Eva Bischoff

Ursula Lehmkuhl

Norbert Finzsch

The transnational dimensions of North American history attract ever more attention in recent years. Inspired by twenty first-century experiences of global entanglements, an increasing number of scholars set out to explore the past anew. Methods and concepts of this re-orientated U.S. history, however, are still a matter of dispute. This volume submits a theoretically reflected and empirically saturated contribution to this debate. Its contributions explore U.S. history from the margins, discussing topics as diverse as U.S. settler imperialism, technological and intellectual networks, Native American history, or African-American missionaries. They open up new, postcolonial perspectives on North American History, thereby provincializing United States.

Colonialism, Decolonization, and (post)colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective

Provincializing the United States

As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical analyses of the microhistory and practices of settler colonialism. Incorporating six case studies from across the Anglo-world, including the United States, Australia, and South Africa, this book examines the roles different actors played in this process, their individual experiences, and the social and physical (re-)organization of settler colonial space. They reconstruct the complexities of settler responses to Indigenous resistance, guided by fear or religious convictions; and explore the settlers’ potential to manoeuvre on higher political levels, legitimizing frontier violence as a patriotic duty to the common good. In addition, they examine the production and circulation of knowledge about land, and discuss the ways in which socio-ecological systems were manipulated by stock farmers whose success depended upon an effective integration into a world-wide economic system. Overall, the volume presents a unique combination of microhistorical analysis and environmental history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.

Experiences, Actors, Spaces

Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective

This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Their everyday actions contributed to the multiplicity of practices that displaced and annihilated Aboriginal communities. Simultaneously, early nineteenth-century Friends were members of a translocal, transatlantic community characterized by pacifism and an involvement in transnational humanitarian efforts, such as the abolitionist and the prison reform movements as well as the Aborigines Protection Society. Considering these ideals, how did Quakers negotiate the violence of the frontier? To answer this question, the book looks at Tasmanian and South Australian Quakers’ lives and experiences, their journeys and their writings. Building on recent scholarship on the entanglement between the local and the global, each chapter adopts a different historical perspective in terms of breadth and focused time period. The study combines these different takes to capture the complexities of this topic and era.

Quaker Lives and Ideals

Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Männlichkeit: Eva Bischoff rekonstruiert die Verflechtungen zwischen dem kolonialen, dem kriminologisch-anthropologischen sowie dem medizinischen Kannibalismus-Diskurs um 1900 und zeigt den Kannibalen als zentralen Referenzpunkt für die Konstruktion männlicher Geschlechteridentitäten auf. Gleichzeitig demonstriert sie, wie anstelle einer binären Differenz zwischen dem weißen Mann und dem kannibalischen Anderen vielmehr ein Kontinuum männlicher (Ab-)Normalität entworfen wurde. Dieses Buch ist ein innovativer Beitrag zur Frage nach der Intersektionalität des Geschlechts.

Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Männlichkeit um 1900

Kannibale-Werden

Elisabeth Engel

In order to study the history of colonialism and its legacy from the perspective of the early 21st century, we have to think beyond old spatial and disciplinary boundaries. Starting from this insight, the essays in this volume explore the roles that race and migration played in the formation of (trans)national spaces and identities. They investigate topics such as citizenship, sovereignty, and racialized bodies, as well as transnational patterns of political activism and belonging, migration, the biopolitics of whiteness, and the history of humanitarian NGOs. As a result, this book makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the current location of postcolonial studies. (Series: Periplus Studien - Vol. 17)

Race and Migration from a Postcolonial Perspective

Colonialism and Beyond

Michael Austin Cera (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Superbad, and Juno. Cera received two Canadian Comedy Award Best Actor nominations in 2008 for his work in Juno and Superbad, winning for the latter. Since 2008, Cera has starred in Year One, Youth in Revolt, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Paper Heart and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. This book is your ultimate resource for Michael Cera. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away: Switching Goals, What Katy Did, Frequency (film), Steal This Movie!, My Louisiana Sky, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Superbad (film), Juno (film), Extreme Movie, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Paper Heart, Year One (film), Youth in Revolt (film), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, Rolie Polie Olie, La Femme Nikita (TV series), The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series), Braceface, Arrested Development (TV series), Wayside (TV series), Veronica Mars (TV series), Clark and Michael, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Children's Hospital (web series) Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

The Michael Cera Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Michael Cera

Uta Fenske

Henriette Gunkel

M. Michaela Hampf

Elahe Haschemi Yekani

Arne Klawitter

In den letzten Jahren wurde der Körper zum zentralen Thema in den Kulturwissenschaften. Ausgehend von der Wendung "What can a body do?" (Was vermag ein Körper?) werden in diesem Band sowohl Praktiken (also Handlungs- und Herstellungsweisen) als auch Figurationen (also materialisierte Formen) des Körpers in den Blick genommen. Der ungewöhnliche Band bietet zehn Texte zu Körperpraktiken, die von "Aufführen" über "Essen" bis zu "Sterben" reichen. In 36 Figurationstexten und künstlerischen Arbeiten, vom Avatar über die Leihmutter oder den Radrennfahrer bis hin zum Tanzpaar, wird ein breites Spektrum konkreter Verkörperungen vorgestellt. Da der Band sich aus zwei Richtungen den Verortungen des Körpers in den Kulturwissenschaften annähert, ist er entsprechend als Wendebuch gestaltet: Er kann "auf den Kopf gestellt" und von zwei Seiten gelesen werden. Das Netzwerk "Körper in den Kulturwissenschaften" ist ein von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft seit 2007 geförderter Zusammenschluss von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus verschiedenen Disziplinen. Ziel war es, die unterschiedlichen Konzeptionen und Begriffe von Körper, wie sie in den Kulturwissenschaften und darüber hinaus kursieren, kritisch zueinander in Bezug zu setzen. Der Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse.

Eva Bischoff

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