States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
Syria: The glory and the agony
Thu Htet
GIH MSt Presentations
GIH DPhil Presentations
Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico
This talk centres gendered strategies of survival through the case of one woman who called upon a regional trauma – the Great Siege of 1683 by Dutch pirate Laurens de Graaf. The presentation will underscore the complexity of colonial life and identities in general, and the vulnerability and resiliency of African-descended families and women, in particular. It further examines the aftermath of this spectacular attack on the port of Veracruz and its subsequent uses by diverse subjects.
New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica
The experiences of the women, men and children captives bonded for life to unfree labour were the greatest feature of the plantation world of slavery in the Americas. And yet we know precious little about them. Flashes of lives appear in the records and have been skillfully used by generations of historians seeking a view of slavery from below the great house. Still, systematic large-scale studies of existing large data of the enslaved are few though new methods of historical research promise great rewards. This presentation addresses these possibilities.
The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa
European slave-ship outfitters understood the African coastline in a way that was very different from our contemporary understanding of political entities, topographical regions, or ethnic and linguistic groupings. Slave-ship outfitters saw the coastline in two, diametrically opposite, ways: As a series of discrete marketplaces and as a continuous source of New World slaves. As slave-ship outfitters sought to understand African consumer demand for their merchandise, they were especially attuned to local differences in demand along the Atlantic African coast.
Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
The practice of humanitarian intervention – that is to say, of military intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign state to stop the mass atrocities and the violation of humanitarian norms – is commonly situated within the international politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Yet recent scholarship has identified the roots of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century.