*Free Content!* Itinerario is one of very few history journals that occasionally publish transcriptions and translations of unique sources, and histories and inventories of underused archives of interest to global historians. Read a selection here: https://t.co/vhZYs5UkeJ
On 04-10-2023, we present our first version of #htr transcriptions of 5 million scans from the Dutch East India Company archives. It makes accessible copied documents (OBP) from the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago that provide a lens on world history @_GLOBALISE
Also now available, in Open Access, by Alexandre Coello de la Rosa: "Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions in the Spanish Empire," focusing on the Andean territories previously under Inca domination and the Pacific Rim's Mariana Islands in the 16th century:
https://t.co/DL6wzpM22S
From Fleur Martin, the Open Access article "Silent Heritage: Investigating Ruxton's Nigeria Collection at the Horniman Museum and Gardens" investigating the holdings, provenance, and implications of this colonial collection: https://t.co/75yV7Si7Su
Now available: Ayodeji Olukoju's "'An Imperial Clearing House for Commercial Information and Suggestions:' The British Imperial Council of Commerce, 1911–1925" foregrounds this influential but often overlooked federated business pressure group:
https://t.co/uWHNnKLems
Now available, by @danielasamur: a review article examining three recent works examining the relationship between printing, power, and the production of knowledge: "The Politics of Printing and Knowledge Production in Latin America and the Caribbean": https://t.co/RSx9UzFhSA
We've been scooped again! (with apologies for the @Journal_Iti summer holiday break).
From @KrauerPhilipp and @BernhardSchaer, this new Open Access article: "Welfare for War Veterans: How the Dutch Empire provided for European Mercenary Families, c. 1850 to 1914."
Finally out.
Between 1850-1900, the Dutch colonial army paid out 10 mio guilders to 32.000 veterans across Europe.
Why, how? To understand we need to combine colonial, social and gender history.
A plea with @KrauerPhilipp for @Journal_Iti https://t.co/9oZglN9n48
Sorry to bug you all with this: @HolmesMatthew99 beat us to announcing that his piece is now available, with Open Access! In his words, this is "a handy example of how not to study beetles" in 19th century Sri Lanka. 🪲🐞🪲🐞
Great to see the cover of Daniel Laqua's forthcoming book, 'Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe'. It will be published by @BloomsburyHist@BloomsburyBooks in August. Full details and pre-order here: https://t.co/PIMIRkACIg
Now available, with open access: Nathalie Cooper's analysis, based on archived oral history interviews with ex-colonial officers: "'Internal Frontiers': Whiteness, Intimacy, and the Expatriate Home in Britain's African Colonies during the Postwar Period": https://t.co/hqL1Kg1EjO
Available, Open Access : Rishad Choudhury's examination of materials generated by subjects of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India, on a diplomatic mission to the Ottoman Empire in 1786: "Tipu and the Turks: An Islamicate Embassy in the Age of British Expansion": https://t.co/XICBnNYxHJ
Now available: from the pens of
@ManuelLlorca2 and Juan Navarrete-Montalvo, an examination of Britain's Involvement in Chile's Cambiaso Mutiny, 1851–2, which complicates narratives concerning Chile's political transition from colony to republic: https://t.co/YVwGKK77wk
Two PhD vacancies in Resisting Enslavement - my @NWONieuws Vidi project @IISG_Amsterdam - studying the (global) history of resistance to enslavement and slavery through Dutch colonial court records. Feel free to circulate. Deadline 25 June 2023. More info:
https://t.co/CziUa56cfI
PhD candidate in Global History? Please consider applying to the "Global History in the 2020s" summer school, held in Leiden in late June!
https://t.co/l4o5vkGSOK
Now available! Review essay by Angela Woollacott, "New Angles on Whiteness and the Making of the Modern World," showing the vitality of this scholarly field while broadening its geographical and temporal focus:
https://t.co/2HyEYijVHM
Now available: by @jessezphd, a review essay of four recent monographs focused on Atlantic travel that "provide new vantage points for reconsidering the meanings of freedom and slavery, diplomacy, trans-oceanic legal networks, and piracy."
https://t.co/yH50eFXn5c
Now available with open access: @LHaasis's examination of procurement and purchasing networks as part of 18th century mercantile marriage initiation:
https://t.co/73KYVQ5llT
More from the special issue, by @askebrock: "'Your sister growes rich by her great trade'": Catherine Nicks's Intimate Economy" examines how women created opportunities for themselves and their extended networks in the late 17th-early 18th centuries: https://t.co/c5VUe1i9ld
@askebrock @mishaewen@LHaasis Margaret R. Hunt @MouseEmperor
Forum Introduction: Gender, Intimate Networks, and Global Commerce in the Early Modern Period https://t.co/sJR4Q91TWK
The special issue is now out in full! From @Mishaewen, an examination of how women in England managed wealth and property in Barbados during the 17th century: https://t.co/YS3yJzZoDu