Climate extremes and the Eastern Turkic Empire in Central Asia
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DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2236-9
Abstract: This article analyzes the effect of climate extremes on the historical processes that took place (AD 536, 581, 601, 626, and 679) in the Eastern Turkic Empire (ETE) (AD 534–745) in Central Asia. Climate extremes… read more here.
Keywords: eastern turkic; climate extremes; turkic empire; empire ... See more keywords
The Dutch and the Second British Empire in the Early Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean World
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.179
Abstract: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire grew through its invasion of Dutch colonies around the Indian Ocean rim. The incursions entwined British and Dutch politics, cultures, and social networks. These developments… read more here.
Keywords: empire; second british; dutch second; british empire ... See more keywords
Fae Dussart. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony Empire's Other Histories. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 256. $115.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.175
Abstract: We know now that the employment practices of white households and the introduction of capitalist wage relations reconfigured existing cultures of servitude in colonies in Asia and Africa. Equally, analyzing domesticity, with an emphasis on… read more here.
Keywords: dussart service; empire domestic; empire; service ... See more keywords
Crafting British medicine in the Empire: the establishment of medical schools in India and Canada, 1763–1837
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DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2024.6
Abstract: Abstract In the early nineteenth century, medical schools became a growing means of regulating medicine in the British Empire, both in the metropole and in two colonies: India and Canada. By examining the establishment of… read more here.
Keywords: medical schools; empire; medicine; india canada ... See more keywords
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938917000905
Abstract: In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval past, a dysfunctional polity that hindered Germany's development into a modern,… read more here.
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Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region: Custom, Conflict and British Strategy in Waziristan until 1947. Hugh Beattie, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019). Pp. 308. $115.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781848858961
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743821000246
Abstract: gave imperial consulates a chance to pose as necessary mediators—or eager undertakers. Dying and death, in her treatment, then become at once moments of imperial taxonomy and sites of imperial competition. At times, it was… read more here.
Keywords: empire; tribe afghan; afghan frontier; frontier region ... See more keywords
Thailand. More than rural: Textures of Thailand's agrarian transformation By Jonathan Rigg Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. Pp. 300. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022463423000140
Abstract: gration as an act of liberation against the despotic Qing Empire. The Chinese were seen as a panacea for labour shortages in the Empire after the ban on slavery. Chapter 3 discusses the ‘stimulated interest’… read more here.
Keywords: empire; thailand rural; rural textures; chinese labour ... See more keywords
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world
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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x25000150
Abstract: Abstract This article focuses on a case study of one Japanese prefectural association and its monthly magazine to reassess the importance of prefectural associations (kenjinkai) beyond the diaspora communities in North America on which Anglophone… read more here.
Keywords: prefectural associations; empire; article; expansive ideas ... See more keywords
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. By Rajeev Kinra. pp. xix, 371. Oakland, University of California Press, 2015.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186317000049
Abstract: Over the past decade or so there have been major steps forward in our understanding of Mughal history. Among them were: Ruby Lal’s Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005), which demonstrates… read more here.
Keywords: mughal; chandar bhan; empire; world ... See more keywords
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business. By Karolina Hutková. pp. 275. Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2019
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186320000012
Abstract: as both emerged from the disparate web of sovereignties that characterised the early modern period. To view the history of colonialism in India as primarily a lesson about the contemporary relevance of state regulation is… read more here.
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American empire: a global history By A. G. Hopkins, Princeton, NJ, and Oxford:Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 980. Hardback £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-691-17705-2.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1740022818000256
Abstract: Hopkins’ ambitious book seeks to integrate the history of the global American territorial empire with the scholarly literature on European imperialism.He argues that examining European and American imperial trajectories in tandem reveals far more commonalities… read more here.
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