Week of Events
Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire
Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire
AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political agenda, specifically regarding national identity, citizenship, and demographic politics. In the late Ottoman Empire, multi-lingual and multi-religious urban centers shared certain aspects of a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In addition, there was a rather politicized and sensitive […]
Faculty Panel on the Big Burn
Faculty Panel on the Big Burn
A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford (Writing Program); and Dar Roberts (Geography).
Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule
Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule
Abstract: In British-ruled Palestine, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s, against the backdrop of armed rebellion and the Great Depression, Palestinian capitalists distinguished between needs and luxuries in order to shape a pan-Arab utopia as well as […]