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PATH: The Project on Arms Trade History

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Guns and power go together. Like today, most forms of inequality in the global 19th century depended on a weapons gap. The unequal distribution of firearms helped determine power relations both between countries and within countries. Where did all those guns come from? And why did some have so many...

 Social Sciences   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

19th Century North America: Archival Research in Spanish, French, & English

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia...

 Social Sciences   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Aim & Empire: Mapping and Research Assistants for Book Project on the Arms Trade in the Age of Revolutions

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

None of the revolutionaries who transformed the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could mass-produce their own guns and ammunition. They had to rely on the international arms trade. Aim at Empire is the first book to explore how access to weapons (or lack thereof) shaped...

 Social Sciences   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

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