Nineteenth-century Imperialism and Exploration. A group in which to explore, among other things, transnational influence and exchange in disparate cultures, narratives of exploration and the socio-cultural site of colonial interaction.
Rita Singer deposited How Gothic Was My U-Boat: The Welsh Press and German Submarine Warfare in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoIn an article that exposes the roots of Brexit-era Germanophobia, Rita Singer details how Welsh press coverage and poetry about U-Boat attacks on Welsh ships evolved into racialised depictions of German U-Boat combatants as ‘Huns’, monsters, ghouls and Satanic fiends
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Rita Singer deposited A Welshman on the Water: The Portrayal of In-Betweener Identities in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoPublished during a time of rapid colonial expansion, Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) constitutes a conglomerate of fictional autobiography, historical and sensation novel. It takes the reader on a number of voyages to witness the most important British sea battles at the end of the eighteenth century. Considering the…[Read more]
Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Sur I (Perú 1544-1825) in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoComments on the Lives and Governments of all the Spanish Viceroys in the Kingdom of Peru.
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Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Sur II (Nueva Granada y Río de la Plata) in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 11 months, 4 weeks agoFree comments on the Lives and Government of the Spanish Viceroys of the Kingdoms of Nueva Granada and Río de La Plata
Frans Prasetyo deposited The struggle for land rights: Indonesian (urban) Agrarian Reform and (against) the Global Land Forum in Bandung in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoINDONESIA PROMISED AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAM of agrarian reform. Based on that ambition, Jokowi’s government released a presidential regulation on agrarian reform. This was done, together with the 2018 Global Land Forum meeting, in Bandung, several months before the presidential election. This month, the Indonesian presidential election has been a c…[Read more]
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Frans Prasetyo deposited Popular struggle in Indonesia : The spirit of Bandung in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis week the Indonesian presidential election has been a contest between the incumbent Jokowi, who has promised an ambitious programme of agrarian reform, and the descendent of the military dictator Suharto. In this article, Frans Ari Prasetyo exposes the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local c…[Read more]
