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Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law”
This chapter details how the foundational legal order for the colonies emerged from a German constitutional conflict, which led to the creation of a...
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The Internationalisation of the ‘Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945–1962
This volume addresses the ways the ‘native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of...
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Making the French “Native Subject” in Oceania
This chapter examines the establishment of the French presence in Oceania and the different ways in which Pacific peoples in three different...
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The Reconfiguration of International Standards and Portuguese “Native Labour” Policies (1945‒1949)
The global order that emerged after World War II entailed important normative and institutional changes to how the “colonial question” was addressed...
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Native Borderland Children in the Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands. Comparing Verification and Nationalisation Narratives After the Second World War
In an effort to create homogenous nation-states and secure peace after the Second World War, governments in both the political east and west of...
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Portuguese Colonialism and the Expansion of the Internationalization of the “Native Labour” Question
This chapter explores the Portuguese government’s gradual reframing of arguments of imperial sovereignty to cope with the increasingly difficult...
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Earning a Living in Urban Africa: Maintaining the “Native Beer” Economy
Chapter 7 critiques the traditional—if not cliché—narrative about low-income areas, referred to as “slums,” in the Global South. According to this...
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Between Ethnonyms and Toponyms: Cartography and Native Pasts in the Eastern Rio de la Plata
During the past three decades, historians of cartography and ethnohistorians alike have drawn upon historic maps to consider the spatial practices...
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The “Native New Woman”: Material Culture and the Indian Novel in the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Among the many prominent works included in the Woman’s Building Library at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, colonial India is represented through the...
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Multiethnic Islands in the Middle of Indigenous Lands: Native Migration to the Colonial Towns in the Northern Andes, 1550–1650
This chapter examines Indigenous migration to the Spanish colonial towns in the Northern Andes, in present-day Ecuador and Colombia, roughly between...
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Native American Racism in the Age of Donald Trump Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency. From the time Trump...
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Native and Endemic Flora
Inventories of the vascular flora of the Juan Fernández Archipelago began with reports by Bertero, Philippi and Hemsley in the nineteenth century and...
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Conclusion
The internationalization of the “native labour question” in the Portuguese empire after World War II was a cumulative and contingent historical...
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Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship
This chapter looks at German scholarship of Islamic law in Africa and shows how it systematically elided local Muslim jurisprudence. Whereas...