The volume concludes with a chapter on the South African War, in which British and colonial contingents fought together, heralding the contribution that the Commonwealth would make to the Great War.Stephen M. Miller
Until 1932 the South remained an impoverished and undiversified region. The growth of a textile industry in the Carolinas and the movement to develop a “New South” after the Civil War had not seriously qualified the region’s commitment to cotton, to agriculture, and to a rural way of life...
African and Chinese Philosophies Compared: A Dialogue between East and South Philosophy East and West15 February 2019 An Alternative Way of Confucian Sincerity: Wang Yangming’s “Unity of Knowing and Doing” as a Response to Zhu Xi’s Puzzle of Self-Deception Philosophy East and West15 February...
July 19, 1774; The Husband of the Planter’s Wife, “To the Ladies of South Carolina,”South Carolina Gazette & Country Journal, August 2, 1774. If Tennent, the known author of the “Husband” essay, was indeed married to the “Planter’s Wife,” then her identity is...
The story was featured prominently in the African-American press. Pittsburgh Courier, July 30, 1929 “East is East and West is West and Never the Twain shall meet” may be true and good in everything but love and war, the report in the July 30 issue of the Indianapolis Recorder began....
From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote, a voter registration drive with ten staffers and seven hundred volunteer registrars; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming...
Further, cultural miscegenation-related fear dates back to 1853 when Arthur de Gobineau wrote an influential essay on the inequality of human races in France. Marx and Engels noted an intellectual convergence in the literature which was a kind of intellectual globalization of ideas that...
The play’s title is taken from “Harlem,” a poem by Langston Hughes, which examines the question “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” This penetrating psychological study of a working-class Black family on the South Side of Chicago in ...
*Special issue ofSouth Asia(1996), ‘Asia and Europe: Commerce, Colonialism and Culture: essays in honour of Sinnapah Arasaratnam’. In particular essay by Anthony Reid and Radin Fernando. Janet J. Ewald, ‘Crossers of the Sea: Slaves, Freedmen and other migrants in the north-west Indian...
The war emerged in my shrieks. Six years without uttering a cry. Then begins the slow, painstaking process of bringing Antelme back to life without killing him. In the first days, he cannot even eat, merely taking in sips of pale broth. “His legs look like crutches…. When the sun ...