HWJ 64
History Workshop Journal 64
HWJ 64 commemorates the bicentennial of the parliamentary abolition of the British slave trade. A collection of eight landmark essays look again at the multilayered legacies of the legislation of 1807 - exploring issues from compensation and insurance to the commercial exploitation of Sierra Leone and the politics of statuary and commemoration. The legislation marked a key shift in the nature of world trade, consumption and so too the global economy. How we now approach these global networks and histories is at the heart of the issue's second feature 'On Historicising the Global', whilst other pieces chart the 'reshuffling of the self' which comes with border crossings and migration. HWJ 64 is an issue which reaches across national boundaries to interogate global histories and the way we make them.
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Table of Contents
FEATURE
REMEMBERING 1807: THE SLAVE TRADE, SLAVERY AND ABOLITION
Introduction Catherine Hall Excessive Memories: Slavery, Insurance and Resistance Anita Rupprecht
The Zong and the Lord Chief Justice Jeremy Krikler
‘My Voice is Sold, and I must be a Slave’: Abolition Rhetoric, British Liberty, and the Yorkshire Elections of 1806 and 1807 Kirsten McKenzie
Possessing Slaves: Ownership, Compensation and Metropolitan Society in Britain 1834-40 Nick Draper
Sierra Leone and Other Sites in the War of Representation over Slavery David Lambert
Heathens, Slaves and Aborigines: Thomas Hodgkin’s Critique of Missions and Anti-slavery Zoë Laidlaw
Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London Madge Dresser
Commemorating Slavery 2007: a Personal View from inside the Museums Katherine Prior
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta: the Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad Suchetana Chattopadhyay
Debating the Armenian Massacres in the Last Ottoman Parliament, November – December 1918 Ayhan Aktar
New Ways in History, 1966-2006 Jeff Wasserstrom
A New Civilization: London Surveyed 1928-40s Sally Alexander
FEATURE
GLOBAL TIMES AND SPACES: ON HISTORICIZING THE GLOBAL
Introduction: Felix Driver
Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History Antoinette Burton
Historicizing the Global, or Labouring for Invention? Sanjay Subrahmanyan
From Globalization to Global History Maxine Berg
Globe Talk: the Cartographic Logic of Late Capitalism Iain Boal
HISTORY AT LARGE
Raphael Samuel’s East End Underworld Stan Newens
Stories of Migration: the Anishinaabek and Irish Immigrants in the Great Lakes Region Deirdre Keenan
HISTORY ON THE LINE
Border Crossing: My Imperial Routes Maya Jasonoff