Arms, Beads, Cloth

🔴 New publication of #ABC!

The head of our research unit of Rome, Giacomo Macola, has just published “A Violent History. Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” with Leuven University Press

🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/notizia/new-...

REDMIX research fellows Sara Zanotta and Adnen el Ghali will be the guest editors of a special issue of Northeast African Studies on #mixing and #mixedness in #RedSea cities

📩 send your title and abstract proposals to redmix@unito.it by 30 October 2025

#ERC #ERCCoG #REDMIX @erc.europa.eu

Arms beads and cloth - Video gallery African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series     Patrick Otim - The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda   Pierre Nicolò Sofia - From East Africa to Venice https:...

Did you miss any of our seminars?
You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/

#abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury

Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade” with Anne Ruderman
📍 6 June 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR

Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “(Post-)Colonial Threads: Colonial-Era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa” with Kate Frederick
📍 23 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR

Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900” with Jan-Bart Gewald
📍 9 May 2025, 4 p.m. CET, online
🔗 BIT.LY/4G6HVPR

🔴 Unfortunately our seminar of 30th April 2025 with Giorgio Riello is cancelled.

We look forward to seeing you all at the next seminar on 9th May!

Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr

‼️Unfortunately the next session of our seminar series cannot be held on 7th March

We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions

Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...

Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)" with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025, at 4pm CET.
armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/semin...

Don’t miss next session of our seminar series!
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...

Arms beads and cloth - African consumers and the global economy: A new history – Seminar Series An online Seminar Series from February to June 2025 with world-renowned experts in the field of African studies and Global history.

If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email prin2022abc@gmail.com and request to be added to our mailing list.

Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/afric...

Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series!
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim

The program of our online seminar series is finally out!

From February to June, ABC will host world-renowned experts in the fields of #Africanstudies and #Globalhistory

🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4g6hVPr

Arms beads and cloth - Pavia This Research Unit comprises three different subprojects: Tailored to Customers’ Needs. Horn of Africa Consumers and the Global Textile Production: This subproject will explore how consumer preference...

To know more about this project and be updated about the #digitalhumanities dimension of ABS ➡️ armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/progetto/pav...

🧶CLOTH

The research unit of @unipv, headed by Massimo Zaccaria, explores the demand of #textiles in the #HornofAfrica in the 19th century. It investigates how consumer preferences influenced the textile production of far-away countries and the changing local #fashion.

To know more about this research unit ➡️ armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/progetto/bol...

📿 BEADS

The research unit of @Unibo, headed by @KarinPallaver, investigates the relationship between the production of glass beads in #Venice and their distribution in #EastAfrica (subproject 1) and the use of #glassbeads as a currency in East Africa (subproject 2).

Arms beads and cloth - Roma The Research Unit comprises two different sub-projects: Nineteenth-Century “Trade Guns” in the Congo Estuary. Local Refractions of a Global Trade: This sub-project examines the production and circulat...

To know more about this research unit➡️ armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/progetto/roma/

⚫️ ARMS

The research unit of @SapienzaRoma, headed by Giacomo Macola, studies the European production and marketing of #trade #guns and their circulation to study the role of #African societies and their practices in the #global processes of production, consumption, and exchange

Arms beads and cloth - A New History of Commodities: The Arms Trade in the Lower Congo in the 19th Century The history of the production and commerce of trade guns in the second half of the 19th century evokes an African centrality that most existing accounts of the growth of international economic integra...

📚The project (PI Karin Pallaver) has three research units @Unibo @unipv @SapienzaRoma

🇪🇺 ABC has received funding from the European Union – Next Generation EU, PRIN Call 2022.

🔗 To learn more about our project, check out our website armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it

🎯 We expect to demonstrate the centrality of African societies and their material practices to #global processes of production, exchange and consumption, rejecting the still common view of the limited Africans’ role in the global economy

Welcome to “Arms, Beads, and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-Century Global Economy”!

🌍 Our #research project explores 19th-century trajectories of #arms, #beads and #cloth in east-central #Africa.

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