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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Prathama Banerjee Chanakya/Kautilya: History, Philosophy, Theater and the Twentieth-century Political Prathama Banerjee This essay is part ofongoing work on possible historiesofour political pres­ ent, written from the perspective ofcolonial/postcolonial Bengal. Here I explore the twentieth...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Dilip M. Menon An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, HindSwaraj and the Crisis ofLiberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century Dilip M. Menon We have a tendency to make contemporaries ofthinkers with whom we feel an affinity. Gandhi is one of those figures whose thought has been mined for aphorisms...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Zrinka Stahuljak History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study ofthe Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuijak If history is notof greater service to medicine, thatis notthe fault of history, butitis the faultof doctors. -Charles Daremberg, Histoire des sciences...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Brian Connolly Liberalism's Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex: in the Nineteenth-Century United States Brian Connolly Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century and reaching its apex in the mid­ nineteenth century, a discourse of the private family came to dominate normative visions...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the mid-1980s that built the infrastructure of the War on Drugs. Yet soon, precisely this instantiation in law would lead not to the undoing but to a dramatic revision of the drug-crime nexus as it had formed over much of the twentieth century. For, as the criminologist John Goldkamp tells it, the sharp...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
...-Cordero 59–62 ), settled in the sixteenth century ( Sued Badillo and López Cantos 25–27). Between the establishment of the first sugar plantation in 1517 and emancipation in 1873, enslaved people in Puerto Rico rebelled again and again—with twenty-two slave revolts documented in the nineteenth century...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Halle-Mackenzie Ashby; Jessica Marie Johnson Abstract This essay explores two historical subjects, Catharina, an enslaved woman living and working in eighteenth-century New Orleans, and Ruth, a free field laborer in post-emancipation Barbados. Through a careful reading of their different...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... real estate basis and considers real estate as central to both slavery and territorial expansion in the nineteenth-century United States. Real estate formed the basis of slaveholder family stability and also enabled the intergenerational transfer of wealth. The article also considers the continuing...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Miloš Jovanović Abstract This article traces how processes of physical displacement (and its corollary, re-emplacement) have emerged during multiple periods and in distant locales associated with the history and legacy of the Habsburg Empire. It focuses on an eighteenth-century Turkish garden made...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Manuela Boatcă; Anca Parvulescu Abstract This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Kristina L. Richardson Abstract This essay proposes that the invisibility of so-called Gypsies in Middle Eastern and Central Asian historiography derives from two linked phenomena. First, the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and North American philologists, medievalists...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Lara Langer Cohen Abstract This article considers Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave as an unexpected site for nineteenth-century theorizations of racialized Blackness. Mammoth Cave became a major tourist attraction in the 1840s, generating a host of guidebooks, travel accounts, magazine illustrations...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of historical thinking are always already colored by the anxieties and neurotic symptoms of the colonialist viewer. The argument then traces experimental hypotheses regarding the near and deep history of the human by key figures from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries—such as Sigmund...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and critique, looms large in the field as a figure of decolonial solidarities outside the epistemological confines of modern coloniality. This essay contends that the racial politics of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism, itself an inheritance of the Afro-Asian hierarchies of mid-century Third Worldism, deserves...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Cameron Black Abstract In the mid- to late twentieth century, the field of professional sports underwent drastic cultural and economic change. No sports association was impacted as much as the National Basketball Association, which grew monumentally from 1975 to 1990. This article argues...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
...) and the afterlives of al-Sawlatiyya, the school he founded in 1873 in Mecca, where many South Asian and other scholars and rebels sought refuge in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through his teaching and public activism in Mecca, he built the scaffolding of a long intellectual and political legacy...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... In Tien’s practice, one can learn how the liberatory kernel of religion and the truth of sexual difference—key components of moral treatment in nineteenth-century asylum reform—became amplified by emerging paradigms of neural nets and information processing. In Tien’s practice—what he called Electric Love...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the text to reveal that the “disease” running rampant in early twentieth-century Egypt was not zar, but the scourge of African enslavement and the ever-looming specter of Egypt’s imperial desires in Sudan. The article concludes with a meditation on zar as an archive of African dispossession, displacement...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Joseph D. Bryan Abstract Since the turn of the century, historians have focused on the diverse representations of the past, recognizing that traditional spaces (e.g., museums, statuary, and public commemorations) no longer have a monopoly on the public dissemination of history. This article...