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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Brief von James Henry Breasted von Oriental Institute (Chicago, Ill.) an Adolf Erman

, 1922
Projekt ägyptisches Wörterbuch, Kopie des Handwörterbuches; Bezeichnungen für Schiff; Spenden für Deutschland; neuer mittelalterlicher Papyrus in der Sammlung der New Yorker Historischen Gesellschaft; Anmerkungen von Erman: Bittte um Diskretion ...
Breasted, James Henry, Oriental Institute   +1 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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H. H. von der Osten. - Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. XXII).

, 1934
Parrot André. H. H. von der Osten. - Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. XXII).. In: Syria. Tome 15 fascicule 4, 1934. pp.
Parrot, André
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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The Hilly Flanks, Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia, Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. N° 36, The Oriental Institute, Chicago

, 1986
Huot Jean-Louis. The Hilly Flanks, Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia, Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization.
Huot, Jean-Louis
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

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Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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