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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article adds to the biographic "turn" in legal studies. While there is a large body of scholarship examining judges in the United States and the United Kingdom, comparatively little is written on their legal...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFamines force agonizing choices on states. When major El Nino-related drought famines struck China, India, Brazil, Korea, Egypt, and southern Africa in the late 1870s, the states in charge of those polities struggled to...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6211)LEGACY OF VIOLENCE A history of the British Empire CAROLINE ELKINS 896pp. Bodley Head. 30 [pounds sterling]. One of the most striking things about OUT contemporary political culture is how swiftly and completely...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on Australia's complex relationship with colonialism and empire. This relationship is most often examined through the related frameworks of settler colonialism and Australia's place within the...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe role of influence--what constitutes it, how it works and who exercises it--is the subject of much research on British foreign and defence policy making in the twentieth century. This article introduces a possible...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION: STATE, AGENCY, AND CAPITALISM Melcher Todd was a West Indian planter who had just married when he produced 290 metric tons of brown sugar in 1847. To bring his sugar to market in Great Britain, Todd...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN 1909, Mohandas Gandhi reflected on imperial politics in the twentieth century's first decade with a word of warning. He and the readers of Hind Swaraj, his seminal working-out of a program of liberation for Indians...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn light of recent research on the role of Protestant Christianity in the British Empire, this article explores the possibility that the British actually carried to India a "religion" besides Protestantism, something...
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From:Australian Journal of Music Education (Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is a universality to the sight of groups of children celebrating public events. These groups might be large or small but teachers and students put much time and effort into preparing performances for appreciative...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedHistorian Antoinette Burton expresses postcolonial impatience with literary nostalgia in regard to the British Empire, particularly as evidenced by Tom Stoppard's drama Indian Ink, which she claims "pretend[s] to...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION During the mid-nineteenth century the British Empire in Asia facilitated economic change and global mass migrations with its demand for resources, cheap labor, and its violent opening of closed markets...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 44, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay interrogates the nature, limits, and effects of the juxtaposition of Great Britain and Melanesia that takes place in Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995), the final installment of the much-lauded...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the late nineteenth century, the British government in India attempted to quell anti-colonial critique by criminalizing negative affect. This essay explores the relationship between "disaffection" and critique in...
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From:Historical Studies (Vol. 79) Peer-ReviewedThe appearance in 1829 of the Friends of Ireland in Bytown offers us a remarkable glimpse of the ways in which the steady influx of Irish Catholic immigrants affected Bishop Alexander Macdonell's Church and...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHISTORY is the midst of what David Bell has referred to as a "global turn." (1) Over the past decade, historians have increasingly turned away from the study of issues connected to the history of the nation-state in...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGiants have trampled the earth and asked no pardon-- Well, nor did I. He took our family's gold. I stole it back and saw the giant die. --Judith Wright, "The Beanstalk, Meditated Later" Folk narrative has...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the Chartist movement is often seen as focused on domestic reforms, Chartist newspapers and journals of the 1830s and 1840s extensively commented upon various aspects of the expanding British empire, including...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6210)THE PERILS OF INTERPRETING The extraordinary lives of two translators between Qing China and the British empire HENRIETTA HARRISON 312pp. Princeton University Press. 25 [pounds sterling] (US $29.95). The series...
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From:Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrom 1930s Palestine to Kenya in the years following World War II, systematized violence shaped and defined much of Britain's twentieth-century empire. Liberal authoritarianism, and with it the "moral effect" that...
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From:Northern Review (Issue 44) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The centenary of the First World War offers a timely opportunity to reflect on experiences of war on the periphery of the British Empire. Although separated by more than 12,000 kilometres, the involvement of...