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Early Modern Diplomacy

However, on closer observation their identity as metropolitan Europeans was fragile. The dinner that was opened and concluded with a handwashing ceremony unfamiliar to the Prussians illustrates this. Undercooked bread, the dishes a mixture of European and African cuisine and the digestif was the most exotic of all: a decidedly un-European coconut to drink.

The dinner was not presided over by the local governor’s wife. Instead, said lady stayed in the courtyard kitchen, dressed like the locals and clearly comfortable in the company of her daughters and their black servants and slaves, all working together, laughing, joking, and cooking.

Indeed, just like the local children, the youngest of the governor’s twelve sons and daughters toddled around the house after dinner, coming up to cuddle the guests entirely naked. (6/7)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #earlymodern #history #GlobalHistory #histodons

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Early Modern Diplomacy

In her article "Mixed Company in the Contact Zone: the “Glocal” Diplomatic Efforts of a Prussian East Indiaman in 1750s Cape Verde" Felicia Gottmann uses the case of the #Prussian East Indian company to analyse the diplomatic strategies marginalized and hybrid players could adopt to project themselves onto the #earlymodern global stage and locally counterbalance the hegemonic Northern European Atlantic powers: (4/7)

brill.com/view/journals/jemh/2

#emdiplomacy #NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons #GlobalHistory

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Brill · Mixed Company in the Contact Zone: the “Glocal” Diplomatic Efforts of a Prussian East Indiaman in 1750s Cape VerdeAbstract This article takes a micro-historical actor-centered approach to study the encounter between the officers of a Prussian East India Company Ship and local elites in 1750s Praia, Cape Verde. Combining recent advances in New Diplomatic History and in Company Studies with insights from the study of Contact Zones and transculturation, it analyzes the diplomatic strategies marginalized and hybrid players could adopt to project themselves onto the early modern global stage and locally counterbalance the hegemonic Northern European Atlantic powers. It thus proposes an alternative model of nonprofessional diplomatic interaction in the early modern period.
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Early Modern Diplomacy

Perhaps you are a longing for a #SilentSunday, in this case this week’s #BlackHistoryMonth #emdiplomacy take offers you a relaxing weekend read:

Today we focus on #CapeVerde which were discovered by the #Portuguese in the middle of the 15th c. In 1466 the islands received trading rights in West #Africa. Cape Verde provided a stopover on the transatlantic slave trading route. Moreover, plantations were established there. However, #earlymodern Cabo Verdean society was decidedly mixed. (1/7)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #GlobalHistory #earlymodern #history #histodons

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18th century map over Cape Verde
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IHC

📯 The IHC's first call for applications to hire 4 Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme has opened:

1️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.201: History in the Age of the #Anthropocene
2️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.202: #CulturalMediations
3️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.204: #Empire and #GlobalHistory
4️⃣ 2023.11076.TENURE.255: Art, Science and Technology and colonial built #heritage

📅 21 February

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/ar-history-

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Illustrative image of the call for applications for four Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme. The deadline for applications is 21 February 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of the front façade of the Almada Negreiros College, a two-storey 19th century building, with yellow walls, white windows and flanked by two small towers.
#HistoryJobs#Histodons#AcademicJobs
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de.hypotheses

#GlobalHistory redefined: As political shifts challenge globalization, the focus turns to innovative methodologies, new research areas (gender, disability, intellectual history), and intergenerational dialogues. Read Sebastian Conrad's insights on "New Avenues in Global History."

trafo.hypotheses.org/54182

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchNew Avenues in Global HistoryBy Sebastian Conrad. In this moment of rapid political and cultural change, a reassessment of what global history stands for, what it can contribute and where its limits lie is a timely exercise. Global history as a subfield has had a fast and successful career. Virtually unknown at the turn of the century, it has by now acquired an almost ubiquitous presence in the discipline. This first phase, the era of the field’s establishment was followed by a series of critical assessments. In the wake of the financial crisis, and then the worldwide populist turn of the 2010s, the globalizing trends of the previous decades gave way to anti-globalizing movements and talk of a “backlash” and a “decoupling” of the world. What's next?
#Historiography#Research
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Ms. Que Banh

#Free #OpenAccess #Research Article.

Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907.

ABSTRACT
For a global history of development, Swahili #poems from the #German colonial period are valuable sources as they help to question the diffusionist view of development discourses as colonial import. This article analyses how concepts of development ( #maendeleo ) and civilisation ( #ustaarabu ) figured in poems written by Swahili authors between 1888 and 1907. Going beyond a reading of these texts as pro- or anti-colonial, it shows the importance poets attached to urban infrastructural improvement. Poems were also informed by the self-image of the superior, urban, #Muslim strata of coastal society ( #waungwana ) in contrast to inferior #nonMuslim inland societies ( #washenzi ). Several poets suggested that inland societies should be disciplined, yet differences to coastal Swahili society were usually not couched in terms of temporality nor in terms of a civilising mission. Poets had to come to terms, however, with new power relations as a result of German conquest. While some authors openly criticised colonial violence, others also embraced colonial interventions in infrastructural and economic aspects – but still expressed nostalgia for the past. In sum, the poems constitute a transitional space in Swahili discourses on development, showing that these were not merely colonial imports but grew from multiple roots.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Hari Tulsidas

The idea of "Western Civilization" is often seen as a cohesive lineage, but it’s more myth than reality. Historically, European culture borrowed heavily from Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world, making the "West" a blend of global influences. This narrative of Western superiority oversimplifies a complex history and overlooks contributions from diverse cultures.

#History #CulturalHeritage #WesternCivilization #GlobalHistory

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WerkstattGeschichte

Wir begehen heute den internationalen #TagDesMeeres mit einem Blick auf historische #Seekarten & wie diese ein Denken in globalen Zusammenhängen visualisierten:

▶ Iris Schröder, Felix Schürmann, Frederic Theis, Petra Weigel, Die Welt im #Meer. #Globalität in der europäischen #Kartografie der #Meere des 19. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 83/2021, werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

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Ausschnitt der ersten Seite des Beitrags mit dem Abstract in englischer Sprache.
#WorldOceansDay#histodons#Geografie
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