Papers by Edward Harthorn
A narrative of the Bagley-Ridgeway Feud that took place at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, from 1905 to 1... more A narrative of the Bagley-Ridgeway Feud that took place at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, from 1905 to 1915. Stemming from the death of Ed Bagley at the hands of City Marshal Lee Ridgeway, the eventual tally of seven murders and associated trials strained the Lawrence County legal system and divided public opinion. Featuring courtroom outbursts, midnight assassins, Pinkerton detectives, threats of lynching, and a same-day burial of father and son at nearby Mt. Zion Cemetery, this feud was as dramatic as they come.
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This paper focuses on the varying perspectives that Indians, British, Americans, and other specta... more This paper focuses on the varying perspectives that Indians, British, Americans, and other spectators and actors had regarding the integration of India. (Due to the beginnings of the Cold War and a contemporaneous famine in India requiring U.S. food aid, the U.S. was a definite stakeholder in India even if it did not interfere with integration firsthand.) While some context is provided of the events of Indian integration themselves, this paper primarily details the perceptions of those events instead. While the princely states were definitely a type of borderlands within the subcontinent, these states were just as importantly a borderlands within the minds of Indian leaders who saw them as barriers to a truly unified India more than anything.
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While the Indian Ocean slave trade was much smaller than the Atlantic, it went on for much longer... more While the Indian Ocean slave trade was much smaller than the Atlantic, it went on for much longer, and many Arab countries did not formally ban slavery until the 20th century—1970 for Oman. This paper investigates the nature of African enslavement in Oman during the period after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was effectively ended, focusing on the mid-to-late 1800s. Contrasted with these narratives is Ibn al-Mujawir’s Tarikh al-Mustabsir from 600 years prior, which mentions slavery in the region on multiple occasions and is noteworthy for its unexpectedly frank and yet insightful perspectives on both this and so many other phenomena in the region.
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Though India's port cities were previously occupied primarily by Arab traders, Europeans had begu... more Though India's port cities were previously occupied primarily by Arab traders, Europeans had begun encroaching after 1498, and by 1670 the Dutch, English, and French had joined the Portuguese. Even though the European merchants and diplomats all viewed themselves superior to the natives, they also took pains to promote their own national interests at the expense of other Europeans. Victory for these individuals relied on not just cornering the market, but garnering the most admiration.
Two writers who entered this system at about the same time were Abbé Barthélémy Carré of France and John Fryer of England. Fryer was a surgeon for the English East India Company, and traveled throughout Persia and India from 1672 to 1681. Carré journeyed throughout much of the same area from 1672 to 1674, though he traveled around Eastern India much more extensively. Arguably, both writers emphasized the role of perception in Indian policy, through their own opinions of European figures and institutions and in their descriptions of the actions taken by these agents and themselves.
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A survey of colonial travel narratives that discuss areas in the proximity of what is now Malaysi... more A survey of colonial travel narratives that discuss areas in the proximity of what is now Malaysia. Two early voyagers in the region, Henry Middleton and John Jourdain, demonstrate in their writings that the search for trade and commerce was the primary motivation for Englishmen in the region more than 400 years ago. By the 1820s, a more sedentary commercial base had been set up at ports such as Singapore and Malacca, and writers such as Peter James Begbie and Thomas John Newbold reflect the new interest in the culture and geography of peninsular Malaysia in the 1830s shown by their countrymen. The highpoint of colonialism in the area from the 1870s to the early 1900s is reflected in the exuberant narratives of Isabella Bird, who chronicles her travels among not just the wild remote areas of the region, but newer upper-class getaways as well.
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Two writers who entered this system at about the same time were Abbé Barthélémy Carré of France and John Fryer of England. Fryer was a surgeon for the English East India Company, and traveled throughout Persia and India from 1672 to 1681. Carré journeyed throughout much of the same area from 1672 to 1674, though he traveled around Eastern India much more extensively. Arguably, both writers emphasized the role of perception in Indian policy, through their own opinions of European figures and institutions and in their descriptions of the actions taken by these agents and themselves.
Two writers who entered this system at about the same time were Abbé Barthélémy Carré of France and John Fryer of England. Fryer was a surgeon for the English East India Company, and traveled throughout Persia and India from 1672 to 1681. Carré journeyed throughout much of the same area from 1672 to 1674, though he traveled around Eastern India much more extensively. Arguably, both writers emphasized the role of perception in Indian policy, through their own opinions of European figures and institutions and in their descriptions of the actions taken by these agents and themselves.