The Middle Ground Journal
World History and Global Studies
recent posts
- “Politics, Protests, and Popular Culture: The Global Legacy of Akira Toriyama and His Dragon Ball”
- “Underprepared but Overperformed: Explaining the Enigma in Study Abroad”
- Review of Chasing Greatness by Anatoly Reshetnikov
- Review of Black Sun by Julia Kristeva
- The Clash of Trade Ideologies: Revisiting the Battle of Liaoluo Bay through the Lens of Hans Putmans’ Interpretation of Vrijen Handel and the Ming Tributary System
- Pursuing the Global in a Local Setting: Particularistic Silences in the Teaching, Deconstructing, Researching, and Writing of Asian History
- South Asian Migration and Colonial Records: Some Challenges in Reconstructing the Bengali Historical Migration
- The First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises in Cold-War Asia: An Overview
Category: From the Chief Editor
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Photo-Essay — Tower Hall, St. Scholastica – The North Star Reports – by Mackenzie Sherrill. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal [Photo 1. This photo is the front of Tower Hall, which was the first building on…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: “Going Glocal:” Environmental Sustainability Night at the Swedish Embassy, Washington D.C. — The North Star Reports – by By Marin Ekstrom and Meredith Morgan. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal [Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons] Sweden commands honor…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A special series. Getting Around: Public Transportation in Barcelona — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal [Photo 1: An example of my last T-10 TMB card, a rectangular piece…
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Review of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva PanRacismReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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Kultura con ‘k’: Discovering a City’s Soul — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Food, Family and World History — The North Star Reports – by Tayler Boelk. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Free-Willed – Family and World History — The North Star Reports – by Johanna Jurgens. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Review of The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History by Touraj Daryaee KamolaIranReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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Feast and Famine in World History The Sixth Annual Conference of the MWWHA will be held 25-26th September 2015
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Studying Family and World History – The North Star Reports – by Jimmy Lovrien. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Carnaval, Barcelona, Spain – — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Review of The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire Edited by James R. Akerman JorgensenImperialMapReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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From Professor Marc Gilbert: Announcing — World History Connected Volume 12, Number 1, February 2015 issue now available The confluence of commemorations of the Civil War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Vietnam War is a reminder of the significance of the military in world history. Fortunately, the growth of world history over…
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Living in the (little) Big City — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Bliss in a Blue and White Tin: Sweetened Condensed Milk in Russia — The North Star Reports – by Marin Ekstrom. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Review of The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild KnorrEmpiresReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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Comparing and Contrasting: The University — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Thanksgiving (US) Holiday — The North Star Reports – by Lee Bongey. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Review of Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire by Melanie Torrent TagueTorrentReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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Call for Reviewers: The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies The Middle Ground Journal, (http://themiddlegroundjournal.org) an open-access scholarly journal of world history and global studies, is seeking qualified reviewers. For the list of the 35 books, reviews due on May 15, 2015, please see: Book Review Department To apply, please email the title/author(s)…
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Review of Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History by Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke OkiaAbinaReviewsSpring2015themiddlegroundjournal.org
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What’s in a name? – Identity and Story Telling Through Names – The North Star Reports – by Tayler Boelk. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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From Zimbabwe to the United States – Thanksgiving — The North Star Reports – by Angel Nomthandazo Sibanda. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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Barcelona, Spain – Estoy Aquí, I am Here! — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal.
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My Summer in Belarus — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Mariya Taberko, Photographs by Anna Taberko.
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WORLD HISTORY THEORY AND PRACTICE: GENDER, TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE NEW YORK CITY MANHATTAN CAMPUS SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2015 St. John’s University’s History department convenes its second World History Theory and Practice conference in order to advance theories and to consider practices of world history. The conference will offer panels on both research and teaching with the…
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Review of Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 by Justin Roberts
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East German artists as Political Refugees
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Special thanks to Ms. Nachbar’s Duluth East High School 3rd period and 6th period World History classes for hosting my talks. It is a pleasure to reach across institutional lines, and share the process of learning and teaching about our complex world, past and present, there and here, together. North Star Reports writers, volunteers, editors,…
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Review of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War Updated Edition by Greg Grandin
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Myanmar (Burma) – Revisiting Mawlamyaing — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Nay Ye Aung.
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Review of The Roots of Evil by John Kekes
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Tanzania, Kenya, United States, Europe — on being quadrilingual — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Eli Megahan.
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CALL FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES The Middle Ground Journal Ongoing Forum on: The Sequential World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Manga, and the World of Sequential Art Editors: Dr. Maryanne Rhett and Dr. Hong-Ming Liang Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and a vast array of other forms of sequential art pervade the world around us, but are only…
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Review of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France by Todd Shepard
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly journal housed at St. Scholastica and published by the MWWHA. For more information, see: https://www.facebook.com/middlegroundjournal and http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm For information on our student interns, published…
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Cambodia: “I seek my childhood like a lost picture” — Review of the Documentary The Missing Picture — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Cait Greeley.
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Review of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly journal housed at St. Scholastica and published by the MWWHA. For more information, see: https://www.facebook.com/middlegroundjournal and http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm For information on our student interns, published…
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United States – Minnesota Interstate Park: An Amalgam of Relaxation and Education — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Delaney Babich.
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Review of Mau Maus Children: The Making of a Postcolonial Elite by David Sandgren
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Botswana – Passport — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Eli Megahan
Botswana – Passport — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal. By Eli Megahan.
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The Middle Ground Journal Ongoing Forum: Europe and the World
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Review of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 by Alfred W. Crosby
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly journal housed at St. Scholastica and published by the MWWHA. For more information, see: https://www.facebook.com/middlegroundjournaland http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm For information on our student interns, published in the American Historical…
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Guatemala – A Siesta — The North Star Reports, sponsored by The Middle Ground Journal.
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The Middle Ground Journal Ongoing Forum: Literature and the World edited by Professor Jill Gaeta and Professor Teresa Kent Todd
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Review of Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History by Michael B. Miller
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly journal housed at St. Scholastica and published by the MWWHA. For more information, see:https://www.facebook.com/middlegroundjournal andhttp://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm For information on our student interns, published in the American Historical Association’s…
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