Impressum Global Histories: A Student Journal Issue 1, volume 1 (2015) ISSN 2366-780X Editors and editorial board members Editor: Alexandra Holmes Editorial Board: Oscar Broughton Leonhard Link Thomas Lindner Willem Van Geel Philipp Kandler Barbara Uchdorf Marius Oesterheld Maximilian Laun Yorim Dominique Spoelder Beninio McDonough Tranza Elisabeth Köller Iris Shahar Publisher information Founded in 2015 by students of the MA program ‘Global History’ at the Freie Universität and the Humboldt Univeristät in Berlin, the ‘Global Histories’ journal is a Berlin based bi-annual journal published in association with the Freie Univer- sität Berlin. Freie Universität Berlin Global Histories: a student journal Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Sponsors This journal project is realized with generous support from Free University Berlin, specifically from the Global History Section of the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, the OJS e-publishing project at CEDIS, and the ZEDAT hostmaster team. Scope and purpose In response to the increasing interest in the ‘global’ as a field of inquiry, a per- spective, and an approach, ‘Global Histories: a student journal’ aims to offer a platform for debate, discussion and intellectual exchange for a new generation of scholars with diverse research interests. Global history can provide an opportu- nity to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and methodological centrisms, both in time and space. As students of global history at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, our interest lies not in prescribing what global history is and what it is not, but to encourage collaboration, cooperation, and dis- course among students seeking to explore new intellectual frontiers. Publication frequency The journal is published twice yearly in June and December. Please see the web- site for further details. Copyright and publication dates All material is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Interna- tional copyright licence. First published December 2015. Peer review status and ethics This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles which appear in this issue, with the exception of editorial content, were subject to peer review. Contact information For librarians to submit information or questions about the bibliographic history and publication title, please contact the Editor at: [email protected] For more information please consult our website www.globalhistories.com or email [email protected] Contents Editorial Note vii Acknowledgements ix Conference Articles 1 Plants, Power and Knowledge: An Exploration of the Imperial Networks and the Circuits of Botanical Knowledge and Medical Systems on the Western Coast of India Against the backdrop of European Expansionism 3 Conceptions of Time and History in New Spain: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca (~1625) 21 “When we spoke at Versailles”: Lou Tseng-Tsiang and the Chinese Delegation at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, A Frustrated Quest for Justice 39 “And it is still not much different in Europe!” Understanding and Translating Anxiety: Homophile Emotional Ties Across the Atlantic 1950-1965 61 An Armchair Scholar’s World: Cornelius de Pauw and the Global Discourse of Historiography in the late Enlightenment 79 Book Reviews 93 Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World National- ism 95 Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism: Between Reason and Romanticism 99 The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are 101 Conference Reviews 105 The First Annual Global History Student Conference, Berlin 107 EUI Summer School Review 115 Europäische Sommer Universität Ravensbrück 2015 — A Reflection 119 First Global History Collaborative Summer School 2015, Tokyo and Sapporo 125 Final Discussion 127 Final Discussion 129 Editorial Note Dear Reader, The Global Histories Student Journal was born from our first Global History Student Conference which was held in April 2015. This conference was organised by a small group of dedicated students from the Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität in Berlin who together were able to prepare and host a two-day con- ference which featured a diverse array of topics, presented by forty participants from across the world, on the theme of global history. The success of this event has provided the impetus for this project: a student journal dedicated to inquiry into the burgeoning field of global history. As with the conference, strong em- phasis is placed on this journal being a project organised by and for students. It provides a space within which young scholars can exhibit and explore their work in dialogue with others. It aims to highlight the possibilities of student authorship and editorial skill, and develop a network for further collaboration. This first volume of the journal is conceived as a direct response to the confer- ence in April 2015 as its principal theme. It presents a number of papers delivered by students at the conference in Berlin in order to exhibit their talent and under- score the diversity of overlapping themes which characterised the conference. Alongside these are summaries of its ten panels, which capture the discursive at- mosphere and cross section of ideas which occurred. Also included is a summary of the final discussion from the conference, which featured all of the participants and focused on evaluating the state of global history and its frontiers. In an effort to reinforce these themes, this edition also contains three book reviews and three conference/summer school reports. Although this journal arose from the efforts of the conference team, it is not merely meant to be an extension of the annual conference. Although the two proj- ects will remain linked, this journal is intended to provide a platform for further discussion and presentation of research from students across the globe, and not merely as a showcase for those able to attend a single weekend of the year. To that end, the next issue will be published in June 2016 and we encourage students to consider submitting their research. If you are interested, please keep your eye on our website (http://www.globalhistories.com) which will advertise the next call for papers, along with the theme for the summer edition, in January. Thank you for taking the time to read our efforts, The Editorial Team vii Acknowledgements Many of the people involved in this project overlap between groups. Although they are only mentioned once for the sake of brevity, we are grateful for their par- ticipation in all their different roles. Immense thanks go to Professor Sebastian Conrad for his support from the beginning of the conference group, and without whom there would be neither conference nor journal, as well as to the Research Area “Global History” at Freie Universität Berlin, particularly Michael Goebel who provided so much support and assistance towards the creation of the conference and for delivering its open- ing keynote address. Credit must also be given to the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Devel- opment, especially Benno Gammerl who provided so much early advice and en- thusiasm towards our ideas. We furthermore want to acknowledge the efforts of those students of Global History who contributed so much time and effort towards this journal, and are re- sponsible for this project: Alexandra Holmes, Willem Van Geel, Barbara Uchdorf, Iris Shahar, Leonhard Link, Beninio McDonough Tranza, Frederik Schröer, Yor- im Spoelder and Wolfgang Thiele. Specifically those have to be mentioned who had already been involved in organizing the Global History Student Conference, who formed the basis for this project and performed incredible feats of coordina- tion, and dedication towards seeing the project to completion: Oscar Broughton, Jan Deeg, Philipp Kandler, Elisabeth Köller, Björn Holm, Thomas Lindner, Mar- ius Oesterheld and Maximilian Laun. A special thanks goes to Julius Redzinski for his help during the conference. We also want to thank all the participants, who presented their work as part of the conference, without whom the conference would have been impossible and who filled it with such lively themes for discus- sion: Josh Mentanko, Sébastien Tremblay, Nailya Shamgunova, Martin Wagner, Andreas Oberdorf, Natalia Pashkeeva, Sean Phillips, Tobit Vandamme, Julian A. Theseira, Tim Rudnicki, Julian zur Lage, Scott Schorr, Charlotte Piepenbrock, Elisabeth Gheorghe, Mahmoud Baballah, Damilola A. Adebayo, Paromita Das Gupta, Tatjana Poletajew, Eman Abdeen, Julia Mariko Jacoby, Thilo Neidhöfer, Zoltán Gyimesi, Malavika Binny, Judith Mansilla, Richard Herzog, Meera G. Muralidharan, Philipp Meller, Christiane Borchert, Radu Dipratu, Joe Kelly, Peter H. Bent, Jonas Söderqvist, Gabriel Schimmeroth, Ester Pink, Nari Shelekpayev and Andreas Greiner. Special thanks goes to Online Journal System staff at the Freie Universität Cen- tre for Digital Systems, especially Christina Riesenweber and Bozana Bokan for their encouragement and support with setting up the journal online, and to the ZEDAT hostmaster team, particularly to Heiko Schlichting for his technical sup- port in setting up the web domain. We furthermore want to express our gratitude towards Heike Kubisch who helped us to overcome so many issues and problems, and who