Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902029
C. Villamar
The book of E. Tagliacozzo is a tour de force that offers a broad historical and geographic perspective of oceanic interlinkages from Japan to East Africa that evolved long before the arrival of European powers to the macro-region in the sixteenth century. His analysis is focused on the maritime framework and is distributed in six parts, literally: (1) the maritime connections, (2) bodies of water, (3) religion, (4) cities and the sea, (5) the bounty of the oceans, and (6) technologies of the sea. Each of the six sections has a brief introduction, followed by two specific chapters. The book contains 14 chapters, 13 figures, 13 tables, and 14 maps. The author blends different research method which he had previously demonstrated elsewhere in his writings on Southeast Asian history. In this sense, his use of archaeological, anthropological, and sociological perspectives enriches the current historical interpretation, which, unfortunately, tends to be limited to micro-analysis of political or economic aspects. The interviews made by the author when visiting places between East Africa and East Asia are a welcomed contribution.
E. Tagliacozzo的这本书是一本杰作，提供了从日本到东非的海洋相互联系的广泛的历史和地理视角，这种联系在16世纪欧洲列强到达宏观地区之前就已经发展起来了。他的分析集中在海洋框架上，分为六个部分:(1)海洋联系，(2)水体，(3)宗教，(4)城市和海洋，(5)海洋的恩惠，(6)海洋技术。每一节都有一个简短的介绍，然后是两个具体的章节。全书共14章，13幅图，13张表，14幅图。作者将他以前在东南亚历史著作中展示的不同研究方法融合在一起。从这个意义上说，他对考古学、人类学和社会学观点的运用丰富了当前的历史解释，不幸的是，这些解释往往局限于政治或经济方面的微观分析。作者在访问东非和东亚之间的地方时所做的采访是一项受欢迎的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902027
S. Fender
Abstract:This article examines the influence of global revolutionary scripts on the nascent labor movement in revolutionary Mexico. During the turmoil of the 1910s and 1920s, Mexican workers appropriated and utilized a wide range of revolutionary examples from the classical world, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and the October Revolution to create a frame and a narrative for events in Mexico. The influence of global scripts was determined by the agency of local actors. Over time, they formed a repository of mobilizing tools and were used or suppressed depending on the current framework of revolutionary politics. Since the historiography of the Mexican Revolution is predominantly national in its perspective, the examination of this process among subaltern actors opens the possibility for global comparative approaches that connect the Mexican case with the development and spread of revolutionary thought in other parts of the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902055
Brandon Kinney
Abstract:This article examines the relationship between Cold War national liberation groups through their shared material and visual culture. Using China, Cuba, and Palestinian groups as its case studies, it reveals how Third World militants forged transnational associative networks in part through the transmission of cultural productions that reflected common values, assumptions, and metaphors. In Global South iconography, the AK-47 rifle became shorthand for a revolutionary transnationalism. The rifle is among the most iconic images in the world, even among those who have never seen one in person, and its use as a symbol is imbued with complex political meaning. While artists, themes, and ideologies varied widely in revolutionary art, the AK-47 was a metaphoric bridge between these groups and became a focal point of imagery for national liberation and transnational solidarity. Rather than demonstrating allegiance to the Soviet Union, the repetitious use of the rifle in visual culture became a way for revolutionary groups to stake out place as an imagined community across the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902056
Elizabeth M. Martin
As historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks notes in her 2007 Journal of World History article “World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,” more could be done to integrate the fields of world history and gender. Though fifteen years have passed since the article’s publication, and definite strides have been made, this argument still stands true. Two recent books aim to bridge the world history/gender history divide, Susan Kingsley Kent’sGender: AWorld History and Karen Phoenix’s Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective. Both of these volumes embrace the “new” world history model, consciously striving to move beyond an emphasis on Europe and the United States or a “great civilizations” approach, and instead focusing on connections, interactions, and comparisons. Both aim to center specifically gender in world history, telling not solely a history of women, but one where masculinity is also a subject of study. Both
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902051
Malika Zehni
Abstract:This paper examines the role of documentary mechanisms in the formation and reconfiguration of different pilgrimage routes in Central Asia during Russian rule. It focuses on how mass mobility in the form of pilgrimage was at once facilitated by the introduction of modern forms of transportation and channeled by regimes of regulation and paperwork. The article aims to reconstruct the discourses that took place among officials of the Russian colonial administration and their understanding of Muslim mobility. More importantly, the study examines how the indigenous population navigated and resisted these regulations en route to Mecca. By examining colonial and diplomatic correspondence, along with travel documents in Turki, Persian, and Russian languages, the paper sheds light on the classification of itineraries as legal and illegal through pilgrim passports and documentary regulations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902052
Hollian Wint
Abstract:Using a micro-historical method, this article reconceptualizes the family firm as a trans-local extended household. The family firm plays a central role in the historiography of long-distance trade in the Indian Ocean. Yet it remains a largely under-theorized concept. The conceptual shift that this article proposes enables the significant analytical incorporation of a broader cast of historical actors, including marital and "networked" kin. From this expanded viewpoint, the family firm emerges as a node in overlapping networks of capital—financial, social, and symbolic—and as a site of intersecting intimate and economic transactions. The article also explores the historical transformations—economic, legal, and social—that reverberated across the western Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth century. Eschewing a static institutional model, it argues that any analysis of the family firm must attend to the dynamic and complex shifts in household relationships that were wrought by such transformations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902054
Fredrick Walter Lorenz
Abstract:This article examines Ottoman and British collaborative efforts to intervene in and transform Muslim religious and cultural affairs in the Cape of Good Hope from 1862 to 1869. It focuses on how the Ottoman sultan reinstated the Ottoman Empire's prestige globally in the decade following the Crimean War by employing religious scholars and British agents in Cape Town to expand the empire's sphere of influence in Africa through "soft power." This was part of a larger collaborative enterprise between Ottoman and British authorities, which I call Ottoman-British transimperialism. I argue that the project of Ottoman-British transimperialism in Cape Town encountered opposition when confronted by customary and charismatic forms of Islam and the divided loyalties of local Muslim communities. This crucial examination of the Cape Colony highlights how local collaboration and resistance mediated transimperial ambitions in Cape Town and redefined the social networks and local ties among Cape Muslims.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902058
A. Wright
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902057
B. Reilly
on colonial Latin America the book could have expanded more on the ties between gender and honor. And with the section onWestern films, a discussion of who went to see these films would be welcome—they seemed to have a wide audience in Europe, but was this audience mostly men? Mostly middle class? Do we know what the consumers of these films thought about them? Though both Kent’s and Phoenix’s books do touch on issues of sexuality, a more systematic exploration in both books would be a welcome addition. Overall, it is wonderful to see both of these books on gender in world history designed for classroom use published this past year, in tandemwith the release of new editions of previous works likeWiesnerHanks’ and Stearns’. These publications and others, such as Candice Goucher’s four-volume reference workWomen Who Changed the World, also released in 2022, offer educators more options to look to when commencing the process of integrating gender or women’s experiences into existing world history courses. These resources also provide a broader springboard for faculty teaching courses focused specifically on women or gender in a global perspective. Hopefully this burst of literature is marking an expanding recognition and interest from world historians to further integrate these pivotal fields, and a growing commitment to bring the challenge of studying gender on a global level to the classroom.
关于殖民地的拉丁美洲，这本书本可以更多地扩展性别和荣誉之间的联系。在关于西方电影的部分，讨论谁去看这些电影是受欢迎的——它们在欧洲似乎有很多观众，但这些观众大多是男性吗？大部分是中产阶级？我们知道这些电影的消费者对它们的看法吗？尽管肯特和菲尼克斯的书都涉及性问题，但在这两本书中进行更系统的探索将是一个受欢迎的补充。总的来说，很高兴看到这两本关于世界历史上性别的书在过去的一年里都出版了，与WiesnerHanks和Stearns等前作的新版同时出版。这些出版物和其他出版物，如坎迪斯·古彻（Candice Goucher）的四卷参考著作《改变世界的女性》（women Who Changed the World），也于2022年发布，为教育工作者在开始将性别或女性经历融入现有世界史课程的过程时提供了更多的选择。这些资源还为教师在全球范围内教授专门针对女性或性别的课程提供了更广阔的跳板。希望这一文献的激增标志着世界历史学家对进一步整合这些关键领域的日益认可和兴趣，以及将全球性别研究的挑战带到课堂上的日益承诺。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902053
Nathan Kwan
Abstract:The defeat of the Chinese pirate Shap-ng-tsai (Zhang Kaiping) by forces from the British and Qing empires in the waters of Vietnam is one of the most impressive naval victories of the mid-nineteenth century. Despite the magnitude of the engagement, it has received limited and mostly one-sided analysis. Engaging with a wider array of sources, particularly those from Qing authorities, allows for a more holistic reconstruction of Shap-ng-tsai's defeat and an assessment of its significance. A comparison between accounts by British and Chinese officials reveals discrepancies reflecting the limits of each side's authority at sea and how they used their (mis)understanding of each other to justify killing thousands of pirates in the waters of a foreign state. Anglo-Qing cooperation against Shap-ng-tsai would provide a model for future anti-piracy expeditions and helped improve relations between Britain, China, and Vietnam in the mid-nineteenth century.
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