Unicorns: Knowledge of the Environment and the Hispanic Mediterratlantic
Analyzes use of unicorns as a potent symbol in the Hispanic Atlantic, showing how Europeans applied knowledge of unicorns to understanding the new world.
Research, Resources, Perspectives
Analyzes use of unicorns as a potent symbol in the Hispanic Atlantic, showing how Europeans applied knowledge of unicorns to understanding the new world.
“Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century…”
The History of Knowledge will be featured in several panels at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2023. If you’ll be attending, please check out some...
Editor’s note: As has previously been mentioned on this blog, our sister blog, Migrant Knowledge, also always bears some relevance to the history of knowledge. This is not surprising since, as that blog’s motto...
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German migration in subtropical South America began in the early nineteenth century. It lasted for almost 150 years and shaped one of the most extensive projects of transnational forest colonization and global agricultural exchange...
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Today we offer two examples of academic knowledge on the move in tandem with the Migrant Knowledge blog. Anna Corsten looks at the reception of two German-speaking refugee historians in West Germany, and Razak...