East Meets West: An East Indian Coin in the Western Colonies

In 1823, the Ontario House, a hotel and tavern, was built near Niagara Falls, Canada. In addition to providing a location for travelers and tourists to drink and lodge, Ontario House, like many other establishments, billeted soldiers when the need arose. The 2012 excavation of the midden and features of the Ontario House produced a large assemblage of artifacts including ceramics, buttons, numismatics, and military accoutrements. Of particular interest is an East Indian coin, found in the natural topsoil, which can be associated with the 67th Regiment of Foot’s brief occupation of Ontario House in 1841. This paper addresses the significance of this coin and associated finds in regards to the global movement of the regiment and the socio-political context of Ontario House within regional history.     

Western Identity,Barbarians and the Inheritance of Greek Universalism1

This paper argues that a particular philosophical and historical understanding of Ancient Greek thought is used to establish a superior Western identity of universal prevalence. Starting with the terminological differences between ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism, I then reconstruct the rise of Eurocentrism by examining the changing conceptualizations of Greeks and Barbarians in Ancient texts from Homer to Aristotle. The third section explores how Western historians of philosophy and culture have used this Greek self-understanding to legitimate the view of Western cultural superiority based on universalism. Finally, I discuss several possibilities to counter this form of Eurocentric Western identity-politics.     

Perfectly absent: the emergence of the Modern Greek perfect in Early Modern Greek

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This paper traces the emergence of the Standard Modern Greek perfect ?χω + infinitive in the Early Modern Greek period. It shows that the construction appears in written sources towards the very end of the seventeenth century. Special attention is given to ‘phantom’ perfects, which can be found in editions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and non-literary texts as well as in the bibliography and which distort the picture of its emergence.     

Turning Points in the Greek Resistance

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Resistance to enemy occupation has stood rather apart from the general history of the Second World War. Historians have been doubtful whether to treat it as a part of military and strategic history or a part of political and diplomatic history. Some have thought the less said about it the better, in any context. In the history of particular countries which suffered enemy occupation, the treatment of resistance has varied widely according to the outcome of the war. In some countries it has occupied a major place in their war-time history: Denmark and Yugoslavia, for quite different reasons, are important examples. In other occupied countries very little has been written about the occupation by professional historians: Greece is an outstanding example. Although Britain played a leading role in promoting resistance everywhere, the subject has not attracted, many professional historians, other than those who had a personal engagement in it during the war.     

Threads: Collecting Cloth in the North American French Colonies

Trade of European-produced cloth and clothing enabled indigenous and non-indigenous inhabitants of colonial New France to rethink the “hand-woven”, impacting how self could be presented through dress. At the same time, objects were being collected in New France for cabinets of curiosities and museums. These different collections resonated in different ways through history, subsequently influencing modern understandings of colonial cloth and clothing. This paper examines colonial experiences of cloth by looking at archaeological remnants of cloth and cloth production as compared to how indigenous and non-indigenous colonial peoples were and are being represented by cloth and clothing in museum collections.     

希腊神话语境中的正义

希腊神话内容异常丰富 ,在神话语境中蕴育了自然主义的忒弥斯正义和人为约定的狄刻正义两种话语体系 ,产生了最早的希腊“正义”思想。这种正义成为古代希腊文化的重要组成部分 ,开启了西方自然正义和契约正义的先河 ,成为德性伦理学的滥觞     

英印殖民时期旁遮普灌渠殖民地建设探析

吞并旁遮普后,鉴于旁遮普自然社会状况,为维护殖民统治利益,英印当局决定大规模开发西旁遮普荒地。从19世纪后半期到1947年印巴分治前,英印当局在西旁遮普兴修起庞大的现代灌溉系统,并在新开发的大面积灌溉耕地上建立起9个灌渠殖民地。灌渠殖民地的建设给英国殖民统治带来丰厚的利益,也使旁遮普社会经济面貌发生巨大的改变。     

马其顿帝国主义中的希腊认同

在腓力二世和亚历山大时代,马其顿帝国主义构成了希腊认同①建构环境中一个起着重要作用的因素。它使希腊人大体分成了亲马其顿派和反马其顿派。反马其顿派否认马其顿王室所宣称的希腊身份,亲马其顿派则捍卫之。马其顿王室具有希腊和马其顿双重族群认同。希腊人和马其顿人普遍认为彼此是不同的族群。只有反马其顿派才将马其顿人明确地称为"蛮族人",希腊人和马其顿人通常都宁愿采取"希腊人-马其顿人-蛮族人"三分法。希腊认同与马其顿认同是可以被调和来共同面对"蛮族人"的,而且希腊认同经常被强调。但马其顿认同对于马其顿王室和民众都具有更实际的意义。双重认同使马其顿国王既可以利用马其顿认同去对抗希腊人,也可以利用希腊认同来抑制马其顿人。在马其顿帝国主义的环境中,希腊认同表现出了灵活性、可变性和可穿透性,其建构是被来自多方面的多种话语操纵着的。