South Africa’s apartheid history is still largely narrated as a tale of heroes and villains. Historical accounts venerate those who resisted the regime, and demonises those who enforced its racialised structures.…
...my article explores a contrast between the national-patriotic character of the French Red Cross in the aftermath of World War One and the transnational humanitarian agenda of the broader Red Cross movement...
My article, ‘Power in Vulnerability’, argues that early modern patriarchal structures provided specific opportunities for widows that were unavailable to other men and women, whether married or single.
This accompanies the History of Education Quarterly articles How Austerity Politics Led to Tuition Charges at the University of California and City University of New York by Jennifer M.…
The article unravels AUR's fascist origins that stem from the interwar and through the communist regime up to the present day.
We invited Trautmann to tell us why he writes about Indian war elephants, and how. He touched on several topics in the process: the value of analytical accidents, the recovery of lost knowledge systems, and the power and pluralism of human logics.
Locke’s arguments for toleration are well-known and immensely influential. Less well-known, but of equal import to his worldview, are the exceptions he made to these arguments for religious freedom.
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent APSR article, “‘Send Back the Bloodstained Money’: Frederick Douglass on Tainted Gifts.”…
Usually slipped quietly between the pages of a coroner’s inquest, these deeply personal letters always gave me the greatest sense that I was hearing the voices of the people I studied.
E Mariah Spencer wonderfully describes how Margaret Cavendish challenged the narrow categories for women in early modern culture...
The aim of this special issue is to study the Middle East and Eastern Europe, including South-Eastern Europe, as one interwoven space and to use it as a laboratory to explore conceptual issues regarding modern societal transnational and state international history.…
It is shown that Shaftesbury’s opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’.
My findings underscore how critical teachers are in the school reform story. When we fail to see reform from the perches of these vital agents we miss a major piece of the reform story.
Along with showing the centrality of education in the relations between the socialist countries and the Middle East during the Cold War, this article brings to the fore a number of forgotten connections and suggests avenues for further research.
...documentations of housing projects offered by state-socialist Romanian design institutes to governmental clients in North Africa and the Middle East appeared as tools and records of negotiations among unequal parties...
In uncovering a vast array of contexts in which women acquired knowledge, became literate, and promoted intellectual advancement, Hall has successfully amplified the archivally silent world of women’s education in medieval England.
"...interdependence was seen both as an opportunity and a threat in the relations between smaller non-oil producing countries such as Yugoslavia and the rich Middle East."
What I show is that, due to an Orientalist take on South Yemen and Dhofar, the Soviet side widely failed to appreciate the political importance and potential of socialist currents in the Middle East, reducing cooperation to a selfish ‘pragmatism’.
The existence of this institution invites a number of questions about the early 20th century relations between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman empires, from economy to politics.
In an attempt to create social cohesion, medieval European schoolmasters harnessed “youthful rebelliousness” during annual rituals so that a “modicum of order could be maintained.
Diplomatic historians have long pointed out that the early months of 1921 featured the culmination of a campaign of Soviet revolutionary diplomacy in which Moscow established diplomatic relations with newly reinstated governments in Ankara, Tehran and Kabul.
Without doubt, the troubling events in the wake of the Bishops’ Wars and Wentworth’s intention to recruit Irish Catholics for the army left an indelible mark on Protestants in England.
Cunningham gives us a way to interpret 21st century activism, particularly in understanding how employee policies and the courts follow a tradition of limiting teachers’ rights to freedom of speech and expression.
My article contributes to this line of inquiry by considering how an information infrastructure for keeping track of human genes was built and changed across the latter decades of the twentieth century.
By shining a light on the women in Ormonde’s network, my article argues that 1) women were central to royalist political activity during the Interregnum in Ireland and 2) female alliances were key to Irish women’s political agency.
Notwithstanding the horrific nature of this death, the case of Veronica L. offers the historian a rare window into the lives of the intellectually disabled, and the operation of ‘handicap’ services, in the mid twentieth century.
In this respect the student dimension to British cultural diplomacy of the mid-1930s combined elements of cultural internationalism with the pursuit of national interest.
A special issue on the spaces, practices, and material culture that characterised the production and consumption of intoxicants in Europe, the Atlantic, and South Asia between the 16th and 18th centuries.
This article highlights the fact that, alongside its other roles in the early modern British empire, alcohol was also an active force in imperial scientific culture in its role as medium of preservation and display.
This article uses the material culture of smoking to connect an American-sourced intoxicant to changing tastes and expressions of masculinity in early seventeenth-century London.
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
Following the Great War, both countries tapped into their academic capital to pursue very different visions of the post-war order; that is either to enforce (in the case of France) or undo (in the case of Germany) the provisions of the Versailles peace settlement.
It shows that drink, dancing, and illicit sex combined to create a milieu in which activities frowned upon in Britain, or which were confined to specific and highly regulated homosocial encounters, defined white male cultural practices in the island.
The editorial team of Contemporary European History is delighted to announce the 2020 CEH Prize winner, Mónica García-Fernández (University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), for her forthcoming article ‘From National Catholicism to Romantic Love. The Politics of Love and Divorce in Franco's Spain’.
Some thought that civil speech was a denial of civic ideals. Others, such as Erasmus and Vives, believed that civic life in the service of the community could only be realized through civil speech.
Rather than sinister and corrupt state manipulation, this close look at the instructions, never previously undertaken, suggests a relatively flexible and responsive attempt to balance safety and security with press freedom.
After decades of progressive reforms, since the early 2010s, Turkey has enacted a series of rollbacks on women’s rights and gender equality.…
This special issue looks at the revolts and other, often contentious, social responses to the forced liberalization programs in Africa and the Middle East from the 1970s to the present day...
Frederik Unseld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. focuses on artists in the context of political and economic violence in Kisumu, western Kenya.…
People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these people were more likely to be reprimanded for engaging with paganism.
...the observatory staff, the largest portion of whom were adolescent boys hired to do computational work, had to be managed too. Airy worked hard to deskill their positions, turning the observatory into a sort of factory...
Almost a century before Watson and Crick, Miescher had been working in the freezing cold former kitchen of Tübingen Castle that had now been converted into laboratories for the University, where he was carrying out investigations into the chemical composition of white blood cells...
This event was designed to boost Hungary’s international image as part of an ambitious cultural diplomatic campaign led by the Hungarian government in the 1930s.
...the cultural treaties Mussolini signed in February 1935 applied state power to international cultural exchange, and mobilised the idea of ‘culture’ itself, in ways that were new – and that would prove influential long after his fascist regime had fallen.
As the expansion of Spanish culture in interwar Europe shows, however, state efforts were not the only means of success for cultural promotion abroad.
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
My article thus focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their ‘learning-by-the-book’ contents.
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
PEN’s 1927 charter encapsulated both the tensions between and the interrelatedness of nationalism and internationalism which permeated the political and cultural spheres in the interwar period.
How does a country project a certain image of itself? What place have the advertising professions had in the history of cultural diplomacy? How have small countries attempted to attract the attention of foreign publics? Our research seeks to answer these questions, and the Swedish national pavilions at the world’s fairs in Brussels 1935, Paris 1937 and New York 1939 provide a very rich case study.
My article tells the story of how Germany and Poland cooperated on a common summer camp exchange for each other’s borderland children from Upper Silesia between 1924 and 1939.
most of the core practices of modern cultural diplomacy emerged in a period of desperate military and economic danger: the period between the world wars that E. H. Carr famously called ‘the twenty years’ crisis’.
Why did the United Kingdom withdraw from its large military bases in the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia during the Cold War?…
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
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