Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of History by Title
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A Stalinist Celebrity Teacher: Gender, Professional, and Political Identities in Soviet Culture of the 1930s
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004) -
American Wildlife Policy and Environmental Ideology: Poisoning Coyotes, 1939-1972
(University of California Press, 1986-08) -
An Exchange of Opinion - MacArthur, Quezon, and Executive Order Number One--Another View
(University of California Press, 1983) -
Bridewealth and Female Consent: Marriage Disputes in African Courts, Gusiiland, Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)From the early 1940s Gusiiland (Kenya) underwent a series of transformations that pushed bridewealth to unheralded levels. As a result, many young couples could not afford a proper marriage and eloped. Some fathers forced ... -
’Changing traditions to meet current altering conditions’: Customary Law, African Courts, and the Rejection of Codification in Kenya, 1930-60
(Cambridge University Press, 1999-11)If the aim of British colonizers, Frederick Lugard wrote, was to civilize Africans ‘and to devote thought to those matters which…most intimately affect their daily life and happiness, there are few of greater importance ... -
A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India
(Cornell University Press, 2017)Early in the eighteenth century, in the French colony of Pondichéry, India, a man’s life was thrust into turmoil. A Tamil commercial broker named Nayiniyappa, the colony’s most powerful local man, was arrested, swiftly ... -
From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Historians of Technology in the Real World Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented History
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2011)Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that studies of the past provide tangible benefits, academic historians usually remain reluctant to apply "lessons" from history to the realms of public and business policy. This ... -
Introduction: Towards a History of Violence in Colonial Kenya
(African Studies Center, Boston University, 2012)An introduction to the journal is presented in which the authors discuss topics addressed in the issue related to violence in colonial Kenya, including corporal punishment, the connections between the death penalty and ... -
Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats in the Urban Built Environment
(Brepols, 2020-12)A city’s materiality creates health and illness. We both write about air - its movement and its temperature - as it affects human bodies. We offer two topics as case studies, heat and ventilation, and how they exacerbate ... -
La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics During the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana
(Wiley, 2019-02-12)Background The Russian influenza, which began in late 1889, has long been recognized as a major global epidemic yet available statistical evidence for morbidity and mortality has not been fully examined using historical ... -
Momentum shifts in the American electric utility system: Catastrophic change - Or no change at all?
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The Mystery of the Commandant’s Writing: Turning First-Year Students into Researchers
(American Historical Association, 2018-10-15)Relates a transcription project using the letters of Joseph Ware from Virginia Tech's Special Collections. -
Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed
(MDPI, 2020-01-10)The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at ... -
Noah Webster and the Invention of Immigration
(MIT Press, 2008-03)Like all lexicographers, Noah Webster built his dictionaries on the works of others. But in the case of the verb to immigrate and its derivatives, he coined a new definition, one that has had a profound impact on how ... -
Patronage, Millennialism and the Serpent God Mumbo in South-West Kenya, 1912–34
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-02)This article traces the history of Mumboism, a millennial cult of south-west Kenya, 1912–34. Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, promised to eject whites and chiefs from the region and usher in a period of prosperity. ... -
Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s–1960s
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that ... -
Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-04)This article argues that reconstruction is an emerging discourse of international politics that merges security and development discourses in powerful and troubling ways. We focus on Iraq as a site for articulating and ... -
Settlers, Africans, and Inter-Personal Violence in Kenya, ca. 1900-1920s.
(African Studies Center, Boston University, 2012)The article discusses interpersonal violence in colonial Kenya enacted by white settlers against African natives. The author begins by charting the gradual acceptance of certain forms of violence by Britons throughout ... -
Sexual Offences in Kenya Courts, 1960S-2008
(National Council for Law Reporting, 2010)
