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15 Apr 2020, 9:30 pm
Faced with two incommensurable systems for understanding life stages, African women found new ways to assert a sense of generational belonging and new definitions of maturity. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 4:12 pm
“The colonies were basically fever ridden swamps,” he said. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 11:56 am
Epidemics were a grim feature of life in crowded, unsanitary 19th century American cities. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 9:03 pm
Shelf life varied from seven to 19 days. [read post]
4 Apr 2020, 3:43 am
The movement was also closely related to British imperialism, and many tenets of Muscular Christianity were derived from or related to the ideology of colonialism and the "Noble savage" archetype.... [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 6:30 am
McGreevey, Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 1:01 am
Britain had few qualms about starving its colonies in Africa and India to feed the home country. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 9:30 pm
Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics and a fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.We've mentioned him often on the blog recently because of his award-winning book, A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press). [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 6:40 am
Once the most famous writer in the American colonies (and, later, the United States of America), the corsetmaker-turned-pamphleteer had been virtually expelled from public life for his radical beliefs and writings, like the ones that suggested a tax on landowners could be used to fund basic income for everyone else and his severe critique of organized religion which made Ben Franklin and Geo Washington both wince. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 1:01 pm
But for real-life treasure-hunting stories, perhaps nothing beats the quests of the aptly named Mel Fisher and his company Treasure Salvors, Inc. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 10:55 am
(This op-ed was first published in LAWFARE on March 19, 2020.) [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 1:01 am
In September, 1664, under the governorship of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, the Assembly ruled that all enslaved people should be held in slavery for life, and that children of enslaved mothers should also be held in slavery for life. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 1:20 pm
And as the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, brings American economic and social life to a halt, it is worth asking: What will be the effects on government surveillance? [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 1:33 pm
It is quickly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic will fundamentally change the 2020 election. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
Through court records and legal documents, Wood reveals how courts became liaisons between France and new colonial possessions.Praise for the book: “Laurie Wood makes innovative and sophisticated use of hitherto ignored legal sources to reconstruct the complex socio-political relationships that shaped life in the eighteenth-century French Caribbean and Indian Ocean. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 4:00 am
Campbell Patronizing, Arrogant, and even a bit Colonial. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 10:14 am
How we explain disease and whom we blame are highly symptomatic of who we are and how we organize our relations with others, in particular the practices and life forms of marginalized elements of society. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 4:00 am
Colonialism remains embedded in the legal, political and economic context of Canada today. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 6:39 am
How does this shape everyday life for historical actors? [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 8:57 am
Those who opposed the desegregation of lunch counters weren’t mad at a social convention that prevented them from living regular life. [read post]
