From Department Store to Shopping Mall: New Research in the Transnational History of Large-scale Retail

Author(s):  
Alexander Sedlmaier
2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marten Boon

Transnational history emerged strongly as globalization intensified in the 1990s, questioning national historiographies and creating new research agendas. Business history has not been part of this, but recent calls within the field to engage more visibly and authoritatively with debates on the history of globalization warrant a closer inspection of transnational history. The article draws on key concepts from transnational history and discusses their application in the work of, among others, Sven Beckert, Jessica Lepler, Stephanie Decker, Ray Stokes, and Michael Miller. The article argues that transnational history provides opportunities to increase business history's engagement with the history of globalization.


2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

AbstractTransnational history and the history of gender and sexuality have both been concerned with the issue of borders and their crossing, but the two fields themselves have not intersected much in the past. This is beginning to change, and this article surveys recent scholarship that draws on both fields, highlighting work in six areas: movements for women’s and gay rights; diverse understandings of sexuality and gender; colonialism and imperialism; intermarriage; national identity and citizenship; and migration. This new research suggests ways in which the subject matter, theory, and methodology in transnational history and the history of gender and sexuality can interconnect: in the two fields’ mutual emphasis on intertwinings, relationships, movement, and hybridity; their interdisciplinarity and stress on multiple perspectives; and their calls for destabilization of binaries.


Author(s):  
Kuzovova N.

Purpose and methodology of the study. The article is devoted to the analysis of sources on the history of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in the Kherson region. The results of the study will help to expand knowledge about the famine of 1932–1933 and to conduct an effective search for new archival information about this event. The study is based on source methods of identifying, analyzing and evaluating sources. Methods of archival heuristics are used, with the help of which a circle of archives is established, where the necessary information could potentially be stored, based on information about fundraisers.Results and scientific novelty of the study. A significant array of official records was analyzed: orders, reports, information, correspondence, certifying the crime of the Soviet government against the Ukrainian people - the Holodomor genocide of 1932–1933 in the Kherson region.It was found that the collections of archival documents of Russian archivists, despite the purpose of preparing a source complex, the composition and content of which would deny the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people, nevertheless contain valuable information from the central archives of the former USSR, including materials about southern Ukraine. One of the significant shortcomings is the lack of documents that would reflect the reaction of the "fraternal" republics to the famine in Ukraine, as Kherson trade unions, in particular, sought food aid from the relevant authorities in Belarus and Russia.In Ukraine, in parallel with the processes of declassification of archives, collections of documents with high-quality archeographic design were also published. In fact, Ukrainian scholars have urged their Russian counterparts to address the issue of famine, as they have previously produced high-quality informational content for the study of the Holodomor in Ukraine, which cannot be ignored.Regional archives play an equally important role in forming the source base of the problem. Their materials have been repeatedly published, including in the large-scale project "National Book of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims of 1932–1933 pp. in Ukraine” (2008). It seemed that such a number of identified, published, including in the form of Internet resources of documentary monuments, cartographic materials, sources on demographic statistics has already exhausted the subject, but declassification and transfer of documents from the SBU continues, and archives are replenished with new documents. In particular, those that raise the issue of Soviet repression for spreading information about the famine of 1932–1933 in later years. That is, the discovery of new documents and the setting of new research tasks to study the history of the Holodomor is a real prospect for the future.Key words: Holodomor, Kherson region, local history, archive, source, document. Мета та методологія дослідження. Стаття присвячена аналізу джерел з історії Голодомору 1932–1933 років на терито-рії Херсонщини. Результати дослідження допоможуть розширити знання про голод 1932–1933 років та проводити ефективний пошук нової архівної інформації про цю подію. В основі дослідження лежать джерелознавчі методи виявлення, аналізу та оцінки джерел. Застосовуються методи архівної евристики, за допомогою якої встановлено коло архівів, де потенційно могла зберігатись необхідна інформація, виходячи з інформації про фондоутворювачів. Результати та наукова новизна дослідження. Проаналізовано значний масив документів офіційного діловодства: накази, доповідні записки, інформації, листування, що засвідчують злочин радянської влади проти українського народу – Голодомор-геноцид 1932–1933 років на території Херсонщини.З’ясовано, що збірники архівних документів російських архівістів, не зважаючи на мету підготувати джерельний комплекс, склад і зміст якого заперечуватиме Голодомор як геноцид українського народу, тим не менш містять цінну інформацію з центральних архівів колишнього СРСР, в тому числі матеріали про Південь України. Одним з суттєвих недоліків – відсутність документів, що б відображали реакцію «братніх» республік на голод в Україні, оскілки зокрема херсонські профспілки звертались за продовольчою допомогою до відповідних органів в Білорусії та Росії. В Україні, паралельно з процесами розсекречення архівів, також видано збірки документів з якісним археографічним оформленням. Власне українські вчені спонукали російських колег звернутись до теми голоду, оскільки раніше за них сформували якісний інформаційний контент для вивчення Голодомору в Україні, котрий не можливо ігнорувати.Не менш важливу роль у формуванні джерельної бази проблеми відграють регіональні архіви. Їхні матеріали неодноразово публікувались, в тому числі в масштабному проєкті «Національна Книга пам’яті жертв Голодомору 1932–1933 pp. в Україні» (2008). Здавалось, така кількість виявлених, опублікованих, в тому числі – у вигляді Інтернет-ресурсів документаль-них пам’яток, картографічних матеріалів, джерел з демографічної статистики вже вичерпала тематику, проте розсекречення та передача документів з СБУ триває, й архіви поповнюються новими документами. Зокрема, такими, що піднімають питання репресій радянської за поширення інформації про голод 1932–1933 років у пізніші роки. Тобто виявлення нових документів, і постановка нових дослідницьких завдань з вивчення історії Голодомору – реальна перспектива на майбутнє.Ключові слова: Голодомор, Херсонщина, локальна історія, архів, джерело, документ


Africa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Murillo

ABSTRACTDespite the perception that department stores are a recent phenomenon in West Africa, modern indoor retail spaces have existed in its major cities since the mid-twentieth century. This article uses the history of Kingsway Department Store in Accra as a lens to understand emerging political, economic and social tensions in post-colonial Ghana. Drawing on United Africa Company (UAC) records, staff reports and inspection findings, as well as local newspapers, advertising and oral interviews, I demonstrate how legacies of colonial capitalism, struggles for political independence and negotiations over what constituted the ‘modern’ fuelled both local and foreign support of the project. For the UAC, investment was an opportunity to legitimize its activities in a newly independent Ghana and a means to shed its image as a colonial merchant firm. While local authorities were divided on whether large-scale retail developments should be part of an expanding post-colonial city, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah thought the store might provide a key component in constructing his vision of a new modern nation. However, the presence of white-collar working women, young managers supervising older employees, and the mixing of white expatriate and African shoppers exacerbated social conflicts – challenging local and colonial notions of authority based on race, gender and age.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Harmer

Our understanding of the international and transnational history of Chile during the Unidad Popular (UP) government has expanded considerably since the early 2010s. But what has new research contributed to our understanding of events in Chile and Chile’s significance in a global context? Examining the historiographical advances and questions that have driven scholarship in recent years, this article argues that international and transnational studies that focus attention on Chile and Chileans can offer new perspectives on the rise and fall of the UP. Rather than reducing international histories to an account of a select group of foreigners acting on an empty Chilean stage, these approaches foreground local actors and processes, exploring the extent to which Chileans were shaped by a multiplicity of interactions, invitations and inspirations across borders. Localising the global in this way can help us understand the reasons many within Chile conceptualised their goals, projects and actions as they did. It challenges the idea of Chilean exceptionalism. It also undermines right-wing actors’ claims to be acting solely within national frameworks by revealing their own entanglements in translational networks and intellectual imports. Suggesting that we have much still to learn, the article also highlights possible avenues for further research and reflects on the contemporary relevance of the global in Chilean political discourse today.


1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.


This volume is an interdisciplinary assessment of the relationship between religion and the FBI. We recount the history of the FBI’s engagement with multiple religious communities and with aspects of public or “civic” religion such as morality and respectability. The book presents new research to explain roughly the history of the FBI’s interaction with religion over approximately one century, from the pre-Hoover period to the post-9/11 era. Along the way, the book explores vexed issues that go beyond the particulars of the FBI’s history—the juxtaposition of “religion” and “cult,” the ways in which race can shape the public’s perceptions of religion (and vica versa), the challenges of mediating between a religious orientation and a secular one, and the role and limits of academic scholarship as a way of addressing the differing worldviews of the FBI and some of the religious communities it encounters.


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