Transatlantic Slavery and the European Hinterland
By Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London) and Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) The cover of this book displays a sketch of the Wupper Valley in Germany around 1800. Only at...
Tagged: colonial history
Global Capitalism from the South. The Mediterranean, Africa and the Rise of the Atlantic
Mr. Taviani, your project is looking at the dynamics of capitalism from a historical perspective. You are focusing on two topics which are at the core of capitalism, the slave...
Knowledge on the Move. Historical Preservation and Knowledge Practices between Colony and Empire
by Indra Sengupta “Surely the judgment of … men arrived at on the spot is worth a great deal more than the dogmas of a Committee, the majority of...
Empires of Knowledge
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Empires of Knowledge” that took place on...
Verlorene Kolonien, gewonnenes Wissen? – Ein Interview mit Jan Simon Karstens
Benannt nach dem amerikanischen Historiker Gerald D. Feldman (1937-2007), ermöglichen die Feldman Reisebeihilfen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern bis zu drei Monate in den Gastländern der Institute der Max Weber Stiftung zu...
Postcolonial Legacies, Scholarly Mobility and Research Capacity Building – Interview with Daniele Cantini
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Postcolonial legacies, scholarly mobility and research capacity...
“I am interested in the contentious aspects of history, too” – Interview with William Carruthers
During the Annual Conference in Heidelberg in October 2016 I had the opportunity to interview William Carruthers about his research on the connection between UNESCO politics, the difference in the management...
“What interests me is the role that firearms played in intercultural contacts” – 5in10 with Felix Brahm
Felix Brahm is currently a research fellow of the German Historical Institute in London. He received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University in Berlin with a book on the history of African studies in...
Bureaucratic Practices in Africa – Different Perspectives, Different Times and Different Places
Séverine Awenengo Dalberto is directing the current project on “Identity, Identification and Bureaucratization in sub-Saharan Africa”, which was launched in November 2015 by the German Historical Institute in Paris and the Centre...
“All Things Transregional?” in conversation with… Roland Wenzlhuemer
Was bedeutet Transregionale Forschung? Wem kann sie nützen? Wo sind ihre Grenzen? Mit der neuen Interviewreihe „All Things Transregional?“ eröffnen wir die Diskussion und fragen ausgewiesene WissenschaftlerInnen nach ihren Erfahrungen,...
