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Book 2022

Coconut Colonialism

Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

Volume 193 in this series

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Samoans had been engaged in economic and cultural exchange long before Germans and Americans arrived on the islands. Holger Droessler shows how Samoans adapted their traditions to challenge the new globalization imposed on them by colonialism, regaining agency through the efforts of farm workers, nurses, and traveling entertainers alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674270299
ISBN:: 9780674270299
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2022

The World That Latin America Created

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

Margarita Fajardo

Volume 192 in this series

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Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about economic growth and global inequality transformed our approach to development and changed the course of the twentieth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674270039
ISBN:: 9780674270039
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2021

A Full-Value Ruble

The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union

Kristy Ironside

Volume 191 in this series

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Money did not become obsolete under Communism. The ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. After World War II, money became an essential tool of the Soviet government. A strong ruble represented the nation’s promise of future prosperity, but its failure to deliver improved purchasing power undermined popular confidence in Communism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674259263
ISBN:: 9780674259263
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2019

News from Germany

The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945

Heidi J. S. Tworek

Volume 190 in this series

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Heidi Tworek’s innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674240728
ISBN:: 9780674240728
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2018

Disciplining the Empire

Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy

Sarah Kinkel

Volume 189 in this series

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Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain’s empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674985339
ISBN:: 9780674985339
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2018

A Business of State

Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company

Rupali Mishra

Volume 188 in this series

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Around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers. Yet the story of its 17th-century beginnings has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the Company’s formative years sheds light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919990
ISBN:: 9780674919990
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2015

Selling Paris

Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital

Alexia M. Yates

Volume 186 in this series

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Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674495098
ISBN:: 9780674088214
ISBN:: 9780674495098
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: History of Economics
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2014

Age of Entanglement

German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire

Kris Manjapra

Volume 183 in this series

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Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726314
ISBN:: 9780674725140
ISBN:: 9780674726314
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2013

Industry and Revolution

Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

Volume 182 in this series

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Industrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074330
ISBN:: 9780674072725
ISBN:: 9780674074330
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: Political Economics, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2013

Making Toleration

The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

Scott Sowerby

Volume 181 in this series

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Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleration at the expense of his throne. The Glorious Revolution was in fact a conservative counter-revolution against the movement for enlightened reform that James himself encouraged and sustained.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075917
ISBN:: 9780674073098
ISBN:: 9780674075917
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2012

Under Household Government

Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts

M. Michelle Jarrett Morris

Volume 180 in this series

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Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals the extent to which family members took on the role of watchdog in matters of sexual indiscretion.

In a society where one’s sister’s husband’s brother’s wife was referred to as “sister,” kinship networks could be immense. When out-of-wedlock pregnancies, paternity suits, and infidelity resulted in legal cases, courtrooms became battlegrounds for warring clans. Families flooded the courts with testimony, sometimes resorting to slander and jury-tampering to defend their kin. Even slaves merited defense as household members—and as valuable property. Servants, on the other hand, could expect to be cast out and left to fend for themselves.

As she elaborates the ways family policing undermined the administration of justice, M. Michelle Jarrett Morris shows how ordinary colonists understood sexual, marital, and familial relationships. Long-buried tales are resurrected here, such as that of Thomas Wilkinson’s (unsuccessful) attempt to exchange cheese for sex with Mary Toothaker, and the discovery of a headless baby along the shore of Boston’s Mill Pond. The Puritans that we meet in Morris’s account are not the cardboard caricatures of myth, but are rendered with both skill and sensitivity. Their stories of love, sex, and betrayal allow us to understand anew the depth and complexity of family life in early New England.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067899
ISBN:: 9780674066335
ISBN:: 9780674067899
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2012

Paper Memory

A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World

Matthew Lundin

Volume 179 in this series

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Paper Memory tells the story of one man’s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Matthew Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher named Hermann Weinsberg, whose personal writings allow us to witness firsthand the great transformations of early modernity: the crisis of the Reformation, the rise of an urban middle class, and the information explosion of the print revolution. This sensitive, faithful portrait reveals a man who sought to make sense of the changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

Weinsberg’s decision to undertake the monumental task of documenting his life was astonishing, since he was neither prince nor bishop, but a Catholic lawyer from Cologne with no special claim to fame or fortune. Although he knew that his contemporaries would consider his work vain and foolish, he dutifully recorded the details of his existence, from descriptions of favorite meals to catalogs of his sleeping habits, from the gossip of quarreling neighbors to confessions of his private hopes, fears, and beliefs. More than fifty years—and thousands of pages—later, Weinsberg conferred his Gedenkbuch, or Memory Book, to his descendants, charging them to ensure its safekeeping, for without his careful chronicle, “it would be as if we had never been.”

Desperate to save his past from oblivion, Weinsberg hoped to write himself into the historical record. Paper Memory rescues this not-so-ordinary man from obscurity, as Lundin’s perceptive and graceful prose recovers his extraordinary story.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067653
ISBN:: 9780674065949
ISBN:: 9780674067653
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2012

Fighting for the Soul of Germany

The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

Rebecca Ayako Bennette

Volume 178 in this series

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Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.

In the years following unification, Germany was embroiled in a struggle to define the new nation. Otto von Bismarck and his allies looked to establish Germany as a modern nation through emphasis on Protestantism and military prowess. Many Catholics feared for their future when he launched the Kulturkampf, a program to break the political and social power of German Catholicism. But these anti-Catholic policies did not destroy Catholic hopes for the new Germany. Rather, they encouraged Catholics to develop an alternative to the Protestant and liberal visions that dominated the political culture. Bennette’s reconstruction of Catholic thought and politics sheds light on several aspects of German life. From her discovery of Catholics who favored a more “feminine” alternative to Bismarckian militarism to her claim that anti-socialism, not anti-Semitism, energized Catholic politics, Bennette’s work forces us to rethink much of what we know about religion and national identity in late nineteenth-century Germany.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064805
ISBN:: 9780674065635
ISBN:: 9780674064805
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2012

Reimagining Europe

Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World

Christian Raffensperger

Volume 177 in this series

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An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus’ is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West.

With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus’, restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe—and under which Rus’ was subsumed—toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus’ and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065468
ISBN:: 9780674063846
ISBN:: 9780674065468
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2011

Dairy Queens

The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette

Meredith Martin

Volume 176 in this series

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Though Meredith Martin is primarily an art historian, this book goes way beyond art history. It examines “pleasure dairies,” built by the French aristocracy to be sites of leisure, healing, and simple luxury, from the vantage point of cultural studies as well as social and political history. The traditional historical narrative, still deeply resonant, is that these dairies were little more than frivolous excess or attempts to imagine “common life” by people so wealthy they could not even imagine poverty. But Martin complicates this picture. She examines the social, cultural, and political uses of these dairies, showing that they were in fact instrumental as sites that both reinforced and challenged definitions of femininity. The dairies provided strategic venues for noble women to assert their status and identity while at the same time appearing to retreat from power. They served the functions of a spa, where fresh milk and beautiful scenery helped women recover their health. They also are tangible evidence of the new valorization of country living, which was expressed also in political debates about improving the countryside and reforming the aristocracy, especially elite women.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059474
ISBN:: 9780674059474
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture and Design, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2011

Empire and Underworld

Captivity in French Guiana

Miranda Frances Spieler

Volume 174 in this series

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In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles—outcasts of the new French citizenry—and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advocating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, Guiana’s exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo.

The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen—the person whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers in Guiana’s wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilemmas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some of the century’s most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062870
ISBN:: 9780674057548
ISBN:: 9780674062870
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2011

The Ukrainian West

Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv

William Jay Risch

Volume 173 in this series

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In 1990, months before crowds in Moscow and other major cities dismantled their monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. William Jay Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire inadvertently shaped this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.

Lviv’s borderlands identity was defined by complicated relationships with its Polish neighbor, its imperial Soviet occupier, and the real and imagined West. The city’s intellectuals—working through compromise rather than overt opposition—strained the limits of censorship in order to achieve greater public use of Ukrainian language and literary expression, and challenged state-sanctioned histories with their collective memory of the recent past. Lviv’s post–Stalin-generation youth, to which Risch pays particular attention, forged alternative social spaces where their enthusiasm for high culture, politics, soccer, music, and film could be shared.

The Ukrainian West enriches our understanding not only of the Soviet Union’s postwar evolution but also of the role urban spaces, cosmopolitan identities, and border regions play in the development of nations and empires. And it calls into question many of our assumptions about the regional divisions that have characterized politics in Ukraine. Risch shines a bright light on the political, social, and cultural history that turned this once-peripheral city into a Soviet window on the West.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061262
ISBN:: 9780674050013
ISBN:: 9780674061262
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2011

Confluence

The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône

Sara B. Pritchard

Volume 172 in this series

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Because of its location, volume, speed, and propensity for severe flooding, the Rhône, France’s most powerful river, has long influenced the economy, politics, and transportation networks of Europe. Humans have tried to control the Rhône for over two thousand years, but large-scale development did not occur until the twentieth century. The Rhône valley has undergone especially dramatic changes since World War II. Hydroelectric plants, nuclear reactors, and industrialized agriculture radically altered the river, as they simultaneously fueled both the physical and symbolic reconstruction of France.

In Confluence, Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhône’s remaking since 1945. She interweaves this story with an analysis of how state officials, technical elites, and citizens connected the environment and technology to political identities and state-building. In the process, Pritchard illuminates the relationship between nature and nation in France.

Pritchard’s innovative integration of science and technology studies, environmental history, and the political history of modern France makes a powerful case for envirotechnical analysis: an approach that highlights the material and rhetorical links between ecological and technological systems. Her groundbreaking book demonstrates the importance of environmental management and technological development to culture and politics in the twentieth century. As Pritchard shows, reconstructing the Rhône remade France itself.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061231
ISBN:: 9780674049659
ISBN:: 9780674061231
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2010

Revolutionary Commerce

Globalization and the French Monarchy

Paul Cheney

Volume 168 in this series

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Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu became a towering authority among reformist economic and political thinkers by developing a politics of fusion intended to reconcile France's aristocratic society and monarchical state with the needs and risks of international commerce. The Seven Years' War proved the weakness of this model, and after this watershed reforms that could guarantee shared prosperity at home and in the colonies remained elusive. Once the Revolution broke out in 1789, the contradictions that attended the growth of France's Atlantic economy helped to bring down the constitutional monarchy. Drawing upon the writings of philosophes, diplomats, consuls of commerce, and merchants, Cheney rewrites the history of political economy in the Enlightenment era and provides a new interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059757
ISBN:: 9780674059757
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2010

Lost Illusions

The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France

Christine Haynes

Volume 167 in this series

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Linking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting—but also in limiting—press freedom and literary property.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053984
ISBN:: 9780674053984
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2009

The Conservative Turn

Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism

Michael Kimmage

Volume 165 in this series

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Kimmage tells the story of postwar America’s political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054127
ISBN:: 9780674032583
ISBN:: 9780674054127
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2008

Creating a Nation of Joiners

Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts

Johann N. Neem

Volume 163 in this series

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Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041370
ISBN:: 9780674030794
ISBN:: 9780674041370
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2008

Nexus

Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I

Jonathan Reed Winkler

Volume 162 in this series

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In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Jonathan Reed Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications.

At the outbreak of war in 1914, British control of the cable network affected the Americans’ ability to communicate internationally, and the development of radio worried the Navy about hemispheric security. The benefits of a U.S. network became evident during the war, especially in the gathering of intelligence. This led to the creation of a peacetime intelligence operation, later termed the “Black Chamber,” that was the forerunner of the National Security Agency.

After the war, U.S. companies worked to expand network service around the world but faced industrial limitations. Focused on security concerns, the Wilson administration objected to any collaboration with British companies that might alleviate this problem. Indeed, they went so far as to create a radio monopoly and use warships to block the landing of a cable at Miami.

These efforts set important precedents for later developments in telephony, shortwave radio, satellites—even the internet. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674033900
ISBN:: 9780674028395
ISBN:: 9780674033900
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2008

Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought

Margaret Meserve

Volume 158 in this series

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Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from—and contributed to—contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040953
ISBN:: 9780674026568
ISBN:: 9780674040953
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Southern Europe
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2008

The Notables and the Nation

The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788

Vivian R. Gruder

Volume 157 in this series

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The ending of absolute monarchy and the start of political combat between nobles and commoners make 1787–1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed look at this critical transition, Gruder explores how the French people became engaged in an opposition movement that culminated in demands for the public's role in government.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273054
ISBN:: 9780674273054
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2007

Imagining the Sacred Past

Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy

Samantha Kahn Herrick

Volume 156 in this series

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Innovative in its historical use of hagiographical literature, this work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikings’ transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes, shedding light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273689
ISBN:: 9780674273689
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2007

France after Revolution

Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order

Denise Z. Davidson

Volume 155 in this series

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Davidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea that women were forced from the public realm of political discussion, Davidson demonstrates how women remained highly visible and active.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271937
ISBN:: 9780674271937
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2006

A Question of Balance

How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe

Michael Creswell

Volume 153 in this series

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Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. He sketches the successful French challenge to the U.S. that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271661
ISBN:: 9780674271661
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2006

Globalizing Sport

National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s

Barbara J. Keys

Volume 152 in this series

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In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726635
ISBN:: 9780674023260
ISBN:: 9780674726635
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2006

The Conversion of Imagination

From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville

Matthew W. Maguire

Volume 151 in this series

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Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274969
ISBN:: 9780674274969
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2006

To Exercise Our Talents

The Democratization of Writing in Britain

Christopher Hilliard

Volume 150 in this series

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In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of “ordinary” voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people—would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history—Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038653
ISBN:: 9780674021778
ISBN:: 9780674038653
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2007

Oil Empire

Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia

Alison Fleig Frank

Volume 149 in this series

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How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the world’s oil-producing states? Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037182
ISBN:: 9780674037182
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2005

Singing the Gospel

Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation

Christopher Boyd Brown

Volume 148 in this series

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Brown offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the 16th-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal—where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring, influential union of Lutheranism, music, and culture—is at the center of the story.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674028913
ISBN:: 9780674017054
ISBN:: 9780674028913
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Weimar Republic
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2005

Dictatorship and Demand

The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany

Mark Landsman

Volume 147 in this series

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An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039926
ISBN:: 9780674016989
ISBN:: 9780674039926
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Weimar Republic
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2005

The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Anthony F. D’Elia

Volume 146 in this series

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Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orations given in Latin. D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271845
ISBN:: 9780674271845
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2004

Perilous Performances

Gender and Regency in Early Modern France

Katherine Crawford

Volume 145 in this series

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In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029989
ISBN:: 9780674029989
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2003

Under the Wire

How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy

David Paull Nickles

Volume 144 in this series

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Through case studies in crisis diplomacy—the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram—Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041554
ISBN:: 9780674041554
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2002

The Battle for Children

World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France

Sarah Fishman

Volume 142 in this series

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The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history’s most silent groups—children—and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272682
ISBN:: 9780674272682
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2001

The Lara Family

Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain

Simon R. Doubleday

Volume 141 in this series

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For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674034297
ISBN:: 9780674034297
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2019

The Invention of the Restaurant

Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, With a New Preface

Rebecca L. Spang, Adam Gopnik

Volume 135 in this series

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As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as “restaurateurs’ rooms” to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674243996
ISBN:: 9780674243996
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2001

Salvation at Stake

Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe

Brad S. Gregory

Volume 134 in this series

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Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively, providing an argument for the importance of martyrdom as a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037939
ISBN:: 9780674037939
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1998

Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590–1690

Daniel C. Beaver

Volume 129 in this series

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Few studies have explored the cultural process whereby religious symbolism created social cohesion and political allegiance. This book examines religious conflict in the parish communities of early modern England using an interdisciplinary approach that includes the perspectives of class, gender, and demography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020627
ISBN:: 9780674020627
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1997

Frenchmen into Peasants

Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada

Leslie P. Choquette

Volume 123 in this series

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Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the 17th and 18th centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029545
ISBN:: 9780674029545
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1992

Perry of London

A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615–1753

Jacob M. Price

Volume 111 in this series

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The Establishment of English colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century opened new opportunities for trade. Conspicuous among the families who used these opportunities to gain mercantile and social importance was the Perry family of Devon, who created Perry and Lane, by the end of the century the most important London firm trading to the Chesapeake and other parts of North America. Jacob Price traces the family from Devon to Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Chesapeake, New England, and London. He describes their relationships with Chesapeake society, from the Byrds and Carters to humble planters. In London, the firm’s patronage gave the family high standing among fellow businessmen, a position the founder’s grandson utilized to become a member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. In the end, the grandson’s political success as an antiministerialist brought the family the enmity of the prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and contributed to the downfall of their firm. The Perrys’ story reveals the interrelatedness of social, commercial, and political history. It offers an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of the Chesapeake trade and the forces shaping the success and failure of English mercantile enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059634
ISBN:: 9780674059634
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1975

The Making of the Monroe Doctrine

Ernest R. May

Volume 110 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674180703
ISBN:: 9780674180697
ISBN:: 9780674180703
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1932

The Influence of the Commons on Early Legislation

A Study of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Howard L. Gray

Volume 34 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674282353
ISBN:: 9780674281202
ISBN:: 9780674282353
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1929

The Franco-Russian Alliance, 1890-1894

William Leonard Langer

Volume 30 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674184282
ISBN:: 9780674181045
ISBN:: 9780674184282
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1924

The Origins of the War of 1870

New Documents from the German Archives

Robert Howard Lord

Volume 28 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674430341
ISBN:: 9780674334274
ISBN:: 9780674430341
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1920

Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy

Charles Wendell David

Volume 25 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674331228
ISBN:: 9780674331211
ISBN:: 9780674331228
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1918

Norman Institutions

Charles Homer Haskins

Volume 24 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674336902
ISBN:: 9780674336438
ISBN:: 9780674336902
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1915

The Second Partition of Poland

A Study in Diplomatic History

Robert Howard Lord

Volume 23 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674337077
ISBN:: 9780674336605
ISBN:: 9780674337077
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1915

An Abridgement of the Indian Affairs

Contained in Four Folio Volumes, Transacted in the Colony of New York, from the Year 1678 to the Year 1751

Peter Wraxall, Charles Howard McIlwain

Volume 21 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674288935
ISBN:: 9780674288607
ISBN:: 9780674288935
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1914

Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England

Morley de Wolf Hemmeon

Volume 20 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674337459
ISBN:: 9780674336339
ISBN:: 9780674337459
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1913

The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Albert Howe Lybyer

Volume 18 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674337053
ISBN:: 9780674336582
ISBN:: 9780674337053
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1902

The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies

Arthur Lyon Cross

Volume 9 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674368910
ISBN:: 9780674368903
ISBN:: 9780674368910
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1898

The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America

Evarts Boutell Greene

Volume 7 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674288096
ISBN:: 9780674336292
ISBN:: 9780674288096
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1896

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Volume 1 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674330511
ISBN:: 9780674280717
ISBN:: 9780674330511
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre

A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris

H. B. Callaway

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Officially, revolutionary France granted all citizens a right to property. In practice, however, there was significant continuity with the Old Regime. H. B. Callaway argues that the state’s fraught attempts to confiscate property from Parisian émigrés reveal contradictions in ideas of ownership considered foundational to modern property rights.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9780674293168
ISBN:: 9780674293168
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2016

Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia

Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Sergei Antonov

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As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of social respectability and personal responsibility. Credit and debt were defining features of imperial Russia’s culture of property ownership. Sergei Antonov recreates this vanished world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks in imperial Russia from the reign of Nicholas I to the period of great social and political reforms of the 1860s.

Poring over a trove of previously unexamined records, Antonov gleans insights into the experiences of ordinary Russians, rich and poor, and shows how Russia’s informal but sprawling credit system helped cement connections among property owners across socioeconomic lines. Individuals of varying rank and wealth commonly borrowed from one another. Without a firm legal basis for formalizing debt relationships, obtaining a loan often hinged on subjective perceptions of trustworthiness and reputation. Even after joint-stock banks appeared in Russia in the 1860s, credit continued to operate through vast networks linked by word of mouth, as well as ties of kinship and community. Disputes over debt were common, and Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia offers close readings of legal cases to argue that Russian courts—usually thought to be underdeveloped in this era—provided an effective forum for defining and protecting private property interests.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674972599
ISBN:: 9780674972599
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2015

Native Tongues

Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

Sean P. Harvey

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Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735798
ISBN:: 9780674289932
ISBN:: 9780674735798
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2014

Indians in Kenya

The Politics of Diaspora

Sana Aiyar

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Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how the strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s leadership—from partnering with Europeans to colonize East Africa, to collaborating with Africans to battle racial inequality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674425903
ISBN:: 9780674289888
ISBN:: 9780674425903
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2010

Advertising Empire

Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany

David Ciarlo

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In the last decades of the nineteenth century Germany made the move towards colonialism, with the first German protectorates in Africa. At the same time, Germany was undergoing the transformation to a mass consumer society. As Ciarlo shows, these developments grew along with one another, as the earliest practices of advertising drew legitimacy from the colonial project, and around the turn of the century, commercial imagery spread colonial visions to a mass audience. Arguing that visual commercial culture was both reflective and constitutive of changing colonial relations and of racial hierarchies, Advertising Empire constructs what one might call a genealogy of black bodies in German advertising. At the core of the manuscript is the identification of visual tropes associated with black bodies in German commercial culture, ranging from colonial and ethnographic exhibits, to poster art, to advertising. Stereotypical images of black bodies in advertising coalesced, the manuscript argues, in the aftermath of uprisings against German colonial power in Southwest and East Africa in the early 20th century. As Advertising Empire shows for Germany, commercial imagery of racialized power relations simplified the complexities of colonial power relations. It enshrined the inferiority of blacks as compared to whites as one key image associated with the birth of mass consumer society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262669
ISBN:: 9780674262669
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Harvard University Press