Congratulations to Cornelius Beckers for publishing his essey “‘I too in couplets would attempt to paint / Our varied woes, and versify complaint’: Poetic Form and Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Poetry by East India Company Employees, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 3,1 (2024), 51–64.” (https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2024.4)
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🏆 We are receiving applications for the third edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, which is intended “honour an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires”.
🚨 The IHC and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos / EGEAC have opened the competition for the third edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, which is intended “honour an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires”.
Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France C.1500-C.1800 by Anthony Pagden, Yale University Press 1995
The rise and fall of modern colonial empires have had a lasting impact on the development of European political theory and notions of national identity. This book is the first to compare theories of empire as they emerged in, and helped to define, the great colonial powers Spain, Britain, and France.
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire.
ever heard that factoid about empires lasting 250 years? Sometimes it's claimed that this is an average, one person even claimed that it was an upper limit.
This is probably false. The claim originates with a fellow named Glubb. Dude was born in the 19th century and served as an agent of British military control of the Middle East. He wrote a short book/long essay called "The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival" in which he made that claim. He was not trained as a historian, offered no citations, and excluded American and African empires. (He did say it was an average, though.)
Anyway I thought I'd mention it since I brought it up during a conversation with @poiseunderchaos and they were like, "yeah I'm not so sure about that."
Comment a-t-on territorialisé les océans du monde? Nadin Heé examine l'industrie thonière japonaise, et montre comment les héritages impériaux et les politiques de #décolonisation ont lourdement pesé sur l’établissement d’un nouvel ordre mondial de #souveraineté océanique.
➡️ Régimes de pêche et nouvel ordre mondial dans le bassin Indo-Pacifique au XXe siècle