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Intimate empires : body, race, and gender in the modern world
\"Based on the latest scholarship in gender, race, and empire studies, Intimate Empires offers truly global insight into the experiences of ordinary people during the Age of Empire. Written for undergraduates, it presents complex theories of identity construction in an accessible narrative and applies them to hundreds of memorable vignettes from all of the major modern empires\"--Provided by publisher.
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Gender and Empire
Gender and Empire as a subfield of world history goes beyond the study of the men and women who made and unmade empires. Intimacies generated ties that facilitated or impeded the modernization of family and nation, demarcating contact zones. Bodies—adorned, fetishized, public—displayed and negotiated imperial relations. Detritus, the material remains of empire and intimacy, lodged itself in the institutions and discourses of modernity. When world historians talk across boundaries and borders, we situate disjointed ruins in broader trends and patterns, without which they are mere curiosities. Assembled here: a Chinese scalp; a silver buckle from Malaya; a bawdy cartoon from Hanoi; a hybrid recipe from Nigeria; dossiers from Lebanon and El Salvador; government orders promoting or suppressing prostitution... Confined to a national or even imperial history, such fragments do not tell us anything about coloniality. Here they do.
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\A Lascivious Climate\: Representations of Colonial Subjectivity in the \Causes Célébres\ of Eighteenth-Century France
Rizzo examines how lawyers represent their clients in the twilight years of the Old Regime France. During this period, lawyers always depict their clients as more metropolitan than their opponent in order to render colonial \"others\" both more exotic and more accessible to readers and judges.
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The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism
At the heart of her study is an intellectual, even moral, dllemma that has marked not only the evolution of the modern French state but also that of every heterogeneous society: the place of diversity and multiculturalism in national identity. Positioned at the intersection of world historical events, we find him advising Haitian republicans, alienated from American Catholics, and called the \"modern Las Casas\" by some Latin Americans, Grégoire's sincere commitment to republican Catholicism dedicated to the uplift of the poor and oppressed, though compromised by his emphasis on assimUation, is indeed an inspiration.
Book Review
March is Women's History Month, and our civilization still sorely needs it
Some of the very same issues of concern to socialists in the early 20th century still stand: women are still under-represented politically (when will we have a woman president?) and still are paid less than men. [...] issues not explicitly on the agenda of our socialist forebears draw yet more attention to the ways in which women and girls still suffer under a system of male domination: sexual violence.
Newspaper Article
History On Trial: Culture Wars And The Teaching Of The Past; By Gary B. Nash
The authors of History on Trial were all direct participants in the drafting of the History Standards and in the subsequent upheaval which followed their publication. These authors and others published numerous opinion pieces and position papers at the time, the key tenets of which are usefully presented here. What's new in this book is an examination of the history wars of the past in the United States and abroad. Indeed, upon completion of the book, one is prepared to conclude with the authors that right-wing outbursts have always accompanied attempts to revise patriotic narratives of the nation's past, especially when national identity is perceived to be threatened by immigration, economic slumps, or international tensions. The authors write: \"For many generations Americans have been involved in face-offs over what history should be taught in school ... So long as history is a fluid, dynamic field, it will uneasily mingle commemoration and critique.
Book Review
History On Trial: Culture Wars And The Teaching Of The Past By Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn
The authors of History on Trial were all direct participants in the drafting of the History Standards and in the subsequent upheaval which followed their publication. These authors and others published numerous opinion pieces and position papers at the time, the key tenets of which are usefully presented here. What's new in this book is an examination of the history wars of the past in the United States and abroad. Indeed, upon completion of the book, one is prepared to conclude with the authors that right-wing outbursts have always accompanied attempts to revise patriotic narratives of the nation's past, especially when national identity is perceived to be threatened by immigration, economic slumps, or international tensions. The authors write: \"For many generations Americans have been involved in face-offs over what history should be taught in school ... So long as history is a fluid, dynamic field, it will uneasily mingle commemoration and critique.
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