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Juridical Humanity

A Colonial History

by Samera Esmeir
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that distinguished freedom from force and the human...
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How India Became Territorial

Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics

by Itty Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014

Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination...
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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment

Comparative Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal...
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The Margins of Empire

Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

by Janet Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story...
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Partners of the Empire

The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

by Ali Yaycioglu
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements....
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The Charity of War

Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East

by Melanie S. Tanielian
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

With the exception of a few targeted aerial bombardments of the city's port, Beirut and Mount Lebanon did not see direct combat in World War I. Yet civilian casualties in this part of the Ottoman Empire reached shocking heights, possibly numbering half a million people. No war, in its usual understanding,...
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East West Mimesis

Auerbach in Turkey

by Kader Konuk
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion...
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Blown by the Spirit

Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

by David R. Como
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2004

This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in pre-revolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscripts and printed material to reconstruct and contextualize a forgotten but highly significant antinomian religious subculture that evolved...
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Contested Embrace

Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

by Jaeeun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and...
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Yugoslavia and Its Historians

Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s

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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2003

Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journalists, political analysts, diplomats, human rights organization, the United Nations, and other government and intergovernmental organizations. Professional...
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Forging a Multinational State

State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War

by John Deak
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015

The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought...
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Broke and Patriotic

Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

by Francesco Duina
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand more from...
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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation

Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice

by Dominique Kirchner Reill
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s who proposed the...
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The Singing Turk

Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

by Larry Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works,...
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