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GRK 2571 - Empires

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

🔗Read it here: t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften"The Empire and I"As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.
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Early Modern Diplomacy

Although we somehow consider ourselves being experts in the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory, we faced great difficulties in finding information on #black #emdiplomacy.

One reason for this is that #GlobalHistory, however, focuses strongly on the Americas and Asia. Research on Africa and #earlyModern African #diplomacy is very limited though it has existed since the #MiddleAges at least.

Another reason for the underrepresentation of #earlyModern African history in #NewDiplomaticHistory is the lack of sources. As many African regions had other traditions than written sources, it is difficult to access African #emdiplomacy. This is also why existing research heavily focuses on a few exampels and regions when it comes to #black #emdiplomacy, mostly Ethiopa, Kongo and the North of the continent. (2/2)

#NewDiplomaticHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #history #histodons

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Early Modern Diplomacy

#BlackHistoryMonth ended yesterday. Therefore, we want to share some reflections with you.

#earlyModern #NewDiplomaticHistory is still heavily Eurocentric. Moreover, there is a risk that white and European perspectives prevail even in non-European contexts despite all attemps by #GlobalHistory to questions these approaches. During the last weeks we tried to set European perspectives aside and highlight #black diplomatic actors. In doing so, we encountered a huge challange: the lack of research. (1/2)

#emdiplomacy #history #histdons

@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen

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Early Modern Diplomacy

For Cape Verde's officials to be able to confirm the high status that the Prussians themselves assigned to the Prussian enterprise, they had to embody what they considered the highest form of authority: that of the Enlightened, Christian, male and white European who was the polar opposite of the illiterate, savage, black African. In the Prussians' vision, this binary could not be destabilized: to recognize hybridity or alterity in the local elites, to question their status as “Europeans,” would be to question the legitimacy they could confer on the Prussians, which was of existential importance for them, as Gottmann argues.

This example of the encounter between representatives of the Prussian East India Company and local Cabo Verde authorities highlights the challenges of intercultural #emdiplomacy and the difficulties to deal with hybridity. (7/7)

#BlackHistoryMonth #NewDiplomaticHistory #GlobalHistory #earlymodern

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