Knowledge Commons | Imperialism & Exploration | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/imperialism-exploration/ Activity feed for the group, Imperialism & Exploration. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:31:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fc5175ecb835ca24312af9262f4dc295 Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852299/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:02 -0400 The following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ab009b96477aedfb72954605403b693 Rita Singer deposited Money Matters: Encounter and Economic Disparity in Irish-language Travel Narratives in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852236/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:27:50 -0400 Travel has always been an extremely important theme in Irish-language literature, but often this travel was motivated by financial hardship and, up until the late twentieth century, Irish-language accounts of travel largely documented the emigrant experience. In more recent years, however, Irish-language literature has witnessed a transition from…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6e0a1de62cac572f29c6d6348ebf8c9 Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852230/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:26:47 -0400 This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8b2c02208938de8b81868106b83d87e Rita Singer deposited Introduction ['Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection] in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851819/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:26:07 -0400 This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.

The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7053a92ff71b4aa601cff81f3618488 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834640/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:24:43 -0500 In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or "mejora" is always contingent…[Read more]

]]> 0 c14778aca29cbff11f3bcdd2e5bd3885 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834271/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:59 -0500 Professor Davis's early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.

]]> 0 fece36ea37f2015f83e7e3296e6b52d8 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834263/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:07 -0500 Using the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]

]]> 0 5810814d1aa27c8ae7d9f4431c7a6ca4 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834256/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:25:13 -0500 This chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).

]]> 0 2b9f9f0afcda46ef744f49ebc15cd182 Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781543/ Fri, 13 May 2022 02:24:18 -0400 Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]

]]> 0 d44b10af33789e099d06a9b87733cdc9 Rita Singer deposited Project report: Teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru, 1750–2010/European Travellers to Wales, 1750–2010 in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739562/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:27:40 -0400 For centuries, continental Europeans have come to Wales for numerous reasons. During the Romantic period some came seeking a rural idyll, whilst others in the Victorian era travelled as industrial spies, and during times of war many refugees escaped to Wales to find shelter from persecution. Not only have continental Europeans left their traces…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4601011d13a06a53ca1eae670721280 Rita Singer deposited How Gothic Was My U-Boat: The Welsh Press and German Submarine Warfare in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718490/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:24:04 -0500 In 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

]]> 0 6cf9d79b7092b0c44019a6640839bd62 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715512/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:23:42 -0500 Published 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]

]]> 0 769aa8c32c226f34087fd7199df488ed Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Sur I (Perú 1544-1825) in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690118/ Sat, 06 Jun 2020 16:25:38 -0400 Comments on the Lives and Governments of all the Spanish Viceroys in the Kingdom of Peru.

]]> 0 0b30979c403a43b45a4762bc5b9f0397 Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Sur II (Nueva Granada y Río de la Plata) in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688363/ Sun, 24 May 2020 16:25:52 -0400 Free comments on the Lives and Government of the Spanish Viceroys of the Kingdoms of Nueva Granada and Río de La Plata

]]> 0 d2761af2b855e3cdbe076b82852ecfc8 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659364/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:33:33 -0400 INDONESIA 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]

]]> 0 8a38707267c534de8c0c053e9e89c036 Frans Prasetyo deposited Popular struggle in Indonesia : The spirit of Bandung in the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641504/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:09 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 685b24103bd02dbc335602ab1f6cee7e Kathryn Simpson created the group Imperialism & Exploration https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559367/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:02:05 -0500 0