Colonial History and Historiography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Albane de Suremain
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Military History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Cultural Hybridization ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Second World

The colonial condition in Africa has been revisited by all of the main historiographic currents of thought, from a heroizing, highly political and military history of colonization primarily considered from the colonists’ standpoint, to a much more complex and rich history integrating the colonized perspective. This history has been enhanced by contributions from Postcolonial Studies and Subaltern Studies as well as from New Imperial History and perspectives opened by its global interconnected history. At the intersection of these issues and methods, colonial studies offers an innovative reinterpretation of various facets of colonial Africa, such as the factors and justifications for colonial expansion; conquests and colonial wars; processes of territorial appropriation and border demarcation; and the organization and control of the colonies. In these fundamentally inegalitarian societies, accommodation and social and cultural hybridization processes were also at work, as well as multiple forms of resistance or subversion that paved the way for African states to win their independence. In addition to the role played by the First and Second World Wars, the emergence of nationalist and separatist movements helps to clarify the multifaceted nature of these independences, when approached from a political as well as a cultural and social perspective, while questioning the durability of the legacy of the colonial phase in African history.

The Spanish Civil War: New Approaches and Historiographic Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-267
Author(s):  
Eduardo González Calleja
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Military History ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The bibliography on the Spanish Civil War is almost unattainable, but the matter continues to elicit such interest that it remains open to new historiographic trends. For example, the ‘classic’ military history of the conflict, cultivated prominently in recent years by Gabriel Cardona, Jorge Martínez Reverte and Anthony Beevor, does not renounce the microhistory or cultural perspective. These constitute the theoretical framework of the New Military History and its corollary the New Combat History, which combine philological, anthropological, psychological and historiographical perspectives to various degrees. In the specific field of the war experiences pioneered by George L. Mosse, the concepts of brutalisation, barbarisation and demodernisation of military operations, coined by Omer Bartov to describe the particularities of the Eastern campaign during the Second World War, are being used by Spanish historians dedicated to the study of the violence and atrocities of the civil war and post-war. Focusing on the field of political history, government management or diplomacy has been studied almost exhaustively, but this is not the case for the principal phenomenon of political violence in the 1930s in Europe, namely paramilitarisation. It is surprising that the latest studies on the issue at the European level (Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Chris Millington and Kevin Passmore) do not include any essays on the enormous incidence of paramilitary violence in Spain before, during and after the civil war.

Rethinking the Place of the Second World War in the Contemporary History of Albania

Südosteuropa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gentiana Kera
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
World War ◽  
History Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Previous State ◽  
Second World ◽  
State Socialist

AbstractThe Second World War in Albania was a central topic of socialist historiography because of the importance laid upon the National Liberation War for the legitimation of the establishment of communist rule in 1944. History writing was a very centralized process, controlled by party institutions responsible for safeguarding the implementation of Marxist‒Leninist principles and party lines. Since the 1990s, the history of the Second World War has been revised in the framework of a general revision of Albanian national history. History writing developed as an open process and now included historians from countries other than Albania, as opposed to the previous state socialist isolation. The extent to which the war history had been distorted and manipulated during socialism has influenced the subsequent process of rewriting that first focused on adjusting the existing narratives. Thus, despite an increasing variety of research topics, the historiography on wartime Albania has remained dominated by political and military history, and by the national master narrative.

scholarly journals Dowód osobisty wzór 1928 – koncepcja, realizacja i przemiany

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Marian Łomnicki
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Document Design ◽  
National Identification ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

W artykule omówiono historię wprowadzenia na ziemiach polskich w okresie po pierwszej wojnie światowej dokumentu poświadczającego tożsamość – dowodu osobistego. Szczegółowej analizie poddano formularz uchwalony rozporządzeniem Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej z 16 marca 1928 r. O ewidencji i kontroli ruchu ludności, czyli ogólnokrajowemu jednolitemu dokumentowi tożsamości zwanemu potocznie dowodem osobistym wzór 28. W tekście omówiono różnice w formularzach występujące w poszczególnych regionach Polski w okresie międzywojennym, a także przykłady wykorzystania formularzy przez władze okupacyjne w okresie Design of the 1928 identification document - concept, execution and transformation The article presents the history of a national identification document in Poland in the period after the First World War. Special emphasis is put on the form adopted by the presidential resolution on March 16, 1928 On registration and control of the movement of people, that is, the single national identification document design no. 28. The text discusses differences between various forms in particular regions of Poland in the inter-war period, and provides the examples of how the forms were used by Nazi authorities during the Second World War and by the authorities after the Second World War.

Some Problems in Redefining European Expansion as a Historical Discipline: Taking Stock

Itinerario ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Manfred Mimler
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
World War ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Selection Of

If historians nowadays still talk of “colonial history” they do so because they are at a loss for an adequate term which would express the new quality this discipline has assumed in the course of decolonization. Rudolf von Albertini has edited a volume which presents a number of articles relevant to this problem. In his introduction he emphasizes the departure from the traditional view of overseas empire-building in which only the creative genius of European colonial powers was considered of historical interest — amidst a comparatively static scenery of exotic opacity. He draws attention to the ever growing shift towards a history of the peoples of the Third World which — whether of national or more regional orientation — shows an increasing concern for questions of social and economic history and draws on the latest findings of social and cultural anthropology, thus limiting Europe's role overseas in a decisive way. European worlddominance, once an epoch—making phenomenon, is reduced to a short—term period of alien rule over the majority of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Albertini takes account of this change, not only in the selection of the contributions to his volume, but its title reflects this change as well: it is a “new colonial history” that he presents, and Albertini gives us to understand that by this he is not concerned with the periodization of colonial history, but rather with the new approaches in this field since the end of the Second World War.

Introduction

Keshab ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
John A. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bengal Renaissance

This chapter argues that Keshab Chandra Sen’s worldview was shaped by the cultural, intellectual and religious traditions of both India and Britain. It situates the study in the context of current scholarship concerning new imperial history, histories of identity and subjectivity, postcolonial studies and subaltern studies. It sets out the methodological and theoretical framework of the book, with particular reference to discourse analysis, theories of identity and subjectivity, postcolonial theory, liberalism and universalism. It provides a brief biographical introduction to Keshab Chandra Sen and argues that he is a significant and neglected figure in the history of Bengal and the Bengal renaissance.

scholarly journals The Manchurian Strategic Operation of the Soviet Forces in 1945: Questions of Historiography and Conceptual Rationale

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Yuri Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The Soviet-Japanese war of 1945 is an important part of the Second World war, a heroic page in the military history of Russia. The Manchurian strategic operation of August, 1945 is actively studied in Russian and world historical science and considerable number of historical sources and memoirs are published. However, the theoretical and geopolitical aspect of the Soviet-Japanese war requires additional research. The place of war in national and world history, the causes and consequences of hostilities, and diplomatic history need further understanding and generalization. The article focuses on controversial issues in the study of the Soviet-Japanese war of 1945.

‘STEALING THE WAY’ TO MECCA: WEST AFRICAN PILGRIMS AND ILLICIT RED SEA PASSAGES, 1920s–50s

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN MIRAN
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
West African ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional History ◽  
And Control

AbstractWest African participation in the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) grew considerably throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This article examines the causes and consequences of failed British and Saudi efforts to channel, regulate, and control the trans-Sahelian flow of pilgrims and enforce a regime of mobility along the Sahel and across the Red Sea. Focusing specifically on Red Sea ‘illicit’ passages, the study recovers the rampant and often harrowing crossings of dozens of thousands of West African pilgrims from the Eritrean to the Arabian coasts. It examines multiple factors that drove the circumvention of channeling and control measures and inscribes the experiences of West African historical actors on multiple historiographic fields that are seldom organically tied to West Africa: Northeast African regional history, the colonial history of Italian Eritrea, and the Red Sea as a maritime space connecting Africa with Arabia.

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