Archiv für September 2016

„My Most Beautiful Ornament Is My House“: National Womanhood and Urban Modernity in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal, 1956-1968

This article examines changing representations of women and the city during the years surrounding Senegal’s 1960 independence from France. By focusing on advertisements, images, and texts of the largest (and later only) political party’s n…

Is There Real Potential of Sustainable City Life?

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/5/965?rss=1

Rape, Race, and Respectability in a South African Port City: East London, 1870-1927

In late 19th century and early 20th century South Africa, public panics about black men who raped white women (the „black peril“) provided a potent framework for mobilizing racial nationalism. The experiences of women who attempted to prosecute sexual…

Introduction: Sex and the Colonial City

Although cities were not new to Africa and the Americas, slave trading and imperialism produced a particular phenomenon: the modern colonial city. These new sites were supposed to broadcast the power and interests of colonial states and societies. Yet…

„Refugee from St. Domingue Living in This City“: The Geography of Social Networks in Testaments of Refugee Free Women of Color in New Orleans

Through Cuba and other points, the Haitian Revolution drove thousands of free women of color to New Orleans between 1791 and 1810. This significant influx coincided with the Louisiana Purchase, tripling the city’s Francophone free black populati…

Diversity. Conflict. Empowerment? The Politics of Black Chicago from Abolition to Harold Washington

Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/5/953?rss=1

The Latest Instalment in the Whig Interpretation of Australian Education History: Catherine Byrne’s JORH Article “Free, Compulsory and (not) Secular”

The original meaning of the term “secular” in the “free compulsory and secular” nineteenth-century Australian public education acts is often contested, and has recently become part of a contemporary debate about the presence of confessional re…

The Bar-Kokhba Revolt: The Greek Point of View

Quelle: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/histori/2016/00000065/00000004/art00006

Justice in Client Kingdoms The Many Trials of Herod’s Sons

Quelle: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/histori/2016/00000065/00000004/art00005

Booty in the Sullan Civil War of 83–82 B.C.

Quelle: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/histori/2016/00000065/00000004/art00004