Angela Zimmerman
The George Washington University, History, Faculty Member
This is a contribution to a forum dedicated to Walter Johnson's "On Agency" at Twenty Walter Johnson’s point about “agency” can be extended to other central concepts of historical analysis: what might appear as a salutary extension of a... more
This is a contribution to a forum dedicated to Walter Johnson's "On Agency" at Twenty
Walter Johnson’s point about “agency” can be extended to other central concepts of historical analysis: what might appear as a salutary extension of a foundational category of liberal democracy to the histories of enslaved people in fact forces those histories into frameworks that are, ultimately, those of enslavers. The interconnected insights of Black feminism and Queer theory—particularly about “domestic institutions”—suggest that politics is another of those categories that, like agency, risks forcing the histories of enslaved people into analytic categories of an ultimately white-supremacist liberalism.
Walter Johnson’s point about “agency” can be extended to other central concepts of historical analysis: what might appear as a salutary extension of a foundational category of liberal democracy to the histories of enslaved people in fact forces those histories into frameworks that are, ultimately, those of enslavers. The interconnected insights of Black feminism and Queer theory—particularly about “domestic institutions”—suggest that politics is another of those categories that, like agency, risks forcing the histories of enslaved people into analytic categories of an ultimately white-supremacist liberalism.
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Review essay on Edward Onaci, Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State, Justice, Power, and Politics (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
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Review essay on The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph (Chapel Hill, 2019).
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Comment on Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, Theses on Theory and History (Wild On Collective, 2018).
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In James S. Humphreys, ed., The New South, 37-62. Kent State University Press, 2018. First published as “Reconstruction: Transnational History.” In John David Smith, ed. Reconstruction, 171-196. Kent State University Press, 2016.
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Research Interests: History, History of Science and Technology, German History, Transnational and World History, Middle East History, and 14 moreHistoriography, History of Technology, Environmental History, History of Science, African History, World History, South Asian History, Twentieth Century History and Culture, Russian History, 20th century (History), Central Asian History (Area Studies), 20th Century, Comparative Historical Analysis, and US History
“The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States.” In Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman, eds. Making the Empire Work: Labor & United... more
“The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States.” In Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman, eds. Making the Empire Work: Labor & United States Imperialism, 267-288. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
These are the page proofs of the chapter
These are the page proofs of the chapter
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Review essay on Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, by Kevin B. Anderson (Chicago, 2010).
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Review essay on Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, by Peter Mandler (New Haven, 2013), and The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France, by Camille... more
Review essay on Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, by Peter Mandler (New Haven, 2013), and The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France, by Camille Robcis (Ithaca, 2013).
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This is the English original of a text translated as “Die Gipsmasken der Brüder Schlagintweit: Verkörperung kolonialer Macht.” In Moritz von Brescius, Friederike Kaiser, and Stephanie Kleidt, eds, Über den Himalaya: Die Expedition der... more
This is the English original of a text translated as “Die Gipsmasken der Brüder Schlagintweit: Verkörperung kolonialer Macht.” In Moritz von Brescius, Friederike Kaiser, and Stephanie Kleidt, eds, Über den Himalaya: Die Expedition der Brüder Schlagintweit nach Indien und Zentralasien 1854-1858, 241–49. Cologne: Böhlau, 2015.
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This is the English original.
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This is the final, prepublication draft.
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Final prepublication manuscript. Published in Andrew Zimmerman, “Looking beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and... more
Final prepublication manuscript. Published in Andrew Zimmerman, “Looking beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385–411.
History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385–411.
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Link to the online publication:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2019/134
https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2019/134
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A forum edited by Jonathan Wiesen and Andrew Zimmerman, co-authored by Geoff Eley, Rebekka Habermas, Eve Rosenhaft, and Siegfried Weichlein
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Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, eds., Os Passados do Presente. Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construção do mundo contemporâneo (Coimbra: Almedina, 2015) Este livro inclui um conjunto de textos ilustrativo do novo... more
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, eds., Os Passados do Presente. Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construção do mundo contemporâneo (Coimbra: Almedina, 2015)
Este livro inclui um conjunto de textos ilustrativo do novo fulgor que vivem a história internacional e transnacional, marcado por importantes progressos conceptuais, metodológicos e analíticos. Explorando a intersecção de dois processos históricos fulcrais na história recente – internacionalismo e imperialismo –, Os Passados do Presente contribui para uma visão mais rica e detalhada do século xx, desvelando o papel de actores, instituições processos históricos cuja importância é frequentemente obscurecida pelas narrativas tradicionais sobre as dinâmicas internacionais, mas cuja relevância para a compreensão de todo o século anterior bem como do presente é inegável. O livro aborda temas como o controlo geopolítico das populações e a regulação e cooperação internacional dos saberes e das políticas sociais, visando contribuir para a compreensão da génese histórica de fenómenos tão actuais como a ajuda ao desenvolvimento, a natureza do humanitarismo, o papel local e global das organizações internacionais e de movimentos transnacionais ou a longa duração das geopolíticas imperiais.
AUTORES:
Alison Bashford · David Ekbladh
David C. Engerman · Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Sandrine Kott · Daniel Laqua · Daniel Maul
José Pedro Monteiro · Jason Parker · Jessica Pearson-Patel
Perrin Selcer · Corinna Unger · Andrew Zimmerman
Este livro inclui um conjunto de textos ilustrativo do novo fulgor que vivem a história internacional e transnacional, marcado por importantes progressos conceptuais, metodológicos e analíticos. Explorando a intersecção de dois processos históricos fulcrais na história recente – internacionalismo e imperialismo –, Os Passados do Presente contribui para uma visão mais rica e detalhada do século xx, desvelando o papel de actores, instituições processos históricos cuja importância é frequentemente obscurecida pelas narrativas tradicionais sobre as dinâmicas internacionais, mas cuja relevância para a compreensão de todo o século anterior bem como do presente é inegável. O livro aborda temas como o controlo geopolítico das populações e a regulação e cooperação internacional dos saberes e das políticas sociais, visando contribuir para a compreensão da génese histórica de fenómenos tão actuais como a ajuda ao desenvolvimento, a natureza do humanitarismo, o papel local e global das organizações internacionais e de movimentos transnacionais ou a longa duração das geopolíticas imperiais.
AUTORES:
Alison Bashford · David Ekbladh
David C. Engerman · Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Sandrine Kott · Daniel Laqua · Daniel Maul
José Pedro Monteiro · Jason Parker · Jessica Pearson-Patel
Perrin Selcer · Corinna Unger · Andrew Zimmerman