Book Cover After Barbary by Timothy Mason Roberts
16 Mar 2026

Book Spotlight: “After Barbary: Algeria’s Roles in the French and American Empires, Ithaca 2025”

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American Imperialism in Conversation with Other Empires My book explores how Algeria played an important role in French-American relations from 1830, when France first occupied Algeria, through the early 1970s, in the first years of Algerian independence from French colonial authority.[1] The book studies American imperialism in a novel way by placing the origins and evolution of American imperialism in … Read More
13 Nov 2025

Colonial Visualities and Their Influences Across Empires from the Late 19th to the 21st Century

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Intricately linked to postcolonial realities, this essay delves into the visual-cultural connections between the establishment and challenging of white-centric perspectives, with a special focus on resistance to, as well as (re-)appropriations of, visual coloniality by non-white communities.[1] As I show, these (re-)appropriations were partly ambiguous, and cannot be fully explained by exclusively applying Eurocentric theories of collective memory. Instead, I … Read More
19 Feb 2025

Book Spotlight “Prisms of Work: Labour, Recruitment and Command in German East Africa, Berlin 2024”

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Global Labour History My book examines labour regimes in the colony of German East Africa (GEA) before World War I.[1] It uses three case studies: the construction of the Central Railway (1905–1916), the Otto Plantation in Kilossa (1907–1916), and the paleontological Tendaguru Expedition in the colony’s southern Lindi district (1909–1911). Combining global labour history with colonial and business history, the … Read More
3 May 2024

World Expositions as Transimperial Nodal Points and/or Dead Ends: Bogdanov in Paris (1878) and Rostock´s Anatomy in Chicago (1893)

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Introduction In 1893, the Anatomical Institute of the University of Rostock, by the German Baltic Sea Coast, participated in the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was awarded a bronze medal, as well as a certificate for its exhibition of “preparations of the human skeletal elements”.[1] The certificate has recently been rediscovered in the collection of that very institute and … Read More
4 Oct 2023

Book Spotlight: “Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51/ 3, (2023)”

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This special issue on Nordic transimperial careers and experiences investigates Nordic people operating in the world of empires ranging from Southeast Asia to Africa, and from Europe to the Caribbean and North America.[1] It focuses on border-crossing individuals, addressing inter-imperial questions of race, otherness, and the civilizing mission, and tying into existing networks, while seeking to create new ones. Nordics … Read More

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