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Land, Mines, and Bones: African History and Deep Knowledges of the Earth
This chapter considers the connections between histories of the earth sciences (and knowledges of the earth more generally) and African history. It...
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Literature Survey and Military Developments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Goa’s military history, and to some extent its history of violence, cannot be readily linked to its present incarnation as a laid-back tourist haven....
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Biodiversity Habitats, People, Policies, and Problematics: Through Case Studies of Ecological Systems of Aurangabad and Beed
Marathwada is a microcosmic region of the Indian sub-continent; its inherent geographical terrain supports a range of unique biodiversity habitats...
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Towards a Quantitative Turn: Frontiers of Architectural Historiography
This chapter extensively discusses the relationship between current trends in general historiography, especially “global” and “world history,” the...
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‘To Read in an Indian Way’ (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian–German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800
In this chapter, Simon Wiesgickl shows how, by the end of the eighteenth century, new epistemologies and a new Wissenschaftlichkeit were forming part...
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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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Theorizing Food and Power in the Ancient Andes
Studying what ancient peoples ate is critical to understanding fundamental aspects of culture, and the analysis of archaeological sites and remains...
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The Roots of Segregation, Apartheid’s Menacing Predecessor
‘The Roots of Segregation, Apartheid’s Menacing Predecessor’ discusses the origins and the evolution of the policy of segregation in South Africa....
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Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal
The extinct human relatives known as Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) have long been described as brutish and dumb. This conception is often...
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Introduction
The introduction explores the books’ main themes, protagonists and goals. The aim is to extend the history of hygiene in two ways: firstly, beyond...
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Introduction
This chapter posits the aim of this volume within the current historiographical debate on the religious history of Acadia/Nova Scotia during the...
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Practicing Empire: Germany’s Colonial Visions in the Pacific Northwest
This chapter examines travel accounts, official reports, and photo albums from the German cruiser the Falke’s 1905 voyage in the Pacific Northwest as...
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Untamed Practices
This chapter provides a historical account of the evolution of Kolkata’s sewage-fed fisheries—the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW)—as an outcome of the...
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Restriction on Interracial Matrimony
The Ananda–Marileine case demonstrated the existence of the taboo on interracial matrimony. This chapter focuses on the connection between sexual...
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The History Lesson
Within this chapter, we follow the ways in which the past enters into our experience and what that experience is like through an account of a very...
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Transformed Infrastructures
This chapter consists of an empirical illustration of when, why, and how ecological infrastructures on the (eastern) periphery of Kolkata made way...
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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...