they promoted the hybridisation of different medical cultures with their distinctly open-minded curiosity towards new information, which was in line with the old Linnaean tradition of scientific travelling. The chapter also draws attention to their impact on how global diseases such as syphilis and smallpox were managed and treated in their own sphere of influen…

Cinq theses sur la litterature-monde en français: une polémique

2010

Le concept de littérature-monde n’est pas dénué de contradictions internes. Le présent article tente de s’interroger sur les fondements idéologiques de cette notion et la conjoncture internationale qui l’a fait naître. Sous formes de thèses et de manière volontairement polémique, l’article tente de montrer que la notion même est le résultat d’une littérature française dont la primauté est de plus en plus contestée. Par ailleurs, lorsque les fondateurs de ce concept déclarent la fin de la Francophonie, il est peu clair de quelle francophonie ils parlent et ils ne semblent guère familiers avec les organisations francophones. Par ailleurs, elle peut être considérée comme une adaptation fidèle …

La botánica valenciana a finales del período ilustrado (1786-1914)

2003

La memoria pone en evidencia el extraordinario número de plantas y de conocimientos sobre plantas que procedentes de los diversos territorios coloniales españoles, como México, Cuba y Filipinas, confluyeron en Valencia a finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX. La botánica valenciana no quedó al margen de la botánica colonial: contribuyó a la introducción de nuevas plantas exóticas en Europa y a la apropiación de nuevos conocimientos para la botánica europea. Las diferentes instituciones de gobierno y el conjunto de la sociedad civil valenciana se esforzaron en averiguar las posibles aplicaciones económicas de las nuevas especies vegetales exóticas que llegaban de las colonias. La Univ…

Sur l'indien et sa progéniture. La construction identitaire depuis le champ de la publicité au Mexique.

2013

International audience; A lo largo de la Historia, las imágenes codificadas han desempeñado un papel irremplazable en la creación de mitos y relatos para justificar lacohesión de las sociedades en torno a un patrimonio. en cada época, los grupos dominantes han plasmado a través de las imágenes su idea deDios, lo bello, la bondad, la existencia, la naturaleza y el amor, dando lugar a íconos que se impusieron como legítimos y se convirtieron en ejesde fundación para civilizaciones enteras. también la raza, la libertad, la riqueza y la patria se tradujeron en símbolos que movieron a las multitudes en los grandes capítulos históricos.El triunfo militar de los españoles posibilitó las instauraci…