Transatlantic History
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This is a working paper that I wrote while in grad school. I hope to return to this project and publish an extension of this research in the future.
Un aspect particulier de la Première Guerre mondiale, les mécanismes de collaboration entre Alliés dans le domaine (alors encore expérimental) des chars de combat.
Voici le texte de ma présentation faite à Boulogne sur Mer en novembre 2019. Or cette question ouverte m'a conduit à m'interroger si je ne devais pas poursuivre les investigations pour en faire un article. Je vous remercie d'avance pour... more
Sex and sexuality are topics that have defined feminism since its inception. What has changed is that there is now a generation of feminists and scholars who are comfortable not only to write in their own disciplines but who incorporate... more
Since the 16th century, African Muslims figured prominently among the slave population of the Americas. While the number of Muslims pulled into the trade has always been a matter of speculation, lists of Africans rescued from slave ships... more
A first attempt to put together the significance of the US State Department's Visitor Program (the former Leader Program) in relation to the political career of a prominent Western leader. This was Margaret Thatcher's first experience of... more
This article examines the key themes and cultural meanings of 'classic' capoeira lyrics, e.g. prior to the 1960s. First published in: David Treece, Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi (eds.) The Portuguese Black Atlantic, London: Palgrave Macmillan,... more
Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across the United Kingdom. Remond eventually moved to... more
200+ pages of text intelligently condensed into 17 pages – save your precious time! For smart lazy students with love from Angel Versetti Spark Notes style summary of the essentials for your preparation The American Revolution by... more
The notion of gender was debated in France long before the 2013 law on marriage equality. In 2004, a mayor in the south of France celebrated the first gay marriage. One year later, a court denied two trans women the right to marry because... more
Ao cruzar a história das relações transatlânticas, da Segunda Guerra Mundial e da Guerra Fria através do exame das diferentes ambições civis e militares ligadas ao espaço insular atlântico português entre 1942 e 1948, este artigo tem como... more
The personal perspectives, professional interests, and visual models that influenced Horatio Greenough in crafting paired busts of “Lucifer” (ca. 1841–42) and “Christ” (ca. 1845) reveal both the aesthetic concerns of his era and the... more
It is widely accepted that the fiddle was first introduced to the Northern Isles at the beginning of the eighteenth century by Hanseatic traders. Owing to this, along with Dutch herring fleets and temporary emigration by Shetlanders... more
María Sánchez Colina, Angelo Baracca, Carlos Cabal Mirabal,
Arbelio Pentón Madrigal, Jürgen Renn, Helge Wendt (eds.)
Arbelio Pentón Madrigal, Jürgen Renn, Helge Wendt (eds.)
Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed analysis of individual films, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for the English past in Hollywood cinema. Stubbs asks... more
The civilian and military governments that were in power in Argentina between 1974 and 1983 were responsible for the genocide of approximately 30,000 perceived political and social undesirables, labelled as subversives, in what is known... more
This work offers a panoramic view on transatlantic exchanges that took place between Spain and Puerto Rico after the establishment of the Royal Decree of 1815. It gives some examples to illustrate the way the Revista de Navegación y... more
While Spain is crucial to discussions of fascism and the thirties, this chapter demonstrates that Robert Capa’s legendary Spanish war photographs are crucial to understanding how photography’s relationship to politics and history has been... more
This article examines the influence of Victorian free-trade ideology upon American foreign relations. Victorian free-trade ideology—also known as Cobdenism—gained ground among a small but powerful group of predominantly New England... more
From Tunapuna, Trinidad, Winifred Atwell (c. 1914-1983) was a classically trained ragtime and boogie-woogie style pianist who gained quite remarkable popularity in Britain, and later also Australia, in the 1950s, in live and recorded... more
in: Shubert Archive (Hg.): The Passing Show, Vol. 30, (2014), 2-23.
http://www.shubertarchive.org/pdf/passingshows/PS2013_14Final.pdf
http://www.shubertarchive.org/pdf/passingshows/PS2013_14Final.pdf
This chapter explores American attempts in the 1920s and 30s to define a uniquely American design style. The chapter closely examines the discourse emanating from contemporary design writing which contrasts European and American design.... more
This is the introduction and table of contents of my book From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie - available from SUNY Press (and amazon, etc.) from May 2016.
Contemporary actors and, later, historians and critics have long compared the Haitian Revolution to a tragic play. But the model of tragedy they invoke has changed over time. Today the best-known example comes from The Black Jacobins... more
This work aims to examine the relationship between the specific Christianity practiced by the European colonizers and the development of ethnic and racial identity in the Americas. More specifically, the scope of this work is to suggest... more
Zu Recht gilt der 1. Weltkrieg als Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts. In den Folgen der von ihm eingeleiteten Umbrüche lebt die Menschheit noch heute. Rudolf Steiner verglich diese Zäsur mit dem Untergang des Römischen Reiches; er wies... more
The first part of this essay presents an overview of sacrificial theory from the past century and a half. I focus on debates surrounding five themes: language, violence, community, media, and economy. All have been of concern to... more