...Civilian Entanglements with the Empire<subtitle>American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home</subtitle> ...

... This essay addresses Filipino sailors’ shifting racial locations in the military hierarchy of the U.S. Navy during World War II. Using archived correspondence between military officials and civilians, the essay explores Filipinos’ hierarchical location in a complex system of U.S. military racial...

... This chapter analyzes the critical role of religion in the transformation of the Nigerian state and society under successive civilian and military regimes from the attainment of independence in 1960 to the emergence of Nigeria’s fourth civil-democratic government (the Fourth Republic...

... by Andrés Lizardo Taborga, secretary of the commission charged with defending Bolivia’s settlements. The outnumbered Bolivian soldiers and civilians were led by Ladislao Cabrera, a local political offcial, and Coronel Eduardo Abaroa, who lost his life in combat, alongside civilian militiamen, while refusing...

... This essay addresses Filipino sailors’ shifting racial locations in the military hierarchy of the U.S. Navy during World War II. Using archived correspondence between military officials and civilians, the essay explores Filipinos’ hierarchical location in a complex system of U.S. military racial segregation...

... This chapter relates Bruno’s initial experiences of being in a navy jail, from where he is transferred to two different civilian prisons. Through his narrative, Bruno describes in detail the horrific prison conditions, the brutality of the prison guards, and the ways in which prison-based gangs...

... in search of a drug lord, killing an estimated 120 civilians in the process. Patterson’s detailed, filigreed, and ecstatic mixed media pieces render 72 of those deaths using the aesthetics of reggae’s young spawn, Jamaican dancehall. Patterson’s visual elegies articulate a future for diasporic belonging...

... concerns that they brought to bear in enumerating, classifying, and ordering a convict population. A handful of army officers and civilian civil servants ran the colony. Around 100–200 army enlisted men provided the colony’s security forces. A small group of free vendors had permission to reside...

... attributions of responsibility for the 2,001 Cypriots—civilians and combatants—who went missing during the 1960s–70s. First, I appraise suspicions of secrecy surrounding the forensic investigations, and the discourse of transparency with which those suspicions are aligned. Second, I examine juridical...

... Because Fernando de Noronha gathered slave, free civilian, and military convicts from across Brazil, it offers a unique perspective on the significance of civil condition and color in imperial penology. The prosecution of slave crime has received attention in regional studies, but few follow...

... known royalist activists but also their relatives. Particularly in southern Chile, where the conflict became as much a civil war as anti-imperial struggle, royalist civilians defied prohibitions against corresponding with the enemy. They sent letters in an effort to stay in touch with their loved ones...

... response, the nuclear freeze movement, INF talks, including the US “zero option” and the unsuccessful private “walk in the woods” compromise by US negotiator Paul Nitze, and START. A final section describes the Soviet approach to arms control, deep secrecy even from Soviet civilian negotiators; the policy...

... the workings of this translative force among early twenty-first-century middle-class Filipinos in the context of a particular historical event: the civilian-backed coup that overthrew President Joseph Estrada in 2001. The focus is on two distinct but related media: the cell phone and the crowd. Cell phones...