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Editorial, Diego Armus

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Presentación del dossier N° 29: Historia de las vacunas y la vacunación en Iberoamérica. Siglos XX y XXI, coordinado por la Dra. Adriana Álvarez, el Dr. Adrián Carbonetti y la Dra. María Silvia di Liscia.

Review Of "Amy Kirby Post And Her Activist Worlds" By N. A. Hewitt, Bruce Dorsey

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Review Of "The Nature Of Disaster In China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood" By C. Courtney, Lillian M. Li

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Review Of "The Jewish Revolution In Belorussia: Economy, Race, And Bolshevik Power" By A. Sloin, Robert Weinberg

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Holidays In The Empire Web Site, Megan Brown

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

Students in groups of two or three spent the length of the semester doing an in-depth reading of a 19th- or early 20th-century guidebook on Algeria. With an eye towards writing for a public audience and how to use the Web as an educational tool, they wrote a series of long and short Web entries that critically engaged their assigned texts. Using Omeka and Neatline, they then constructed a Web site centered on these write-ups and on interactive maps that allow the user to "tour" Algeria along with imperial travelers while challenging the dominant narratives of these guidebooks.

Holidays In The Empire (Hist 32) Syllabus, Megan Brown

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

From seedy bars to holy sites, Europeans journeyed to colonized spaces to encounter people and places they would never see at home. This class examines how European peoples participated in the imperial project through their travels. It tackles a history of Europe and empire through different frameworks (Orientalism, gender studies…) and methods (mainly primary source analysis and Web-based tools). Students will examine how Europeans “experienced” empire through travel, including safaris, sex tourism, and mission work. This will include a brief study of European travel themes, such as the Grand Tour, transportation technology, and mass tourism, with our focus mainly on …

Review Of "Making Gullah: A History Of Sapelo Islanders, Race, And The American Imagination" By M. L. Cooper, Allison Dorsey

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Needham, Matter, Form, And Us, Buyun Chen

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Joseph Needham offered a vision of history that united his understanding of the physical world with his interpretation of social process, in which the material, social, and ideal realms were reciprocally constituted. This essay explores Needham’s ideas about matter and form to show how he developed a systematic theory of materialism in his early writings on science and social change. Shifting the ground of discourse in Needham’s project from “science” to “materialism,” the essay brings him into conversation with new materialists to reflect on the ongoing challenges in theorizing the relationship between social and material phenomena. Calling into question an …

Sartorial Sorting In The Colonial Caribbean And North America, Robert S. Duplessis

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Transitions To Capitalism In Early Modern Europe: Economies In The Era Of Early Globalization, C. 1450 – C. 1820, Robert S. Duplessis

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Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, permanently modified rural and urban production, gave birth to new social classes, remade consumer habits, and altered global economic geographies, culminating in capitalist industrial revolution. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, Robert S. DuPlessis' book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn …

Empire Of Style: Silk And Fashion In Tang China, Buyun Chen

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Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors …

Wearing The Hat Of Loyalty: Imperial Power And Dress Reform In Ming Dynasty China, Buyun Chen

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Disease/Health/Medicine/History: On The Consolidation Of A Subfield Of Study, Diego Armus

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This essay reviews the following works:

Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940. By José Amador. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 219. $39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826520210.

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History. By Marcos Cueto and Steven Palmer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 306. $32.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781107633018.

A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru. By Raúl Necochea López. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 234. $37.50 paperback. ISBN: 9781469618081.

Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945. …

Review Of "The Sun King’S Atlantic: Drugs, Demons And Dyestuffs In The Atlantic World, 1640–1730" By J. Wimmler, Robert S. Duplessis

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Review Of "Médicos, Campañas Y Vacunas: La Viruela Y La Cultura De Su Prevención En México 1870-1952" By C. Agostoni, Diego Armus

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Review Of "L'Europe De Jean Monnet," 2nd Edition By M. Joly, Megan Brown

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Review Of "Face Value: The Consumer Revolution And The Colonizing Of America" By C. Carson, Robert S. Duplessis

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On Hygiene In A Modern Peripheral City, Diego Armus

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This chapter discusses hygiene in the making of modern Buenos Aires focusing on the hygienic imagination, the construction of a hygienic consensus, and the limits of hygiene discourses in daily life. The arrival of modern hygiene in Buenos Aires took place during a time of profound, rapid changes that were evident in almost every aspect of urban life, from social geography to politics to culture. The triumph of hygiene culture as a catalog of detailed indications for people's daily behavior was part and parcel of the medicalization process that gave shape to a new consensus about normalized urban manners. The …

Un Archivo De Las Grandes Corporaciones Tabacaleras Internacionales Para La Historia Del Moderno Håbito De Fumar En Argentina, Diego Armus

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Editorial: Cuerpo, Higiene Y Enfermedad, Diego Armus, M. S. Hering Torres

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Finding Value In "Empire Of Cotton", A. G. Jakes, Ahmad Shokr

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Review Of "Selling Empire: India In The Making Of Britain And America, 1600–1830" By J. Eacott, Farid Azfar

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Cibo Della Mescolanza, Menù Estesi, Ristoranti E Pizzerie: Buenos Aires Nel Xx Secolo, Diego Armus, L. Ubelaker-Andrade

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Eugenics In Buenos Aires: Discourses, Practices, And Historiography, Diego Armus

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Since the early 1990s, a series of studies underscored the overwhelming presence of positive eugenics in modern Argentina. These works emphasized the marginal role which discourse on eugenics took on violent methods for selection. In recent years, this point of view has shifted, emphasizing the conceptual viscosity of eugenics as well as the presence of negative eugenic discourses. This paper discusses these historiographic trends, and also dwells on the narratives that those perspectives articulated in relation to the question of sterilization and regulation of marriage of those who had tuberculosis in Buenos Aires during the first half of the twentieth …

The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, And Colonization In The Atlantic World, 1650-1800, Robert S. Duplessis

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In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between the mid-seventeenth and late-eighteenth centuries. As a result of European settlement and the construction of commercial networks stretching across much of the planet, men and women across a wide spectrum of ethnicities, social standings and occupations fashioned their garments from materials old and new, familiar and strange, …

Medicina Casera, Remedios Y Curanderos En Los Inicios De La Medicalización De La Ciudad Moderna. Buenos Aires, 1870-1940, Diego Armus

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The process of medicalization shapes beliefs and practices that saturate health and disease issues in the urban modernity. The rhythms of such medicalization – never completed – are historical, change over time and are uneven in the city social fabric. This article discuss the incipient medicalization of Buenos Aires between the last decades of the 19th century and the first ones of the 20th paying particular attention to three issues: biomedical uncertainties vis-a-vis some diseases that dominated urban morbidity and mortality; the modesty of the urban health collective equipment and the small size of the medical-professional cadres; the agency of …

Cigarette Smoking In Modern Buenos Aires: The Sudden Change In A Century-Old Continuity, Diego Armus

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Review Of "The Origin Of Capitalism In England, 1400–1600" By S. Dimmock, Robert S. Duplessis

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Review Of "New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks And Atlantic Ties In Seventeenth-Century America" By S. Shaw Romney, Robert S. Duplessis

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Review Of "Children Of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine And The Invention Of A Russian Nation" By F. Hillis, Robert Weinberg

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