Tag "colonialism"
By Editor January 13, 2026

Colloq with Holly Brewer and Elizabeth Hines

Title TBA A colloq with Holly Brewer (University of Maryland) and Elizabeth Hines (Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy Postdoctoral Fellow, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University)Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy. What do you do… Read More

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By Erin Kramer February 28, 2023

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

by Erin Kramer (Trinity University) Erin Kramer is the author of “Coraler’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands” (William and Mary Quarterly, October 2022) In the acknowledgements to my recent WMQ article, I thanked a long list of scholars who were kind enough to read drafts of my essay as I struggled through it… Read More

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By OI December 02, 2022

"Towards a New Population History of Colonial California: Mortality and Fertility among Natives and Colonists in Alta California, 1769-1850"

OI Colloquium with Steve Hackel This paper will present preliminary results from an analysis of fertility, mortality and marriage patterns among more than 89,000 Indigenous Californians and some 19,000 settlers or pobladores who lived in California’s 21 missions, 4 presidios, and 3 pueblos between 1769 and 1850.  Studying these two populations side by side raises important questions about differential… Read More

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By Elspeth Martini August 19, 2021

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

By Elspeth Martini Elspeth Martini is the author of “VISITING INDIANS,” NURSING FATHERS, AND ANGLO-AMERICAN EMPIRES IN THE POST–WAR OF 1812 WESTERN GREAT LAKES” in the July 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. If Native nations controlled the vast majority of North America above the Rio Grande at the end of the eighteenth century, then the nineteenth… Read More

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