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Trump’S Ascendancy As History, Ryan Irwin Mar 2017

Trump’S Ascendancy As History, Ryan Irwin

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An essay titled "Trump’s Ascendancy as History" written by Ryan Irwin.


Some Parts Sooner, Some Later, And Finally All, Ryan Irwin Oct 2016

Some Parts Sooner, Some Later, And Finally All, Ryan Irwin

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An essay titled "Some Parts Sooner, Some Later, and Finally All" written by Ryan Irwin.


Irreconcilable Differences, Ryan Irwin Oct 2016

Irreconcilable Differences, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Irreconcilable Differences" by Jeremy Friedman.


Resilience After Catastrophe? Five Reflections On “Apocalypse Then”, Michitake Aso Feb 2015

Resilience After Catastrophe? Five Reflections On “Apocalypse Then”, Michitake Aso

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An article titled "Resilience after Catastrophe? Five Reflections on "Apocalypse Then" " by Michitake Aso.


Interactions With A Violent Past: Reading Post Conflict Landscapes In Cambodia, Laos, And Vietnam, Michitake Aso Jan 2015

Interactions With A Violent Past: Reading Post Conflict Landscapes In Cambodia, Laos, And Vietnam, Michitake Aso

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A review of "Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam" by Vatthana Pholsena and Oliver Tappe


Globalization As History, Ryan Irwin Jul 2014

Globalization As History, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Global Interdependence: The World After 1945" by Akira Iriye.


Expansion & Its Discontents, Ryan Irwin Feb 2014

Expansion & Its Discontents, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Contours of American History" by William Appleman Williams.


L’Itinéraire D’Un Chirurgien Nord-Vietnamien: Entre Révolution Nationale Et Science Internationale, Michitake Aso, Guenel Annick Jan 2014

L’Itinéraire D’Un Chirurgien Nord-Vietnamien: Entre Révolution Nationale Et Science Internationale, Michitake Aso, Guenel Annick

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An article titled "L'itinéraire d'un chirurgien nord-vietnamien : Entre révolution nationale et science internationale," by Michitake Aso and Guénel Annick.


Reflections, Provocations, & Knots, Ryan Irwin Sep 2013

Reflections, Provocations, & Knots, Ryan Irwin

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A response to a roundtable discussion of "Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order" by Ryan M. Irwin.


America’S Third World, Ryan Irwin Jul 2013

America’S Third World, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" by Robert B. Rakove.


From Periphery To Center, Ryan Irwin Apr 2013

From Periphery To Center, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. 28: Southern Africa" by Edward C. Keefer and Myra Burton.


A Different Lens, Ryan Irwin Apr 2013

A Different Lens, Ryan Irwin

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A response to a roundtable discussion of "Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order" by Ryan M. Irwin.


Periodizing Pretoria’S Cold War, Ryan Irwin Oct 2012

Periodizing Pretoria’S Cold War, Ryan Irwin

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An article review of "Things Fall Apart: South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire, 1973-74." by Jamie Miller.


Kennedy’S Africa, Ryan Irwin Oct 2012

Kennedy’S Africa, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders" by Philip E. Muehlenbeck.


Wikileaks, And The Past And Present Of American Foreign Relations, Ryan Irwin Apr 2012

Wikileaks, And The Past And Present Of American Foreign Relations, Ryan Irwin

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An essay titled "Wikileaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations" written by Ryan Irwin.


The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science And The Failure Of The Enlightenment In Indonesia, Michitake Aso Jan 2012

The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science And The Failure Of The Enlightenment In Indonesia, Michitake Aso

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A review of "The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia" by Andrew Gross


A Wind Of Change? White Redoubt And The Postcolonial Moment In South Africa, 1960-1963, Ryan Irwin Jan 2012

A Wind Of Change? White Redoubt And The Postcolonial Moment In South Africa, 1960-1963, Ryan Irwin

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A chapter titled "A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment in South Africa, 1960-1963", written by Ryan Irwin from the book, Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck.


Empire, Agency, & Documents, Ryan Irwin Nov 2011

Empire, Agency, & Documents, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation" by Sue Onslow.


Apartheid On Trial: South West Africa And The International Court Of Justice, 1960-1966, Ryan Irwin Dec 2010

Apartheid On Trial: South West Africa And The International Court Of Justice, 1960-1966, Ryan Irwin

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Nixon’S 1970s, Ryan Irwin Nov 2010

Nixon’S 1970s, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969 - 1977" by Fredrik Logevall & Andrew Preston.


Apartheid, Act Ii, Ryan Irwin Apr 2010

Apartheid, Act Ii, Ryan Irwin

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A review of "From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations" by Adekeye Adebajo.


Rubber And Race In Rural Colonial Cambodia (1920s–1954), Michitake Aso Jan 2010

Rubber And Race In Rural Colonial Cambodia (1920s–1954), Michitake Aso

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THIS ARTICLE TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUBBER PLANTATIONS IN CAMBODIA and some of their most important consequences for Cambodian society. First, European land claims, often several thousand hectares, and subsequent land clearing radically altered the lives of local peoples and disease ecologies. Second, those engaged in creating plantations were at the same time recreating a rural border society, in particular a racial version of it, and tensions arising from perceived racial differences among the various local groups grew during the colonial period. Third, plantation owners imported large numbers of laborers from northern and central Vietnam thus increasing the circulation of …


Tragedy, Revisited . . . Again, Ryan Irwin Sep 2009

Tragedy, Revisited . . . Again, Ryan Irwin

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An roundtable discussion on William Appleman Williams’ Tragedy of America Diplomacy titled "Tragedy, Revisited... Again" written by Ryan Irwin.


Mapping Race: Historicizing The History Of The Color-Line, Ryan Irwin Sep 2009

Mapping Race: Historicizing The History Of The Color-Line, Ryan Irwin

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This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post-apartheid era.


American Catholic Lay Groups And Transatlantic Social Reform In The Progressive Era, Laura Wittern-Keller Feb 2004

American Catholic Lay Groups And Transatlantic Social Reform In The Progressive Era, Laura Wittern-Keller

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Lay Catholic Social Reform Groups Get Their Due

Speak of Progressive Era reform groups and most people will reflexively think of Protestant efforts like settlement houses, charitable aid societies, and temperance crusades. In the Progressive Era, though, Catholic laity also formed active voluntary organizations to work for temperance, rural colonization (resettlement of urban immigrants to rural areas), port programs (assistance for newly arrived immigrants), charitable aid, and urban neighborhood improvement (settlements). The considerable contribution of Catholics to social reform and charitable works has been neglected in much of the scholarly literature about Progressive Era reform groups. Even the literature on …


Mobilizing Legal Talent For A Cause: The National Woman's Party And The Campaign To Make Jury Service For Women A Federal Right, Richard Hamm Jan 2001

Mobilizing Legal Talent For A Cause: The National Woman's Party And The Campaign To Make Jury Service For Women A Federal Right, Richard Hamm

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This Essay explores how the National Woman’s Party mobilized legal talent during its campaign in the 1930s to make jury service for women a Federal right. First, I will begin with a brief overview of the National Woman’s Party, its nature, its programs, and its key legal personnel. Second, I will describe the state of the law concerning jury service for women after the Nineteenth Amendment, and will explore the strategy that the party followed in trying to gain women the equal right to serve on juries. Third, I will describe the three cases in which the party involved itself …