Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State Full Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda Conference Key Note: “The Household, the State, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.” Mary Jo Maynes This talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in […]

Event Photos: The Center for World History presents: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806 Titas Chakraborty

Event Photos: Biography: Ana Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She […]

Center for World History Presents Brett Rushforth “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American and […]

Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier Ruth Mostern   Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on […]

The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered […]