Ryan Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5817-7998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Power, Connection, and the Endless Present
Published more than a decade ago, Paul Kramer's “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World” is arguably the most important intervention in the field of U.S. and the World history. This roundtable affirms its standing among modern American historians. Yet the essay's exact influence is hard to characterize. Classic state-of-the-field essays—like Charles Maier's broadside against U.S. diplomatic history or Jacquelyn…
United Nations and the World
Journal Article United Nations and the World Get access Eva-Maria Muschik. Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 392 pp. $35.00 (paperback). Ryan Irwin Ryan Irwin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad083, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad083 Published: 09 November 2023
Flight of the Dodos: History Curriculum at a Large Public University
About a decade ago, the history department at the University at Albany, the State University of New York (UAlbany) overhauled its curriculum, believing that creative, wellresearched action would attract majors, resources, and prestige.The opposite happenedwe lost all three-and what follows is a conversation among friends who are reevaluating their assumptions, expectations, and options.Most of the discussants arrived at UAlbany as the current job…
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsRyan IrwinRyan Irwin is an associate professor at the University at Albany-SUNY. He is the author of Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (Oxford, 2012)
James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa
Journal Article James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa. Get access James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 301. Cloth $95.00. Ryan Irwin Ryan Irwin University at Albany, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela
WWHD
“I appear as one girl, one person,” Malala Yousafzai said after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. But “I am not a lone voice, I am ... those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls.” Yousafzai is arguably the most famous Muslim woman in the world. Born and raised in northwest Pakistan, Taliban militants attempted to kill her in 2012 because she believed …
Nicholas Grant. Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Was black solidarity an end in itself or a means to advance certain policy reforms? The question has vexed historians because black activists proffered so many different answers during the twentieth century. The orthodoxy states that anti-communism delimited black internationalism. The Cold War, the argument goes, sidelined Marxists who equated segregation with imperialism and empowered liberals who sought civil rights in a democratic society. Us…
The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960, by John Munro
Human Rights and the 1970s
“The seventies are now in vogue,” Barbara Keys writes in the bibliographical essay on Reclaiming American Virtue ’s final pages. Few historians would challenge her assertion: there has been a proliferation of scholarship recently about the liminal moment between the United States' defeat in Vietnam and the rise of the New Right. At first glance, Keys’s monograph and Kristin Ahlberg’s Foreign Relations of the United States ( FRUS ) volume have lit…
Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Journal Article Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Get access Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Foreword by William Minter. (New Approaches to African History, no. 7.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii, 267. $27.99. Ryan M. Irwin Ryan M. Irwin University at Albany, SUNY [email protected] Search for other works by …
Freedom's Other: Freedom's Other
Connie Field does not lack ambition. Over the past twenty years, she has produced a slew of award-winning documentary films that chronicle topics ranging from gender empowerment in World War II America to health care equity in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Her new seven-part Have You Heard from Johannesburg,1 clocking in at 528 minutes, strives to do for the global anti-apartheid movement what Henry Hampton's fourteen-hour Eyes on the Prize did for the Am…
Mapping Race: Historicizing the History of the Color‐Line
This study examines scholarship about the global color‐line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid‐twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post‐apartheid era
Apartheid on Trial: South West Africa and the International Court of Justice, 1960–66
A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963
Journal Article A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960–1963 Get access Ryan M. Irwin Ryan M. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 5, November 2009, Pages 897–925, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00817.x Published: 06 October 2009
A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963
Journal Article A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960–1963 Get access Ryan M. Irwin Ryan M. Irwin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 5, November 2009, Pages 897–925, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00817.x Published: 06 October 2009
Mapping Race: Historicizing the History of the Color‐Line
This study examines scholarship about the global color‐line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid‐twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post‐apartheid era
Apartheid on Trial: South West Africa and the International Court of Justice, 1960–66
Freedom's Other: Freedom's Other
Connie Field does not lack ambition. Over the past twenty years, she has produced a slew of award-winning documentary films that chronicle topics ranging from gender empowerment in World War II America to health care equity in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Her new seven-part Have You Heard from Johannesburg,1 clocking in at 528 minutes, strives to do for the global anti-apartheid movement what Henry Hampton's fourteen-hour Eyes on the Prize did for the Am…
Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Journal Article Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Get access Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Foreword by William Minter. (New Approaches to African History, no. 7.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii, 267. $27.99. Ryan M. Irwin Ryan M. Irwin University at Albany, SUNY [email protected] Search for other works by …
Human Rights and the 1970s
“The seventies are now in vogue,” Barbara Keys writes in the bibliographical essay on Reclaiming American Virtue ’s final pages. Few historians would challenge her assertion: there has been a proliferation of scholarship recently about the liminal moment between the United States' defeat in Vietnam and the rise of the New Right. At first glance, Keys’s monograph and Kristin Ahlberg’s Foreign Relations of the United States ( FRUS ) volume have lit…
The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945–1960, by John Munro
WWHD
“I appear as one girl, one person,” Malala Yousafzai said after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. But “I am not a lone voice, I am ... those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls.” Yousafzai is arguably the most famous Muslim woman in the world. Born and raised in northwest Pakistan, Taliban militants attempted to kill her in 2012 because she believed …
Nicholas Grant. Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Was black solidarity an end in itself or a means to advance certain policy reforms? The question has vexed historians because black activists proffered so many different answers during the twentieth century. The orthodoxy states that anti-communism delimited black internationalism. The Cold War, the argument goes, sidelined Marxists who equated segregation with imperialism and empowered liberals who sought civil rights in a democratic society. Us…
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsRyan IrwinRyan Irwin is an associate professor at the University at Albany-SUNY. He is the author of Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (Oxford, 2012)
James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa
Journal Article James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa. Get access James H. Meriwether. Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 301. Cloth $95.00. Ryan Irwin Ryan Irwin University at Albany, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…
Power, Connection, and the Endless Present
Published more than a decade ago, Paul Kramer's “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World” is arguably the most important intervention in the field of U.S. and the World history. This roundtable affirms its standing among modern American historians. Yet the essay's exact influence is hard to characterize. Classic state-of-the-field essays—like Charles Maier's broadside against U.S. diplomatic history or Jacquelyn…
United Nations and the World
Journal Article United Nations and the World Get access Eva-Maria Muschik. Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 392 pp. $35.00 (paperback). Ryan Irwin Ryan Irwin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad083, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad083 Published: 09 November 2023
Flight of the Dodos: History Curriculum at a Large Public University
About a decade ago, the history department at the University at Albany, the State University of New York (UAlbany) overhauled its curriculum, believing that creative, wellresearched action would attract majors, resources, and prestige.The opposite happenedwe lost all three-and what follows is a conversation among friends who are reevaluating their assumptions, expectations, and options.Most of the discussants arrived at UAlbany as the current job…
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