Kevin Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8961-8293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights, by Derrick M. Nault
Journal Article Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights, by Derrick M. Nault Get access Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights, by Derrick M. Nault (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 249. £75). Kevin Grant Kevin Grant Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/…
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century , by Fabian Klose
Zoë Laidlaw. Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism, 1830–1870
Journal Article Zoë Laidlaw. Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism, 1830–1870. Get access Zoë Laidlaw. Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism, 1830–1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 374. Cloth $120.00. Kevin Grant Kevin Grant Hamilton College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…
Policies, Brae, and Hill grounds: A microarchaeology of an Ochils estate
This paper seeks to explore life during the post-medieval period in a small part of the Ochil Hills in Perthshire, Scotland, and in doing so, demonstrates how landscape archaeology can uncover stories which reflect the complexity and nuance of life in the past. Drawing on a range of approaches, this paper explores the stories uncovered through a programme of landscape archaeology. This includes considering the dramatic changes and reformations th…
Oran an Fheamnaidh – song of the seaweed gatherer: An archaeology of early 19th-century kelping
At the very end of the 18th century, economic circumstance and the capricious consequences of warfare on the continent turned seaweed on the West Coast and Isles of Scotland into an important industrial resource. This resource was kelp: a glassy substance used in various industrial processes, particularly in the glass and soap industries. Chiefs and landowners in the west of Scotland were quick to take advantage of the economic opportunity it pre…
Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: Upland survey in the Northern Ochils
The key to understanding a landscape is through its connections, which tie together people and environment within and beyond that landscape and across many different periods. This is particularly true of the northern face of the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, which is characterised by dense networks of connections between lowlands and uplands, local and regional. To trace those connections we integrate the results of walkover survey, aerial arc…
Hebridean Gaels and the sea in the early 19th century: ‘The Streaming Ocean of the Roadways’
The people of the Hebrides have long been associated with a heroic tradition of seafaring – the image of the medieval birlinn or galley has become emblematic of Norse and Gaelic power. Coastal communities in the 19th century would have been familiar with this tradition as it was a common theme of the song and story which was a ubiquitous part of their lives. However, the waters around the Hebrides in the years around 1800 were largely the preserv…
Anti‐slavery, refugee relief, and the missionary origins of humanitarian photography ca. 1900–1960
This essay examines the era in which international humanitarianism shifted from the imperial principles of Christianity and commerce to the liberal internationalist principles of human rights and development. It argues that the privileged humanitarian subjects of the first era, slaves, were superseded in the second era by refugees due to a new conception of rights to culture and the threat of refugees to collective security. It examines this tran…
The post-medieval rural landscape: Towards a landscape archaeology
This article examines the evidence for engagement with the rural post-medieval landscape using two national case studies: Wales and Scotland. The issues reflected in these case studies are indicative of the wider challenges for archaeologists and professional practitioners alike. The article recognizes that landscape is not just about geographical place, but an archaeological theoretical framework. It proposes that Post-Medieval Archaeology monog…
The Limits of Exposure: Atrocity Photographs in the Congo Reform Campaign
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Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Journal Article Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Get access Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. Pp. xv, 230. Cloth $44.95, paper $22.95. Kevin Grant Kevin Grant Hamilton College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015…
Faith: “A Softening”
Can processes make relationships work? The Triple Helix between structure and action
This contribution seeks to explore how complex adaptive theory can be applied at the conceptual level to unpack Triple Helix models. We use two cases to examine this issue – the Finnish Strategic Centres for Science, Technology & Innovation (SHOKs) and the Canadian Business-led Networks of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE). Both types of centres are organisational structures that aspire to be business-led, with a considerable portion of their activi…
And in Every Hamlet a Poet”: Gaelic Oral Tradition and Postmedieval Archaeology in Scotland
Bronwen Everill. Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
This comparative study of abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia, based upon a dissertation completed in 2010, offers a novel combination of disparate bodies of historical scholarship. Spanning the 1780s and 1860s, Bronwen Everill's monograph illuminates not only similarities and differences between these two West African colonies, but also their competitive interactions over commerce, territory, and the abolition of the slave trade on …
Canals, Cake, and 6H Pencils: Starting Out in Community Archaeology
Variety appears to be one of the only constants within Community Archaeology. Activities range from test-pitting to cake-making, and involve participants of all ages and walks of life. It may be this endless variety that makes our theoretical models often seem inadequate to the task of aiding our understanding of what Community Archaeology is — and how we should be doing it. In this paper I will reflect on my varied experiences starting out in Co…
The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights
This essay examines recent publications in several historical fields to articulate the relationships between the British Empire, international government, and human rights from British conceptions of imperial world order in the late nineteenth century to the end of empire in the Cold War
Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History (review)
Reviewed by: Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History Kevin Grant Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History By Emma Robertson . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. This well-structured and clearly written book examines the English cocoa and chocolate industry, which has long marketed the purity of its products and its ethical, beneficent employment practices. Focusing on the firm Rowntree & Co., Ltd.,…
British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike
In the spring of 1878 male political prisoners in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg went on hunger strike to protest against the oppressive conditions in which they were held by the tsarist regime. After three days, news of the strike reached the prisoners' families, who appealed for relief to the director of military police, General N. V. Mezentsev. The director dismissed their pleas and reportedly declared of the hunger strikers, 'L…
At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (review)
Reviewed by: At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World Kevin Grant At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. This collection of essays examines a subject at once ubiquitous and illusive, an empire taken for granted in the everyday life of the British metropole between the early nineteenth and mid-twentiet…
Hunger: A Modern History
Human rights and sovereign abolitions of slavery, c. 1885–1956
The League of Nations and the United Nations advocated clear, ethical principles to govern relations between the great powers and developing nations. These principles reflected the different political eras in which these international governments were founded, the first in the high era of European imperialism, and the second in the era of imperial decline that presaged the Cold War and decolonization. The League employed a decidedly imperial disc…
Beyond sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950
Book synopsis: Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion
Beyond sovereignty
Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atro…
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atro…
British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike
In the spring of 1878 male political prisoners in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg went on hunger strike to protest against the oppressive conditions in which they were held by the tsarist regime. After three days, news of the strike reached the prisoners' families, who appealed for relief to the director of military police, General N. V. Mezentsev. The director dismissed their pleas and reportedly declared of the hunger strikers, 'L…
Christian critics of empire: Missionaries, lantern lectures, and the Congo reform campaign in Britain
(2001). Christian critics of empire: Missionaries, lantern lectures, and the Congo reform campaign in Britain. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 27-58
Canals, Cake, and 6H Pencils: Starting Out in Community Archaeology
Variety appears to be one of the only constants within Community Archaeology. Activities range from test-pitting to cake-making, and involve participants of all ages and walks of life. It may be this endless variety that makes our theoretical models often seem inadequate to the task of aiding our understanding of what Community Archaeology is — and how we should be doing it. In this paper I will reflect on my varied experiences starting out in Co…
Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: Upland survey in the Northern Ochils
The key to understanding a landscape is through its connections, which tie together people and environment within and beyond that landscape and across many different periods. This is particularly true of the northern face of the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, which is characterised by dense networks of connections between lowlands and uplands, local and regional. To trace those connections we integrate the results of walkover survey, aerial arc…
Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of the Remains of Roger Casement
This is a history of life after death—not the life of a disembodied soul, but of the body left behind in a prison yard, buried in quicklime. It is a history composed of family members, friends, politicians, and bureaucrats drawn into cooperation and conflict by the politics of rebellion, partition, and sexuality in Ireland and Great Britain. The deceased in dispute, Roger Casement, had been a controversial figure during the later years of his lif…
The post-medieval rural landscape: Towards a landscape archaeology
This article examines the evidence for engagement with the rural post-medieval landscape using two national case studies: Wales and Scotland. The issues reflected in these case studies are indicative of the wider challenges for archaeologists and professional practitioners alike. The article recognizes that landscape is not just about geographical place, but an archaeological theoretical framework. It proposes that Post-Medieval Archaeology monog…
And in Every Hamlet a Poet”: Gaelic Oral Tradition and Postmedieval Archaeology in Scotland
The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights
This essay examines recent publications in several historical fields to articulate the relationships between the British Empire, international government, and human rights from British conceptions of imperial world order in the late nineteenth century to the end of empire in the Cold War
Christian critics of empire: Missionaries, lantern lectures, and the Congo reform campaign in Britain
(2001). Christian critics of empire: Missionaries, lantern lectures, and the Congo reform campaign in Britain. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 27-58
Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of the Remains of Roger Casement
This is a history of life after death—not the life of a disembodied soul, but of the body left behind in a prison yard, buried in quicklime. It is a history composed of family members, friends, politicians, and bureaucrats drawn into cooperation and conflict by the politics of rebellion, partition, and sexuality in Ireland and Great Britain. The deceased in dispute, Roger Casement, had been a controversial figure during the later years of his lif…
Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India (review)
Reviewed by: Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940 Kevin Grant Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940. By Jeffery Cox. Standford: Standford University Press, 2002. Imperial Fault Lines is an important study of Protestant missionary institutions and the development of a hybrid Christianity in the Punjab under British rule. Jeffery Cox sets aside simplistic associations between …
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atro…
Human rights and sovereign abolitions of slavery, c. 1885–1956
The League of Nations and the United Nations advocated clear, ethical principles to govern relations between the great powers and developing nations. These principles reflected the different political eras in which these international governments were founded, the first in the high era of European imperialism, and the second in the era of imperial decline that presaged the Cold War and decolonization. The League employed a decidedly imperial disc…
Beyond sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950
Book synopsis: Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion
Beyond sovereignty
Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world
At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (review)
Reviewed by: At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World Kevin Grant At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. This collection of essays examines a subject at once ubiquitous and illusive, an empire taken for granted in the everyday life of the British metropole between the early nineteenth and mid-twentiet…
Hunger: A Modern History
Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History (review)
Reviewed by: Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History Kevin Grant Chocolate, Women and Empire: A Social and Cultural History By Emma Robertson . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. This well-structured and clearly written book examines the English cocoa and chocolate industry, which has long marketed the purity of its products and its ethical, beneficent employment practices. Focusing on the firm Rowntree & Co., Ltd.,…
British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike
In the spring of 1878 male political prisoners in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg went on hunger strike to protest against the oppressive conditions in which they were held by the tsarist regime. After three days, news of the strike reached the prisoners' families, who appealed for relief to the director of military police, General N. V. Mezentsev. The director dismissed their pleas and reportedly declared of the hunger strikers, 'L…
The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights
This essay examines recent publications in several historical fields to articulate the relationships between the British Empire, international government, and human rights from British conceptions of imperial world order in the late nineteenth century to the end of empire in the Cold War
Faith: “A Softening”
Can processes make relationships work? The Triple Helix between structure and action
This contribution seeks to explore how complex adaptive theory can be applied at the conceptual level to unpack Triple Helix models. We use two cases to examine this issue – the Finnish Strategic Centres for Science, Technology & Innovation (SHOKs) and the Canadian Business-led Networks of Centres of Excellence (BL-NCE). Both types of centres are organisational structures that aspire to be business-led, with a considerable portion of their activi…
And in Every Hamlet a Poet”: Gaelic Oral Tradition and Postmedieval Archaeology in Scotland
Bronwen Everill. Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
This comparative study of abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia, based upon a dissertation completed in 2010, offers a novel combination of disparate bodies of historical scholarship. Spanning the 1780s and 1860s, Bronwen Everill's monograph illuminates not only similarities and differences between these two West African colonies, but also their competitive interactions over commerce, territory, and the abolition of the slave trade on …
Canals, Cake, and 6H Pencils: Starting Out in Community Archaeology
Variety appears to be one of the only constants within Community Archaeology. Activities range from test-pitting to cake-making, and involve participants of all ages and walks of life. It may be this endless variety that makes our theoretical models often seem inadequate to the task of aiding our understanding of what Community Archaeology is — and how we should be doing it. In this paper I will reflect on my varied experiences starting out in Co…
The Limits of Exposure: Atrocity Photographs in the Congo Reform Campaign
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Journal Article Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Get access Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. Pp. xv, 230. Cloth $44.95, paper $22.95. Kevin Grant Kevin Grant Hamilton College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015…
The post-medieval rural landscape: Towards a landscape archaeology
This article examines the evidence for engagement with the rural post-medieval landscape using two national case studies: Wales and Scotland. The issues reflected in these case studies are indicative of the wider challenges for archaeologists and professional practitioners alike. The article recognizes that landscape is not just about geographical place, but an archaeological theoretical framework. It proposes that Post-Medieval Archaeology monog…
Anti‐slavery, refugee relief, and the missionary origins of humanitarian photography ca. 1900–1960
This essay examines the era in which international humanitarianism shifted from the imperial principles of Christianity and commerce to the liberal internationalist principles of human rights and development. It argues that the privileged humanitarian subjects of the first era, slaves, were superseded in the second era by refugees due to a new conception of rights to culture and the threat of refugees to collective security. It examines this tran…
Hebridean Gaels and the sea in the early 19th century: ‘The Streaming Ocean of the Roadways’
The people of the Hebrides have long been associated with a heroic tradition of seafaring – the image of the medieval birlinn or galley has become emblematic of Norse and Gaelic power. Coastal communities in the 19th century would have been familiar with this tradition as it was a common theme of the song and story which was a ubiquitous part of their lives. However, the waters around the Hebrides in the years around 1800 were largely the preserv…
Oran an Fheamnaidh – song of the seaweed gatherer: An archaeology of early 19th-century kelping
At the very end of the 18th century, economic circumstance and the capricious consequences of warfare on the continent turned seaweed on the West Coast and Isles of Scotland into an important industrial resource. This resource was kelp: a glassy substance used in various industrial processes, particularly in the glass and soap industries. Chiefs and landowners in the west of Scotland were quick to take advantage of the economic opportunity it pre…
Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: Upland survey in the Northern Ochils
The key to understanding a landscape is through its connections, which tie together people and environment within and beyond that landscape and across many different periods. This is particularly true of the northern face of the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, which is characterised by dense networks of connections between lowlands and uplands, local and regional. To trace those connections we integrate the results of walkover survey, aerial arc…
Policies, Brae, and Hill grounds: A microarchaeology of an Ochils estate
This paper seeks to explore life during the post-medieval period in a small part of the Ochil Hills in Perthshire, Scotland, and in doing so, demonstrates how landscape archaeology can uncover stories which reflect the complexity and nuance of life in the past. Drawing on a range of approaches, this paper explores the stories uncovered through a programme of landscape archaeology. This includes considering the dramatic changes and reformations th…
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