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    • The Royal Slave: Nobility, Diplomacy and the “African Prince” in Britain, 1748–1752 

      Hanley, R (Cambridge University Press (CUP) for Leiden Institute for History, 11 September 2015)
      William Ansah Sessarakoo, the son of a powerful Fante slave trader on the Gold Coast, was tricked and sold into slavery in Barbados by a British ship’s captain during the 1740s. He was emancipated and brought to Britain ...

    • The Eastern Bloc, Human Rights, and the Global Fight against Apartheid 

      Gehrig, S; Mark, JA; Betts, P; et al. (Brill Academic Publishers, 22 November 2019)
      Anti-apartheid advocacy allowed Eastern Bloc countries to reframe their ideological language of solidarity towards African countries into a legalist rhetoric during the 1960s and 70s. Support for international anti-racial ...

    • New Perspectives on Socialism and Human Rights in East Central Europe since 1945 

      Richardson-Little, N; Dietz, H; Mark, JA (Brill Academic Publishers, 22 November 2019)
      In recent years, the study of human rights history has expanded beyond Western-centered narratives, though the role of Eastern European state socialism and socialists both on human rights concepts and politics is still ...

    • Understanding the Chinese: British merchants on the China trade in the early 1830s 

      Gao, H (Edinburgh University Press for British Scholar Society, 31 August 2019)
      This article examines a significant debate on China and the Chinese market held within the British mercantile community in the early 1830s. Occurring in the years before the East India Company’s monopoly over China trade ...

    • Introduction: Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation 

      Hughes, G; Mehtta, M; Bresciani, C; et al. (Berghahn, 1 September 2019)
      Ugly emotions like envy and greed tend to emerge ethnographically through accusations (as opposed to self-attribution), de-centring the individual psyche and drawing attention to how emotions are deployed in broader ...