Brian J Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian J Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Drought, Revolution, and the Cold War Politics of Aid
The Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s was among the most devastating of the twentieth century. Its history sheds light on the topic of anthropogenic climate change, which partly caused the drought, as well as its impact on human societies in the modern era. Drought had a shaping influence on the trajectory of Burkina Faso’s revolution (1983–87), especially when the state intervened to reduce mass vulnerability in the face of environmental and …
Thomas Sankara
Rami Ginat. Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan
Early in his study Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan: From World War II to Nasserism, Rami Ginat poses a question: Why were Egyptians so determined to hold on to control of neighboring Sudan? His remarkable book provides a nuanced and convincing answer to this question and others, bearing on two contradictory currents: “Egypt’s struggle to advance its doctrine of the unity of the Nile valley, and the demise of that very doctrine and the s…
History, Memory and the Legacy of Samori in Southern Mali, C . 1880–1898
This article seeks to situate local oral traditions on Samori Touré within the contexts of both internal African empire building and French colonial conquest. It takes into account the experiences of the vanquished on the periphery of Samori's empire in an effort to reassess his legacy. It argues that local traditions not only provide a corrective to the nationalist historiography on Samori, they also complicate the notion of ‘resistance’ by demo…
Slave Emancipation, Trans-Local Social Processes and the Spread of Islam in French Colonial Buguni (Southern Mali), 1893–1914
This article explores the relationship between slave emancipation and the spread of Islam in early colonial French Buguni (southern Mali). It examines the reconstitution of village communities in the wake of violence and enslavement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and documents the ways in which widespread mobility and trans-local social processes fostered the emergence of new forms of religious identification and practi…
Quantifying Conversion
The use of colonial census data on religious conversion in historical analysis is often fraught with methodological problems. What, at first glance, might appear to have been profound structural transformations of society may in part be illusions created by changes in the census apparatus, or data collection process, itself. In this paper I will discuss how a colonial census was conducted and how local rural peoples were active agents in enumerat…
Socialist Labor and Politics in Weimar Germany
The Politics of Working—Class Women in the Weimar Republic
Working—Class women in the Weimar Republic faced a complex and disorienting political situation. The revolutionary government granted women the right to vote in November 1918, but then ousted many women from their wartime jobs with the assistance of the trade unions and factory councils. The growing radicalism of working women during the latter phases of the First World War, marked especially by heavy female participation in the general strike of…
History, Memory and the Legacy of Samori in Southern Mali, C . 1880–1898
This article seeks to situate local oral traditions on Samori Touré within the contexts of both internal African empire building and French colonial conquest. It takes into account the experiences of the vanquished on the periphery of Samori's empire in an effort to reassess his legacy. It argues that local traditions not only provide a corrective to the nationalist historiography on Samori, they also complicate the notion of ‘resistance’ by demo…
Quantifying Conversion
The use of colonial census data on religious conversion in historical analysis is often fraught with methodological problems. What, at first glance, might appear to have been profound structural transformations of society may in part be illusions created by changes in the census apparatus, or data collection process, itself. In this paper I will discuss how a colonial census was conducted and how local rural peoples were active agents in enumerat…
Slave Emancipation, Trans-Local Social Processes and the Spread of Islam in French Colonial Buguni (Southern Mali), 1893–1914
This article explores the relationship between slave emancipation and the spread of Islam in early colonial French Buguni (southern Mali). It examines the reconstitution of village communities in the wake of violence and enslavement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and documents the ways in which widespread mobility and trans-local social processes fostered the emergence of new forms of religious identification and practi…
The Politics of Working—Class Women in the Weimar Republic
Working—Class women in the Weimar Republic faced a complex and disorienting political situation. The revolutionary government granted women the right to vote in November 1918, but then ousted many women from their wartime jobs with the assistance of the trade unions and factory councils. The growing radicalism of working women during the latter phases of the First World War, marked especially by heavy female participation in the general strike of…
Drought, Revolution, and the Cold War Politics of Aid
The Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s was among the most devastating of the twentieth century. Its history sheds light on the topic of anthropogenic climate change, which partly caused the drought, as well as its impact on human societies in the modern era. Drought had a shaping influence on the trajectory of Burkina Faso’s revolution (1983–87), especially when the state intervened to reduce mass vulnerability in the face of environmental and …
The Politics of Working—Class Women in the Weimar Republic
Working—Class women in the Weimar Republic faced a complex and disorienting political situation. The revolutionary government granted women the right to vote in November 1918, but then ousted many women from their wartime jobs with the assistance of the trade unions and factory councils. The growing radicalism of working women during the latter phases of the First World War, marked especially by heavy female participation in the general strike of…
Socialist Labor and Politics in Weimar Germany
Quantifying Conversion
The use of colonial census data on religious conversion in historical analysis is often fraught with methodological problems. What, at first glance, might appear to have been profound structural transformations of society may in part be illusions created by changes in the census apparatus, or data collection process, itself. In this paper I will discuss how a colonial census was conducted and how local rural peoples were active agents in enumerat…
Slave Emancipation, Trans-Local Social Processes and the Spread of Islam in French Colonial Buguni (Southern Mali), 1893–1914
This article explores the relationship between slave emancipation and the spread of Islam in early colonial French Buguni (southern Mali). It examines the reconstitution of village communities in the wake of violence and enslavement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and documents the ways in which widespread mobility and trans-local social processes fostered the emergence of new forms of religious identification and practi…
History, Memory and the Legacy of Samori in Southern Mali, C . 1880–1898
This article seeks to situate local oral traditions on Samori Touré within the contexts of both internal African empire building and French colonial conquest. It takes into account the experiences of the vanquished on the periphery of Samori's empire in an effort to reassess his legacy. It argues that local traditions not only provide a corrective to the nationalist historiography on Samori, they also complicate the notion of ‘resistance’ by demo…
Rami Ginat. Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan
Early in his study Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan: From World War II to Nasserism, Rami Ginat poses a question: Why were Egyptians so determined to hold on to control of neighboring Sudan? His remarkable book provides a nuanced and convincing answer to this question and others, bearing on two contradictory currents: “Egypt’s struggle to advance its doctrine of the unity of the Nile valley, and the demise of that very doctrine and the s…
Thomas Sankara
Drought, Revolution, and the Cold War Politics of Aid
The Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s was among the most devastating of the twentieth century. Its history sheds light on the topic of anthropogenic climate change, which partly caused the drought, as well as its impact on human societies in the modern era. Drought had a shaping influence on the trajectory of Burkina Faso’s revolution (1983–87), especially when the state intervened to reduce mass vulnerability in the face of environmental and …
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