Michael Silvestri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3792590 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Silvestri |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Silvestri |
| FIRMA | SILVESTRI M |
| AFILIACIONES | Clemson University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Richard S. Grayson. Dublin’s Great Wars
For many years, the Easter Rising of April 1916 overshadowed Ireland’s substantial engagement with the First World War. Historians have recently emphasized how the Rising, in which Irish separatists occupied sites around Dublin and proclaimed an independent republic, can only be understood within the context of the war. In Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution, Richard S. Grayson makes an important c…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
A Fanatical Reverence for Gandhi’
Police militancy and strike actions featured prominently throughout the British Empire in the years after the First World War. While the demands of police for greater pay and better conditions of service were rooted in economic circumstances, police in diverse locales also forged tentative alliances with labour and trade union movements, sparking government fears of police ‘Bolshevism’. In the Indian province of Bengal, Indian police officers too…
‘Enemies of the Empire’? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny
At a Calcutta bookstall in 1920, an Irish soldier named Shane O’Neill meets and falls in love with a young Bengali woman named Aparajita as they peruse the Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats . During their discussion of the poem ‘September 1913,’ their talk turns from literature to political nationalism. O’Neill confesses that he is a ‘rebel at heart’ in spite of his British Army uniform: his father was a Fenian, his grandfather took part in …
‘The Sinn Féin of India’
On the evening of 18 April 1930, colonial officials in the province of Bengal in eastern India were startled to hear reports of an armed uprising in the port town of Chittagong. Over 60 young Bengali Hindu men, armed and dressed in military-style khaki uniforms, had carried out an attack on government installations there. They attacked and burned the local Police and Auxiliary Force armories, seized weapons and destroyed the local telegraph offic…
Conclusion
On 7 August 2004, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Ireland and the British Ambassador participated in a formal military ceremony at Aughavale Cemetery in County Mayo. They were, appropriately, joined by military re-enactors dressed in redcoat uniforms, for the ceremony honored a nineteenth-century Irish soldier, a sergeant major in the Connaught Rangers named Cornelius Coughlan. Coughlan had earned the Victoria Cross in the Indian Rebel…
‘An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate’
The 1920 Saint Patrick’s Day parade in New York was noteworthy for a number of reasons. The first was the size of the crowd that watched it. The New York Times commented on ‘what appeared to be the biggest turnout since the city had a St. Patrick’s Day,’ observing that there was not an unoccupied inch of sidewalk along the line of march on Fifth Avenue. The Irish World and Industrial Liberator estimated that one million spectators watched the par…
An ‘Irish Paladin’
On 12 April 1960, a crowd of 200 people assembled on a cold, windy, rainy afternoon at the Royal School Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The occasion was the rededication of a statue of one of the heroes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, John Nicholson. Brought to Northern Ireland two years earlier, the statue had stood in Delhi for over 50 years. The honor of unveiling the statue on its new site fell to the man who had been the last …
‘Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn’
The climax of Flora Annie Steel’s novel On the Face of the Waters , written almost 40 years after the Indian Rebellion, takes place as the British attempt to recapture the Mughal capital of Delhi from rebellious sepoys in September 1857. Steel’s fictional characters interact with real-life figures, imperial heroes who were well-known to late nineteenth-century Britons. The greatest of these heroes is a 35 year old East India Company officer named…
‘The Remains of Ireland’s Loneliest Martyr’
On 3 July 1920, the India Office received two ‘clear the line’ telegrams from the Government of India, which featured urgent reports on the behavior of two companies of British Army regiments stationed in the Punjab. The Government reported that a company of the Connaught Rangers, stationed at the Wellington barracks in Jullundur, had refused to work on 28 June as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland, ‘where they consid…
Spies in Arabia
Reviewed by: Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East Michael Silvestri Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East. By Priya Satia. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Evaluating the abilities of those engaged in espionage, Priya Satia observes at the outset of Spies in Arabia, is a subject that is perh…
The Bomb, Bhadralok, Bhagavad Gita , and Dan Breen
This article will analyze several issues relating to terrorism in colonial India, focusing on the province of Bengal from the early 1900s to the mid-1930s. First, I will analyze the composition of Bengali revolutionary organizations. Although Bengali revolutionary terrorism was not a mass movement, I argue that there was greater diversity in the movement's social and religious composition, and in the outlook of its members, than is often assumed.…
Ireland and India
Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between
The Thrill of 'Simply Dressing Up
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2001
The Sinn Féin of India”
A recent article in the Calcutta magazine Desh outlined the exploits of a revolutionary fighting for “national freedom” against the British Empire. The article related how, during wartime, this revolutionary traveled secretly to secure the aid of Britain's enemies in starting a rebellion in his country. His mission failed, but this “selfless patriot” gained immortality as a nationalist hero. For an Indian—and particularly a Bengali—audience, the …
Ireland and India
Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between
The Sinn Féin of India”
A recent article in the Calcutta magazine Desh outlined the exploits of a revolutionary fighting for “national freedom” against the British Empire. The article related how, during wartime, this revolutionary traveled secretly to secure the aid of Britain's enemies in starting a rebellion in his country. His mission failed, but this “selfless patriot” gained immortality as a nationalist hero. For an Indian—and particularly a Bengali—audience, the …
The Bomb, Bhadralok, Bhagavad Gita , and Dan Breen
This article will analyze several issues relating to terrorism in colonial India, focusing on the province of Bengal from the early 1900s to the mid-1930s. First, I will analyze the composition of Bengali revolutionary organizations. Although Bengali revolutionary terrorism was not a mass movement, I argue that there was greater diversity in the movement's social and religious composition, and in the outlook of its members, than is often assumed.…
A Fanatical Reverence for Gandhi’
Police militancy and strike actions featured prominently throughout the British Empire in the years after the First World War. While the demands of police for greater pay and better conditions of service were rooted in economic circumstances, police in diverse locales also forged tentative alliances with labour and trade union movements, sparking government fears of police ‘Bolshevism’. In the Indian province of Bengal, Indian police officers too…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
The Thrill of 'Simply Dressing Up
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2001
The Sinn Féin of India”
A recent article in the Calcutta magazine Desh outlined the exploits of a revolutionary fighting for “national freedom” against the British Empire. The article related how, during wartime, this revolutionary traveled secretly to secure the aid of Britain's enemies in starting a rebellion in his country. His mission failed, but this “selfless patriot” gained immortality as a nationalist hero. For an Indian—and particularly a Bengali—audience, the …
The Thrill of 'Simply Dressing Up
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2001
‘Enemies of the Empire’? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny
At a Calcutta bookstall in 1920, an Irish soldier named Shane O’Neill meets and falls in love with a young Bengali woman named Aparajita as they peruse the Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats . During their discussion of the poem ‘September 1913,’ their talk turns from literature to political nationalism. O’Neill confesses that he is a ‘rebel at heart’ in spite of his British Army uniform: his father was a Fenian, his grandfather took part in …
‘The Sinn Féin of India’
On the evening of 18 April 1930, colonial officials in the province of Bengal in eastern India were startled to hear reports of an armed uprising in the port town of Chittagong. Over 60 young Bengali Hindu men, armed and dressed in military-style khaki uniforms, had carried out an attack on government installations there. They attacked and burned the local Police and Auxiliary Force armories, seized weapons and destroyed the local telegraph offic…
Conclusion
On 7 August 2004, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Ireland and the British Ambassador participated in a formal military ceremony at Aughavale Cemetery in County Mayo. They were, appropriately, joined by military re-enactors dressed in redcoat uniforms, for the ceremony honored a nineteenth-century Irish soldier, a sergeant major in the Connaught Rangers named Cornelius Coughlan. Coughlan had earned the Victoria Cross in the Indian Rebel…
‘An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate’
The 1920 Saint Patrick’s Day parade in New York was noteworthy for a number of reasons. The first was the size of the crowd that watched it. The New York Times commented on ‘what appeared to be the biggest turnout since the city had a St. Patrick’s Day,’ observing that there was not an unoccupied inch of sidewalk along the line of march on Fifth Avenue. The Irish World and Industrial Liberator estimated that one million spectators watched the par…
An ‘Irish Paladin’
On 12 April 1960, a crowd of 200 people assembled on a cold, windy, rainy afternoon at the Royal School Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The occasion was the rededication of a statue of one of the heroes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, John Nicholson. Brought to Northern Ireland two years earlier, the statue had stood in Delhi for over 50 years. The honor of unveiling the statue on its new site fell to the man who had been the last …
‘Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn’
The climax of Flora Annie Steel’s novel On the Face of the Waters , written almost 40 years after the Indian Rebellion, takes place as the British attempt to recapture the Mughal capital of Delhi from rebellious sepoys in September 1857. Steel’s fictional characters interact with real-life figures, imperial heroes who were well-known to late nineteenth-century Britons. The greatest of these heroes is a 35 year old East India Company officer named…
‘The Remains of Ireland’s Loneliest Martyr’
On 3 July 1920, the India Office received two ‘clear the line’ telegrams from the Government of India, which featured urgent reports on the behavior of two companies of British Army regiments stationed in the Punjab. The Government reported that a company of the Connaught Rangers, stationed at the Wellington barracks in Jullundur, had refused to work on 28 June as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland, ‘where they consid…
Spies in Arabia
Reviewed by: Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East Michael Silvestri Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East. By Priya Satia. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Evaluating the abilities of those engaged in espionage, Priya Satia observes at the outset of Spies in Arabia, is a subject that is perh…
The Bomb, Bhadralok, Bhagavad Gita , and Dan Breen
This article will analyze several issues relating to terrorism in colonial India, focusing on the province of Bengal from the early 1900s to the mid-1930s. First, I will analyze the composition of Bengali revolutionary organizations. Although Bengali revolutionary terrorism was not a mass movement, I argue that there was greater diversity in the movement's social and religious composition, and in the outlook of its members, than is often assumed.…
Ireland and India
Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between
A Fanatical Reverence for Gandhi’
Police militancy and strike actions featured prominently throughout the British Empire in the years after the First World War. While the demands of police for greater pay and better conditions of service were rooted in economic circumstances, police in diverse locales also forged tentative alliances with labour and trade union movements, sparking government fears of police ‘Bolshevism’. In the Indian province of Bengal, Indian police officers too…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
Richard S. Grayson. Dublin’s Great Wars
For many years, the Easter Rising of April 1916 overshadowed Ireland’s substantial engagement with the First World War. Historians have recently emphasized how the Rising, in which Irish separatists occupied sites around Dublin and proclaimed an independent republic, can only be understood within the context of the war. In Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution, Richard S. Grayson makes an important c…
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