Tag: Colonialism
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Epilogue to a story of hubris: Italians in Adwa
Emilio Luppino explores how Italy’s colonial ambitions in Africa were impaired by internal divisions, diplomatic failures, and military defeat.
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Who Do We study? Reflections on UK Human Remain Collections
The ownership of human remains in museums and institutions is an extremely sensitive and contentious topic, with many communities calling for the return of the remains of their ancestors. Michaela Hamman explores current repatriation debates and the role of UK institutions in looting these remains.
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Prairie Fever and Indigenous Wisdom
During the nineteenth century, many people traversed across North America to settle in the Datokas, being promised the ‘American Dream’ of acres and acres of land. Kate Phillips examines the ‘prairie fever’ experienced by settlers and the true use of prairies for indigenous peoples.
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Post-Imperial Possibilities: The Rise and Fall of French Federalism
The legacy of French colonialism is still aparent today with many overseas territories still apart of the European nation. Hector Le Luel anlyses how French federalism was proposed as an alternative the independence of French territories.
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Advancing African Liberation: The Role of Cold War Alliances in Portuguese Colonial Resistance movements
Jake Beecroft explores the complex impact Cold War alliances and ideology had on African Liberation movements. Specifically Beecroft highlights the strategic choices of Cold War superpowers in their alliances with countries in the process of decolonisation.
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Beyond Servitude: Uncovering Agency, Community and Resistance in Indian Indentured Labour
Maia Bennet explores how a revisionist approach to indentured servitude reveals complexities of agency, resistance, and community among Indian labourers.
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Unravelling the Khmer Rouge’s Motivations
Cambodia’s postcolonial era created a social context for the radical ideologies of the Khmer Rouge and led to the systematic extermination of c.1.7 million people. Louisa Steijger explores the impact of colonialism and the Cold War on the Khmer Rouge.
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“We foreigners don’t smoke opium”: Exposing Western Opium Consumption, 1840-1930
The narcotic opium is the subject of an explicitly racialised history. Kat Jivkova traces Western opium consumption in an attempt to remedy perceptions of the drug as inherently Chinese.
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