by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié Like Borges, he spent his last years in a strange solitude: blind, dictating his last words. A life split between the practice of law and politics in nineteenth-century Brazil ended with a taste of failure and defeat—yet a life worth revisiting. Antonio Pereira Rebouças, the youngest child of nine, was born in […]
Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)
by Peter Worger The Founding Fathers have been getting a lot of attention lately with the release of Hamilton on Disney Plus and the Pulitzer Prize being awarded to the director of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones. Among other issues, many posts online have called the Founding Fathers to task for their […]
Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)
by David Rooney Climate science communication suffers from a problem of scale: how to accurately describe superhuman events without swallowing up local variations and human agency in the process. Climate in Motion offers a fascinating historical account of how scientists in the Austro-Hungarian Empire held local and global climate phenomenon in a productive tension. In […]
Digital Archive Review: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources
By Brittany Erwin Open-access digital archives have become a crucial resource for humanities research. Online sources eliminate the costs and hassles of travel to and from the archives that preserve the actual documents. They also expand access, by granting students, scholars, teachers, and interested members of the public the opportunity to explore the sources themselves. […]
The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)
By Amina Marzouk Chouchene, PhD candidate, Manouba University There has been a consistent recent interest in tracing the fragile nature of the British Empire. An increasing number of historians such as Richard Price, Kim Wagner, Harald Fisher-Tiné, and Jon Wilson have considered the precariousness of empire from different perspectives.[1] The ever-present threats of what was […]
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)
by Carter Barnett In his most recent book, Ussama Makdisi provides a more accurate account of sectarianism and coexistence in modern Arab history. In so doing, he repudiates two historical narratives. The first narrative, common in media headlines, claims that sectarian violence is inherent to the religious landscape of the region. The typical counter-argument – […]
Radical Hope and Global Environmental History: Teaching with Erika Bsumek
In Spring 2021, Dr. Erika Bsumek will once again be teaching HIS 350L – Radical Hope and Global Environmental History, a course based on the highly successful Radical Hope Syllabus. The course description is as follows: This class is a Global Classroom course. That means we will meet with students from Queens University in Belfast […]
Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War
by Ilan Palacios Avineri Medical professionals are often viewed as apolitical, but what happens when they come to challenge a government? On February 4th, 1976, a cataclysmic earthquake brought an embattled Guatemala to its knees. Amidst a raging civil war, the terremoto (earthquake) razed countless houses and killed roughly 21,000 people in just 39 seconds. […]
Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire
From the Editors: The Not Even Past Works in Progress series highlights groundbreaking new research that is not yet published. The idea is to give our readers a first look at current projects and upcoming publications. As the first in the series, we are fortunate to feature an important new work, The Radical Spanish Empire: Petitions and the Creation of the New […]
IHS Climate in Context – Book Roundtable on The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant (1980)
By Atar David, Khristián Méndez Aguirre, and Rafael David Nieto-Bello In 2020-21, the Institute for Historical Studies will convene a series of talks, workshops, and panel discussions centered on the theme “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented”. As part of that, we are delighted to publish this roundtable discussion consisting of three reviews […]
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