Valeska Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valeska Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valeska |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8726-0096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reading
Globalizing Publics
Publics play a central role in contemporary society and politics.New means of communication have allowed for worldwide mobilization and public engagement, as illustrated, for instance, by global social movements like School Strike for Climate or Black Lives Matter.Likewise, in our daily lives as historians, digital platforms have created a sense of a more inclusive virtual public in recent years.During the COVID-19 pandemic, many work environment…
Forum Global Dis: Connections
with the idea of dis:connectivity to provide fresh perspective on current phenomena of globalization.Tom Menger (Munich) traces the origins of Europe's current energy crisis back to a fossil fuel shift that occurred in the early 20th century.He shows that the decline of coal as the principal carrier of fossil energy had a direct impact on Europe's position in an increasingly global network of energy distribution, and this led to the emergence of …
Pandemics and the politics of difference: Rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera
This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis, brought global differences such as social inequalities, political hierarchies, and scientific conflicts to the fore. Beyond drawing parallels between the cholera epidemics and the current crisis, the article argues for combining imperial and social histories in order …
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
Introduction: Global Histories of Social Planning
Introducing the special section on histories of social planning in late colonial and postcolonial societies (1920s–60s), this article argues that we have to take the global origins and reverberations of discourses on planning seriously. It outlines the field of planning and the historiographical debates around it, which mainly centre on European, US and Soviet history. It then checks the viability of the concept for late colonial and postcolonial…
Planning Education and Manpower in the Middle East, 1950s–60s
Education is largely absent in recent work on the history of development and modernization. Yet it was central to the political project of many leaders of decolonization and figured prominently in five-year plans and other development schemes. The article highlights the central role of education in concepts of development and social planning in the Middle East. This could take the form of central plans but also of statistical and computer-generat…
Multiple Mobilities, Multiple Sovereignties, Multiple Speeds: Exploring Maritime Connections in the Age of Empire
What can we gain by looking at maritime spaces? Does this enable us to work towards a global history of the Middle East that moves beyond at times arbitrary geographical and disciplinary borders? In this essay I argue that maritime spaces might be particularly suitable for exploring the boundaries of Middle East studies and their interconnection with global history. By implication, the study of Middle Eastern maritime connections might be especia…
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison (review)
Reviewed by: Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison Valeska Huber Mark Harrison. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xviii + 376 pp. Ill. $38.00 (978-0-300-12357-9). Mark Harrison’s magisterial study on contagion not only firmly connects medical history and global history, but effectively integrates these fields with the history of political economy. The book combines a c…
Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914
The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and c…
Connecting colonial seas: The ‘international colonisation’ of Port Said and the Suez Canal during and after the First World War
The Suez Canal played an essential role in transforming the Mediterranean into a colonial sea by changing its geopolitical features from a lake to a lane connecting faraway possessions of European empires more closely (at least geographically speaking) to the metropoles. At the same time the Suez Canal region itself was colonised in a very specific way, under British occupation on the one hand, yet carrying features of a ‘global locality’ on the …
Diskussionsforum: Multiple Mobilities: Über den Umgang mit verschiedenen Mobilitätsformen um 1900
History has for a long time focused on the stable aspects of societies; recently, however, in the context of a rising interest in global interconnections, people on the move have caught the attention of historians. The article follows this interest in stressing the importance of faster mobility for sustaining the expansion of empires or the development of a world economy in the wave of globalisation at the turn of the 20th century. Yet at the sam…
The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851–1894
This article analyses the proceedings of eight International Sanitary Conferences which were convened between 1851 and 1894 to address the danger that cholera epidemics posed to Europe. These conferences are examined in the context of the intellectual and institutional changes in scientific medicine and in the light of the changing structure of internationalist endeavours that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article s…
Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914
The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and c…
The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851–1894
This article analyses the proceedings of eight International Sanitary Conferences which were convened between 1851 and 1894 to address the danger that cholera epidemics posed to Europe. These conferences are examined in the context of the intellectual and institutional changes in scientific medicine and in the light of the changing structure of internationalist endeavours that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article s…
Introduction: Global Histories of Social Planning
Introducing the special section on histories of social planning in late colonial and postcolonial societies (1920s–60s), this article argues that we have to take the global origins and reverberations of discourses on planning seriously. It outlines the field of planning and the historiographical debates around it, which mainly centre on European, US and Soviet history. It then checks the viability of the concept for late colonial and postcolonial…
Pandemics and the politics of difference: Rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera
This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis, brought global differences such as social inequalities, political hierarchies, and scientific conflicts to the fore. Beyond drawing parallels between the cholera epidemics and the current crisis, the article argues for combining imperial and social histories in order …
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
Connecting colonial seas: The ‘international colonisation’ of Port Said and the Suez Canal during and after the First World War
The Suez Canal played an essential role in transforming the Mediterranean into a colonial sea by changing its geopolitical features from a lake to a lane connecting faraway possessions of European empires more closely (at least geographically speaking) to the metropoles. At the same time the Suez Canal region itself was colonised in a very specific way, under British occupation on the one hand, yet carrying features of a ‘global locality’ on the …
Multiple Mobilities, Multiple Sovereignties, Multiple Speeds: Exploring Maritime Connections in the Age of Empire
What can we gain by looking at maritime spaces? Does this enable us to work towards a global history of the Middle East that moves beyond at times arbitrary geographical and disciplinary borders? In this essay I argue that maritime spaces might be particularly suitable for exploring the boundaries of Middle East studies and their interconnection with global history. By implication, the study of Middle Eastern maritime connections might be especia…
Diskussionsforum: Multiple Mobilities: Über den Umgang mit verschiedenen Mobilitätsformen um 1900
History has for a long time focused on the stable aspects of societies; recently, however, in the context of a rising interest in global interconnections, people on the move have caught the attention of historians. The article follows this interest in stressing the importance of faster mobility for sustaining the expansion of empires or the development of a world economy in the wave of globalisation at the turn of the 20th century. Yet at the sam…
Planning Education and Manpower in the Middle East, 1950s–60s
Education is largely absent in recent work on the history of development and modernization. Yet it was central to the political project of many leaders of decolonization and figured prominently in five-year plans and other development schemes. The article highlights the central role of education in concepts of development and social planning in the Middle East. This could take the form of central plans but also of statistical and computer-generat…
The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851–1894
This article analyses the proceedings of eight International Sanitary Conferences which were convened between 1851 and 1894 to address the danger that cholera epidemics posed to Europe. These conferences are examined in the context of the intellectual and institutional changes in scientific medicine and in the light of the changing structure of internationalist endeavours that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article s…
Diskussionsforum: Multiple Mobilities: Über den Umgang mit verschiedenen Mobilitätsformen um 1900
History has for a long time focused on the stable aspects of societies; recently, however, in the context of a rising interest in global interconnections, people on the move have caught the attention of historians. The article follows this interest in stressing the importance of faster mobility for sustaining the expansion of empires or the development of a world economy in the wave of globalisation at the turn of the 20th century. Yet at the sam…
Connecting colonial seas: The ‘international colonisation’ of Port Said and the Suez Canal during and after the First World War
The Suez Canal played an essential role in transforming the Mediterranean into a colonial sea by changing its geopolitical features from a lake to a lane connecting faraway possessions of European empires more closely (at least geographically speaking) to the metropoles. At the same time the Suez Canal region itself was colonised in a very specific way, under British occupation on the one hand, yet carrying features of a ‘global locality’ on the …
Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914
The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and c…
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison (review)
Reviewed by: Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison Valeska Huber Mark Harrison. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xviii + 376 pp. Ill. $38.00 (978-0-300-12357-9). Mark Harrison’s magisterial study on contagion not only firmly connects medical history and global history, but effectively integrates these fields with the history of political economy. The book combines a c…
Planning Education and Manpower in the Middle East, 1950s–60s
Education is largely absent in recent work on the history of development and modernization. Yet it was central to the political project of many leaders of decolonization and figured prominently in five-year plans and other development schemes. The article highlights the central role of education in concepts of development and social planning in the Middle East. This could take the form of central plans but also of statistical and computer-generat…
Multiple Mobilities, Multiple Sovereignties, Multiple Speeds: Exploring Maritime Connections in the Age of Empire
What can we gain by looking at maritime spaces? Does this enable us to work towards a global history of the Middle East that moves beyond at times arbitrary geographical and disciplinary borders? In this essay I argue that maritime spaces might be particularly suitable for exploring the boundaries of Middle East studies and their interconnection with global history. By implication, the study of Middle Eastern maritime connections might be especia…
Introduction: Global Histories of Social Planning
Introducing the special section on histories of social planning in late colonial and postcolonial societies (1920s–60s), this article argues that we have to take the global origins and reverberations of discourses on planning seriously. It outlines the field of planning and the historiographical debates around it, which mainly centre on European, US and Soviet history. It then checks the viability of the concept for late colonial and postcolonial…
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
Pandemics and the politics of difference: Rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera
This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis, brought global differences such as social inequalities, political hierarchies, and scientific conflicts to the fore. Beyond drawing parallels between the cholera epidemics and the current crisis, the article argues for combining imperial and social histories in order …
Forum Global Dis: Connections
with the idea of dis:connectivity to provide fresh perspective on current phenomena of globalization.Tom Menger (Munich) traces the origins of Europe's current energy crisis back to a fossil fuel shift that occurred in the early 20th century.He shows that the decline of coal as the principal carrier of fossil energy had a direct impact on Europe's position in an increasingly global network of energy distribution, and this led to the emergence of …
Reading
Globalizing Publics
Publics play a central role in contemporary society and politics.New means of communication have allowed for worldwide mobilization and public engagement, as illustrated, for instance, by global social movements like School Strike for Climate or Black Lives Matter.Likewise, in our daily lives as historians, digital platforms have created a sense of a more inclusive virtual public in recent years.During the COVID-19 pandemic, many work environment…
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