Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2023.a902059
B. Reilly
Rimner has reconstructed the transnational history of the opposition to the opium trade in Asia, recovering previously buried “traces of border-crossing mobilization” (p. 278). The breadth and depth of his archival research is impressive. This work is thick with detail, so much so that at times the argument becomes a little obscured. The reader may be left with questions about the extent to which the elite actors that Rimner tracks so skillfully here accurately represented popular opinion. Overall, however, this is an impressive achievement that will be read with interest by scholars of drug history, international relations, and transnational social movements.
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Assembling a special collection of previously published articles has created an opportunity to engage with the legacy of Journal of World History. As with the first of these issues four years ago, I took the opportunity to review our “most downloaded” articles list from Project Muse. It has changed more than I expected – not only from the arrival of newlypublished articles but also from articles published decades ago that have gained new prominence. One of those served as the launching point for this collection, Matthew Pratt Guterl’s “The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925,” a “top 10” article for 2022, though it was first published in 1999. The renewed interest in race and racism is hardly unique to Journal of World History, much less global audiences in this particular historical moment. However, looking to JWH for an article on racism in America may not be the first stop on anyone’s pursuit of more information on the topic. For much of its history, JWH only published a few articles with American content. After all, a focus on America did not easily fit within JWH’s stated goal of transnational and comparative research, but Guterl’s article (the first of his two in our journal)1 easily met this threshold. Guterl begins his article with W. E. B. Du Bois’s arrival in the United Kingdom for the First Universal Races Congress and uses this moment as a launching point to analyze changing attitudes toward the conception of Irish American and African American national identities in the late Progressive Era. Focusing on the ways these identities engaged with a
汇集以前发表的文章的特别收藏为参与《世界历史杂志》的遗产创造了机会。与四年前的第一期一样，我借此机会回顾了我们从Project Muse获得的“下载量最大”的文章列表。它的变化比我预期的要大——不仅是因为新发表的文章的到来，而且是因为几十年前发表的文章获得了新的关注。马修·普拉特·古特尔（Matthew Pratt Guterl）的《新种族意识：1910-1925年美国文化中的种族、民族和帝国》（the New Race Conscious:Race，Nation，and Empire in American Culture，1910-1925）是这本书集的起点之一，尽管它于1999年首次出版，但它是2022年的“十大”文章。对种族和种族主义的重新兴趣并不是《世界历史杂志》独有的，更不用说在这个特殊的历史时刻，全球观众了。然而，向JWH寻求一篇关于美国种族主义的文章可能不是任何人寻求更多有关该主题信息的第一站。在其历史的大部分时间里，JWH只发表了几篇带有美国内容的文章。毕竟，对美国的关注并不容易符合JWH所宣称的跨国和比较研究的目标，但古特尔的文章（他在我们杂志上发表的两篇文章中的第一篇）1很容易达到了这个门槛。古特尔的文章以W·E·B·杜波依斯抵达英国参加第一届世界种族大会开始，并以此为出发点分析进步时代后期对爱尔兰裔美国人和非裔美国人国家身份概念的态度变化。关注这些身份与
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Recently scholars have turned their attention to the impact Asia, and especially Persia and the Ottoman Empire, made in France prior to Montesquieu’s Persian Letters. Junko Takeda’s timely book takes off from this point in the early eighteenth century arguing that Persia continued to make a strong impact in France, shaping economics, military technology, and politics from the pre-Revolutionary era to Napoleon. Takeda unearths a truly global Enlightenment era in which Frenchmen watched events in Persia and responded, revealing the commercial and intellectual intertwining of Asian and European Empires. Takeda’s method advances the field of global history by taking a microhistorical approach. She relates accounts of unexpected characters including merchant-diplomats, former gambling-house Madams, Armenian envoys, and Enlightenment figures. The book uncovers how Persian and French relations advanced through the contributions of these various marginalized people from across the Mediterranean world, far from the halls of Versailles and revolutionary chambers. The diverse cast of figures negotiated treaties, dealt in arms and commercial exchange, and spread Enlightenment and Revolutionary ideas from Asia to France. Chapter one draws on Takeda’s extensive knowledge of the commercial politics of Marseille, the subject of her first book. Here, she explores the rise of the Fabre family, a powerful merchant family in Marseille who had ties to Versailles. She explains how the French monarchy selected one of the Fabre family members, despite inadequate experience and more qualified candidates, to become the official envoy to the Safavid Shah in 1705. The French court “rewarded
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Abstract:This article examines several collecting expeditions to the Philippines and Sarawak, Borneo between 1898 and 1909. Collectors on these expeditions collected Indigenous cultural objects, human remains, anthropological data, and natural specimens in order to build up museum collections in Sarawak, England, and the United States. This article argues that to varying degrees, these expeditions were all directly or indirectly supported by imperial power, through funding, logistical aid, protection, or by the use of Indigenous labor. These collectors were informed by imperial ethnographers and collecting guides and shaped their collecting goals accordingly. They attempted to preserve objects and specimens they deemed to be in threat of disappearing due to increasing Western imperial influences. These collectors utilized this salvage rhetoric and the structures of empire to attempt to gain social mobility and professional prestige as anthropology developed as a discipline in the early twentieth century.
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Sometimes it is the sudden intrusion of new questions, and the unexpected perspectives they offer, into the field of World History which has galvanized efforts to push our work and teaching forward in new directions. What does the Ottoman Empire look like from the viewpoint of a marsh in southern Iraq? How could England’s Charles II dream of improving his subject’s physical health in eastern England by radically transforming the landscape in which they lived?What does an Indigenous place-name on a European colonial map signify, and what can that tell us about local ecologies? These are some of the inquiries posed by a new generation of environmental historians, and they speak to the potential for their works to change how we study the past on a global scale. We are living through a transformative moment in the field of environmental history. The climate crisis has catalyzed both a surge in interest and a revolution in methods. Not only are more and more
{"title":"Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History","authors":"John G. Bouchard","doi":"10.1353/jwh.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Sometimes it is the sudden intrusion of new questions, and the unexpected perspectives they offer, into the field of World History which has galvanized efforts to push our work and teaching forward in new directions. What does the Ottoman Empire look like from the viewpoint of a marsh in southern Iraq? How could England’s Charles II dream of improving his subject’s physical health in eastern England by radically transforming the landscape in which they lived?What does an Indigenous place-name on a European colonial map signify, and what can that tell us about local ecologies? These are some of the inquiries posed by a new generation of environmental historians, and they speak to the potential for their works to change how we study the past on a global scale. We are living through a transformative moment in the field of environmental history. The climate crisis has catalyzed both a surge in interest and a revolution in methods. Not only are more and more","PeriodicalId":17466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World History","volume":"34 1","pages":"133 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48574481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The article focuses on two authors who in the 1890s contributed towards the European knowledge of two Asiatic societies—the Acehnese in Sumatra and the Yakuts in Syberia. They arrived in Asia in very different capacities: a Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje as an advisor to the Dutch colonial government, and a Pole Wacław Sieroszewski as a political prisoner. Whereas Snouck Hurgronje was an established scholar, Sieroszewski was a self-taught ethnographer, who traded his knowledge gathered during the years of exile for freedom and scholarly recognition, granted by institutions of the same Russian empire against which he had fought as a Polish revolutionary. And yet there were also striking similarities between the two men. They both owed their intimacy with the studied societies to their "going native," including marriages with local women. Their works also reveal common patterns as they followed scholarly standards accepted in post-Enlightenment Europe, although Sieroszewski was less persuaded of the merits of Europe's "civilizing mission." The two cases shed light on two European imperialisms that deviated from the "ideal type," associated by Edward Said with Britain and France, as well as different circumstances of the encounters between Europeans and Asians along with their ethical implications.
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Abstract:During the late nineteenth century large numbers of long-distance travelers, often elites from imperial states, ventured abroad. The purposes of these travels included for scientific or academic research, for reporting or other information-gathering purposes, and for touristic experiences. These imperial travelers' observations and experiences can be analyzed to provide us a fuller picture of imperial peripheries. Most existing studies of long-distance travel focus on individual travelers' accounts of specific journeys in isolation, rather than in a comparative framework. Comparative study of travel accounts can be used to better understand why different imperial actors supported these sorts of travels, and how written descriptions provide us with varied views of empire. Each travelers' experiences should be analyzed holistically, by investigating their biographical information, identities, class positions, and other individual characteristics, to effectively analyze the significance of their observations.
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Conventionally, piracy has been defined as seafarers operating outside the laws of any sovereign power, referred to in Europe since the Early Modern period as “hostes humani generis,” or “enemies of all mankind.” Most histories of piracy take this as their starting point, incorrectly regarding piracy as a European concept that was applied to foreign mariners in the context of colonialism. This edited volume on piracy questions that assumption with twelve original essays that cover case studies of maritime violence and encounters in Europe, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, the Ottoman Empire, China, and Vietnam between 1500 and 1900. In their introduction, the editors write that their aim is to write a global history that “[unsettles] the conventional oppositions between piracy and sovereignty” (p. 11). To do this, the authors represented in the bookmove beyond the bounds of western historiographies, legal systems, and linguistics to explore how piratical activity was categorized, understood, exploited, and resisted all over the world. The collection explores the myriad meanings of the word “pirate” and other colloquial terms that refer to maritime violence, as well as the encounters between these different concepts and understandings in colonial contexts. Covering the globe and engaging in 400 years of history is a big promise, but the collection
{"title":"Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal (review)","authors":"Elizabeth M. Schmidt","doi":"10.1353/jwh.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Conventionally, piracy has been defined as seafarers operating outside the laws of any sovereign power, referred to in Europe since the Early Modern period as “hostes humani generis,” or “enemies of all mankind.” Most histories of piracy take this as their starting point, incorrectly regarding piracy as a European concept that was applied to foreign mariners in the context of colonialism. This edited volume on piracy questions that assumption with twelve original essays that cover case studies of maritime violence and encounters in Europe, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, the Ottoman Empire, China, and Vietnam between 1500 and 1900. In their introduction, the editors write that their aim is to write a global history that “[unsettles] the conventional oppositions between piracy and sovereignty” (p. 11). To do this, the authors represented in the bookmove beyond the bounds of western historiographies, legal systems, and linguistics to explore how piratical activity was categorized, understood, exploited, and resisted all over the world. The collection explores the myriad meanings of the word “pirate” and other colloquial terms that refer to maritime violence, as well as the encounters between these different concepts and understandings in colonial contexts. Covering the globe and engaging in 400 years of history is a big promise, but the collection","PeriodicalId":17466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World History","volume":"34 1","pages":"143 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43326261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article explores encounters between U.S. tourists and British imperial actors in the British West Indies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing on published traveller accounts from the period, it argues that literary cross-fertilization and practices of colonial sociability encouraged shared understandings of the Caribbean framed around visions of global white supremacy. Although these supported the Anglo-Saxonist project that underpinned the geopolitical rapprochement between the two powers between the 1890s and First World War, there were also tensions and disagreements, especially over which nation was best placed to defend the racial order in the Caribbean in the new century. As the volume of U.S. tourists grew, these disagreements became clearer, as revealed in the accounts given of the aftermath of the diplomatic crisis that followed the Kingston earthquake of 1907. Traveller accounts on the ground contrasted with efforts in Washington and London to resolve the crisis amicably. In this sense, the cultural politics of inter-imperial sociability did not always perfectly align with geopolitical imperatives.
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{"title":"The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy (review)","authors":"Tyson Reeder","doi":"10.1353/jwh.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World History","volume":"34 1","pages":"146 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47935454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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