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Edward Cavanagh analyzes Empire's Companies
At the Institute for European Global Studies, Edward W. Cavanagh advances his research on "Empire’s Companies: Settler Colonialism and Property Law in World History". He will stay as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies from September to November.
In his research project, Edward Cavanagh provides a large-scale comparative history of settler colonialism with a focus on over a dozen companies and analyzes their different roles in the dispossession of pre-existing populations in different countries across a period of about 400 years. His main argument is, that a series of powerful companies primarily from England did the ‘dirty work’ which allowed new societies to emerge across the globe.
Edward William Cavanagh is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, specialising in comparative histories of colonialism, settler colonialism, and imperialism. He concurrently holds the Trillium Foundation Scholarship and the R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship for Canadian Legal History. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Settler Colonial Studies and his most recent book, Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.
Every year, the Institute for European Global Studies invites selected scholars to join as Visiting Fellows and to work on specific projects related to the overall research approach of the institute. Visiting Fellows provide impulses to their field of expertise and share their ideas about research in and on a Global Europe with colleagues.
In the upcoming weeks and months, we publish a news series introducing all new Visiting Fellows. Shortly before their stay at the Institute of European Global Studies, a short interview will be available on this website. Learn more about the new Visiting Fellows when they present their research project during a Working Lunch.