Christian Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spaces of Resistance and Belonging
This article examines the broader community, cultural, and social functions of boxing gyms beyond their role as sites of physical training. Drawing on a 24-month ethnographic case study of Oak Lane Amateur Boxing Club (a pseudonym), an ethnic minority-led gym in an inner-urban neighbourhood in the East Midlands of England, the paper situates boxing spaces within wider debates on leisure, sociability, and social cohesion. Observations and intervie…
Red to White
Hugo Bettauer, Feminism, and the Non-White World in Interwar Vienna
This article examines how the 1920s Viennese journalist and magazine-publisher Hugo Bettauer, a Christian convert from Judaism, harnessed images of and stories about non-White peoples to the cause of Austrian female liberation. In Bettauers Wochenschrift, Bettauer and his contributors highlighted non-White ways to illuminate, by comparison, the confining nature of the social and cultural mores that structured Austrian women's subjugation. This ha…
D orian B ell . Globalizing Race
What was the connection between European overseas empire during the age of high imperialism and the development of modern continental antisemitism? By extension, what was the connection between modern colonial imperialism and the antisemitism-infused fascism that turn-of-the century antisemitic politicians and ideologues foreshadowed? Attempts to answer these questions date back at least as far as Hannah Arendt’s 1951 book, The Origins of Totalit…
A Deadly Legacy
Looking back in 1949 on his service in the German army in the First World War, the German-Jewish historian Ernst Kantorowicz mused that his wartime activities had probably ‘prepared, if indirectly and against my intention, the road leading to National Socialism’ (p. 213). Kantorowicz was one of 100,000 German Jews who had served in uniform during the war, but, as Tim Grady shows in this book, Jewish involvement went well beyond military service. …
S tefan V ogt . Subalterne Positionierungen
Hegel and the Third World
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
Journal Article Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884 Get access Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884. By Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. New York: Berghahn Books. 2008. 237 pp. £55 (hardback). Christian S. Davis Christian S. Davis James Madison University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 58…
"Coddling" Africans Abroad
“Coddling” Africans Abroad: Colonial Director Paul Kayser and the Education of Africans in Germany, 1891–1896 Christian Stuart Davis In October of 1896, the Foreign Office in Berlin received an angry letter from Franziska Dörfling of Görlitz, Germany, concerning a most pressing matter. As Frau Dörfling explained in the beginning of her letter, she preferred to discuss the issue in person, and she had recently made the two-hundred kilometer trip t…
"Coddling" Africans Abroad
“Coddling” Africans Abroad: Colonial Director Paul Kayser and the Education of Africans in Germany, 1891–1896 Christian Stuart Davis In October of 1896, the Foreign Office in Berlin received an angry letter from Franziska Dörfling of Görlitz, Germany, concerning a most pressing matter. As Frau Dörfling explained in the beginning of her letter, she preferred to discuss the issue in person, and she had recently made the two-hundred kilometer trip t…
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
Journal Article Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884 Get access Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848–1884. By Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. New York: Berghahn Books. 2008. 237 pp. £55 (hardback). Christian S. Davis Christian S. Davis James Madison University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 58…
Hegel and the Third World
S tefan V ogt . Subalterne Positionierungen
A Deadly Legacy
Looking back in 1949 on his service in the German army in the First World War, the German-Jewish historian Ernst Kantorowicz mused that his wartime activities had probably ‘prepared, if indirectly and against my intention, the road leading to National Socialism’ (p. 213). Kantorowicz was one of 100,000 German Jews who had served in uniform during the war, but, as Tim Grady shows in this book, Jewish involvement went well beyond military service. …
D orian B ell . Globalizing Race
What was the connection between European overseas empire during the age of high imperialism and the development of modern continental antisemitism? By extension, what was the connection between modern colonial imperialism and the antisemitism-infused fascism that turn-of-the century antisemitic politicians and ideologues foreshadowed? Attempts to answer these questions date back at least as far as Hannah Arendt’s 1951 book, The Origins of Totalit…
Hugo Bettauer, Feminism, and the Non-White World in Interwar Vienna
This article examines how the 1920s Viennese journalist and magazine-publisher Hugo Bettauer, a Christian convert from Judaism, harnessed images of and stories about non-White peoples to the cause of Austrian female liberation. In Bettauers Wochenschrift, Bettauer and his contributors highlighted non-White ways to illuminate, by comparison, the confining nature of the social and cultural mores that structured Austrian women's subjugation. This ha…
Red to White
Spaces of Resistance and Belonging
This article examines the broader community, cultural, and social functions of boxing gyms beyond their role as sites of physical training. Drawing on a 24-month ethnographic case study of Oak Lane Amateur Boxing Club (a pseudonym), an ethnic minority-led gym in an inner-urban neighbourhood in the East Midlands of England, the paper situates boxing spaces within wider debates on leisure, sociability, and social cohesion. Observations and intervie…
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