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Book Review: Jewish Salonica: Between The Ottoman Empire And Modern Greece. By Devin E. Naar., Bedross Der Matossian

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Research on the transition of nondominant groups in the territories of the Ottoman Empire from empire to nation-state remains in its infancy. The book under review by Devin Naar is a masterly account of the ways in which the Jews of Salonica adapted themselves and negotiated their boundaries during and after the transition from the multicultural, multireligious, and multinational Ottoman Empire to the homogenizing nation-state of Greece.

With a reputation as a place of Jewish refuge, Salonica has been one of the most important centers of Sephardic Jewry since the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. This once proud …

Book Review: Blood Will Tell: Native Americans And Assimilation Policy By Katherine Ellinghaus, Baligh Ben Taleb

Department of History: Faculty Publications

During the allotment process (1887–1934), the United States established commissions and agencies nationwide to categorize Native American individuals as “full blood,” “mixed-blood,” or of any fractional part of African American ancestry, and determine who was (in)eligible for tribal enrollment and allotment. In Blood Will Tell, Katherine Ellinghaus sees this process as “troubling” and places its uneven practices at the core of the American settler colonial project (xv). Although the discourse of blood was almost never explicitly propounded as a deliberate and clear policy of the U.S. government, explains Ellinghaus, its implications diminished the number of Indigenous peoples, revoked official …

Review Of The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, And The Settler State, By Miranda Johnson, Baligh Ben Taleb

Department of History: Faculty Publications

On the basis of extensive archival research into legal case files, government policy debates, newspaper reports, and interviews with key participants in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Miranda Johnson of the University of Sydney has written a well-crafted transnational history of indigenous activism, land, and indigeneity. From the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, Indigenous activists in these three Commonwealth countries used groundbreaking legal strategies to reclaim unkept promises in aboriginal and treaty rights and seek justice owed to them. In concert with white judges, lawyers, and expert anthropologists, among others, these activists brought forth the importance of the umbilical …

Compte-Rendu De Lecture De Michel Jouard, De La Domination Coloniale Au Rejet Des Migrants: De L'Indigène À L'Immigré, Baligh Ben Taleb

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Le 2 septembre 2015, le monde a été boulversé par l'image d'Aylan Kurdi, l’enfant syrien de trois ans qui a été trouvé corps sans vie alongé sur une plage près d’une station balnéaire turque de Bodrum. Aylan était un parmi des milliers de migrants et de réfugiés de guerre, y compris 300 enfants, qui sont morts noyés dans la Méditerranée en essayant d'atteindre l'Europe. Pour beaucoup, son histoire tragique a symbolisé la guerre horrible laissée en Syrie et l'échec de la communauté internationale à mettre fin à l'effusion de sang. Pour d'autres, c’etait une conséquence de l'absence de meilleures réglementations …

Review: Michel Jouard, De La Domination Coloniale Au Rejet Des Migrants: De L'Indigène À L'Immigré, Essais Politiques [From Colonial Domination To The Rejection Of Migrants. From The Native To The Immigrant. Political Essays], Baligh Ben Taleb

Department of History: Faculty Publications

On September 2, 2015, the world was racked by the picture of the 3- year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi who was found lying face down on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. Aylan was among thousands of migrants and war refugees, including 300 toddlers, who drowned in the Mediterranean attempting to reach Europe that year. To many, his tragic story came to symbolise the gruesome war left behind in Syria and the failure of the international community to end the bloodshed; to others, it is tied to the absence or lack of better European regulations to treat these …

Into The Void, Or The Musings And Confessions Of A Redheaded Stepchild Lost In Western Legal History And Found In The Legal Borderlands Of The North American West, Katrina Jagodinsky

Department of History: Faculty Publications

At my first American Society for Legal History conference in 2014, I listened with rapt attention as keynote speaker Patty Limerick asked: "Is western history legal history ?" Limerick answered in the affirmative, citing the many ways in which law had defined the North American West. Those of us who teach Western history courses can count the legal acts Limerick recited on our fingers and toes: the 1784 Land Ordinance, the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1790 Trade & Intercourse Act, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, and every treaty between American Indians and the federal government on one hand; the Missouri Compromises …

Queenship At The Renaissance Courts Of Britain: Catherine Of Aragon And Margaret Tudor, 1503- 1533, Courtney Herber

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Much ink has been spilled in service of Henry VIII and his veritable parade of wives, but not nearly as much has been spent to examine the choices and experiences of those queens and the influence they held over his court. Queens consort in early modern Britain were the most public of housewives, their domestic skills and marriages on constant display for their subjects and contemporaries to see and judge. To navigate the fraught political realities associated with being married to a sovereign, queens needed to quickly learn how to network and did so through various means, not the least …

Anna Of Denmark And Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, And Catholic Queens, Courtney Herber

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In 1604, Anna of Denmark performed as the virgin goddess Pallas Athena in the Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, her first royal English masque. She did so wearing a plumed helmet and a costume fashioned from an old gown from the wardrobe of the late Queen Elizabeth, hemmed to show her legs. Years later, in 1638, the daughter-in-law she would never meet, Henrietta Maria, impersonated an Amazon in the final royal masque of the Caroline period, Salmacida Spolia. Both women had a fondness for masquing, and would utilize the performance genre as a means of establishing a dynastic mythology—with themselves …