By Deniz Bozkurt-Pekár. Let me set the scene: A rich meadow expanding by the bountiful river, a gentleman leaning on the white column of the porch of a haint-blue mansion, a pale-white lady in flamboyant attire sitting on a rocking-chair behind him, away from them yet within their eyesight are the cotton, corn, or tobacco fields hiding behind their crop the tired bodies of black men, women, and children.
Mario Peters is a Research Fellow in American and Transatlantic History at the GHI Washington. His current research interests are spread across the intersection of mobility studies, environmental history, and the study of Inter-American relations.
In October 2020, the five-year research project “Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s–1820s)” started. The project will undertake a systematic exploration of the period as an age of...
Chelsea Schields is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship explores the histories of sexuality, race and decolonization in Europe and the Caribbean. With Dagmar...
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the symposium “Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past &...
Andreas Eckert, Professor für die Geschichte Afrikas an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Mitglied des Vorstands des Forums Transregionale Studien, kommentierte kürzlich in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung die Zusammenhänge zwischen...
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...
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...
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