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Exiles, Repatriates and Refugees Without the Name
During the 1960s, the international refugee regime was transformed significantly. While an international declaration on the right of asylum was being...
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The BBC’s Corporate Cosmopolitanism: The Diasporic Voice Between Empire and Cold War
The history of the BBC World Service is intimately connected to the history of late imperial Britain. This chapter sheds light on the way...
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Between Anatolia and the Balkans: Tracing Armenians in a Post-Ottoman Order
This chapter examines the experiences of Anatolian Armenians to offer critical perspectives on seeing and writing about post-Ottoman societies....
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Disrupted Ecologies: Conflicting Repertoires of Colonial Rule in Early Twentieth-Century São Tomé
The specific ecology and political economy of the equatorial Atlantic island of São Tomé made it the largest cocoa producer in the world by the...
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Precarious Intimacies: Cross-Cultural Violence and Proximity in Settler Colonial Economies of the Pacific Rim
The development of settler colonial cultures was deeply dependent upon the everyday proximity of Indigenous and settler workers; yet we know...
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Introduction: Placing the Alien Jew in the British Imagination
Eastern European Jews migrating westwards at the fin de siècle elicited a myriad of responses from nations of reception and transit such as Britain....
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Kant’s Subaltern Period: The Birth of Cosmopolitanism from the Spirit of Occupation
With a focus on Kant’s early writings, Etkind situates Kant’s political thought on cosmopolitanism within his career as a lecturer and author in...
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A ‘Civilizing Work’?: The French Army in Macedonia, 1915–1918
Horne explores the impact of Allied military rule on the Macedonian front during the First World War and examines the preconceptions that informed...
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Critically Mediterranean: An Introduction
The Introduction to Critically Mediterranean outlines what happens to the field of Mediterranean studies when the focus shifts to the modern and...
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Introduction
This work seeks to understand how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed the emotion of anger to kings in the...
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Local Practices and State Authority: Reflections on the Criminal Policy of the Genoese Oligarchy
This chapter describes the policies of the Genoese oligarchy between the late sixteenth and the late seventeenth centuries, showing how criminal...
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History and Cultural Heritage
This chapter argues for the necessary demarcation between the two best established domains of interpreting the past for current purposes: historical...
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The Maritime, the Ecological, the Cultural—and the Fig Leaf: Prospects for Medieval Mediterranean Studies
This contribution reflects on recent developments in Mediterranean studies. It places current scholarly dispositions in the context of an...
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“I was one of the first colored gays”: Experiences of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Gay/Lesbian Scenes, the Netherlands and Denmark, 1960s–80s
From the 1960s through to the 1980s, gay men of various ethnic minority backgrounds—whether post-colonial migrants, refugees, or adoptees—felt that...
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Between International Science and Nationalism: Interwar Romanian Race Science
This chapter focuses on the interwar period, and especially the relationship between anthropometric raciology and serology. It examines the...
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Race Classifiers and Anthropologists
To achieve social recognition and influence, nineteenth-century race classifiers successfully established science-political, interdisciplinary and...
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Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance
This chapter explores the conceptions and representations of space in early modern demonology, focusing on the contribution brought by cosmographical...
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Introduction: Rediscovering a Lost Science
This book is a transnational history of national identity. It tells the strange story of a Europe-centred scientific community which, roughly from...
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Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing South African “Indigenous Medicine”
My research takes place at one of the edges of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of Africa, in Cape Town, South Africa. Baptized the “Cape of...
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Movements and Ideologies
In 1971, Ariel Hoffman and Armand Matterlard published How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic in Chile during the short...