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Unmaking North and South Cartographies of the Yemeni Past

Willis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850659815, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Unmaking North and South" revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, an...

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Document Raj Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

Raman Bhavani

ISBN: HB: 9780226703275, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of...

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Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 A Documentary History

Zhou Xun

ISBN: HB: 9780300175189, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst fa...

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Europe

From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of National Homeland in Turkey

Ozkan Behlul

ISBN: PB: 9780300172010, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

How do people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "hom...

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Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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