Great Diaspora Research Articles

‘Guests of the British Crown’: White Russian Refugee Camps in Egypt, 1920–1922

ABSTRACT During the closing stages of the Russian Civil War in south Russia Novorossiisk, a port on the Black Sea coast, provided an escape route to the Crimea for the defeated White Russian forces. During the early months of 1920 the port was also crowded with civilians desperate to escape the consequences of the imminent Bolshevik victory. British funded and crewed ships helped thousands to get away. Of these, despite instructions to the contrary from London, some were landed in Egypt. In the great diaspora of White Russians that followed the final victory of Bolshevism all faced challenging circumstances, but the experiences of the refugees in Egypt were untypical in many respects.

JEWS IN EUROPE AND THE BEGINNING OF ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICTS

This article discusses the development of Judaism in European and the history of the Arab-Jewish conflict. Researchers in this case uses qualitative methods by collecting library data. The historical approach is an alternative research in tracing the traces of Jews in Europe and the beginning of the Arab-Jewish conflict. The author comes to the conclusion that a change of power, conquest, war has brought the Jewish nation to the pain of continuing suffering. Get discriminatory treatment to be the lowest class and intolerance treatment from the authorities who control the area where they settled. The unfair treatment they received from the authorities until 70 AD when the Jews under Roman rule broke out but ended in failure and caused damage to their own diei. The Temple of Solomon which was the center of their religious worship in Jerusalem was destroyed. These conditions caused the Jewish people to scatter to the outside world which became known as The Great Diaspora.

‘A Triple Empire…United under One Dominion’: Charles Prinsep's Schemes for Exporting Indian Labour to Australia

Charles Prinsep, a prosperous Calcutta lawyer and sometime advocate general of the East India Company, was active amongst a network of British entrepreneurs in India who were enthusiastic about an Indian Ocean sub-empire, the potential of the Australian colonies to become trading partners with India, and their prospects as destinations for British residents to settle after their Indian service. During the 1820s and 1830s, Prinsep embarked on a series of ventures to purchase land, establish shipping links and export indentured Indian labour to Australia. In Australia, agriculturalists and merchants were also interested in the potential of Indian indenture schemes to respond to projected shortages of labour with the demise of convictism in the Eastern Australian colonies. A number of shipments of indentured Indian labourers arrived in Australia during the 1830s. These schemes were opposed by the Colonial Office and by many in Australia, particularly urban dwellers, who feared that such a ‘degradation’ of the labour market would discourage European settlement in the Australian colonies, which they wanted reserved for Europeans, that other great diaspora of the nineteenth century.

<i>Translatio studii</i>: The contribution of exiles to the establishment of Sociology and Art History in Britain, 1933-1960

This story is a small part of a larger one, the Great Diaspora of central and east European intellectuals in the 1930s, to Britain, USA, France, Latin America etc. Exile may be regarded as a school, a form of adult education, not only for the exiles themselves but also for some of the natives who came to know them. Focussing still more sharply, let us consider the intellectual consequences of the diaspora on an insular culture, with special reference to two relatively new and small disciplines. Both sociology and art history were more highly developed in central Europe in the 1930s than they were in Britain, allowing a few remarkable immigrants to make a contribution quite disproportionate to their numbers. How does one establish a new discipline? In short, what is offered here is a kind of social history or historical sociology of both art history and sociology itself, suggesting that the contribution of the exiles should be regarded not a simple import or transfer of knowledge but rather as a cultural encounter leading to changes on both sides, to a kind of cultural hybridization.

:International Calvinism 1541-1715

Although the character, course, and consequences of Calvinism have long been the subject of controversy, there is no doubt that the Calvinist movement left an enduring stamp on Europe, North America, and the rest of western civilization. This book brings together the work of fourteen eminent historians who reexamine the ways in which Calvinism affected--and was affected by--the various societies in which it took root. The volume features a survey of Calvin's life and work, three essays on France and the great diaspora of the Huguenots after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and seven papers on other European nations and North America. A concluding essay offers a stimulating discussion of the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism.

Men of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory

1. Introducing World Prehistory. PART I: BEGINNINGS. 2. Human Origins. 3. Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. PART II: THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (45,000 YEARS AGO TO MODERN TIMES). 4. Europeans and Northern Asians. 5. Intensification and Complexity. 6. The First Americans. 7. Africans and Australians. PART III: FARMERS (c. 10,000 B.C. TO MODERN TIMES). 8. A Plenteous Harvest: The Origins. 9. The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia. 10. Early European Farmers. 11. Early Farmers of Africa and the Nile. 12. Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyagers. 13. The Story of Maize: Early Farming Societies in the Americas. PART IV: OLD WORLD CIVILIZATIONS (c. 3000 B.C. TO MODERN TIMES). 14. The Development of Civilization. 15. Early Southwest Asian Civilizations. 16. Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. 17. Early States in South and Southeast Asia. 18. Shang Civilization in East Asia. 19. Anatolia, Greece, and Italy. 20. Temperate Europe before the Romans. PART V: NATIVE AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS (2000 B.C. TO A.D. 1534). 21. Mesoamerican Civilizations. 22. Andean States. Bibliography of World Prehistory.