The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). The AHA was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of the entire discipline of history. Aligning with the AHA’s mission, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States since 1895—the only journal that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The AHR is unparalleled in its efforts to choose articles that are new in content and interpretation and that make a contribution to historical knowledge.

The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). Founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889, the AHA serves the interests of the entire discipline of history. Since 1895, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States, uniquely bringing together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The AHR is unparalleled in its efforts to select articles that are new in content and interpretation, contributing significantly to historical knowledge.

《American Historical Review》是美国历史协会（AHA）的官方出版物。AHA成立于1884年，并于1889年获得国会特许，旨在服务于整个历史学科的利益。自1895年以来，《American Historical Review》一直是美国历史专业的记录期刊，是唯一汇集各个主要历史研究领域学术成果的期刊。该期刊在选择内容新颖、解读独特并对历史知识有贡献的文章方面，具有无与伦比的努力。

American Historical Review

As a medievalist, I have cause to be worried about emotions in history. I do not worry about the emotions themselves: people in the past, as now, expressed joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and many other feelings; these emotions had multiple meanings then (as they do today); they had their effects on others and were manipulated in turn (as ours do and are). What medievalists - indeed, all historians who want to get their history right - must worry about is how historians have treated emotions in history. The purpose of this article is to survey the historiography of emotions in
Western history and to suggest some fresh ways to think about the topic.

Barbara H. Rosenwein

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Worrying about Emotions in History

历史中的情感忧虑

Abstract British non-governmental organizations (NGOs) became a part of the modern aid industry in the 1960s, particularly across Africa. At the moment of decolonization, humanitarian charities were recast into modern NGOs focused on small-scale grassroots initiatives nevertheless tied to long-term official development planning. NGOs and charities were popular because they represented many things for many people. For the late colonial state, they were the agents that would step in where government retreated, providing vital lessons in self-help for the future leaders of the country. For newly independent governments, they were both suppliers of Western funds and props to impoverished social service departments. For donors and international aid agencies, they were a route through which liberal internationalist sympathies could be directed. That no one in these early decades of development was certain which aid initiatives actually worked on the ground was therefore of less importance than the optimistic hopes placed upon charity to tackle global poverty. Indeed, it was the ad hoc, confusing, and complex landscape of charitable aid that lay behind the rise of the modern NGO. For a variety of reasons, all had a stake in their continued presence and expansion across the developing world.

Matthew Hilton

Charity and the End of Empire: British Non-Governmental Organizations, Africa, and International Development in the 1960s

慈善与帝国的终结：20世纪60年代英国非政府组织、非洲与国际发展

Journal Article Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards Get access Peter N. Stearns, Peter N. Stearns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carol Z. Stearns Carol Z. Stearns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 90, Issue 4, October 1985, Pages 813–836, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/90.4.813 Published: 01 October 1985

P N Stearns

C Z Stearns

Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards

情感学：阐明情感与情感标准的历史

This article traces how ecological context shaped the actions and ambitions of the United States and the Soviet Union, through a comparison of their use of the Pacific walrus. Based in the shared environmental context of the Bering Strait, it examines how the two countries implemented opposing ideological projects in the Arctic, expecting to increase production and by doing so make Indigenous peoples into capitalist or socialist citizens. In an environment impossible for agriculture and difficult for industry, walrus-harvesting became one of the few productive options for these ambitions. Between the 1870s and the 1950s, both the U.S. and the USSR experimented with massive harvests of blubber and ivory to feed ideas of economic growth, before adopting mirrored conservation policies. This article argues that the reason stems from the inherently metabolic nature of modern states, which function by ensuring flows of energy through their economies and citizens. In the Bering Strait, that energy came in part from walrus, making environmental management and the economic practices it supported dependent on the species’ biological capacities. Not only do modern, growth-oriented states change nature; they function ecologically, emerging from and thus governed by the distributed agency of ecosystems.

Bathsheba Demuth

The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870–1950

海象与官僚：俄罗斯和美国北极地区的能源、生态与国家建设，1870-1950年

Abstract This article rethinks the relationship between opium and empire in twentieth-century Asia. A rich scholarship focuses on the success of anti-opium activists, whose moral crusades gave birth to today’s global drug control regimes. By contrast, I center attention on the lesser-known pro-opium forces, demonstrating how “bad” actors, recognized now as apologists for a dangerous drug, were once essential stakeholders in imperial rule. This article traces the interconnected lives of actors that favored continuing the drug’s legal commerce across Southeast Asia: the merchants, bankers, agents of shipping firms, insurance agencies and warehousing companies as well as employees of colonial industries and governments that sustained opium supply chains from India to British Malaya and French Indochina into the 1930s. Hardly a coherent coalition of profit-seeking actors, these pro-opium forces represented situational allies with linked fates despite diverse opinions, fragmented interests, and ambivalent positions toward their own opium-entangled practices. Understanding their dispersed nature gives scholars reason to revisit the imperial origins of global drug control, while underscoring Southeast Asia’s importance for understanding global histories of drugs and international relations.

Diana Kim

The “Evil Spectators?”

Journal Article Chad L. Williams. The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and The First World War. Get access Chad L. Williams. The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and The First World War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Pp. 544. Cloth $30.00. Le'Trice D Donaldson Le'Trice D Donaldson Auburn University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 1859–1860, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae440 Published: 05 December 2024

Le’Trice D Donaldson

Chad L. Williams. <i>The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and The First World War</i>.

查德·L. 威廉姆斯. 《受伤的世界：W. E. B. 杜波依斯与第一次世界大战》.

Abstract This article explores the concept of resilience within the framework of fengshui forests in subtropical southern China over the last millennium. Consisting of small patches of old-growth or old secondary-growth forest associated with graves, temples, and the paths of wind and water into and out of villages, fengshui forests were historically seen as nodes that supplied vital qi(energy, force or substance) to the community, an understanding that persists to the present day. Using a combination of textual, ethnographic, and scientific evidence, we examine how these forests, deeply embedded in the cultural and ecological fabric of the region, have fostered community resilience and sustainability over centuries. We show that fengshui’s vitalist and syncretic conception of the relationship among living people, ancestors, the land, and the trees allowed it to bridge Indigenous and imperial moral ecologies. By foregrounding both the emic and etic implication of fengshui, this article contributes to our understanding of Indigenous moral ecologies, the histories of social-ecological resilience, and the role of sacred forests in sustaining biodiversity and community well-being, past and present.

Ian M Miller

Chris Coggins

Lines of Fate

命运的轨迹

Abstract This article examines the video essay in this issue, “Visualizing Resilience from the Periphery: Social Movements, Visual Archives, and the Megacity,” and the video essay as a form of historical argumentation. First, the article traces how the video essay reconstructs a visual lexicon that fostered resilience among social movements from the urban peripheries of South America’s most populous city, São Paulo, during Brazil’s civil-military dictatorship (1964–85) and the democratic transition that followed. Popular artists illustrated movement paraphernalia with hand-drawn images of diverse subjects, including urban landscapes, public life, neighborhood organizing, and open protest. The video essay assembles these dispersed illustrations as well as soundscapes and clips from films into distinct phases of a metanarrative connecting the rise of the megacity to collective social action. It subsequently disassembles those focal points to underscore the open-ended and iterative nature of visual argumentation. The article then underscores how the video essay as a form of peer-reviewable argumentation allows historians to creatively engage with a large corpus of visual imagery. It concludes by discussing issues inherent to the form, such as the difference between written and visual argumentation, citation practices, integration of text, translation of foreign languages, and the preservation of digital scholarship, among others.

Daniel McDonald

Setting History in Motion

设定历史的进程

Guy Laron

Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin, eds. <i>Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History</i>.

艾琳·凯恩、玛莎·基拉西罗娃和玛格丽特·利特文编。《俄罗斯-阿拉伯世界：文献史》。

Abstract Resilience is a boundary object, holding different meanings for the different groups of scholars who share its use. Here we survey its application in historical research, especially premodern environmental history, and trace how the term entered historical discourse from ecology. A shift in recent decades expanded the term initially toward contemporary social science and subsequently the study of the past. This has resulted in a fuzzy conceptualization of the term within historical discourse. Yet the concept has nevertheless proven important in challenging catastrophist approaches to the societal impacts of environmental stressors (e.g., the fall of the Roman Empire). We demonstrate that today’s discussion continues an earlier twentieth-century debate between an environmentally determinist view and one that emphasizes the role of human factors in the course of history. We conclude that despite the issues accompanying the use of the term and the application of formal resilience theory, both remain valuable, especially in intradisciplinary discourse, primarily as a paradigm through which more nuanced arguments can be framed. We conclude by suggesting the value of more critical work with the term in the future to take advantage of its roots in ecology and the social sciences to promote such a nuanced synthesis.

Abbreviation	AM HIST REV
Journal Impact	2.08
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY(Q1)

ISSN	0002-8762, 1937-5239
h-index	77
Top Journals	Yes

Publication Information	Publisher: Oxford University Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1990，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:5.30%， Gold OA Rate: 3.21%

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