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    Medieval clothing and textiles, Volume 9 (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781782041733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 170 pages)
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    DDC: 391.00902
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Clothing and dress / History / Medieval, 500-1500 ; Textile fabrics, Medieval
    Abstract: Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century. Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European dress; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Antonietta Amati, Eva I. Andersson, John Block Friedman, Susan James, John Oldland, Lucia Sinisi, Mark Zumbuhl
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    Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (2013)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781782041788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
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    DDC: 306.362096609033
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    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1500-1930 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Landwirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Agriculture / Social aspects / Africa, West / History / 18th century ; Agriculture / Social aspects / Africa, West / History / 19th century ; Slave trade / Africa, West / History / 18th century ; Slave trade / Africa, West / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Africa, West / History / 18th century ; Slavery / Africa, West / History / 19th century ; Sklavenhandel ; Agrarhandel ; Africa, West / Economic conditions / 18th century ; Africa, West / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Afrika ; Atlantischer Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Atlantischer Raum ; Sklavenhandel ; Agrarhandel ; Geschichte 1500-1930
    Abstract: This book presents a new perspective on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Western Africa itself, through its examination of the role of commercial agriculture. The idea of promoting the export of agricultural produce from Africa first became central to European thought in the context of the campaign to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the late eighteenth century. The eleven essays in this book explore this issue, re-appraising the links between slavery and colonialism and the rise of 'legitimate commerce' which marked the beginnings of economic 'modernity' in West Africa. The development of commercial agriculture in West Africa began with Danish attempts to establish plantations on the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1788, followed by the British colony of Sierra Leone, after it was taken over by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. The slave trade itself is also seen to have stimulated commercial agriculture in West Africa, to supply provisions for slave ships in the Middle Passage, and the experience of this trade in provisions may have facilitated the development of other export crops from the nineteenth century onwards. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists expected or hoped production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often tended to promote more extensive and intensive use of slave labour, so that the institution of slavery in Africa persisted into the early colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Institute of Historical Research, London
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    Deploying Orientalism in culture and history : from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781571138828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/24305
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Orientalism / Germany / History ; Orientalism / Europe, Central / History ; Orientalism / Europe, Eastern / History ; Travelers' writings, European / History and criticism ; Orientalism in literature ; Orientalismus ; Deutschland ; Europa ; Europe / Civilization / Oriental influences ; Orient / In literature ; Deutschland ; Mitteleuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Mitteleuropa ; Orientalismus ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition ofthe phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of "Occident" and "Orient" as such.This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to thepresent day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies. Contributors: Anil Bhatti, Michael Dusche, Johannes Feichtinger, Johann Heiss, James Hodkinson, Kerstin Jobst, Jon Keune, Todd Kontje, Margit Köves, Sarah Lemmen, Shaswati Mazumdar, Jyoti Sabarwal, Ulrike Stamm, John Walker. James Hodkinson is Associate Professor in German Studies at Warwick University. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck College, University of London. Shaswati Mazumdar is Professor in German at the University of Delhi. Johannes Feichtinger is a Researcher at the österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Description / Table of Contents: Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M.C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm
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    Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781782041146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (248 pages)
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    DDC: 306.87230940902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Geschichte ; Married women / Europe, Northern / Social conditions ; Married women / Europe, Northern / History / To 1500 ; Married women / Legal status, laws, etc / Europe, Northern / History / To 1500 ; Rechtsstellung ; Ehefrau ; Skandinavien ; Britische Inseln ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Britische Inseln ; Skandinavien ; Ehefrau ; Rechtsstellung ; Geschichte 1300-1800
    Abstract: There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent, Sweden, Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and where the legal principle of 'coverture' was applied and what effect this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through the book are married women's rights regarding the possession of moveable and immovable property, marital property at the dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents of their husbands and households in transacting business, and married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh; Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University. Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S. C. Ogilvie, Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence
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    The Indo-German identification : reconciling South Asian origins and European destinies, 1765-1885 (2010)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781571137173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)
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    DDC: 305.83/1009034
    RVK:
    EU 630
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    LB 52015
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1765-1885 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; National characteristics, German / History / 19th century ; Intellectuals / Germany / History / 19th century ; Ideals (Philosophy) / Social aspects / Germany / History / 19th century ; Public opinion / Germany / History / 19th century ; Indienbild ; Ursprung ; Nationalcharakter ; Indien ; Deutschland ; Indien ; Germany / Civilization / Indic influences ; Germany / Intellectual life / 19th century ; India / Foreign public opinion, German ; Germany / Relations / India ; India / Relations / Germany ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Nationalcharakter ; Ursprung ; Indien ; Geschichte 1765-1885 ; Deutschland ; Indienbild ; Geschichte 1765-1885
    Abstract: In the early nineteenth century, German intellectuals such as Novalis, Schelling, and Friedrich Schlegel, convinced that Germany's cultural origins lay in ancient India, attempted to reconcile these origins with their imagined destiny as saviors of a degenerate Europe, then shifted from 'Indomania' to Indophobia when the attempt foundered. The philosophers Hegel, Schopenhauer, and, later, Nietzsche provided alternate views of the role of India in world history that would be disastrously misappropriated in the twentieth century. Reconstructing Hellenistic and humanist views of the ancient Brahmins and Goths, French-Enlightenment debates over the postdiluvian origins of the arts and sciences, and the Indophilia and protonationalism of Herder, Robert Cowan focuses on turning points in the development of an 'Indo-German' ideal, an ideal less focused on intellectual imperialism than many studies of the 'Aryan Myth' and Orientalism would have us believe. Cowan argues that the study of this ideal continues to offer lessons about cultural difference in the 'post-national' twenty-first century. Of great interest to historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, this cross-cultural study offers a new understanding of the Indo-German story by showing that attempts to establish identity necessarily involve a reconciliation of origins and destinies, of self and other, of individual and collective. Robert Cowan is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: History is personal -- Prologue: Original attributes, 425 B.C.-A.D. 1765 -- pt. 1. L'âge des ombres, 1765-1790s -- As flood waters receded : the Enlightenment on the Indian origins of language and art -- Seeds of romantic Indology : from language to nation -- pt. 2. II. Textual salvation from social degeneration, 1790s-1808 -- Hindu predecessors of Christ: Novalis's Shakuntala -- Reconcilable indifferences : Schelling and the Gitagovinda -- Fear of infinity : Friedrich Schlegel's indictment of Indian religion -- pt. 3. III. Alternate idealizations, 1807-1885 -- Hegel's critique of "those plant-like beings" -- Schopenhauer's justification for good -- Nietzsche's inability to escape from Schopenhauer's South Asian sources -- Epilogue: Destinies reconsidered, 1885-2004 -- Conclusion: The intersection of the personal, the philosophical, and the political
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    Women's authority and society in early East-Central Africa (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781580467575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages)
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    DDC: 305.40967
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Women / Africa, Central / History ; Women / Africa, East / History ; Gesellschaft ; Frau ; Africa, Central / Social life and customs ; Africa, East / Social life and customs ; Africa, Central / History / To 1884 ; Africa, East / History / To 1886 ; Zentralafrika ; Zentralafrika Südost ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that all African societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope of historical research. In East-Central Africa, women played key roles in technological and economic developments during the long precolonial period. Female political leaders were as common as male rulers, and women, especially mothers, were central to religious ceremonies and beliefs. These conclusions contribute a new and critical element to our understanding of Africa's precolonial history. Christine Saidi is assistant professor of history at Kutztown University
    Description / Table of Contents: The patriarchal myth: deconstruction and reconstruction -- Correlating linguistics and archaeology in East-Central African history -- The early social history of East-Central Africa -- Women's authority: female coalitions, politics, and religion -- Women's authority and female initiation in East-Central African history -- Pots, hoes, and food: women in technology and production -- Sacred, but never profane: sex and sexuality in East-Central African history -- Kucilinga na lesa kupanshanya mayo
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    Political culture and nationalism in Malawi : building Kwacha (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781580467551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)
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    DDC: 306.2096897
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    Keywords: Banda, H. Kamuzu / (Hastings Kamuzu) / -1997 ; Banda, Hastings Kamuzu ; Malawi Congress Party ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1900-1965 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Political culture / Malawi / History ; Politische Kultur ; Politik ; Nationalismus ; Malawi / Politics and government ; Malawi ; Malawi ; Politische Kultur ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1900-1965 ; Banda, Hastings Kamuzu 1898-1997 ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Malawi ; Politik ; Geschichte 1900-1965
    Abstract: Inspired by the events leading up to the overthrow of Doctor Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Life Presidency, this book explores the deep logic of Malawi's political culture as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods. It draws on archival sources from three continents and oral testimonies gathered over a ten-year period provided by those who lived these events. Power narrates how anti-colonial protest was made relevant to the African majority through the painstaking engagement of politicians in local grievances and struggles, which they then linked to the fight against white settler domination in the guise of the Central African Federation. She also explores how Doctor Banda (leader of independent Malawi for thirty years), the Nyasaland African Congress, and its successor, the Malawi Congress Party, functioned within this political culture, and how the MCP became a formidable political machine. Central to this process was the deployment of women and youth to cut across parochial politics and consolidate a broad base of support. No less important was the deliberate manipulation of history and the use of rumor and innuendo, symbol and pageantry, persecution and reward. It was this mix that made people both accept and reject the MCP regime, sometimes simultaneously. Joey Power is professor of history at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
    Description / Table of Contents: Power and authority in early colonial Malawi -- From tribe to nation: defending indirect rule -- From tribe to nation: the Nyasaland African Congress -- The federal challenge: noncooperation and the crisis of confidence in elite politics -- Building urban populism -- Planting populism in the countryside -- Bringing back Banda -- Prelude to crisis: inventing a Malawian political culture -- Du's challenge: car accident as metaphor for political violence -- Crisis and Kuthana politics -- Legacies
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    Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781580467056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/33307291
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Yoruba (African people) / Cuba / History / 19th century ; Yoruba (African people) / Cuba / Ethnic identity ; Yoruba (African people) / Cuba / Migrations / History / 19th century ; Cubans / Nigeria / Lagos / History / 19th century ; Return migration / Nigeria / Lagos / History / 19th century ; African diaspora ; Diaspora ; Yoruba ; Migration ; Nigeria / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century ; Cuba / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century ; Nigeria ; Kuba ; Kuba ; Nigeria ; Yoruba ; Migration ; Diaspora
    Abstract: 'Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World' explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is assistant professor of English and folklore at Louisiana State University and is research associate and visiting professor at the Women's Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School from 2009-2010
    Description / Table of Contents: Grassroots Africans : Havana's "Lagosians" -- Returning to Lagos : making the Oja home -- "Second diasporas" : reception in the Bight of Benin -- Situating Lagosian, Caribbean, and Latin American diasporas -- Creating Afrocubanos : public cultures in a circum-Atlantic perspective -- Conclusion: flow, community, and diaspora -- Appendix: case studies of returnees to Lagos from Havana, Cuba
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