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6. WHAT’S IN A CONCEPT? THE KINETIC EMPIRE OF THE COMANCHES

This essay revisits the main themes and arguments put forward in The Comanche Empire: indigenous agency; spatial reorientation in the writing of colonial histories; the composition of the Comanche empire and its impact on the history of North America. It also responds to a number of specific issues raised by the roundtable participants: differences and similarities between indigenous and Euro-colonial power regimes; balancing of culture-specific frameworks with broad-gauge political economic analysis; linkages between indigenous agency and indigenous sovereignty in colonial encounters; the question of periodization in writing Native American and colonial histories. Finally, the essay points to new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and comparing nonterritorial nomadic empires by introducing the concept of “kinetic empire,” which refers to a flexible imperial organization that revolves around a set of mobile activities and relies on selective nodal control of key resources.

Prefatory Note

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Review of Noel Salazar’s Envisioning Eden

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Review of Jürgen Osterhammel, Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts

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Decision-Makers in the Dock: How Trials, Human Rights Advocacy and International Law are Shaping the Justice Norm

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Counter-Elites Swimming Up-Stream: The Challenge of Pursuing a Political Rights Agenda where Economic Rights Trump

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Stigmas and Memory of Slavery in West Africa: Skin Color and Blood as Social Fracture Lines

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The History of Human Rights: The Big Bang of an Emerging Field or Flash in the Pan?

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International Law and Human Rights: Diverging and Converging Histories

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NGOs and Development Reconsidered

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