This essay outlines “migrant knowledge” as a research topic at the intersection of the history
of knowledge and migration history. It opens with a discussion of the concepts bridging …

The “Green Revolution”(GR) is often portrayed as a humanitarian development programme
in which crop varieties, cultivation practices and expertise were transferred essentially from …

Abstract 'From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village
before I came.'1 With these words, James Baldwin commences his essay Stranger in the …

The rumors of Brazil's mineral riches reaching London and Vienna in the first half of the
nineteenth century, started by enslaved Africans mining clandestinely in unexplored regions …

Cartographies of the Arctic are powerful instruments to support legal, political, commercial,
and scientific claims and interests in the region. Polar projections on sea ice extension, the …

Notions of difference dominated contemporary German discourses about African colonies
under German rule since 1885. Otherness and conceptual othering informed writing about …

While the Senate's ratification of the Treaty of Paris enabled the acquisition of colonies, it did
not end the national debate over the merits and pitfalls of colonial empire. Both imperialists …

Die Geschichte dieses Buches ist lang, und lang ist auch die Liste der Menschen und
Institutionen, die zu seiner Realisierung beigetragen haben. Ihnen möchte ich meinen Dank …

In this dissertation, I argue that a theory of colonial internationalism is necessary, or even
indispensable, to adequately understand and explain the origins and the endurance over …

In this essay, the provenance of an ethnographic collection will be examined. This collection
was assembled by a Swiss couple named Victor and Marie Solioz, who collected …