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A great read and a reminder that colonial leaders were business and plantation owners and more importantly slave owners.
Private property and business interests were important to them. Actual democracy (as in rule by ordinary people) was never really in their plan.
I believe Winston Churchill speculated on how different history would have turned out if the British government had reached out and offered colonial aristocrats a role in shaping imperial policy and laws (perhaps representation in parliament).
On this day in 1623, Henry Pierce of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, died. His funeral entry details his wife, father-in-law, children and sons-in-law. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/pierce1623
#reference#intifada The Palestinian Intifada -- December 9, 1987-December 8, 1988: A Record of Israeli Repression. 1989.
" ... how can a people whose statehood was claimed by reason of history's worst human calamity, the #Holocaust, engage in policies and practices which are reminiscent of what they suffered at the hands of others?" (p.ix)
Note on the word intifada (انتفاضة): “a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement” in contemporary Arabic.
#OTD in 1896 , Italian doctor Scipione Riva Rocci, who studied medicine in Turin, published a paper describing his new invention, the sphygmomanometer. Since then his invention has been measuring the blood pressure of humans and animals all over the world. @histodons
Netta Syrett novelist & playwright died #OTD 1943, her prizewinning play was said to be too realistic about women’s lives & received only one performance. Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives now available in US at pre-publication price @UChicagoPress tinyurl.com/mr7m2t2c promo code UCPNEW for 30% off. #DecadentWomen#Decadence#womenswriting#1890s#Victorian@genderhistory@histodons
What is the German word for the intense feeling of melancholy that hits when you should feel flattered by a request to write or speak on an area of your scholarly expertise, but instead end up depressed by the reminder that your career has veered off into wildly unfulfilling admin work and away from the things you really care about? Asking for a friend. @histodons#academicchatter
Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two classic medieval dishes: a runny porridge known as “plum pottage”, which featured any seasonal mixture of meats, dried fruits, and spices; and “figgy pudding” (yes, the one mentioned in the song), a mixture of sweet and savory ingredients bagged with flour and cooked by steaming.
On this day in 1784, Hugh Kerr died aged 84. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Drumlumman, Co. Cavan, in the Journals: http://tinyurl.com/kerr1784
@TheConversationUS@histodons Very informative review. The Haitian revolutionaries successful fight for freedom and independence came with centuries long debt repayment to France for loss of property (slaves).