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The Royal Road of the Interior in New Spain: Indigenous Commerce and Political Action (Book Section)Title: The Royal Road of the Interior in New Spain: Indigenous Commerce and Political Action
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Editor: Cynthia Radding
Editor: Danna A. Levin Rojo
Abstract: The chapter focuses on the royal road of the interior that linked Central Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley to highlight the indigenous origins of its pathways and to showcase the economic and political agency exerted by native peoples. Native communities located on the royal road and its vicinity had unique access to commercial opportunities. Indigenous artisans traveled to and along the road to find a market for their products. Farmers similarly relied on a steady stream of travelers seeking food and shelter to buy their surplus corn and other products to make some gains. Indian guides found paying customers who required their services to find their way from one stop along the road to the next settlement. The historiography on royal roads in New Spain has primarily focused on their connection to the Spanish colonial economy. This chapter aims to shift the narrative by illustrating how a number of indigenous communities used the routes for their own purposes.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199341771Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries (Book)Title: Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Editor: Jay P. Gates
Editor: Brian O'Camb
Abstract: This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://brill.com/view/title/54539Publisher: Brill
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents (Book Section)Title: Introduction: Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents
Author: Brian O'Camb
Author: Jay P. Gates
Editor: Brian O'Camb
Editor: Jay P. Gates
Abstract: This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://brill.com/view/title/54539Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Performing Health: Elective Bloodletting and Social Fashioning in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Performing Health: Elective Bloodletting and Social Fashioning in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg
Author: Anne Koenig
Abstract: Performing Health: Elective Bloodletting and Social Fashioning in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg
Date: 10/01/2019
Conference Name: Sixteenth Century Society Conference
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (Book)Title: As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Editor: Terri L. Snyder
Editor: Tatiana Seijas
Editor: Erica L. Ball
Abstract: "As If She Were Free" brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.
*Offers a new history of freedom by showing how women acted as agents of emancipation
*Takes a comparative and comprehensive approach to the history of slavery and emancipation, rather than focusing on one nation or region
*All chapters are original work and written by senior and rising women historians
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/as-if-she-were-free-a-collective-biography-of-women-and-emancipation-in-the-americas/oclc/1220916214&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781108737036
Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century (Book Section)Title: Slaving and the Global Reach of the Moro Wars in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Editor: Ariel Lopez
Editor: Jos Gommans
Abstract: Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas explore the diverse cultural, religious, and economic flows that shaped the early modern Philippine milieu. By zooming in from the global to the local, this book offers eleven fascinating Philippine case studies of early modern globalization.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/philippine-confluence-iberian-chinese-and-islamic-currents-c-1500-1800/oclc/1145077097&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: Leiden University Press
Book Title: Philippine Confluence : Iberian, Chinese and Islamic currents, c. 1500-1800
Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music (Book)Title: Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music
Author: Katherine Bank
Abstract: Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music is a rich, interdisciplinary investigation into the role of music and musical culture in the development of metaphysical thought in late sixteenth-, early seventeenth-century England. The book considers how music presented questions about the relationships between the mind, body, passions, and the soul, drawing out examples of domestic music that explicitly address topics of human consciousness, such as dreams, love, and sensing. Early seventeenth-century metaphysical thought is said to pave the way for the Enlightenment Self. Yet studies of the music’s role in natural philosophy has been primarily limited to symbolic functions in philosophical treatises, virtually ignoring music making’s substantial contribution to this watershed period. Contrary to prevailing narratives, the author shows why music making did not only reflect impending change in philosophical thought but contributed to its formation. The book demonstrates how recreational song such as the English madrigal confronted assumptions about reality and representation and the role of dialogue in cultural production, and other ideas linked to changes in how knowledge was built. Focusing on music by John Dowland, Martin Peerson, Thomas Weelkes, and William Byrd, this study revises historiography by reflecting on the experience of music and how music contributed to the way early modern awareness was shaped.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.routledge.com/Knowledge-Building-in-Early-Modern-English-Music/Bank/p/book/9780367519728?utm_source=cjaffiliates&utm_medium=affiliates&cjevent=c08afebcb04b11ec81ad017f0a82b839Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780367519728
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War. (Book)Title: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.
Author: Deborah Cohen
Abstract: They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night.
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between.
Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s Dorothy and Red, about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis.
Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576473/last-call-at-the-hotel-imperial-by-deborah-cohen/Primary URL Description: Publisher's website for the book
Publisher: Random House
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780525511199
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Prizes
Mark Lynton History Prize
Date: 3/21/2023
Organization: Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Abstract: Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000):
The Mark Lynton History Prize is awarded to the book-length work of narrative history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression. Books must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2022. Judges: Elizabeth Taylor (chair), Deirdre Mask, and William G. Thomas III.
Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade
Date: 3/15/2023
Organization: The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School
Abstract: The Goldsmith Book Prize was established to recognize works that “[improve] democratic government through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy.”
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Textiles, Law, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Book)Title: Only the Clothes on Her Back: Textiles, Law, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Author: Laura F. Edwards
Abstract: An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Only the Clothes on Her Back uncovers practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles--clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats--a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. The value of textiles depended on law, and it was law that turned these goods into a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these textiles as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entree into the new republic's economy and governing institutions. Edwards grounds the laws relating to textiles in engaging stories from the lives of everyday Americans. Wives wove linen and kept the proceeds, enslaved people traded coats and shoes, and poor people invested in fabrics, which they carefully preserved in trunks. Edwards shows that these stories are about far more than cloth and clothing; they reshape our understanding of law and the economy in America.
Based on painstaking archival research from fifteen states, Only the Clothes on Her Back reconstructs this hidden history of power, tracing it from the governing order of the early republic in which textiles' legal principles flourished to the textiles' legal downfall in the mid-nineteenth century when they were crowded out by the rising power of rights.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/only-clothes-her-back-clothing-and-hidden-history-power-nineteenth-century-unitedPrimary URL Description: Publisher's webpage for the book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780197568576
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Prizes
Merle Curti Award for Social History
Date: 3/31/2023
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Abstract: One award is given annually to the author of the best book in American intellectual history. Merle Curti was president of the OAH 1951–1952.
Introduction: a new mining and minting history for the Americas. (Article)Title: Introduction: a new mining and minting history for the Americas.
Author: Dana Velaso Murillo
Author: Tatiana Seijas
Abstract: Introduction: a new mining and minting history for the Americas
Tatiana Seijas & Dana Velasco Murillo
Pages 485-497 | Published online: 07 Jan 2022
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2021.1996977Primary URL Description: Open access journal article page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Colonial Latin American Review
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
A Mulk of One’s Own: Languages of Sovereignty, Statehood, and Dominion in the Eighteenth-Century “Empire of Hindustan” (Article)Title: A Mulk of One’s Own: Languages of Sovereignty, Statehood, and Dominion in the Eighteenth-Century “Empire of Hindustan”
Author: Nicholas Abbott
Abstract: Over the course of the eighteenth century, India's Mughal empire (1526–1858) fragmented into a number of regional polities that were, in turn, gradually subsumed under the paramount authority of the British East India Company. This essay describes concomitant developments in the empire's Persianate political language, particularly with regard to ideas of sovereignty, statehood, and dominion. It argues that by the mid-eighteenth century, the Mughal “empire of Hindustan” was increasingly framed as a territorialised governing institution comprising emerging provincial sovereignties rooted in local ruling households. This conceptual dispensation, however, remained ill-defined until the 1760s, when a treaty regime dominated by the Company built upon this language to concretise the empire as a confederacy of independent, sub-imperial states. The essay contends that in the short term, this redefinition bolstered the authority of incipient dynasties in provinces like Awadh, but in the longer term generated conflicts that abetted the expansion of colonial rule and laid conceptual foundations for British paramountcy in India.
Year: 202
Primary URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario/article/abs/mulk-of-ones-own-languages-of-sovereignty-statehood-and-dominion-in-the-eighteenthcentury-empire-of-hindustan/86A79828BEF17A26A8310F41307F3338Primary URL Description: Journal website
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Itinerario
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Truth and Travel: The Principal Navigations and ‘Thule, the period of cosmographie’. (Article)Title: Truth and Travel: The Principal Navigations and ‘Thule, the period of cosmographie’.
Author: Katherine Bank
Abstract: Truth and Travel: The Principal Navigations and ‘Thule, the period of cosmographie’
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.hakluyt.com/journal-of-the-hakluyt-society/Primary URL Description: Journal website
Secondary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/43564049/Truth_and_Travel_The_Principal_Navigations_and_Thule_the_Period_of_CosmographieSecondary URL Description: PDF online
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the Hakluyt Society
Publisher: Journal of the Hakluyt Society
James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and the Law in the New Republic, (Article)Title: James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and the Law in the New Republic,
Author: Laura F. Edwards
Abstract: James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and the Law in the New Republic
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/107/2/336/5907712Primary URL Description: Journal website
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of American History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Response: Rebecca Scott’s ‘Discerning a Dignitary Offense (Article)Title: Response: Rebecca Scott’s ‘Discerning a Dignitary Offense
Author: Laura F. Edwards
Abstract: I applaud Scott's contributions. In this comment, I would like to take them up and push them further. Doing so points to a very different understanding of people's relationship to law and the legal system in the nineteenth century than is now current in much of the historiography. That perspective, I argue, can transform our understanding of the law and legal change in the Civil War era and in the nineteenth century more broadly.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/abs/response-to-rebecca-scotts-discerning-a-dignitary-offense/D29EE177A1D1DDDF299DD348440EB7DBPrimary URL Description: Journal website
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Law and History Review
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadh nawabi, circa 1765– 1815 (Article)Title: ‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadh nawabi, circa 1765– 1815
Author: Nicholas J. Abbott
Abstract: This article examines the durable, yet largely overlooked, claims of Bahu Begam (1727–1815) to dynastic wealth and authority in the Awadh nawabi (1722–1856), a North Indian Mughal ‘successor state’ and an important client of the East India Company. Chief consort (khass mahal) to Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula (r. 1754–75) and mother to his successor Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula (r. 1775–97), Bahu Begam played a well-documented role in the regime’s tumultuous politics, particularly during Warren Hastings’s tenure as the Company’s governor-general (1773–85) and his later parliamentary impeachment. But despite her prominent political influence, little attention has been paid to the substance of her persistent claims to proprietorship over revenue rights and the immense fortune in her custody, as well as her broader assertions of authority over Awadh’s male rulers. Taking those claims seriously, this article contends that the begam rooted her arguments in notions of natural deference to maternal authority and generational seniority, evolving dynastic traditions of co-sharing sovereignty and fiscal resources, and her particular history as a principal financier of the Awadh regime. In so doing, the article argues that the begam’s claims reflect the shifting conceptual language of late-Mughal Persianate political discourse and the ambivalent position of elite women as dynastic financiers and state-builders in early colonial South Asia.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/it-all-comes-from-me-bahu-begam-and-the-making-of-the-awadh-nawabi-circa-17651815/D7AEE97EA7821335A01B32B82AAB3FB0Primary URL Description: Journal website
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Modern Asian Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare (Book)Title: Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare
Author: Todd Carmody
Abstract: Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print culture of social welfare—produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts—tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/work-requirementsPrimary URL Description: Publisher website
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-4780-180
The Reporters Who Saw World War II Coming, interview with Deborah Cohen (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)Title: The Reporters Who Saw World War II Coming, interview with Deborah Cohen
Abstract: "On the Media" interview. This week, we turn to an older war in Europe, and the journalists who saw it coming. They are the subject of a new book by historian Deborah Cohen, called Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War. In it, Cohen follow four friends who became famous foreign correspondents, and supplied news to millions of Americans. Their names were Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, and Jimmy Sheean, and they often gathered in Vienna to argue, drink, and trade secrets. Cohen tells guest host Matt Katz about how they covered the biggest story of their time: the rise of the dictator.
Date: 03/18/2022
Primary URL:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/reporters-who-saw-world-war-two-coming-on-the-mediaPrimary URL Description: WNYC On the Media website
Format: Radio
Format: Web
Last Call At the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War National History Center. (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Last Call At the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War National History Center.
Abstract: At the heart of Deborah Cohen’s new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, is a group of American reporters – John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean and Dorothy Thompson -- who in the 1920s and 1930s achieved world-wide renown. They warned about the rise of fascism and championed anti-colonial leaders. Diagnosing a drastic transformation of personal life, they chronicled first privately and then more openly, the slippage between their own relationships and world affairs. They found they could no longer separate themselves from the crises raging around them, and spoke to readers who couldn’t either. In this session, Cohen will map out the shared terrain between international history and the history of private life, discussing the ways in which a potent combination of Freudianism, fascism, and imperialism made the relationship between the individual and the collective an exigent mid-twentieth-century question.
Author: Deborah Cohen
Date: 10/03/2022
Location: Zoom webinar
Primary URL:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/last-call-hotel-imperial-reporters-who-took-world-warPrimary URL Description: Wilson Center website
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: A Conversation between Deborah Cohen and Adam Tooze. (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: A Conversation between Deborah Cohen and Adam Tooze.
Abstract: Join acclaimed historians Deborah Cohen and Adam Tooze in a conversation about Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. Hailed by the New Yorker as "effervescent," Cohen’s recent book explores a globe-trotting set of interwar American reporters who raised the alarm about the rise of fascism and rewrote the rules of journalism along the way.
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between.
Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s Dorothy and Red, about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis.
Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.
Author: Deborah Cohen
Date: 10/10/2022
Location: The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University and virtual
Primary URL:
https://sofheyman.org/events/deborah-cohen-last-call-at-the-hotel-imperialPrimary URL Description: The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University website
Booknotes+ Podcast: Deborah Cohen, "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)Title: Booknotes+ Podcast: Deborah Cohen, "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
Director: Deborah Cohen
Abstract: The book is called "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War." The author is Deborah Cohen, a professor at Northwestern University. Prof. Cohen primarily focuses on four American journalists who traveled the world in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s: H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent "Jimmy" Sheean, Dorothy Thompson, and John Gunther. These reporters landed exclusive interviews with Hitler, Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi and helped shape what Americans at the time knew about the world.
Date: 05/03/2022
Primary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfD0IwCXPt4Primary URL Description: C-SPAN YouTube page
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Web
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Meet the Author Laura F. Edwards (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Only the Clothes on Her Back: Meet the Author Laura F. Edwards
Abstract: Join Laura Edwards in conversation with historian Margaret Storey, as they discuss what dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs can tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of 19th-century American society.
Author: Laura Edwards
Date: 02/15/2022
Location: Virtual presentation for Newberry Library
Primary URL:
https://www.newberry.org/calendar/only-the-clothes-on-her-back-meet-the-author-laura-f-edwardsPrimary URL Description: Event page on Newberry Library website
Tangled strands of silk: Globalizing the local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca (Article)Title: Tangled strands of silk: Globalizing the local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca
Author: Jamie E. Forde
Abstract: This article takes the community of San Miguel Achiutla, located in the Mixtec highlands of Oaxaca, as a case study through which to examine the complex involvements of Indigenous pueblos de indios of Mexico in the early modern dynamics of globalization. Drawing from both ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence, this analysis shows not only how residents of this community were affected by forces of globalization as they appropriated new goods and ideas from across the Pacific and Atlantic, but also how they played an active economic role in driving colonial expansion during the sixteenth century, particularly through the silk trade. In tracing these connections, we see how locally focused microhistories can shed light on aspects of early modern globalization that we might not otherwise attend to.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-abstract/69/3/287/316301/Tangled-Strands-of-Silk-Globalizing-the-Local-in?redirectedFrom=fulltextPrimary URL Description: Journal website
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Ethnohistory: The Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Los Palimpsestos del Códice Vaticano B. (Book Section)Title: Los Palimpsestos del Códice Vaticano B.
Author: Jamie E. Forde
Author: Dupey Garcia
Author: Yanagisawa, S.
Editor: Katarzyna Mikulska
Abstract: Esta obra el resultado de un esfuerzo conjunto entre la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad de Varsovia, que han elegido como objeto de su interés el estudio científico renovado de un códice mesoamericano, el códice conocido como Vaticano B. (Vat. Lat. 3773) Producto de este esfuerzo es el trabajo interdisciplinario de un grupo de investigadores de Polonia, México, España, Italia, Francia, Estados Unidos, Guatemala y Japón, el cual fue posible gracias al favor de la Biblioteca Apostólica Vaticana, la que permitió la reproducción del original que resguarda.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://contigoenladistancia.cultura.gob.mx/detalle/nuevo-comentario-al-codice-vaticano-b-vat-lat-Primary URL Description: Publisher website
Access Model: Book
Publisher: National Autonomous University of Mexico
Book Title: Nuevo comentario al Códice Vaticano B (Vat. Lat. 3773)
ISBN: 97860730298110
Del norte de Europa al sur de Asia Oriental: Las batallas hispano-holandesas en Playa Honda durante la Tregua de Doce Años (1609-21) (Book Section)Title: Del norte de Europa al sur de Asia Oriental: Las batallas hispano-holandesas en Playa Honda durante la Tregua de Doce Años (1609-21)
Author: Carmen Hsu
Editor: Luc Torres
Editor: Hélène Tropé
Editor: Javier Espejo
Abstract: A web of diverse circumstances has led to the outbreak of the Flanders War, which started during the last decade of the sixteenth century and ended with the independence of Holland in 1659. This fight of the Low Countries against the Spanish monarchy in the European continent was closely linked to the presence of the Dutch in the Pacific. Based on four news pamphlets about the naval conflicts between the Spaniards and Dutch during the period of the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609-1621), this article studies the manner in which the texts represent Dutch expansion in Asia. It also explores these texts’ contribution to the existent system of the political-religious discourse.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://eusal.es/eusal/catalog/view/978-84-1311-604-4/6215/8398-1Primary URL Description: Complete text of article from publisher.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN: 978-84-1311-60
Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez (Book Section)Title: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez
Author: Carmen Hsu
Editor: Elena Rodríguez-Guridi
Editor: Carrie Ruiz
Abstract: Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.
Year: 2021
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Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Book Title: Shipwreck in Early Modern Hispanic Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781684483709