Elizabeth Heath
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Heath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Heath |
| SIGNATURE | HEATH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5593-1884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mormon Women at the Crossroads
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness is a demonstration of rigorous scholarship through the lens of public history to better understand how Mormon women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the southern United States connect with North American androcentric teachings and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Caroline Kline argues that women's stories and experiences must be examined…
A Velvet Empire
Reviewed by: A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd Elizabeth Heath Todd, David–A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 350 p. “It ought to be commonplace that, for most of the nineteenth century, France expanded chiefly by means of informal empire.” (p. 1) With this intriguing statement, David Todd opens A Velvet Empire and …
Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism
This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises generated by COVID-19 in early 2020
J ohnhenry G onzalez . Maroon Nation
In the mid-nineteenth century, foreign observers viewed Haiti’s dilapidated sugar mills and overgrown fields as symbols of the economic and civilizational decline that resulted from the population’s overthrow of slavery and imperialism during the Haitian Revolution. In Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti, Johnhenry Gonzalez offers a radically different account of this same landscape and the people who created it. Compellingly argued a…
The Meaning of Freedom
This article examines the introduction of legalized slave savings and compulsory slave self-purchase—the pécule légal and rachat forcé—by the Mackau Laws in the French colony of Martinique in the last years of the July Monarchy. Drawing on official correspondence, political debates, published pamphlets and individual cases of slave self-purchase, it examines official efforts to replace a system of bondage rooted in direct, personal domination and…
The Black Race's Dreyfus Affair”
This article examines the dissimilation of Guadeloupean citizens of color in the early twentieth century and their marginalization within the French republic. Focusing on the “troubles” in Guadeloupe and the scandals surrounding the black deputy Hégésippe Jean Légitimus, the author shows how Guadeloupeans were gradually excluded from full citizenship. These incidents reveal a key moment in the construction of race in the early Third Republic and,…
Paradise Destroyed
Sugarcoated Slavery
This article offers a theorization of colonial commodities as a category of analysis and a preliminary sketch of how this theorization might present new ways to understand the role of empire and imperial labor systems in the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the peculiar qualities of colonial commodities enabled early modern French men and women to develop and practice novel habits and behaviors, namely, forms…
Lorelle Semley. To Be Free and French
To Be Free and French examines the political struggles of people of color who lived in the French Atlantic and claimed French citizenship amid the shifting terrain of French imperial rule from the late eighteenth century until the fall of the Fourth French Republic in 1958. Lorelle Semley’s work ambitiously integrates the fields of African diaspora and Atlantic studies with the history of citizenship, French empire, gender, law, transnationalism,…
Vital Minimum
The French Empire and the History of Economic Life
This introduction to the dossier “Wine, Economy, and Empire” surveys the place of economic history in the field of French Empire studies over the last twenty years. Drawing upon the concept of “economic life” as defined by William Sewell, the authors argue that a renewed focus on economic activity within the French Empire offers new opportunities to interrogate commonplace ideas about chronology, imperial forms, and structures of power. The artic…
The Color of French Wine
In the early Third Republic, southern wine producers in the Aude confronted a new competitor: Algerian wine. This article explores Audois efforts to curtail Algerian wine production in the aftermath of phylloxera, the wine crisis, and the 1907 strikes. Focusing on the actions of the Confédération générale des vignerons, this article shows how local winegrowers transformed the Algerian wine industry into a symbol of industrial, profit-driven agric…
Colonial Food in Interwar Paris
Apprendre l'Empire, un jeu d'enfants
Cet article traite des objets ephemeres fabriques a l’intention des petits Francais dans l’entre-deux-guerres et a l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’examen de quatre de ces objets tous lies au chocolat, permet d’explorer la maniere dont les jeux, albums de vignettes ou dioramas, contribuent a eduquer les enfants metropolitains sur la nation francaise et son empire. L’hypothese est que de tels objets ephemeres permettent de plonger dans l’im…
Creating Rural Citizens in Guadeloupe in the Early Third French Republic
This article examines the short-lived efforts of the French colonial state to create a class of independent peasant farmers in Guadeloupe at the end of the nineteenth century, a project that reversed earlier post-emancipation legislation. It argues that economic, and especially political, considerations drove the project. By promoting peasant farming, officials attempted to reform life on the colony and stem the spread of socialism without undert…
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Are children who steal different from those who are aggressive
The Black Race's Dreyfus Affair”
This article examines the dissimilation of Guadeloupean citizens of color in the early twentieth century and their marginalization within the French republic. Focusing on the “troubles” in Guadeloupe and the scandals surrounding the black deputy Hégésippe Jean Légitimus, the author shows how Guadeloupeans were gradually excluded from full citizenship. These incidents reveal a key moment in the construction of race in the early Third Republic and,…
Creating Rural Citizens in Guadeloupe in the Early Third French Republic
This article examines the short-lived efforts of the French colonial state to create a class of independent peasant farmers in Guadeloupe at the end of the nineteenth century, a project that reversed earlier post-emancipation legislation. It argues that economic, and especially political, considerations drove the project. By promoting peasant farming, officials attempted to reform life on the colony and stem the spread of socialism without undert…
Are children who steal different from those who are aggressive
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Creating Rural Citizens in Guadeloupe in the Early Third French Republic
This article examines the short-lived efforts of the French colonial state to create a class of independent peasant farmers in Guadeloupe at the end of the nineteenth century, a project that reversed earlier post-emancipation legislation. It argues that economic, and especially political, considerations drove the project. By promoting peasant farming, officials attempted to reform life on the colony and stem the spread of socialism without undert…
Apprendre l'Empire, un jeu d'enfants
Cet article traite des objets ephemeres fabriques a l’intention des petits Francais dans l’entre-deux-guerres et a l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’examen de quatre de ces objets tous lies au chocolat, permet d’explorer la maniere dont les jeux, albums de vignettes ou dioramas, contribuent a eduquer les enfants metropolitains sur la nation francaise et son empire. L’hypothese est que de tels objets ephemeres permettent de plonger dans l’im…
Colonial Food in Interwar Paris
Vital Minimum
The French Empire and the History of Economic Life
This introduction to the dossier “Wine, Economy, and Empire” surveys the place of economic history in the field of French Empire studies over the last twenty years. Drawing upon the concept of “economic life” as defined by William Sewell, the authors argue that a renewed focus on economic activity within the French Empire offers new opportunities to interrogate commonplace ideas about chronology, imperial forms, and structures of power. The artic…
The Color of French Wine
In the early Third Republic, southern wine producers in the Aude confronted a new competitor: Algerian wine. This article explores Audois efforts to curtail Algerian wine production in the aftermath of phylloxera, the wine crisis, and the 1907 strikes. Focusing on the actions of the Confédération générale des vignerons, this article shows how local winegrowers transformed the Algerian wine industry into a symbol of industrial, profit-driven agric…
Sugarcoated Slavery
This article offers a theorization of colonial commodities as a category of analysis and a preliminary sketch of how this theorization might present new ways to understand the role of empire and imperial labor systems in the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the peculiar qualities of colonial commodities enabled early modern French men and women to develop and practice novel habits and behaviors, namely, forms…
Lorelle Semley. To Be Free and French
To Be Free and French examines the political struggles of people of color who lived in the French Atlantic and claimed French citizenship amid the shifting terrain of French imperial rule from the late eighteenth century until the fall of the Fourth French Republic in 1958. Lorelle Semley’s work ambitiously integrates the fields of African diaspora and Atlantic studies with the history of citizenship, French empire, gender, law, transnationalism,…
The Black Race's Dreyfus Affair”
This article examines the dissimilation of Guadeloupean citizens of color in the early twentieth century and their marginalization within the French republic. Focusing on the “troubles” in Guadeloupe and the scandals surrounding the black deputy Hégésippe Jean Légitimus, the author shows how Guadeloupeans were gradually excluded from full citizenship. These incidents reveal a key moment in the construction of race in the early Third Republic and,…
Paradise Destroyed
The Meaning of Freedom
This article examines the introduction of legalized slave savings and compulsory slave self-purchase—the pécule légal and rachat forcé—by the Mackau Laws in the French colony of Martinique in the last years of the July Monarchy. Drawing on official correspondence, political debates, published pamphlets and individual cases of slave self-purchase, it examines official efforts to replace a system of bondage rooted in direct, personal domination and…
Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism
This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises generated by COVID-19 in early 2020
J ohnhenry G onzalez . Maroon Nation
In the mid-nineteenth century, foreign observers viewed Haiti’s dilapidated sugar mills and overgrown fields as symbols of the economic and civilizational decline that resulted from the population’s overthrow of slavery and imperialism during the Haitian Revolution. In Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti, Johnhenry Gonzalez offers a radically different account of this same landscape and the people who created it. Compellingly argued a…
A Velvet Empire
Reviewed by: A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd Elizabeth Heath Todd, David–A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 350 p. “It ought to be commonplace that, for most of the nineteenth century, France expanded chiefly by means of informal empire.” (p. 1) With this intriguing statement, David Todd opens A Velvet Empire and …
Mormon Women at the Crossroads
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness is a demonstration of rigorous scholarship through the lens of public history to better understand how Mormon women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the southern United States connect with North American androcentric teachings and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Caroline Kline argues that women's stories and experiences must be examined…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Empire (6 works)