The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161411
Karim Ghorbal
{"title":"Los imperios de la especialidad o los márgenes de la libertad y de la igualdad","authors":"Karim Ghorbal","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133208585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161401
J. Pimenta, R. Marquese
{"title":"Some words about the dossier Scales of Global History","authors":"J. Pimenta, R. Marquese","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161401","url":null,"abstract":"This text presents the Scales of Global History dossier, with some reflections about the historiography of Global History. Resumo: Este texto apresenta o dossiê Scales of Global History, com algumas breves reflexões sobre a prática historiográfica da chamada História Global.","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114915031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161404
A. Farooqui
{"title":"The Global Career of Indian Opium and Local Destinies","authors":"A. Farooqui","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161404","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: As is well known, opium was a major colonial commodity. It was linked to trade in several other commodities of the modern era such as tea, sugar and cotton and through these to Atlantic the slave trade. The movement of these commodities across continents shaped capitalism in very specific ways. In the case of India, for instance, earnings from the several components of the opium enterprise played an important role in the growth of industrial capitalism. This paper looks at the historical circumstances in which various localities and regions of the Indian subcontinent, especially western India, and the Indian Ocean became part of the opium enterprise during the early nineteenth century. It attempts to understand the manner in which local destinies were linked to the global, reinforcing and/or resisting British imperial interests. For this purpose I have chosen the port of Daman, on the West Coast of India as a representative example. Daman (Damao) was a Portuguese colony. The paper pays close attention to political processes at the local level so as to make sense of global patterns of trade in a commodity that was vital for sustaining the British Empire.","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126515227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161414
Tessa Murphy
{"title":"New Geographies of the Atlantic World: Connecting Lusophone Africa and Spanish America","authors":"Tessa Murphy","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127740140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161405
Benjamin W. Goossen
{"title":"Religious Nationalism in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Paraguay's \"Mennonite State\"","authors":"Benjamin W. Goossen","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161405","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the example of Mennonite nation-building in Paraguay during the 1920s and 1930s to argue that state formation is not inherently modernist. Tracing nineteenth and early twentieth-century discourses of Mennonite colonies in Imperial Russia, Canada, and elsewhere as a \"state within a state,\" the essay advocates a reevaluation of theories of modern statehood advanced by thinkers like James C. Scott and Ernest Gellner. As conservative, pacifist Mennonites traveled from North America to the Paraguayan Chaco to escape the pressures of assimilation in democratic society, their migration paved the way for coreligionists fleeing persecution in the Soviet Union to join in the formation of a rural, autonomous \"Mennonite state\" that was organized internationally, characterized by deep religious observance, and conceived in opposition to high modernist projects.","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161403
Joan Chaker
{"title":"Mule Drivers in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: from local social history towards Global History","authors":"Joan Chaker","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161403","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes the case for a project in the making: a study of the social transformation of the countryside as it joins the global market over the long nineteenth century, told as a collective biography of the mule drivers of Ottoman Lebanon those obscure peasants who, owning one or a few mules, made their livelihood in the transport of goods and persons rather than work the land. Over the first half of the century, these actors mobilized for revolts while a village-based economy turned to cash-crop agriculture and the central government built a new state apparatus that would insure its survival 1860s to the First World War, as local resources were diverted to feed European industry and local petty-trade networks came undone, when elites at all levels struggled to assert their control over labor and resources, these same muleteers turned into social bandits smugglers who d extraction. Some of them accumulated wealth and ultimately integrated an emerging middle class. The projected account makes two historiographical interventions. (a) Within the history of tied to developments that are characteristic of capitalism over the period namely, the rise of a new kind of state and the loss of control over resources by local actors at the margins. This approach pushes against purely culturalist explanations, attempting to wed culturalist and materialist stances. (b) Conversely, by drawing parallels with other mounted","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134084966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161406
Z. Popova
{"title":"The Two Tales of Forced Labour: Katorga and Reformed Prison in Imperial Russia (1879-1905)","authors":"Z. Popova","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161406","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the advance of the prison reform in the Russian Empire. It examines the governmental department that was the driver of this reform, the Main Prison Administration, and focuses on its policy in the domain of the forced labour of prisoners. Two types of forced labour are of particular interest here. One is the traditional hard penal labour, or katorga, and the other is the obligatory labour for the prisoners serving shorter terms. I outline here how this second type of labour came to play the decisive role in the discourse on punishment in the late imperial period, what kind of conceptions supported it, and how it was implemented throughout the empire.","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120994866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161415
J. Soares
{"title":"Revisitando um arquipélago quase esquecido","authors":"J. Soares","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130228671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AlmanackPub Date : 2016-09-22DOI: 10.1590/2236-463320161203
Badi Bukas-Yakabuul, D. B. D. Silva
{"title":"From beyond the Kwango - Tracing the Linguistic Origins of Slaves Leaving Angola, 1811-1848","authors":"Badi Bukas-Yakabuul, D. B. D. Silva","doi":"10.1590/2236-463320161203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161203","url":null,"abstract":"O Rio Quango tem sido visto ha muito tempo como o limite do acesso dos traficantes de escravos as principais fontes de cativos no interior de Angola, a maior regiao de embarque de escravos para as Americas. Contudo, nao ha estimativas sobre o tamanho e a distribuicao dessa enorme migracao. Este artigo examina registros de africanos libertados de Cuba e Serra Leoa disponiveis no Portal Origens Africanas para estimar o numero de escravos provenientes daquela regiao em particular durante o seculo XIX alem da sua distribuicao etnolinguistica. Ele demonstra que cerca de 21 porcento dos escravos transportados de Angola naquele periodo vieram de alem Quango, sendo a maioria oriunda dos povos luba, canioque, e suaili. O artigo tambem analisa as causas dessa migracao, que ajudou a transformar a diaspora africana para as Americas, especialmente para o Brasil e Cuba.","PeriodicalId":138928,"journal":{"name":"The Almanack","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115058923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}