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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth Heath Abstract This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to colonization, and therefore to the formation of empire, in manifold ways. The very concept of the plantation as a radical form of technologized agriculture was employed by colonial regimes and societies to justify the subjugation of those racialized as inferior—and thus not suitably competent with technology...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... their principles of social and ethical behavior ( Re-enchanting 3). Federici’s insights apply especially to Morocco. For example, since 2013 the World Bank’s “Enabling the Business of Agriculture” study has been pushing for the integration of Moroccan agriculture into the corporate world through a process...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... The flow ofmatterappearedas a great productive machine that men must shape and direct to serve human ends. Scientific expertise would act in the service ofthe state and ofsocial stability. French chemist Jean Baptiste Dumas proposed that the task of agriculture is to"remake, with men's urine, and by means...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Everything from agriculture, to land reforms, development, and capital flow was affected. The dam’s enabling of year-round irrigation brought widespread changes to agricultural products and techniques and spread the mosquito-carried infectious disease of malaria to parts of Egypt the mosquito could not reach...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 April 2012
... expanding maritime labor market drew work forces from the subcontinent's interior regions, oftenfirst-generation seafarers with an agricultural background. In terms ofverification, it is impossible to decide whether SonaMiah perceived the engine room as an abode ofdevils, or whether shaitan had to serve...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... as follows: "As the foundation of economic justice, we advance two funda­ mental theses: the land belongs to those who work it with their own hands: to the agricultural communes. Capital and all the tools of labor [belong to] the workers: to the workers' associations:'28 The result of this theoretical cross...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the United States Constitution .” In Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution , 153 – 83 . New York : Bobbs-Merrill , 1967 . Manjapra Kris . “ The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism .” In American Capitalism: New Histories , edited by Beckert Sven...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the additionaladvantage ofbeing situatedin countries whose orientation 9 Eurafrica Incognita may be influenced by the European countries themselves. In addition to the mineral riches ofall kinds and the agricultural and exotic products ofthe overseas countries, it is.fair to mention as a concrete incentive, the results...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... The Rasulids more or less stayed put where they originated, with no ambitions to spread their territorial control beyond their immediate borders. What were some of these commodities? Since at least the Bronze Age there was bronze mined in the mountains of Oman and traded for agricultural goods...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and Communism in Civil War Missouri for example, that they might turn on them, using agricultural implements as weapons.37 Enslaved Africans in southern Georgia also employed magic to return to the continent of their birth. In a place still known today as Ebo Landing on St. Simons Island, a group of enslaved...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2015
.... Under the Ancien Regime in France, as is currently the case in a few ofthe countries ofSub-SaharanAfrica, this type ofrevolt has put women on the front lines: armed with household or agricultural tools, they damage goods and harm people, obliging the police to arrest them as disturbers of the peace...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with an agricultural economy; and second on account of its peripheral inter-imperial position vis-à-vis Vienna and Budapest. This fictional account echoes nineteenth-century debates concerning two kinds of Transylvanian commons. One was the commons belonging to former serfs, who had the right to use pastures...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... on the practice ofdevadasi dedication has been focused on Northern Karnataka, where girls and sometimes boys are married to the Goddess Yellamma.12 They come from landless or small landholding Dalit families barely subsisting in anarea prone todrought, and largely dependent upon dry land agriculture. Typically...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... institutions: "this nation had courts, lawyers and 47 An Eminent Victorian doctors, but they were all within bounds: Last but not the least, "the com­ mon people lived independently and followed their agricultural occupation. They enjoyed true Home Rule" (HS, 68-70) . And if this was not enough, he continues...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... on the feminine side of the sexual divide. The claim made in many business texts, agricultural journals, and, most importantly, domestic economy volumes was that the home provided the most natural platform from which to supervise the relations ofhousehold credit. Additionally, itwas suggested that women, byvirtue...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 143–170.
Published: 01 October 2014
... ago:'41 The uneven pace of industrialization had created a vast commerce in "all the things, from motor-cars to Cincinnati candles, which a highly industrialized nation, aided by modern salesmanship, is forcing a little agricultural corner of the tropics to think that it wants and needs:'42 Tropical...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of commerce, agriculture, transport, and science, to mention but a few examples. Trade, science, and law were important domains for the proliferation and institutionalization of internationalism. Gradually, international came to constitute a separate zone of political life with its own rules and institutions...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that this unfortunate state ofaffairs was no fault ofthe Jews.37 IfJews were lazy and unproductive it was because the laws denied them access to learn and prac­ tice most traditionally productive vocations, including agriculture activity, craftsmanship, and civil service, and directed them instead to lives ofpetty...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., entrepreneurial participants in the burgeoning commercial and mercantile economy of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.19 The transnational network ofMoravian congregations was also a highly sophisticated economic network of urban and agricultural production and of commercial exchange among far-flung Moravian...