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GRK 2571 - Empires

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

🔗Read it here: t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften"The Empire and I"As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.
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Early Modern Diplomacy

Although we somehow consider ourselves being experts in the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory, we faced great difficulties in finding information on #black #emdiplomacy.

One reason for this is that #GlobalHistory, however, focuses strongly on the Americas and Asia. Research on Africa and #earlyModern African #diplomacy is very limited though it has existed since the #MiddleAges at least.

Another reason for the underrepresentation of #earlyModern African history in #NewDiplomaticHistory is the lack of sources. As many African regions had other traditions than written sources, it is difficult to access African #emdiplomacy. This is also why existing research heavily focuses on a few exampels and regions when it comes to #black #emdiplomacy, mostly Ethiopa, Kongo and the North of the continent. (2/2)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons

@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen

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Early Modern Diplomacy

#BlackHistoryMonth ended yesterday. Therefore, we want to share some reflections with you.

#earlyModern #NewDiplomaticHistory is still heavily Eurocentric. Moreover, there is a risk that white and European perspectives prevail even in non-European contexts despite all attemps by #GlobalHistory to questions these approaches. During the last weeks we tried to set European perspectives aside and highlight #black diplomatic actors. In doing so, we encountered a huge challange: the lack of research. (1/2)

#emdiplomacy #history #histdons

@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen

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Early Modern Diplomacy

For Cape Verde's officials to be able to confirm the high status that the Prussians themselves assigned to the Prussian enterprise, they had to embody what they considered the highest form of authority: that of the Enlightened, Christian, male and white European who was the polar opposite of the illiterate, savage, black African. In the Prussians' vision, this binary could not be destabilized: to recognize hybridity or alterity in the local elites, to question their status as “Europeans,” would be to question the legitimacy they could confer on the Prussians, which was of existential importance for them, as Gottmann argues.

This example of the encounter between representatives of the Prussian East India Company and local Cabo Verde authorities highlights the challenges of intercultural #emdiplomacy and the difficulties to deal with hybridity. (7/7)

#BlackHistoryMonth #NewDiplomaticHistory #GlobalHistory #earlymodern

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However, on closer observation their identity as metropolitan Europeans was fragile. The dinner that was opened and concluded with a handwashing ceremony unfamiliar to the Prussians illustrates this. Undercooked bread, the dishes a mixture of European and African cuisine and the digestif was the most exotic of all: a decidedly un-European coconut to drink.

The dinner was not presided over by the local governor’s wife. Instead, said lady stayed in the courtyard kitchen, dressed like the locals and clearly comfortable in the company of her daughters and their black servants and slaves, all working together, laughing, joking, and cooking.

Indeed, just like the local children, the youngest of the governor’s twelve sons and daughters toddled around the house after dinner, coming up to cuddle the guests entirely naked. (6/7)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #earlymodern #history #GlobalHistory #histodons

@historikerinnen @earlymodern @histodons @womenknowhistory

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Early Modern Diplomacy

In her article "Mixed Company in the Contact Zone: the “Glocal” Diplomatic Efforts of a Prussian East Indiaman in 1750s Cape Verde" Felicia Gottmann uses the case of the #Prussian East Indian company to analyse the diplomatic strategies marginalized and hybrid players could adopt to project themselves onto the #earlymodern global stage and locally counterbalance the hegemonic Northern European Atlantic powers: (4/7)

brill.com/view/journals/jemh/2

#emdiplomacy #NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons #GlobalHistory

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@womenknowhistory

Brill · Mixed Company in the Contact Zone: the “Glocal” Diplomatic Efforts of a Prussian East Indiaman in 1750s Cape VerdeAbstract This article takes a micro-historical actor-centered approach to study the encounter between the officers of a Prussian East India Company Ship and local elites in 1750s Praia, Cape Verde. Combining recent advances in New Diplomatic History and in Company Studies with insights from the study of Contact Zones and transculturation, it analyzes the diplomatic strategies marginalized and hybrid players could adopt to project themselves onto the early modern global stage and locally counterbalance the hegemonic Northern European Atlantic powers. It thus proposes an alternative model of nonprofessional diplomatic interaction in the early modern period.
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Early Modern Diplomacy

Perhaps you are a longing for a #SilentSunday, in this case this week’s #BlackHistory #emdiplomacy take offers you a relaxing weekend read:

Today we focus on #CapeVerde which were discovered by the #Portuguese in the middle of the 15th c. In 1466 the islands received trading rights in West #Africa. Cape Verde provided a stopover on the transatlantic slave trading route. Moreover, plantations were established there. However, #earlymodern Cabo Verdean society was decidedly mixed. (1/7)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #GlobalHistory #earlymodern #history #histodons

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18th century map over Cape Verde
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IHC

⏳ The first group of calls to hire four Assistant Researchers for the IHC under the #FCTTenure programme ends on 21 February:

1️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.201: History in the Age of the #Anthropocene
2️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.202: #CulturalMediations
3️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.204: #Empire and #GlobalHistory
4️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.255: Art, Science and Technology and colonial built #heritage

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/ar-history-

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Illustrative image of the call for applications for four Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme. The deadline for applications is 21 February 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of the front façade of the Almada Negreiros College, a two-storey  19th century building, with yellow walls, white windows and flanked by two small towers.
#Histodons#HistoryJobs#ScienceJobs
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Early Modern Diplomacy

We continue #emdiplomacy insights during #BlackHIstoryMonth and
want to draw your attention to the #Borno sultanate at the shores of Lake #Chad. Like the neighbouring #Kanem sultanate it was ruled by the Sayfawa dynasty from the 14th century. According to Rémi Dewière, “Kanem and Borno extended their commercial and diplomatic networks from Morocco to Mecca in the #middleAges, to northern Ghana and Instanbul in the #earlymodern period, and then to European countries in the 19th century.” The first known Borno diplomat was Idrīs b. Muḥammad, a cousin of the Borno sultan who was mentioned in the context of a mission to the Mamluk Egypt in 1391. In the decade following 1551, the sultans of Borno dispatched two embassies to Tripoli. In 1574 and 1577, the Borno Sultan Idrīs b. ʿAlī sent an ambassador, al-Hāǧǧ Yūsuf, to Istanbul. (1/5)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #Africa #histodons #history #histodons #GlobalHistory

@histodons @earlymodern @historikerinnen

Grey map of Africa on which the Kanem-Borno region is highlighted with green colour
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IHC

📯 The IHC's first call for applications to hire 4 Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme has opened:

1️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.201: History in the Age of the #Anthropocene
2️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.202: #CulturalMediations
3️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.204: #Empire and #GlobalHistory
4️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.255: Art, Science and Technology and colonial built #heritage

📅 21 February

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/ar-history-

@histodons

Illustrative image of the call for applications for four Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme. The deadline for applications is 21 February 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of the front façade of the Almada Negreiros College, a two-storey 19th century building, with yellow walls, white windows and flanked by two small towers.
#HistoryJobs#Histodons#AcademicJobs
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Ms. Que Banh

#Free #OpenAccess #Research Article.

Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907.

ABSTRACT
For a global history of development, Swahili #poems from the #German colonial period are valuable sources as they help to question the diffusionist view of development discourses as colonial import. This article analyses how concepts of development ( #maendeleo ) and civilisation ( #ustaarabu ) figured in poems written by Swahili authors between 1888 and 1907. Going beyond a reading of these texts as pro- or anti-colonial, it shows the importance poets attached to urban infrastructural improvement. Poems were also informed by the self-image of the superior, urban, #Muslim strata of coastal society ( #waungwana ) in contrast to inferior #nonMuslim inland societies ( #washenzi ). Several poets suggested that inland societies should be disciplined, yet differences to coastal Swahili society were usually not couched in terms of temporality nor in terms of a civilising mission. Poets had to come to terms, however, with new power relations as a result of German conquest. While some authors openly criticised colonial violence, others also embraced colonial interventions in infrastructural and economic aspects – but still expressed nostalgia for the past. In sum, the poems constitute a transitional space in Swahili discourses on development, showing that these were not merely colonial imports but grew from multiple roots.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Kim Todzi

Out now as full open access!
“Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others. The Materiality of Identity and Depots of Global History“ ed. by @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social, Friederike Odenwald and me.
With important contributions by Ndzodo Awono, Christian Jarling, @isabeleiser.bsky.social, Patrick Hege, and Flower Manase.

degruyter.com/document/doi/10.

#histodons @histodons #provenance #Colonialism #globalhistory

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WerkstattGeschichte

Wir begehen heute den internationalen #TagDesMeeres mit einem Blick auf historische #Seekarten & wie diese ein Denken in globalen Zusammenhängen visualisierten:

▶ Iris Schröder, Felix Schürmann, Frederic Theis, Petra Weigel, Die Welt im #Meer. #Globalität in der europäischen #Kartografie der #Meere des 19. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 83/2021, werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@histodons @historikerinnen @geography

Ausschnitt der ersten Seite des Beitrags mit dem Abstract in englischer Sprache.
#WorldOceansDay#histodons#Geografie
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Early Modern Diplomacy

She focusses on #emdiplomacy in East and Central Asia, especially on prisoners of war and slaves in Russia and Central Asia as diplomatic actors, as she explores in this recent article.
doi.org/10.1515/9783110777246-

Together with Birgit Tremml-Werner she also edited a special issue in the Journal of the History of Ideas on “Translation in Action” combining intellectual history and #emdiplomay from a global point of view.
doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0022

This are only a few of her many publications. So if you’re interested in global #emdiplomacy you should not miss out on her work.

#history #histodons #GlobalHistory #NewDiplomaticHistory #earlymodern

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@historikerinnen @earlymodern @histodons @womenknowhistory

De Gruyter · The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar EmpiresThe Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires was published in Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850 on page 161.
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