College of Humanities
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Recent Submissions
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Understanding the Chinese: British merchants on the China trade in the early 1830s
(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
(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 ... -
The Lecture-Brokers: The Role of Impresarios and Agencies in the Global Anglophone Circuit for Lantern Lecturing, 1850-1920
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)The lantern lecturing business diversified in a number of ways in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the bottom end of one kind of cultural scale were individuals that we now might think of as ‘citizen-scientists’ ... -
Lantern Mobilities
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The magic lantern: open medium
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 12 July 2019)