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AbstractThemfecanerefers to the wars and migrations which took place in southern Africa between the 1810s and 1840s. Historians have long debated its causes, as well as drawn radically different conclusions from it about the “nature” of Africans. Most controversially, it has been used to reify African “tribalism” and justify apartheid. The present process of democratization in the region has renewed controversy as ethnic groups use versions ofmfecanehistory to back special claims. From a teaching perspective, I sketch the relationship between the rival historiographies and the changing political context. I also argue that the presentmfecanedebates are a rich teaching resource which can facilitate discussion of a number of key historiographical and pedagogical issues. These include the use or abuse of sources, the effects of race and gender socialization on the production of historical knowledge, and the responsibilities of historians in contexts of political violence and social in

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00164.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractFoucault's theorising on power/ knowledge is combined with recent feminist work on the importance of analysing embodied experience in order to re‐examine the conventional interpretation of nineteenth century ‘friendly society’ insurance history. In contrast to conventional accounts which interpret the eventual adoption of life insurance tables as the belated acceptance of sound, scientific principles, this article argues that such a transformation also represented the destruction of a prior cultural organization of health care via the imposition of the mundane ‘disciplinary’ technique of

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00165.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper proposes an alternative to the modernization. dependency and bourgeois‐revolution accounts of the creation of the Turkish Republic. It presents a theoretical framework for a materialist, but non‐instrumentalist. analysis of the modern nation‐state and the ideology of nationalism, and places the history of transformation from the patrimonial Ottoman Empire into the modern Turkish Republic within that theoretical framework. It argues that this transformation took place incrementally, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a process of Ottoman resistance‐and‐accommodation to globally expanding c

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00166.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article describes rates and modes of intergenerational social mobility among the middle sort of people, using data derived from analysis of a sample of British autobiographical texts from the period 1600–1750. It adduces evidence indicating a strong propensity for social reproduction between generations within the group, and accounts for this propensity by looking at the ways in which individuals pursued careers throughout their lifetimes. The article shows how a network of social associations comprised largely of family and effective kin was the decisive factor in making a career, and how the basic framework of this network rarely extended beyond a person's native social‐cultural milieu. I conclude that because the network was so limited, there was little opportunity for significant social mobility among the middle sort in early modern Brit

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00167.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis essay starts with the observation that the common perspective on third world nationalism, which emphasizes the centrality of West/non‐West tensions, is inadequate in explaining the development of specific nationalist discourses in the third world. As an attempt to come closer to a good understanding of the specific situations of third world nationalism, it engages in a case study of post‐war Taiwan, whose nationalist discourse had gone through three phases: Political Nationalism, Rational Nationalism, and Identity Nationalism. How and why these different phases developed constitutes my overarching question.Noting the importance of social relationships and the specificity of contextual constraints in the life of a nationalist movement, I develop a perspective which stresses relationality and contingency. This newperspective leads to the recognition of the centrality of the relationships among the ruling party (the KMT), Taiwanese nationalists, social groups in Taiwan, and the dominant regimes in the world system in understanding the transformation of the Taiwanese nationalist discourse. This study points to the multiplicity of domination and contention, the reflection upon which reveals that particular groups, such as the bourgeoisie, are likely to occupy contradictory positions in the nationalist struggle, and that such contradictions may amount to transformative for

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00168.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00169.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY