Corey Ro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3963276 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Corey Ro |
| PRENOMES | Corey |
| SOBRENOME | Ro |
| ASSINATURA | RO C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1051-2865 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Liquid Empire
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial wor…
Constrained river, constrained choices
This article examines the problem of flooding in colonial Tonkin through two interrelated lenses: the history of disasters as social and political phenomena, and the history of technology and the constraints that shape its use. With a gradient ten times steeper than the Mekong, the Red River ( Sông Cái in Vietnamese) is notorious for its huge seasonal fluctuations and violent floods. For centuries, local rulers and cultivators constructed dikes t…
Extractive industries and the environment
Resource extraction has historically caused dramatic environmental changes across the globe. Although mining and oil drilling have transformed landscapes and polluted the air and water wherever they have taken place, knowledge of how these environmental transformations have been experienced and lived in different parts of the world remains fragmentary. This special issue seeks to provide new insights into the environmental histories of resource e…
Nature, Labour, and the Making of Ecological Peripheries
This article briefly considers how the integration of the biophysical world into our analyses of the past can enhance our understanding of the socio-economic inequalities of the modern world. Taking Ulbe Bosma's The Making of Periphery as its central reference point, it argues that the process of “peripheralization” – generally treated as an economic or social phenomenon – can also be usefully approached as an interaction between human and non-hu…
Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies
Much of the tropical territory that came under European control in the late nineteenth century was wooded, and throughout the colonial era, forests were a focal point of attempts to control conquered territories and profit from their resources. By the early decades of the twentieth century colonial forest departments governed vast expanses of territory throughout the tropical world and had a major impact on the landscape, the people who lived the…
Subterranean Frontier
This chapter investigates the connections between culture, technology, and environmental change during the tin mining boom in colonial Southeast Asia, the world’s dominant producer region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It approaches the growth of the industry as a particular form of commodity frontier, whose topography comprised not just the surface landscapes over which it expanded but also the various grades and depths of…
Beyond Colonialism
This chapter explores how the unprecedented transformation of tropical environments after decolonization was shaped by relationships and ideas that were fashioned, encouraged, or reinforced by the experience of colonialism. It considers the interactions between various actors—Western states, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as governments and ordinary people in the ex-colonies—as a means of transcending arguments ov…
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
This book provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management—transformations that still visibly shape our world today—and how they were related to social, cultural, and political developments in Europ…
Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire
Environmental historians have always been good at connecting human societies with the rest of nature. With the rise of more global frameworks of analysis over the last couple of decades they have also become increasingly good at drawing connections between distant ecosystems and peoples linked together by markets, migrations and other forms of exchange. Histories of empire have played an important role in the co-evolution of global and environmen…
Tropical Nature as Global Patrimoine
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the swelling appetite for heritage increasingly expanded beyond the realm of human artefact to regard the land, its flora and fauna as important legacies in need of preservation. In industrializing Europe and North America, the relentless rationalization of the countryside nourished a growing sense of the need to safeguard historic landscapes, ‘wildernesses’, and endangered species, whether as…
Modern Historical Preservation--Towards a Global Perspective
This volume is devoted to reconsidering the history of historical preservation from an international perspective. 1 Even though the origins of modern preservationism are often traced back to early eighteenth-century Europe, the aim is to address the broader factors behind the global spread of this changing historical sensibility toward ancestral pasts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How, why, and in what form these diverse conservation…
The plantation paradigm
This article investigates the powerful normative role of plantation-oriented agricultural practices in what was arguably the premier indigenous crop revolution of the colonial era: the West African cocoa boom. It traces the links between the extraordinary growth of cocoa production in the region – above all in the Gold Coast – and the longer experience of cocoa estates in other parts of the world, in particular the Caribbean, which served as a ke…
The Tin Frontier
This article investigates the interactions between culture, technology, and environmental change during the tin mining boom in colonial Southeast Asia, the world's dominant tin-producing region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It approaches the explosive growth of the industry—above all in western Malaysia and the “tin isles” of the Netherlands Indies—as a variation on the concept of the commodity frontier: namely, one whose …
The British Empire and the Natural World
This is a coherent collection of essays, edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza, that explicitly serves as a tribute to the pioneering work of Richard Grove—above all his efforts to place the history of environmental change and ecological knowledge in the British Empire into a global framework. It is essentially conceived as a follow-on from the volume Nature and the Orient (1998) edited by Grove, Vinita Damodaran and Satpal S…
Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany
Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the ratio
Entertainment Industrialised
The first half-century of cinema's history has been the subject of countless studies over the years. Its meteoric rise from fairground curiosity to the most popular pastime of the industrial world has been recounted from numerous points of view, including its technological beginnings, its commercial concentration, various political and intellectual controversies surrounding the new medium and, of course, its aesthetic evolution. What does an econ…
Writing the Media into History
Journal Article Writing the Media into History: Recent Works on the History of Mass Communications in Germany Get access Der Monarch im Skandal: Die Logik der Massenmedien und die Transformation der wilhelminischen Monarchie. By Martin Kohlrausch. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2005. 536 pp. €59.80 (hardback).Konsens und Krise: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Medienöffentlichkeit. By Christina von Hodenberg. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2006. 512 pp.…
Media and the making of modern Germany
La professionnalisation de la publicité et de la propagande dans l'Allemagne de Weimar
Cet article traite du développement des idées allemandes relatives à la publicité « professionnelle » et « scientifique » pendant la période de Weimar, avec une attention particulière sur l'interaction entre publicité commerciale et propagande politique. En raison de l'idée répandue que la défaite de la Grande Guerre avait été causée par la propagande ennemie, l'industrie publicitaire en Allemagne a été uniquement capable de s'autopromouvoir en r…
Visions of Prosperity
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany
Mass Politics and the Techniques of Leadership
This paper traces the development of ideas about ‘professional’ and ‘scientific’ publicity during the Weimar era, and their gradual absorption by mainstream politicians and officials from the late 1920s onwards. The unprecedented wartime efforts to influence domestic morale and the scandalous revelations of misinformation afterwards greatly increased popular awareness of the ability of élites to manipulate public opinion, and generated intense in…
Mass Culture and Divided Audiences
East Germans and the Berlin Wall
Based on sources from the East German regime’s internal archives, this article considers how the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 affected both the regime’s political authority as well as wider processes of social change. After first considering the domestic problems that the East German communist leadership sought to solve by sealing the border, it proceeds to examine the immediate popular response to the building of the Wall and the long…
The East German Dictatorship
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
This book provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management—transformations that still visibly shape our world today—and how they were related to social, cultural, and political developments in Europ…
The Tin Frontier
This article investigates the interactions between culture, technology, and environmental change during the tin mining boom in colonial Southeast Asia, the world's dominant tin-producing region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It approaches the explosive growth of the industry—above all in western Malaysia and the “tin isles” of the Netherlands Indies—as a variation on the concept of the commodity frontier: namely, one whose …
The plantation paradigm
This article investigates the powerful normative role of plantation-oriented agricultural practices in what was arguably the premier indigenous crop revolution of the colonial era: the West African cocoa boom. It traces the links between the extraordinary growth of cocoa production in the region – above all in the Gold Coast – and the longer experience of cocoa estates in other parts of the world, in particular the Caribbean, which served as a ke…
Modern Historical Preservation--Towards a Global Perspective
This volume is devoted to reconsidering the history of historical preservation from an international perspective. 1 Even though the origins of modern preservationism are often traced back to early eighteenth-century Europe, the aim is to address the broader factors behind the global spread of this changing historical sensibility toward ancestral pasts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How, why, and in what form these diverse conservation…
Mass Politics and the Techniques of Leadership
This paper traces the development of ideas about ‘professional’ and ‘scientific’ publicity during the Weimar era, and their gradual absorption by mainstream politicians and officials from the late 1920s onwards. The unprecedented wartime efforts to influence domestic morale and the scandalous revelations of misinformation afterwards greatly increased popular awareness of the ability of élites to manipulate public opinion, and generated intense in…
Extractive industries and the environment
Resource extraction has historically caused dramatic environmental changes across the globe. Although mining and oil drilling have transformed landscapes and polluted the air and water wherever they have taken place, knowledge of how these environmental transformations have been experienced and lived in different parts of the world remains fragmentary. This special issue seeks to provide new insights into the environmental histories of resource e…
East Germans and the Berlin Wall
Based on sources from the East German regime’s internal archives, this article considers how the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 affected both the regime’s political authority as well as wider processes of social change. After first considering the domestic problems that the East German communist leadership sought to solve by sealing the border, it proceeds to examine the immediate popular response to the building of the Wall and the long…
Nature, Labour, and the Making of Ecological Peripheries
This article briefly considers how the integration of the biophysical world into our analyses of the past can enhance our understanding of the socio-economic inequalities of the modern world. Taking Ulbe Bosma's The Making of Periphery as its central reference point, it argues that the process of “peripheralization” – generally treated as an economic or social phenomenon – can also be usefully approached as an interaction between human and non-hu…
Tropical Nature as Global Patrimoine
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the swelling appetite for heritage increasingly expanded beyond the realm of human artefact to regard the land, its flora and fauna as important legacies in need of preservation. In industrializing Europe and North America, the relentless rationalization of the countryside nourished a growing sense of the need to safeguard historic landscapes, ‘wildernesses’, and endangered species, whether as…
Entertainment Industrialised
The first half-century of cinema's history has been the subject of countless studies over the years. Its meteoric rise from fairground curiosity to the most popular pastime of the industrial world has been recounted from numerous points of view, including its technological beginnings, its commercial concentration, various political and intellectual controversies surrounding the new medium and, of course, its aesthetic evolution. What does an econ…
Writing the Media into History
Journal Article Writing the Media into History: Recent Works on the History of Mass Communications in Germany Get access Der Monarch im Skandal: Die Logik der Massenmedien und die Transformation der wilhelminischen Monarchie. By Martin Kohlrausch. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2005. 536 pp. €59.80 (hardback).Konsens und Krise: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Medienöffentlichkeit. By Christina von Hodenberg. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2006. 512 pp.…
Before the Wall
Based on sources from the East German regime's internal archives, this article examines how the exodus of over 3 million people from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) before the construction of the Berlin Wall undermined the communist regime's ability to exert its authority over internal affairs. Instead of focusing on the relatively well-known economic and diplomatic costs of the mass exodus, it considers rather the grass-roots political rami…
Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots
In the two decades following the defeat of the Third Reich, East Germany was transformed from a war-ravaged occupation zone into an apparent model of Soviet style socialism. Based on extensive archiva
Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots
The thesis examines how the socialist transformation of East Germany during the two decades following the defeat of the Third Reich was received, implemented, refashioned and adapted at the grass-roots. Concentrating on the region of East Berlin and Brandenburg, it focuses on a selected number of points where the personal lives and interests of 'ordinary' people intersected most closely and were confronted most immediately by the ruling Socialist…
Before the Wall
Based on sources from the East German regime's internal archives, this article examines how the exodus of over 3 million people from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) before the construction of the Berlin Wall undermined the communist regime's ability to exert its authority over internal affairs. Instead of focusing on the relatively well-known economic and diplomatic costs of the mass exodus, it considers rather the grass-roots political rami…
The East German Dictatorship
East Germans and the Berlin Wall
Based on sources from the East German regime’s internal archives, this article considers how the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 affected both the regime’s political authority as well as wider processes of social change. After first considering the domestic problems that the East German communist leadership sought to solve by sealing the border, it proceeds to examine the immediate popular response to the building of the Wall and the long…
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany
Mass Politics and the Techniques of Leadership
This paper traces the development of ideas about ‘professional’ and ‘scientific’ publicity during the Weimar era, and their gradual absorption by mainstream politicians and officials from the late 1920s onwards. The unprecedented wartime efforts to influence domestic morale and the scandalous revelations of misinformation afterwards greatly increased popular awareness of the ability of élites to manipulate public opinion, and generated intense in…
Mass Culture and Divided Audiences
Visions of Prosperity
Writing the Media into History
Journal Article Writing the Media into History: Recent Works on the History of Mass Communications in Germany Get access Der Monarch im Skandal: Die Logik der Massenmedien und die Transformation der wilhelminischen Monarchie. By Martin Kohlrausch. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2005. 536 pp. €59.80 (hardback).Konsens und Krise: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Medienöffentlichkeit. By Christina von Hodenberg. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2006. 512 pp.…
Media and the making of modern Germany
La professionnalisation de la publicité et de la propagande dans l'Allemagne de Weimar
Cet article traite du développement des idées allemandes relatives à la publicité « professionnelle » et « scientifique » pendant la période de Weimar, avec une attention particulière sur l'interaction entre publicité commerciale et propagande politique. En raison de l'idée répandue que la défaite de la Grande Guerre avait été causée par la propagande ennemie, l'industrie publicitaire en Allemagne a été uniquement capable de s'autopromouvoir en r…
Entertainment Industrialised
The first half-century of cinema's history has been the subject of countless studies over the years. Its meteoric rise from fairground curiosity to the most popular pastime of the industrial world has been recounted from numerous points of view, including its technological beginnings, its commercial concentration, various political and intellectual controversies surrounding the new medium and, of course, its aesthetic evolution. What does an econ…
Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany
Although we associate the Third Reich above all with suffering, pain and fear, pleasure played a central role in its social and cultural dynamics. This book explores the relationship between the ratio
The British Empire and the Natural World
This is a coherent collection of essays, edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza, that explicitly serves as a tribute to the pioneering work of Richard Grove—above all his efforts to place the history of environmental change and ecological knowledge in the British Empire into a global framework. It is essentially conceived as a follow-on from the volume Nature and the Orient (1998) edited by Grove, Vinita Damodaran and Satpal S…
The plantation paradigm
This article investigates the powerful normative role of plantation-oriented agricultural practices in what was arguably the premier indigenous crop revolution of the colonial era: the West African cocoa boom. It traces the links between the extraordinary growth of cocoa production in the region – above all in the Gold Coast – and the longer experience of cocoa estates in other parts of the world, in particular the Caribbean, which served as a ke…
The Tin Frontier
This article investigates the interactions between culture, technology, and environmental change during the tin mining boom in colonial Southeast Asia, the world's dominant tin-producing region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It approaches the explosive growth of the industry—above all in western Malaysia and the “tin isles” of the Netherlands Indies—as a variation on the concept of the commodity frontier: namely, one whose …
Tropical Nature as Global Patrimoine
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the swelling appetite for heritage increasingly expanded beyond the realm of human artefact to regard the land, its flora and fauna as important legacies in need of preservation. In industrializing Europe and North America, the relentless rationalization of the countryside nourished a growing sense of the need to safeguard historic landscapes, ‘wildernesses’, and endangered species, whether as…
Modern Historical Preservation--Towards a Global Perspective
This volume is devoted to reconsidering the history of historical preservation from an international perspective. 1 Even though the origins of modern preservationism are often traced back to early eighteenth-century Europe, the aim is to address the broader factors behind the global spread of this changing historical sensibility toward ancestral pasts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How, why, and in what form these diverse conservation…
Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire
Environmental historians have always been good at connecting human societies with the rest of nature. With the rise of more global frameworks of analysis over the last couple of decades they have also become increasingly good at drawing connections between distant ecosystems and peoples linked together by markets, migrations and other forms of exchange. Histories of empire have played an important role in the co-evolution of global and environmen…
Forests, Ecology, and Power in the Tropical Colonies
Much of the tropical territory that came under European control in the late nineteenth century was wooded, and throughout the colonial era, forests were a focal point of attempts to control conquered territories and profit from their resources. By the early decades of the twentieth century colonial forest departments governed vast expanses of territory throughout the tropical world and had a major impact on the landscape, the people who lived the…
Subterranean Frontier
This chapter investigates the connections between culture, technology, and environmental change during the tin mining boom in colonial Southeast Asia, the world’s dominant producer region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It approaches the growth of the industry as a particular form of commodity frontier, whose topography comprised not just the surface landscapes over which it expanded but also the various grades and depths of…
Beyond Colonialism
This chapter explores how the unprecedented transformation of tropical environments after decolonization was shaped by relationships and ideas that were fashioned, encouraged, or reinforced by the experience of colonialism. It considers the interactions between various actors—Western states, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as governments and ordinary people in the ex-colonies—as a means of transcending arguments ov…
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire
This book provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management—transformations that still visibly shape our world today—and how they were related to social, cultural, and political developments in Europ…
Nature, Labour, and the Making of Ecological Peripheries
This article briefly considers how the integration of the biophysical world into our analyses of the past can enhance our understanding of the socio-economic inequalities of the modern world. Taking Ulbe Bosma's The Making of Periphery as its central reference point, it argues that the process of “peripheralization” – generally treated as an economic or social phenomenon – can also be usefully approached as an interaction between human and non-hu…
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