Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of History by Title
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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
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Should Women Vote?
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2008)History Practice: Using Cartoons to Teach the Suffrage Campaign in European History -
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
(2020-12)The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a "sociotechnical" perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are ... -
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive
(National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018-07-31)With funding provided by an NEH Foundation HCRR grant, PW-253776, our team finished the first phase of The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive. The goal of this project is to create a free, public website to ... -
The Currency of Kinship: Trading Families and Trading on Family in Colonial French India
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2014)In the French colony of Pondichéry, French and local actors alike drew on the shared idiom of kinship to strategically advance their political and commercial agendas. Recent scholarship has shown that the structures of ... -
Understanding the Role of Medical Experts during a Public Health Crisis: Digital Tools and Library Resources for Research on the 1918 Spanish Influenza
(IEEE, 2014-10)Humanities scholars, particularly historians of health and disease, can benefit from digitized library collections and tools such as topic modeling. Using a case study from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this paper explores ... -
Values for Varmints: Predator Control and Environmental Ideas, 1920-1939
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Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History
(VT Publishing, 2018-12-11)This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in ... -
What the Dogs Did: Animal Agency in the Soviet Manned Spaceflight Program
(British Society For The History Of Science, 2017-09-07)This paper examines the agency of the dogs used to develop the Soviet manned space flight programme by considering what the dogs did as experimental subjects, as dog technologies, and as individual dogs in the context of ... -
Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940
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Wind Turbines and Invisible Technology Unarticulated Reasons for Local Opposition to Wind Energy
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)Local opposition to wind turbines stems from concerns about environmental and economic damage, as well as conflicts between rural and urban residents. This essay goes beyond these considerations to explore the often-unarticulated ...
