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0000-0001-6642-2319
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Flinders University
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Historical Studies | European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) | British History |
Understanding Europe's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-03-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0017383509990258
Abstract: In a recent contribution to Greece & Rome , Thomas Harrison illustrated how the conceit of the United States as the ‘New Rome’ colours our knowledge of both the ancient world and our own. His deceptively light-hearted approach and ex les illustrated that the transhistorical approach is certainly one that can be used for fun however, at its core, the article poses a much more serious question – can the transhistorical approach to imperialism be used for profit? Or, as Harrison posed the question, ‘Can an understanding of ancient imperialisms cast light on contemporary experience?’ Acutely, Harrison points to the symbiosis between interpretations of the past and the present, illustrating the abundance of what might be termed ‘palimpsestic’ readings of modern empires, which are generated by writing through the history of past empires.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-08-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0008938908000599
Abstract: In chapter eleven of Mein K f , Adolf Hitler, having constructed aneal type “culture-bearing” Aryan race, 1 came to elucidate his views on the history of Jews within Germany. Until the time of Frederick the Great, he argued, “it still entered no one's head to regard the Jews as anything else but a ‘foreign’ people.” 2 Thereafter, he asserted, came a period of transition wherein Jews had “the effrontery to turn Germanic.” 3 The rest of the chapter, for Hitler, was an attempt to reverse this putative historical mistake, and presents the reader with a vitriolic casting out of Jews, described as “parasites” and a “noxious bacillus,” from the German body politic. 4 The aim of this textual expulsion, Hitler explained, was to ensure that the Germans would not be destroyed from within, as had “all great cultures of the past.” 5 To Hitler, Jews were what Julia Kristeva has called “the abject” 6 —that which is simultaneously part of the self but radically rejected by the self. In seeking to expel the “Germanic Jews” from the Volkskörper , Hitler sought to expel that part of the German self that, in his view, was a source of weakness and taint. 7
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 30-07-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X19000384
Abstract: Decolonizing history and anthropology is often presented as a theoretical enterprise, through which a more rigorous and inclusive framing of historical precepts will deliver a clearer and less Eurocentric understanding of the past. Yet it is arguably necessary to decouple decolonization from the broader practices of anti-Eurocentric historiography. Via an empirical assessment of the legacy of Hermann Klaatsch, a German anthropologist working on the colonial frontier, this article examines the possibilities and limitations of a decolonizing approach to settler colonial history. The article reflects upon its own study of colonial anthropology and the historical complexity of the repatriation of Indigenous human remains, and suggests that not all anti-Eurocentric interrogations of the colonial past are synonymous with decolonization.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2016
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12-2013
DOI: 10.1086/672529
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-05-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-08-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-01-2017
DOI: 10.1093/PASTJ/GTW047
Abstract: Via an investigation of the broader historical conditions of European tattooing practices, this article argues that the ex le of the last German Governor of Samoa, Erich Schultz, demonstrates the key role of the body in colonial entanglements. By allowing himself to be tattooed in Samoan style, Schultz signalled his strong affinity with Samoan social practices and politics. Not merely indicative of a subjective shift, his tattooing also furthered his authority as a German colonial official. At a time when other European officials, including Germans in other colonies, shied away from engaging with the cultural and political practices of those they governed, Schultz and other German officials in Samoa self-consciously sought to colonize the Samoans while accepting and employing Samoan symbols of authority.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-10-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-10-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0165115313000260
Abstract: In 1852, the naturalist and writer Louisa Meredith observed in her book My Home in Tasmania : “I know of no place where greater order and decorum is observed by the motley crowds assembled on any public occasion than in this most shamefully slandered country: not even in an English country village can a lady walk alone with less fear of harm or insult than in this capital of Van Diemen's Land, commonly believed at home to be a pest-house, where every crime that can disgrace and degrade humanity stalks abroad with unblushing front.” Meredith's paean to life in the notorious Australian penal colony of Hobart was in stark contrast to her earlier, highly unfavourable account of colonial Sydney. It papered over the years of personal hardship she had endured in Australia, as well as avoiding mention of the racial warfare against Tasmania's Aborigines that had afforded her such a genteel European existence. Such intra-Australian complexities, however, were lost when Meredith's account was superimposed onto German debates about the desirability of penal colonies for Germany. Instead, Meredith's portrait of a cultivated city emerging from the most notorious penal colony in Australia was presented as proof that the deportation of criminals was an important dimension of the civilising mission of Europe in the extra-European world. It was also presented as a vindication of those in Germany who wished to rid Germany of its lumpen criminal class through deportation. The exact paragraph of Meredith's account cited above was quoted in German debates on deportation for almost half a century first in 1859 by the jurist Franz von Holtzendorff, and thereafter by Friedrich Freund when advocating the establishment of a penal colony in the Preußische Jahrbücher in September 1895.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-01-2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 30-07-2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0008938918000092
Abstract: In the past two decades, colonial studies, the postcolonial turn, the new imperial history, as well as world and global history have made serious strides toward revising key elements of German history. Instead of insisting that German modernity was a fundamentally unique, insular affair that incubated authoritarian social tendencies, scholars working in these fields have done much to reinsert Germany into the broader logic of nineteenth-century global history, in which the thalassocratic empires of Europe pursued the project of globalizing their economies, populations, and politics. During this period, settler colonies, including German South West Africa, were established and consolidated by European states at the expense of displaced, helotized, or murdered indigenous populations. Complementing these settler colonies were mercantile entrepôts and plantation colonies, which sprouted up as part of a systematic, global attempt to reorient non-European economies, work patterns, and epistemological frameworks along European lines. Although more modestly than some of its European collaborators and competitors, Germany joined Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States in a largely liberal project of global maritime imperialism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-07-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2013
Start Date: 2022
End Date: 2026
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2020
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2022
End Date: 01-2026
Amount: $944,480.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $152,876.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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