Samenvatting This paper asks how time standardisation and the colonial notion of progressive time acted and interacted in the Dutch East Indies. The colonisation of time was a process that had started long before the nineteenth century, by missionaries who subjected non-Western people to the mission bell and Christian rhythms. It continued with the spread […]
Kirsten Weitering | The Cat’s Cradle of Felines and Society – Cats and American Domesticity (1870-1920)
Samenvatting This thesis provides an innovative insight into the history of domesticity, women and cats by focusing on these topics in the period from 1870 to 1920 in the cities of New York, Boston and Chicago. It reveals how cats were influenced by, and had an impact on domesticity in the United States. The research […]