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Experiments with monarchy

Hydrarchy

Putting the Viking in Viking Age

The Others

Family

Picking this back up as complement to The Horde and That Most Precious Cargo. Readable, thematic survey.

Rocky Rise of Moscow

"Even the great khan had to recognize that the Horde was a consolidated power, a diverse but integrated world of Mongols, Russians, and Caucasians; pagans, Christians, and Muslims; city-dwellers and herders: a nomadic kingdom unto itself. "

Mongol polities, on their own terms

Interesting reading after Most Precious Merchandise where the Hoard was peripheral. World History means frequently recentering our narratives

...rendering black lives invisible in school curriculum...
"Jim Crow politics relied on the stories it told and the symbols it created, which were replicated decade after decade in public schools. The textbooks for which Rutherford lobbied helped tell that story to white schoolchildren across the nation, reinforcing the 'naturalness ' of white over black."
Next chapter: politics.

"The writing out of white women's efforts to police the racial ordrt promotes the white supremacist fiction that segregation was natural and happened without workers."
This chapters documents how white women working with and near the state did this work, and how some Virginians resisted.

Final chapter on the "mau mau" bringing together the threads of anti-colonial resistance in the British empire influencing anti-imperial dissent in the metropole.

Black anti-imperial internationalism. Opposition to Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Meerut Conspiracy case

Morant Bay rebellion

Enjoyed chapters on Algeria and Arab anti imperialism in the Levant. Continuities pre-war - 1920s
China chapter with some interesting details on China-Germany connections.
Willi next

Algeria’s Independent Path

Life and Death in Diaspora

‘Through their graphic simplicity and economy, invoices and ledgers effaced the personal histories that fueled the slaving economy. Containing only what could fit within the clean lines of their columns and rows, they reduced an enormous system of traffic in human commodities to a concise chronicle of quantitative “facts.’ Loc 1101

“Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities” ch 2

"As the production of sites of confinement in urban spaces provided colonial authorities the means to terrorize an urban enslaved population, so too do the discursive spaces within the archive confine enslaved women in disfiguring historical representations."

"obvious if contradictory connection between the brutal growth of slaveownership and the development of creole communities...enslaved women would find themselves reminded of that fact as they and their children, sometimes together and sometimes separately, found themselves marked as a source of burgeoning wealth: even as, in the same breath, their identities as parents were simultaneously acknowledged and dismissed.