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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Roxanne Panchasi Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 "No Hiroshima in Africa": The Algerian War and the Q_uestion ofFrench Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi A test in peacetime on a restricted desert provingground bears no resemblance to a military bombardment...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Idriss Jebari Abstract Moroccan historian Abdallah Laroui’s L’histoire du Maghreb: Un essai de synthèse ( The History of North Africa: An Interpretative Essay ) (1970) offers a prime example of a former colonized subject’s effort to decolonize the discipline of history. Scholars of Arab and North...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peo Hansen; Stefan Jonsson Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press 2017 Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins ofthe European Union Peo Hansen and StefanJonsson 1. At the EU Africa Summit in Lisbon on December 8-9, 2007, the European Union and 53 African states adopted the Lisbon...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... cosmopolitanism Afro-Asia Third World humanism Black studies “Our boat is bound for Africa / . . . Remember what grandmother said? / If you don’t keep that parasol / Over your head / You’ll turn into a little black girl.” —Meena Alexander, “Indian Ocean Blues” In December 2018, following years...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... concerns of Indians in South Africa were immediate and pressing. A fourth approach studies Gandhi as a disaffected liberal who rejected Enlightenment categories of reason, state, progress, and history, and ap propriates him as a postcolonial contemporary whose thought sits easily with our distemper...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2018 University of Illinois Press 2018 Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory Andrew Zimmerman Sometime in the 1850s, Guinea Sam Nightingale was shot from a cannon in West Africa, landing...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... works on sexual practices in non-Western historical contexts (Massad; Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches ; Epprecht, Heterosexual Africa? ; Zabus). Focusing on the Arab world, Iran, and Africa respectively, these works attribute the anxiety about legislating the sexual life of subjects to colonial...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and envisioning the future? By bringing South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa in conversation on pandemic histories in times of the pandemic, we explore the bridges that have historically informed these sites through centuries of commercial, political, and intellectual exchange. Even as the heady...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Madar al-Zar exposes a range of analytical scales otherwise hidden. We witness new complexities of and anxieties about the making of the modern Egyptian state, the failure of Egypt’s imperial pursuits in Nilotic East Africa, and the abolition of the trade in enslaved Africans. Picking at the scab...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 55–83.
Published: 01 April 2019
... liberalism, slavery, colonialism, and imperial trade under Anglo-American dominance across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we suggest such intimacies can also be found in discourses of precolonial Koreans and othercoloniallyvulnerablepeoples...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
... an empire that stretched on the one hand down the coast of eastern Africa to Zanzibar from which gold, ivory and slaves were extracted and then shipped northward to Oman and parts interior to the Peninsula, and on the other hand to land that is now the UAE, where it established date-palm plantations worked...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Atlantic balked at capturing and enslaving African women.8 At the same time that they were trading bodies, these slave traders were consuming them: they read popu lar accounts of Africa in which racial difference was constructed through the notion that African women failed to meet expectations...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
... with movable type? Did printing technologies spread to Europe through the migration of Sīn-speakers across North Africa and into Andalusia? Understanding the mechanisms of transfer of print technologies requires a sensitive engagement with the history of the ghurabā’ , beginning with their language...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to the aesthetic productions of Africa, the Pacific, and elsewhere as "primitive" inspirations for their own painting and sculpture.The German expressionist painter Emil Nolde was unusual among these in that he, unlike Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, and many other European enthusiasts for primitive art and life...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): i–iv.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Construction of Racial Inferiors in Korea Jae Ifyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung 55 "No Hiroshima in Africa:" The Algerian War and the Question of French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi 84 ...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the beauty of the Black woman transported from Africa to the West Indies and the lust of white men awaiting her arrival on the shores of Jamaica. In the poem, Neptune disguises himself as a ship captain and takes Sable Venus as his “prize,” raising a cloud around the two while his desire is consummated...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
...” is now going “black” also invokes the recoding of the past, the illumination of a Black prior into history (for instance, origin in Africa, the traumas of slavery, the creation of New World cultures) on Black culture’s own terms. Mosley describes the sf writer as a “destroyer-creator” who has to “break...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the Indian Ocean carrying goods, people, and ideas to the Middle East, East Africa, and South Asia. Today, vahans (a type of dhow, as seen in fig. 1 ) from Kachchh in western India are mechanized and continue to traverse old Indian Ocean routes, going where container ships cannot or will not go. 1...
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Becoming “Welfare Island”: Reproductive Labor and Racial Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
... coup, overthrown by a revolution in 1978–79; and the ongoing decolonization struggles in Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa ( Rivera Lugo ). Above all, there was the US war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, in which thousands of Puerto Rican youth served—in exceptional disproportion to their numbers...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the newly independent states that resulted from the administrative decolonization of European empires in Asia and Africa formed the object of what would later become postcolonial studies. This conceptualization has tended to neglect an array of world regions that—for very different reasons—did...
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