Hermann W Von Hesse
Biographic Data
| ID | 157937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hermann W Von Hesse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hermann W |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Hesse |
| SIGNATURE | VON HESSE H W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7266-4795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Desecrating Ancestral Spaces of Rest
For decades, Africanist historians have emphasized not only African participation in the slave trade but also the ensuing violence, insecurity, and indebtedness that a European-dominated Atlantic commerce in captives and merchandise unleashed on African societies. This Gold Coast case highlights how predatory capitalism and its legal institutions disrupted ancestral spaces of rest. As Gã and Fante merchants increasingly collateralized family hous…
Mariano Pavanello, Shores of Slaves
More Than an Intermediary
More Than an Intermediary
Scholars have emphasized the importance and autonomy of African intermediaries in European imperial projects. However, intermediaries have not been studied as founders of (proto) colonial administrations. Between 1840 and 1874, the inchoate British establishment on the Gold Coast was largely a project of Anglo-African merchants, rooted in their political visions of "progress." Merchants like James Bannerman provided infrastructure, institutions, …
A Modest, but Peculiar Style’
Through their participation in an unequal Atlantic commerce, African merchants on the Gold Coast consciously transformed their dress in ways that expressed their cultural dynamism and economic success in an increasingly interconnected world. In discussing the web of cross-cultural commercial exchanges between Africa, Asia, and Europe, this article moves away from the tendency to regard Africans who adorned themselves in imported European clothing…
A Modest, but Peculiar Style’
Through their participation in an unequal Atlantic commerce, African merchants on the Gold Coast consciously transformed their dress in ways that expressed their cultural dynamism and economic success in an increasingly interconnected world. In discussing the web of cross-cultural commercial exchanges between Africa, Asia, and Europe, this article moves away from the tendency to regard Africans who adorned themselves in imported European clothing…
More Than an Intermediary
Scholars have emphasized the importance and autonomy of African intermediaries in European imperial projects. However, intermediaries have not been studied as founders of (proto) colonial administrations. Between 1840 and 1874, the inchoate British establishment on the Gold Coast was largely a project of Anglo-African merchants, rooted in their political visions of "progress." Merchants like James Bannerman provided infrastructure, institutions, …
A Modest, but Peculiar Style’
Through their participation in an unequal Atlantic commerce, African merchants on the Gold Coast consciously transformed their dress in ways that expressed their cultural dynamism and economic success in an increasingly interconnected world. In discussing the web of cross-cultural commercial exchanges between Africa, Asia, and Europe, this article moves away from the tendency to regard Africans who adorned themselves in imported European clothing…
Mariano Pavanello, Shores of Slaves
More Than an Intermediary
More Than an Intermediary
Scholars have emphasized the importance and autonomy of African intermediaries in European imperial projects. However, intermediaries have not been studied as founders of (proto) colonial administrations. Between 1840 and 1874, the inchoate British establishment on the Gold Coast was largely a project of Anglo-African merchants, rooted in their political visions of "progress." Merchants like James Bannerman provided infrastructure, institutions, …
Desecrating Ancestral Spaces of Rest
For decades, Africanist historians have emphasized not only African participation in the slave trade but also the ensuing violence, insecurity, and indebtedness that a European-dominated Atlantic commerce in captives and merchandise unleashed on African societies. This Gold Coast case highlights how predatory capitalism and its legal institutions disrupted ancestral spaces of rest. As Gã and Fante merchants increasingly collateralized family hous…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gold coast (2 works) · Law (2 works)