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Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's 'mental adaptation process' (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the 'heart and the brain' only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Kolonialismus, Note: 1,7, Universität Potsdam (Historisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit der kolonialen Erschließung Südwestafrikas in den Jahren 1883/84 begann das 35 Jahre andauernde Engagement des Deutschen Reiches in Übersee. Die Gründung des deutschen Kolonialreiches weist dabei nicht nur Kontinuitäten auf, die eine planvolle Kolonisierung der betreffenden Landstriche nahelegen würden. Vielmehr wurde ein koloniales Engagement im Deutschen Kaiserreich insbesondere in den 1870er und 1880er Jahren kontrovers diskutiert und entstand aus unterschiedlichen Motivationen heraus. Ziel dieser Hausarbeit ist es, die Beweggründe für ein verstärktes koloniales Auftreten des Deutschen Kaiserreiches herauszuarbeiten. In einem ersten Schritt werden die Begriffe "Imperialismus" und "Kolonialismus" definiert. Sodann werden die unterschiedlichen Argumente im Rahmen der Kolonialdiskussion betrachtet und eingeordnet. Daran anschließend wird der Blick auf die Ebene der Reichsregierung gerichtet. Die ab den 1880er Jahren einsetzende Kolonialpolitik wird im Lichte der Bismarck'schen Außen- und Innenpolitik betrachtet. Letztlich sollen auch die Positionen einzelner gesellschaftlicher Akteure beleuchtet werden und dabei helfen, die wichtigsten Stationen in der Kolonialdiskussion nachzuvollziehen.

Vor den englischen Missionsgesellschaften waren ab 1706 und 1760 bereits vom dänischen König geförderte pietistische Missionen in Indien tätig - Aussagen der Missionare und der Missionsleitung deuten jedoch auf massive Probleme hin: Die Missionare der Dänisch-Englisch-Halleschen Mission beobachteten genau das Verhalten der indigenen wie der europäischen Bevölkerung. Ihr eigener Alltag war jedoch ebenso von Normverletzungen geprägt. Diese Devianz war eine Gefahr für die Mission, im Einzelfall aber auch nützlich. Im Spannungsfeld von Missionszentrale und -feld geht Tobias Delfs den Gründen für Devianz, ihrer Definition, dem Umgang mit ihr wie den Bedingungen von Konformität im Indien des späten 18. Jahrhunderts nach und ordnet sie in die soziale Topographie der kolonialen Gesellschaft ein. Er betrachtet Motivationen, Lebenswelt, Auswahl und Vorbereitung der Missionare. Er untersucht den 'Zwischenraum' der Überfahrt, die Netzwerkbildung, das Verhältnis zu den neuen Missionsgesellschaften, familiäre Stabilisierungsfaktoren, Regulationsversuche, den schwierigen Missionsalltag in einem fremden Land, die Wahrnehmung desselben und die Selbstverortung gegenüber Europäern wie Einheimischen.

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"Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. Thebook points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all."- Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA"Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake." - Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UKThis book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitlyintergenerational, future-oriented terms.

Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals deliberates upon a wide spectrum of events and processes as it endeavours to trace the ecological changes brought about by the evolution of two industries, forestry and mining, and their eventual institutionalization in the Bengal Province. An analysis of the topographical changes in this region is essential to render an understanding of the dialectics of colonial rule. The focus on regional history unravels the myriad ways in which colonial intrusion transformed the production process, as well as investigates its impact on the local social fabric. The role of the State, the local stakeholders and the power-liaisons in the colonial and postcolonial period, together with the devolution of authority under the independent government are also examined. The transformation of the two regions, Jalpaiguri and Jungle Mahals into effective official departments, in particular, raises several questions concerning policy implementation and the viability of these institutions as revenue generating bodies ensuring the economic and political intransigent of the colonial state. The vexed issue of development, which had to accommodate the legacy of the erstwhile regime, the proclivities of the rulers, and the resistance offered by the ruled, covert as well as overt, also deserves attention.

This book argues that early American history is best understood as the story of a settler-colonial supplanting society-a society intent on a vast land grab of American Indian space and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. Challenging the still strongly held notion of American history as somehow exceptional or unique, it locates the history of the United States and its colonial antecedents as a central part of-rather than an exception to-the emerging global histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide. It also explores early American history in an imperial, transnational, and global frame, showing how the precedent of the North American West and its colonial trope of Indian wars were used by like-minded American and European expansionists to inspire and legitimate other imperial-colonial adventures from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.

Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the Reader probes militarism's ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people.<BR><BR> In collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David Vine

In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and speculators had appropriated virtually every acre for themselves. But in an era of ravenous westward expansion, why did the process of dispossession require three decades of debate and legal maneuvering? As David Ress argues, the fate of the Half Breed Tracts complicates longstanding ideas about land tenure and community in early national America.

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket's introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the categories of 'colonisers' and 'colonised.' How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)? By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the globe.