Trade and Civilization around the Bay of Bengal, c. 1650–1800

Itinerario ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Gommans
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Ancien Régime

About seven years ago the journalItinerarioissued a special volume on theAncien Régimein India and Indonesia that carried the papers presented at the third Cambridge-Leiden-Delhi-Yogyakarta conference. The aim of the conference was a comparative one in which state-formation, trading net-works and socio-political aspects of Islam were the major topics. Thumbing through the pages of this issue (while preparing this essay) I had the impression that the results of the conference went beyond its initial comparative goals. Directly or indirectly, several papers stressed that during the early-modern phase India and Indonesia were still part of a cultural continuum that was only gradually broken up by the ongoing process of European expansion during the nineteenth century. It appeared that even after the earlier course of so-called ‘Indianisation’ – a designation that unjustly conveys an Indian ‘otherness’ – India and the Archipelago shared many characteristics, especially in terms of their political and religious orientation. More importantly, these shared traits were shaped by highly mobile groups of traders, pilgrims and courtiers who criss-crossed the Bay of Bengal, traversing both the lands above and below the winds.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
The Third ◽  
Scientific Approach

This chapter provides an overview of Pleasure: A History. The book traces a narrative in four acts. The first act shows how ancient Greek and medieval philosophers from both the Islamic and Latin traditions were concern with unifying the variety of pleasures. In the second act, early modern European philosophers became focused on pleasure as psychological. The third act shows how in the nineteenth century pleasure become of the object of scientific psychology. The book concludes by showing how contemporary psychology and philosophy are recognizing the shortcomings of the scientific approach and returning to questions from earlier in the story to enrich the approach. The introduction also provides chapter summaries and recognizes key figures who have been omitted.

Interlocking Patrimonialisms and State Formation in Qing China and Early Modern Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 636 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Wang ◽  
Julia Adams
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Ancien Régime

Familial power contributed to binding territories together and systematically severing them in both China and early modern European states. In the early Qing (1644–1911) Empire, Manchu conquerors met the challenges of securing and expanding rule by discovering ways to use laterally related brothers and imperial bondservants to hold Chinese bureaucrats in check, while deploying bureaucracy to restrain princely brothers from partitioning the state. The ensuing interlock of patrimonial practices and bureaucracy, developed in a style similar to ancien régime France, stabilized political power for centuries.

The Third Workshop of the Centre: A Colloquium on ‘Companies and Trade’. Leiden, 19–21 April, 1978

Itinerario ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
D.H.A. Kolff
Keyword(s):  
Ancien Regime ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancien Régime

If the earlier workshops organized by the Centre, ‘Expansion and Reaction’ (1975) and ‘Reappraisals in Overseas History’ (1976), aimed at producing, respectively, a survey of some of the main problems involved in modern studies of the history of European expansion and a bibliographic overview of the same field as it appears to us to-day, the third colloquium at last got down to work on a specific historical issue. True, the theme of the trading companies of the ancien regime is a vast one, but the purpose of the workshop, as of the centre itself, was primarily comparative, and for this approach the theme chosen proved eminently fit.

Expansion, Diaspora, and Encounter in the Early Modern South Atlantic

Itinerario ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart B. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
General Public ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

In a decade marked off by the quincentenaries of the voyages of Columbus (1492) and that of Vasco da Gama (1498) or perhaps more chronologically and interculturally correctly by the 1502 arrival of three Native Americans at the court of Henry VII of England, it is appropriate to take stock of the field of ‘European expansion’ and to ask if, in fact, such a field exists, or ought to exist, or still means the same thing that it did a generation ago. The celebrations and condemnations that accompanied the quincentenary in 1992 refocused public attention on the question of European expansion and its impact on history of die Americas and of the world. Voices long suppressed and opinions never before expressed found new audiences and joined with scholarly and semi-scholarly works to make Columbus and all that followed in his wake a topic of general public concern. It is dierefore appropriate to take stock once again of what we know about die Era of European Expansion prior to die emergence of modern imperialism in die nineteenth century.

Laughing at History: the third act of Meyerbeer' L'Africaine

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-76
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Grand Opera

A mythical giant, a Malagasy slave, a song, an accomplished baritone, an outraged critic; these seemingly incompatible figures are bound together in the Paris premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine in 1865. They are the fundamental elements of my story of the opera's third act, a narrative web binding together early modern nautical history, epic poetry, grand-opera dramaturgy, and the nineteenth-century politics of operatic performance and listening in an exploration of how the opera's rather fictionalised account of Vasco da Gama's first sea voyage to India five centuries ago bears witness to the strength of the historicist project in grand opera.

I. British Assessments of the Dutch in Asia in the Age of Raffles

Itinerario ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
Old Order ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Ancien Régime

The demarcation of phases of empire has a perennial fascination for historians of European expansion. One of the most elusive processes of change both to date and to define is what most scholars would recognise to be the shift from the colonial systems of ancien regime Europe to the empires of the nineteenth century. In outline, it seems that systems based on the close regulation of commercial capitalism through privileges devolved on more or less autonomous colonies and trading companies gave way to national empires under direct state authority and increasingly geared to the needs of industrial metropolitan economies. In the mid-eighteenth century the old order was generally intact; by the mid-nineteenth century it had largely been replaced. Greater precision about the timing and speed of change remains very difficult to attain, but within this wide parameter it seems reasonable to suppose that different empires moved at different speeds: the economically and politically sophisticated British are likely to have remodelled their system ahead of their competitors, probably forcing them towards modernity in the process.

Historical Fragments’ Mobile Echo

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Bell ◽  
Kathy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Opium War ◽  
The Subject

Translocation – Transformation is an ambitious contribution to the subject of mobility. Materially, it interlinks seemingly disparate objects into a surprisingly unified exhibition on mobile histories and heritages: twelve bronze zodiac heads, silk and bamboo creatures, worn life vests, pressed Pu-erh tea, thousands of broken antique teapot spouts, and an ancestral wooden temple from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) used by a tea-trading family. Historically and politically, the exhibition engages Chinese stories from the third century BCE, empires in eighteenth-century Austria and China, the Second Opium War in the nineteenth century, the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the mid-twentieth century, and today’s global refugee crisis.

scholarly journals Emotions in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflexive emotionalisation in a colonised context

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199530
Author(s):  
Mary Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Feeling Rules

Reflexive emotionalisation means increased thinking about and acting on emotional experiences in response to major changes to social life, such as those accompanying colonisation. This article explains and develops this novel concept, assessing its usefulness through an exploratory assessment of reflexive emotionalisation in the formation of Aotearoa New Zealand as a colonised settler state. It is argued that as cultures met and sought to coexist, emotions were vital. Focusing on reflexive emotionalisation in Aotearoa reveals how differences in feeling rules were navigated, sometimes in violent ways, as power shifted towards the colonisers. Feelings of belonging are important in that ongoing process of reflexive emotionalisation, the elucidation of which provides a new understanding of social change and settler state formation that avoids casting colonised peoples as passive objects of ‘progress’ brought by colonisers.

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