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Towards A Global Space of Democratic Rights: On Benjamin, Gramsci, and Polanyi
Walter Benjamin [1892–1940], Antonio Gramsci [1891–1937], and Karl Polanyi [1886–1964] are members of a particular intellectual generation in Europe....
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The Napoleonic Empire
Few periods of modern European history entail so much paradox or, perhaps more correctly, evoke such perplexed reactions from historians, as the rise...
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The Broader Linguistic and Cultural Context of Central Europe
Central Europe is an extremely malleable concept. It denotes a region whose political shape has been changing dramatically throughout the last...
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High Altitude Ushnu Platforms in the Department of Ayacucho Peru, Structure, Ancestors and Animating Essence
This study is based on a pilot project that was launched to test the validity of a series of hypothesis about the nature, structure, function and...
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Culture Wars: State, Religion and Popular Culture in Europe, 1400–1800
To understand the witch trials it is, of course, necessary to understand broader developments in European society at the time, and, in this respect,...
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Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
This is a book about orientalism in India. It examines the varied manifestations of literary, historical, and linguistic scholarly practices which...
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Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa
Historians have in recent years increasingly questioned standard assumptions about the relationship between science and imperialism. For decades,...
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Introduction: Historians Today
Historians are Very Important People (for reasons I’ll come to in a moment). Some of them, anyway. In these essays, I have written about some of the...
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Wallace’s Other Line: Human Biogeography and Field Practice in the Eastern Colonial Tropics
This paper examines how the 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace used biogeographical map** practices to draw a boundary line...
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The Myth of the Lazy Native
The most significant nuance between Denina and the French was that, whereas Denina saw Italian societies as essentially immutable, if given to...
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Artikel A-Z
Anfänge: Unter A. versteht man die Nutzung großer landwirtschaftlicher Flächen bei intensiver Bodenbearbeitung zur Gewinnung von Pflanzenerträgen für...
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Culture and Empire, 1830–1962: An Overview
On 6 May 1931 France’s Colonial Exhibition finally opened at the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. Four years in the making, covering some 110 hectares,...
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Intellectual, artistic and ideological aspects of cultures in the New World
An analysis of the development of the intellectual, artistic and ideological aspects of the cultures of the new societies which arose in the...
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Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation
This chapter examines a series of cultural connections and intellectual exchanges between India and the Pacific that have been elided by historians...
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Division of the Dowry on the Death of the Daughter: An Instance in the Negotiation of Laws and Jewish Customs in Early Modern Tuscany
Tuscan notarial acts permit the exploration of the often elusive relationship of Jewish practice, Jewish law and the corresponding laws of the state....
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Early Nation-States
None of the Balkan states was satisfied nationalistically by the results of the Berlin Congress. Fired by Romantic ideals of ethnic unity regarding...
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Religious Solutions and Native American Struggles: Ghost Dance, Sun Dance and Beyond
Natives of the North American Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions — the Eskimos, Athapaskans, and Algonkians of Alaska and Canada — have been struggling...