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Indigeneity, Development, A Political Economy of Public Histories of Native Autonomy Europeans, Guaraní, and Industrialization, and Memories of My Indigenous Father
and Inequality in Twentieth- Markets in Mexico City in Brazil the Global Origins of the Service Economy in Aparecida Vilaça
Century Mexico Heather F. Roller Modern Economy São Paulo, 1950–2020
Ingrid Bleynat When Aparecida Vilaça first
A. S. Dillingham Mexico City’s public markets Around the year 1800, independent Brian P. Owensby Francisco Vidal Luna and traveled down the remote Negro
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how were integral to the country’s Native groups still effectively In the centuries before Europeans Herbert S. Klein River in Amazonia, she expected
indigenous people in one of Mexico’s economic development, bolstering controlled about half the territory crossed the Atlantic, social and mate- In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one to come back with notebooks and
most rebellious states shaped local the expansion of capitalism from the of the Americas. How did they rial relations among the indigenous of the most advanced industrial tapes full of observations about the
and national politics during the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth maintain their political autonomy Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay networks among the “developing” Indigenous Wari’ people—but not
twentieth century. Focusing on the centuries. These publicly owned and territorial sovereignty, hun- were based on reciprocal gift-giving. countries, initially concentrated in with a new father. In Paletó and Me,
experiences of anthropologists, and operated markets supplied dreds of years after the arrival of But the Spanish and Portuguese the state of São Paulo. But from the Vilaça shares her life with her adop-
government bureaucrats, trade union- households with everyday necessi- Europeans? In a study that spans the newcomers who arrived in the 1980s, decentralization of industry tive Wari’ family, and the profound
ists, and activists, A. S. Dillingham ties and generated revenue for local eighteenth to twentieth centuries sixteenth century seemed interested spread to other states reducing São personal transformations involved
explores the relationship between authorities. At the same time, they and ranges across the vast interior in the Guaraní only to advance their Paulo’s relative importance in the in becoming kin. Winner of the
indigeneity, rural education and were embedded in a wider network of South America, Heather F. Roller own interests, either through material country’s industrial product. This prestigious Casa de las Américas
development, and the political radical- of economic and social relations examines this history of power and exchange or by getting the Guaraní volume draws on social, economic, Prize, Paletó and Me is a celebration
ism of the Global Sixties. By centering that gave vendors an influence far persistence from the vantage point to serve them. Brian P. Owensby uses and demographic data to document of life, weaving together the author’s
indigenous expressions of anticolo- beyond the running of their stalls. of autonomous Native peoples in the centuries-long encounter between the accelerated industrialization of own memories of learning the
nialism, Oaxaca Resurgent offers key Vendors’ daily interactions with Brazil. Rather than fleeing or evad- Europeans and indigenous people of the state and its subsequent shift to a lifeways of Indigenous Amazonia
insights into the entangled histories customers, suppliers, and local ing contact, Native peoples actively South America to reframe the notion service economy amidst worsening with her father’s testimony to Wari’
of indigenous resistance movements government shaped the city’s public sought to appropriate what was of economic gain as a historical social and economic inequality. persistence in the face of coloniza-
and the rise of state-sponsored sphere and expanded the scope of useful and potent from outsiders, development rather than a matter Through its cultural institutions, tion. Speaking from the heart as
multiculturalism in the Americas. popular politics. Vendors’ Capitalism incorporating new knowledge, of human nature. Owensby argues universities, banking, and corporate both anthropologist and daughter,
This revelatory book provides crucial argues for the centrality of Mexico products, and even people, on that gain—the pursuit of individual, sectors, the municipality of São Vilaça offers an intimate look at
context for understanding post-1968 City’s public markets to the political their own terms and for their own material self-interest—must be under- Paulo would become a world Indigenous lives in Brazil over
Mexican history and the rise of the economy of the city from the resto- stood as a global development that metropolis. At the same time, given
purposes. Their tactical decisions nearly a century.
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for our contemporary world may as “This compelling book illuminates great European expansion spanning bution, housing, and governance.
persistence through transformation. colonized peoples of America.”
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and plurality of vision of its many of economic and political forces in “Roller’s groundbreaking study is invaluable reference for scholars of —Casa de las Américas
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Dirty Works The Battle Nearer to Home The Paranoid Style in The Nuclear Club Atomic Steppe Winning and Losing
Obscenity on Trial in America’s The Persistence of School American Diplomacy How America and the World How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Nuclear Peace
First Sexual Revolution Segregation in New York City Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq Policed the Atom from Hiroshima the Bomb The Rise, Demise, and
Brett Gary Christopher Bonastia to Vietnam Togzhan Kassenova Revival of Arms Control
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
At the turn of the twentieth century, Despite its image as an epicenter Jonathan R. Hunt Atomic Steppe tells the story of how Michael Krepon
This book weaves together histories
the United States was experiencing of progressive social policy, New of Arab nationalists, US diplomats, The Nuclear Club reveals how the marginalized Central Asian Winning and Losing the Nuclear
an awakening. Victorian-era morality York City continues to have one and Western oil execs to expose a coalition of powerful and republic of Kazakhstan said no Peace tells a remarkable story of
was being challenged by the intro- of the nation’s most segregated the origins of US intervention in developing states embraced global to the most powerful weapons in high-wire acts of diplomacy, close
duction of sexual modernism and school systems. Tracing the quest Iraq over the arc of the twentieth governance in hopes of a bright and human history. With the fall of the calls, dogged persistence, and
women’s rights into popular culture, for integration in education from century and tell the parallel stories peaceful tomorrow. While fears of Soviet Union, Kazakhstan suddenly extraordinary success. Michael
the arts, and science. Dirty Works the mid-1950s to the present, The of the Iraq Petroleum Company nuclear war were ever-present, it found itself with the world’s fourth Krepon brings to life the pitched
focuses on a series of significant Battle Nearer to Home follows and the resilience of Iraqi society. was the perceived threat to their largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. battles between arms controllers and
courtroom cases—all represented by the tireless efforts by educational American policymakers, who in- preeminence that drove Washington, Would it give up these fire-ready advocates of nuclear deterrence, the
Morris L. Ernst. Over the course of activists to dismantle the deep racial Moscow, and London to throw their weapons—or try to become a
flated concerns about access to and ironic twists and unexpected out-
his remarkable career, Ernst defended and socioeconomic inequalities that weight behind the 1963 Limited Central Asian North Korea? This
potential scarcity of oil, gave rise comes from Truman to Trump. What
well-known European and American segregation reinforces. The fight for Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing book takes us inside Kazakhstan’s
to a “paranoid style” in US foreign began with a ban on atmospheric
literati and sexual activists, among integration has shifted significantly nuclear testing underground, the extraordinary and little-known
policy. Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt testing and a nonproliferation treaty
them Margaret Sanger, James Joyce, over time, not least in terms of the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning nuclear history from the Soviet
deconstructs these policy practices reached its apogee with treaties that
and Alfred Kinsey. These cases way “integration” is conceived, from atomic armaments from Latin period to the present. Equipped
provided courts with a powerful to reveal how they fueled decades mandated deep cuts and corralled
transfers of students and redrawing of American interventions, and America, and the 1968 Nuclear with intimate personal perspective “loose nukes” after the Soviet Union
body of precedents that recognized school attendance zones, to more and untapped archival resources,
shines a light on those places that Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), imploded. Winning and Losing the
women’s reproductive rights and
recent demands for community America’s covert empire-builders forbidding more countries from Togzhan Kassenova introduces us Nuclear Peace is an engaging account
the legitimacy of sexual inquiry. The
control of segregated schools. In might prefer we not look. joining the most exclusive club on to the engineers turned diplomats, of how the practice of arms control
legacy of this important but largely
excavating the history of New York Earth. This globe-spanning history villagers turned activists, and was built from scratch, how it was
unrecognized moment in American “The Paranoid Style in American
City school integration politics demonstrates how even today, the scientists turned pacifists who torn down, and how it can be rebuilt.
history must be reckoned with, as Diplomacy is a gripping backstory
in the halls of power and on the that reveals the historical truths of nuclear order legitimizes foreign worked toward disarmament.
many of the issues Ernst and his “Until now, there has been no com-
colleagues defended are still under ground, Christopher Bonastia un- US-Iraqi relations. American cold intervention worldwide, empowering “A deeply researched and profoundly prehensive history of nuclear arms
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8 UNITED STATES WORLD 9Between Containment The Bleeding Wound Guns, Guerillas, and Between Empire and Nation Dream Super-Express Korea
and Rollback The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Great Leader Muslim Reform in the Balkans A Cultural History of the World’s A History
The United States and the the Collapse of the Soviet System North Korea and the Third World Milena B. Methodieva First Bullet Train Eugene Y. Park
Cold War in Germany Yaacov Ro’i Benjamin R. Young Jessamyn Abel
This book tells the story of the trans- While popular trends, cuisine, and
Christian F. Ostermann By the mid-1980s, public opinion in Far from always having been an iso- formation of the Muslim community A symbol of the “new Japan” dis- long-standing political tension have
In the aftermath of World War II, the USSR had begun to turn against lated nation and a pariah state within in modern Bulgaria during a period played at World’s Fairs, depicted in made Korea familiar in some ways
American diplomats and policymak- Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the international community, North of imperial dissolution, conflicting travel posters, and celebrated as the to a vast English-speaking world,
ers turned to the task of rebuilding the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) Korea exercised significant influence national and imperial enterprises, product of a national spirit of inno- its recorded history of some two
Europe while keeping Communism had become a long, painful, and among Third World nations during and the emergence of new national vation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen— millennia remains unfamiliar to
at bay. Based on recently declassified unwinnable conflict, one that the Cold War era. With one foot in and ethnic identities. Methodieva the first bullet train, dubbed the most. Korea: A History addresses
documents, this book tells the story Mikhail Gorbachev referred to the socialist Second World and the explores how former Ottoman “dream super-express”—represents general readers, providing an
of U.S. policy toward East Germany in a 1986 speech as the “bleeding other in the anticolonial Third World, subjects, now under Bulgarian the bold aspirations of a nation re- up-to-date, accessible overview of
from 1945 to 1953. As the American wound.” Both the initial decision to North Korea occupied a unique posi- rule, navigated between empire and branding itself after military defeat, Korean history from antiquity to
approach shifted from “containment” send troops into Afghanistan and tion as both a postcolonial nation and nation-state, and sought to claim a but also the deep problems caused the present. Eugene Y. Park draws
to more active “rollback” of Communist the eventual decision to withdraw a Soviet client state. North Korea sent place in the larger modern world. by the unbridled postwar drive for on original-language sources and
power, the Truman and Eisenhower created devastating ripples within advisors to assist African liberation Using a wide array of primary sources economic growth. At the dawn of recent East Asian and Western-
administrations worked to under- Soviet society that, this book argues, movements, trained anti-imperialist and drawing on both Ottoman and the space age, how could a train language scholarship to provide
mine Soviet-backed Communist rule became a major factor in the col- guerilla fighters, and completed Eastern European historiographies, become such an important symbol? an insightful and broad-ranging
without compromising economic building projects in developing Methodieva approaches the question In Dream Super-Express, Jessamyn account. This book expands
lapse of the Soviet Union. In this
and nation-building interests in West comprehensive survey of the effects countries. State-run media coverage of Balkan Muslims’ engagement with Abel contends that understanding still-limited English-language
Germany—a strategy that involved of the Third World shaped the the various, often contradictory, discussions on pre-modern Korea,
of the war on Soviet society and modernity through a transnational
covert operations, propaganda, worldview of many North Koreans images of the bullet train reveals offering rigorous and compelling
politics, Yaacov Ro’i analyzes the lens, arguing that the experience of
and psychological warfare. This and helped them imagine a unified how infrastructure operates beyond analyses of Korea’s modernization
opinions of Soviet citizens on a host this Muslim minority provides new
international history tracks relations of issues connected with the war and anti-imperialist front that stretched its intended use as a means of while discussing daily life, ethnic
insight into the nature of nationalism,
between East German and Soviet from the boulevards of Pyongyang to transportation to perform cultural minorities, LGBTQ history, and
documents the systemic change that citizenship, and state formation.
Communists, providing new per- the streets of the Gaza Strip and the and sociological functions. North Korean history not always
would occur when Soviet leadership “This important new book is set to included in Korea surveys. Park
spectives on U.S. foreign policy took public opinion into account. beaches of Cuba. “Abel takes us on a magnificent
redefine the entanglements of modern breaks new ground on questions
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Businessman China’s Secret War in Tibet A Diasporic History Partition and Nation Building Capitalist Dreams and Sovereignty, Violence, and
Echoes of Counterrevolution Jianglin Li with a Foreword by Wayne Soon in India’s Capital Nationalist Designs in Twenty- Democracy in India
from New China His Holiness the Dalai Lama Rotem Geva First-Century India Sunil Purushotham
In 1938, one year into the Second
Brian DeMare From 1956 to 1962, devastating Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Delhi, one of the world’s largest Ravinder Kaur Between 1946 and 1952, the British
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman military conflicts took place in military found itself in dire medical cities, has faced momentous The early twenty-first century was an Raj, the world’s largest colony, was
explores the early years of China’s China’s southwestern and north- straits. Soldiers were suffering from challenges—mass migration, optimistic moment of global futures- transformed into the Republic of India,
rural revolution through four true- western regions. These events would deadly illnesses and were unable to competing governing authorities, making. The chief narrative was the world’s largest democracy. Inde-
crime tales of counterrevolution in lead to the 14th Dalai Lama’s exile in receive blood transfusions for their controversies over citizenship, and the emergence of the BRIC nations pendence, the Constituent Assembly
the northern Jiangxi Provide county India, as well as the Tibetan diaspora wounds. The urgent need for medical communal violence. To understand branded afresh as resource-rich hubs Debates, the founding of the Republic,
of Poyang. Using a unique casefile in 1959 and the destruction of most assistance prompted an unprecedent- the contemporary plight of India’s of untapped talent and potential and India’s first democratic general
approach, Brian DeMare recounts Tibetan monasteries in a concerted ed flowering of scientific knowledge capital city, this book revisits one from the old third world that election occurred amidst the violence
stories of a Confucian scholar who effort to eradicate local religion and in China and Taiwan throughout of the most dramatic episodes in its “opened up” for foreign investments. and displacement of the Partition
found himself allied with bandits scholarship. Official records at the the twentieth century. In this book, history, telling the story of how the The tantalizing promise of economic and the forceful quelling of internal
and secret society members, a time scarcely made mention of the Wayne Soon draws on archives city was remade by the twin events growth invited investments in the dissent. This book investigates the ways
farmer who murdered a cadre, an campaign, and in the years since, from three continents to argue that of partition and independence. nation’s exciting futures; it also in which these violent conjunctures
evil tyrant who exploited religious only lukewarm acknowledgment of Overseas Chinese were key to this Treating decolonization as a process offered utopian visions of “good constituted a postcolonial regime of
traditions to avoid prosecution, and the violence has surfaced. When the development, utilizing their global that unfolded from the late 1930s times,” and even restoration of sovereignty and shaped the historical
a merchant accused of a crime he Iron Bird Flies breaks this decades connections and diasporic links into the mid-1950s, Rotem Geva lost glory to the nation’s citizens. development of democracy in India at
did not commit. Balancing storytell- long silence to reveal for the first to procure much-needed money, traces how India and Pakistan Grounded in the history of modern the foundational moment of decolo-
ing with historical inquiry, this book time a comprehensive and explosive supplies, and medical expertise. The became increasingly territorialized India, Brand New Nation reveals nization and national independence.
is at once a grassroots view of rural picture of the six years that would remarkable expansion of care and in the imagination and practice of the on-the-ground experience of From Raj to Republic presents the
China’s legal system and a lesson in prove definitive in modern Tibetan education that they spurred shifted the city’s residents, how violence the relentless transformation of the story of how a national, territorial,
archival research itself. and Chinese history. biomedicine out of elite, urban and displacement were central to nation-state into an attractive invest- republican, and liberal polity in
civilian institutions and laboratories this process, and how tensions over ment destination for speculative India emerged out of a violent and
“Written in a lively and accessible style, “Authoritative, exhaustive, and
reliable, Jianglin Li’s account sets and transformed it into an adaptive belonging and citizenship lingered global capital. contested process that forged new
each chapter presents a skillfully crafted
and entertaining narrative of events a new standard for the history of field-based practice for all. in the city and the nation. power relations and opened up
“Brand New Nation takes us on a
triggered by the PRC party-state’s Sino-Tibetan relations and deftly “This illuminating transnational history SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION tour—a tour de force, really—of the historical trajectories with lasting
efforts to intervene in one Chinese depicts the momentous historical integrates major biomedical transfor- 358 Pages, August 2022 changing trajectory of the nation- consequences for modern India.
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A valuable addition to the field.” convulsions of mid-century China.” pathbreaking piece of work.” India’s Partition.”
—Micah Muscolino, —David G. Atwill, —Marta Hanson, —John Comaroff, —Faisal Devji,
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12 ASIA ASIA 13Recording History Media of the Masses Unknown Past Transnational Palestine Dear Palestine The City as Anthology
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Migration and the Right of A Social History of the 1948 War Eroticism and Urbanity in
Twentieth-Century North Africa Andrew Simon Star of Egypt Return before 1948 Shay Hazkani Early Modern Isfahan
Christopher Silver This book investigates the social Hanan Hammad Nadim Bawalsa This book offers a new history Kathryn Babayan
If twentieth-century stories of Jews life of the cassette tape to offer a This book recounts Jewish-Muslim Migration from Palestine to the of the 1948 War, focusing on the This book tells a new history of
and Muslims in North Africa are multisensory history of modern film star Layla Murad’s extraordi- Americas developed over the mid- people caught up in the conflict Isfahan, at the transformative
usually told separately, Recording Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, nary life—and the rapid political nineteenth century through the and its transnational reverbera- moment it became a cosmopolitan
History demonstrates that we have cassettes became a ubiquitous and sociocultural changes she interwar period, during which time tions. Through their letters home, center of imperial rule. For a
not been listening to what brought presence in Egyptian homes and witnessed. Hammad writes a story Palestinians emerged as a transna- the young men and women who city with no extant state or civic
these communities together: Arab stores. Enabling an unprecedented centered on Murad’s persona and tional political collective. Across the fought the war come to life, writing archives, Kathryn Babayan reimag-
music. For decades, thousands of number of people to participate in legacy, and broadly framed around diaspora, these migrants discussed about everything from daily life ines an archive of anthologies to
phonograph records flowed across the creation of culture and circula- a gendered history of twentieth- strategies for economic success in to nationalism, colonialism, race, recover how residents shaped their
North African borders and gave tion of content, cassette players century Egypt. Murad was a Jew the Americas, for preserving aspects and the character of their enemies. communities and crafted their
voice to a changing world. Popular and tapes soon informed broader who converted to Islam in the of their cultures, and for resisting Dear Palestine also examines how urban, religious, and sexual selves.
songs broadcast on radio, performed cultural, political, and economic shadow of the first Arab-Israeli oppressive British and French man- the architects of the conflict worked She highlights eight residents—
in concert, and circulated on disc developments and defined “modern” war. Her career blossomed under date legislation, including citizenship to influence and indoctrinate key from king to widow, painter to
carried with them the power to Egyptian households. Drawing on the Egyptian monarchy and later rejections meted out to thousands of ideologies in these ordinary sol- religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat
send Jewish-Muslim audiences a wide array of audio, visual, and gave a singing voice to the Free Palestinian migrants. They did this diers, by examining battle orders, —who anthologized their city,
into a frenzy—or French colonial textual sources that exist outside the Officers and the 1952 Revolution. in newspapers, social and cultural pamphlets, army magazines, and divulging their social, cultural, and
officials into a fury. With this book, Egyptian National Archives, Andrew The definitive end of her cinematic clubs and associations, political radio broadcasts. Through two nar- religious spheres of life. Through
Christopher Silver provides the Simon demonstrates how cassettes career came under Nasser on the organizations and committees, and ratives—the official and unofficial, them, we see the gestures, manners,
first history of the music scene and and cassette players did not simply eve of the 1956 Suez War. Egyptians in hundreds of petitions and pleas the propaganda and the personal and sensibilities of a shared culture
recording industry across Morocco, join other twentieth century mass have long told their national story delivered to local and international letters—Dear Palestine reveals the that configured their relations
Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers media like records and radio; they through interpretations of Murad’s governing bodies demanding justice fissures between sanctioned nation- and negotiated the lines between
striking insights into Jewish-Muslim were the media of the masses. life, intertwining the individual and for Palestinian migrants barred from alism and individual identity. friendship and eroticism. These
relations through the rhythms that “Simon’s masterful history of the Egyptian state and society to better Palestinian citizenship. As this book “Hazkani makes a brilliant contribu- entangled acts of seeing and read-
animated them. cassette crystallizes the crucial impor- understand Egyptian identity. As shows, Palestinian political and tion to the literature on the 1948 ing, desiring and writing converge
“By astutely listening to the past, Silver tance of technology. Important for Unknown Past recounts, there’s no national consciousness developed as Palestine War. Impeccably balanced to fashion the refined urban self
paints a rich and complex picture of historians of modern Egypt, and a life better than Murad’s to reflect the a thoroughly transnational process and engagingly written, Dear through the sensual and the sexual.
North African music, aural culture, stellar contribution to the history of tumultuous changes experienced in the first half of the twentieth Palestine is a remarkable book.”
new media.” “A testament to Babayan’s status as
and recording history.” —Walter Armbrust,
over the dramatic decades of the century—and the first articulation of —Eugene Rogan, one of the most engaging historians
mid-twentieth century. a Palestinian right of return emerged University of Oxford
—Ziad Fahmy, University of Oxford of Iran working today.”
Cornell University
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE 328 Pages, April 2022 well before 1948. STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE —Shahzad Bashir,
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14 MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST 15Iran in Motion The Discovery of Iran The Unsettled Plain The Last Nahdawi The Horrors of Adana Revolutions Aesthetic
Mobility, Space, and the Taghi Arani, a Radical An Environmental History Taha Hussein and Institution Revolution and Violence in A Cultural History of Ba’thist Syria
Trans-Iranian Railway Cosmopolitan of the Late Ottoman Frontier Building in Egypt the Early Twentieth Century Max Weiss
Mikiya Koyagi Ali Mirsepassi Chris Gratien Hussam R. Ahmed Bedross Der Matossian The coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad
This book traces the contested This book examines the history of Over the course of the late nine- Taha Hussein is one of Egypt’s In April 1909, twin massacres shook to power fundamentally transformed
imaginations and practices of Iranian nationalism afresh through teenth and early twentieth centuries, most iconic figures. A graduate of the province of Adana, killing more cultural production in Syria. An ensu-
mobility from the conception of a the life and work of Taghi Arani, the the environmental transformation al-Azhar, Egypt’s oldest university, a than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 ing agonistic struggle pitted official
trans-Iranian railway project during founder of Iran’s first Marxist jour- of the Ottoman countryside became civil servant and public intellectual, Muslims. This book offers one of aesthetics of power against alternative
the nineteenth-century global nal, Donya. In his quest to imagine intertwined with migration and and ultimately Egyptian Minister of the first close examinations of these modes of creative expression that
transport revolution to its early a future for Iran, Arani combined displacement. Drawing on both Public Instruction, Hussein was an events, analyzing sociopolitical and could evade or ignore the effects of the
years of operation on the eve of Marxist materialism and a cosmo- Ottoman Turkish and Armenian influential figure in Egypt during the economic transformations that state. This book offers the first cultural
Iran’s oil nationalization movement politan ethics of progress. He and sources, Chris Gratien brings rural parliamentary period. Examining culminated in a cataclysm of violence. and intellectual history of Ba’thist
in the 1950s. Weaving together his contemporaries engaged vibrant populations into the momentous Hussein’s actions against the backdrop Bedross Der Matossian provides Syria, from the coming to power of
various individual experiences, debates about national identity, his- events of the period: Ottoman of his complex relationship with the voice and agency to all involved Hafiz al-Asad through the Syria War,
Mikiya Koyagi considers how the tory, and Iran’s place in the modern reform, Mediterranean capitalism, Egyptian state, the religious estab- in the massacres—perpetrators, and reconceptualizes contemporary
infrastructural megaproject reori- world. As Ali Mirsepassi shows, the First World War, and Turkish lishment, and the French government, victims, and bystanders. Drawing on Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and
ented the flows of people and goods. Arani’s cosmopolitanism compli- nation-building. Through the Hussam R. Ahmed reveals modern primary sources in a dozen languages, cultural life. Engaging rich original
The railway project simultaneously cates the conventional wisdom that ecological perspectives of everyday Egypt’s cultural influence in the he develops an interdisciplinary sources—novels, films, and cultural
people in Çukurova, he charts how approach to understand the rumors periodicals—Max Weiss highlights
brought the provinces closer to racial exclusivism was an insoluble Arab and Islamic world. The Last
familiar facets of quotidian life and emotions, public spheres and themes crucial to the making of
Tehran and pulled them away from feature of twentieth-century Iranian Nahdawi offers both a history of
like malaria, cotton cultivation, humanitarian interventions that contemporary Syria: heroism and
it, thereby constantly reshaping nationalism. In exploring Arani’s modern state formation, revealing
labor, and leisure attained modern together informed this complex leadership, gender and power, comedy
local, national, and transnational short but remarkable life and writ- how the Egyptian state came to
manifestations. As the history of this event. Through consideration of the and ideology, surveillance and the
experiences of space among mobile ings, Mirsepassi challenges the hold such a strong grip over culture
pivotal region reveals, the remark- Adana Massacres in micro-historical senses, witnessing and temporality,
individuals. image of Interwar Iran as dominated and education—and a compelling and death and the imagination.
able ecological transformation of detail, this book offers an important
“Koyagi transports us through the by the Pahlavi state to uncover examination of the life of the country’s Revolutions Aesthetic places front and
late Ottoman society configured macrocosmic understanding of
various stations that dotted Iran’s fertile intellectual spaces in which most renowned intellectual. center the struggle around aesthetic
the trajectory of the contemporary ethnic violence, illuminating how
path to modernity. Much more than civic nationalism flourished. societies of the Middle East. “A lucid, insightful, and nuanced and why ordinary people can ideology that has been key to the
a narrative of the railway project, “Mirsepassi has produced a powerful reassessment of Taha Hussein’s key become perpetrators. constitution of state, society, and
Iran in Motion reveals a deep “Environmental history at its finest. role in twentieth-century Egypt’s
and engaging intellectual biography Gratien tells the story of an empire, culture in Syria over the course of
understanding of the mobility net- which weaves Taghi Arani’s life into cultural and political life.” “A truly groundbreaking and highly
works that connected and divided meticulously researched, exceptionally nuanced exploration of intercommu- the past fifty years.
the broader tapestry of modern Ira- insightful—all grounded in the lives —Zachary Lockman,
Middle Eastern communities. A nian nationalism and modernism.” New York University
nal, sectarian, and nationalist STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
groundbreaking book.” and lands of Çukurova.” violence in the late Ottoman Empire.” EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
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16 MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST 17Genetic Crossroads The Contemporary Middle A House in the Homeland Years of Glory Wartime North Africa Innocent Witnesses
The Middle East and the Science East in an Age of Upheaval Armenian Pilgrimages to Places Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of A Documentary History, Childhood Memories of
of Human Heredity Edited by James L. Gelvin of Ancestral Memory Justice in Wartime North Africa 1934–1950 World War II
Elise K. Burton Carel Bertram Susan Gilson Miller Edited by Aomar Boum and Marilyn Yalom
This book engages six themes to
Sarah Abrevaya Stein Edited by Ben Yalom,
Genetic Crossroads is an un- understand the contemporary Survivors of the Armenian Genocide This book offers a rich biography
precedented history of human Middle East—the spread of of 1915 took refuge across the globe, and a deeper understanding of This book, the first-ever collection Foreword by Meg Waite Clayton
genetics in the Middle East, from sectarianism, abandonment of and the idea of returning to their the complex currents that shaped of primary documents on North The violence of war leaves indelible
its roots in colonial anthropology principles of state sovereignty, homeland was unthinkable. But Jewish, North African, and world African and Holocaust history, marks, and memories last a lifetime
and medicine to recent genome the lack of a regional hegemonic decades later, some children and history over the course of the gives voice to the diversity of those for those who experienced this
sequencing projects. Early in the power, increased Saudi-Iranian grandchildren felt compelled to Second World War. The traumas involved—Muslims, Christians, and trauma as children. Marilyn Yalom
twentieth century, technological competition, decreased regional travel back. Hoping to satisfy spiri- of genocide, the struggle for anti- Jews; women, men, and children; experienced World War II from
breakthroughs in human genetics attention to the Israel-Palestine tual yearnings, this new generation colonial liberation, and the eventual the unknown and the notable; afar, but over the course of her life
coincided with the birth of mod- conflict, and fallout from the called themselves pilgrims—and Jewish exodus from Arab lands locals, refugees, the displaced, and came to be close friends with many
ern Middle Eastern nation-states, Arab uprisings—as well as offers their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel all take on new meaning when the interned; soldiers, officers, less lucky. This book collects these
who proclaimed that the region’s individual country studies. With Bertram joined scores of these reflected through the interstices of bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and childhood stories and brings us
ancient history as a cradle of analysis from historians, politi- pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrim- Benatar’s life. A courageous woman the forcibly recruited. Translated voices of a vanishing generation.
civilizations was preserved in the cal scientists, sociologists, and ages, and amassed accounts from with a deep moral conscience and from French, Arabic, North African This powerful collage of testimonies
bones and blood of their citizens. anthropologists, and up-to-date hundreds more who made these an iron will, Nelly Benatar helped Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, offers us a greater understanding
Elise K. Burton illuminates how discussions of the Syrian Civil journeys. In telling their stories, to lay the groundwork for crucial Moroccan Darija, Tamazight of what it is to be human, not just
scientists from Turkey to Yemen, War, impacts of the Trump presi- this book documents how pilgrims postwar efforts to build a better (Berber), Italian, and Yiddish, or then but also today. With this book,
Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic dency, and the 2020 uprisings in encountered the ancestral house, world over Europe’s ashes. transcribed from their original her final and most personal work
Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this village, or town as both real and English, these sources are like the
data into territorial claims and “Years of Glory illuminates major of cultural history, Yalom considers
book will be an essential guide for metaphorical centerpieces of family dots of a pointillist painting. Taken
national origin myths, and reveals themes: that period’s refugee crisis, the lasting impact of such young
history. These Armenian stories together, these writings shed light
the enduring foundations of anyone seeking to understand the resistance in Morocco to the Vichy experiences—and asks whether we
reflect the resilience of diaspora on how war, occupation, race laws,
international scientific interest current state of the region. regime, a talented woman’s profes- will now force a new generation of
in the face of the savage reaches sional advancement in a traditional internment, and Vichy French,
in Middle Eastern populations to “These essays are an indispensable children to spend their lives recon-
of trauma, separation, and exile in society, and the life of a once-vibrant Italian fascist, and German Nazi
this day. guide to making sense of the Middle ways that each of us, whatever our ciling with such memories.
Jewish community in North rule were experienced day by day
“Deeply researched and powerfully East’s current disorder and future history, can recognize. “An ever timely account of the
Africa. An exemplary unearthing across North Africa. Though some
written, Genetic Crossroads is one direction. A must-read for academ- traumas that conflict imposes upon
“Bertram’s gifts of empathy and sto- of the remarkable legal career of
of the most original books I have ics, policy makers, and informed selections are drawn from published children and how they reverberate
rytelling make for a book that is at Nelly Benatar.”
read in a decade. A must-read for general audiences.” books, including memoirs, diaries, through time.”
historians of all fields.” —Frederic Wehrey,
once heartbreaking and inspiring.” —Robert O. Paxton,
and collections of poetry, most have
Columbia University —Kirkus Reviews
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University of Pennsylvania previously translated into English.
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