Edmond J Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6218792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmond J Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmond J |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reporting and Interpreting Legal Violence in Asia
This article examines how printed accounts of torture can reveal the ways the law was experienced, interpreted and reported by the East India Company (EIC) during the early decades of the seventeenth century. It will explore how the company came to impose its own interpretation of the law when interacting with local powers and people while simultaneously attempting to adapt to and operate within existing legal systems in early modern Asia. This c…
Introduction
Atlantic history has become an influential scholarly paradigm over the past few decades, especially for historians of the early modern period. Its many advocates claim that the idea of an “Atlantic world” enables us to break down boundaries, connecting what might otherwise be seen as disparate regions or isolated historical subjects, and encouraging the study of interactions around the ocean beyond the confines of a single nation or empire.1 Whil…
Canaanising Madagascar’
Africa has often been seen as a barrier between oceanic systems, and a dividing line within English imperial activity – with colonialism a key strategy to the west and trading favoured to the east of the continent. This article will consider English plans for colonisation on the islands of Madagascar and Assada on the east African coast and question how these can help us understand how the English thought about Africa as a geographical and imagin…
Reporting and Interpreting Legal Violence in Asia
This article examines how printed accounts of torture can reveal the ways the law was experienced, interpreted and reported by the East India Company (EIC) during the early decades of the seventeenth century. It will explore how the company came to impose its own interpretation of the law when interacting with local powers and people while simultaneously attempting to adapt to and operate within existing legal systems in early modern Asia. This c…
Canaanising Madagascar’
Africa has often been seen as a barrier between oceanic systems, and a dividing line within English imperial activity – with colonialism a key strategy to the west and trading favoured to the east of the continent. This article will consider English plans for colonisation on the islands of Madagascar and Assada on the east African coast and question how these can help us understand how the English thought about Africa as a geographical and imagin…
Introduction
Atlantic history has become an influential scholarly paradigm over the past few decades, especially for historians of the early modern period. Its many advocates claim that the idea of an “Atlantic world” enables us to break down boundaries, connecting what might otherwise be seen as disparate regions or isolated historical subjects, and encouraging the study of interactions around the ocean beyond the confines of a single nation or empire.1 Whil…
Canaanising Madagascar’
Africa has often been seen as a barrier between oceanic systems, and a dividing line within English imperial activity – with colonialism a key strategy to the west and trading favoured to the east of the continent. This article will consider English plans for colonisation on the islands of Madagascar and Assada on the east African coast and question how these can help us understand how the English thought about Africa as a geographical and imagin…
Reporting and Interpreting Legal Violence in Asia
This article examines how printed accounts of torture can reveal the ways the law was experienced, interpreted and reported by the East India Company (EIC) during the early decades of the seventeenth century. It will explore how the company came to impose its own interpretation of the law when interacting with local powers and people while simultaneously attempting to adapt to and operate within existing legal systems in early modern Asia. This c…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)