How governments use “remote control” policies to prevent asylum seekers coming anywhere close to refuge.
Reviews
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This essay discusses ongoing challenges in the historiography of U. S. colonialism, through a critique of Daniel Immerwahr’s 2016 article in Diplomatic History, “The Greater United States.” It discusses the ways Immerwahr’s article draws upon a number of widespread problems in this field: a terminological conflation of U. S. colonialism…
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Review of Andrew Zimmerman’s Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
by paul.kramerAndrew Zimmerman’s Alabama in Africa is a truly remarkable achievement, one of the most powerful and illuminating works to emerge so far in the effort to recast historical thinking beyond national scales. At its core, it is an inter‐imperial history of German colonialists attempt to transplant New South cotton varietals…
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Anderson Review of Warwick Anderson’s Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
by paul.kramerBulletin of the History of Medicine (Summer 2008)
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Social History (February 2005) During the 1990s social scientists, journalists and policy-makers collaborated in the assembly ofthe powerful organizing concept of ‘globalization’. While theorizing on a global scale washardly new, ‘globalization’ was represented as both a revolutionary process and the name for anovel historical moment, one in which dense, fluid…
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Review of Michael Salman’s The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
by paul.kramerAmerican Historical Review (December 2002)