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… Chinese states/lord-doms were merged stepwise into an empire. Despite numerous large-scale wars en route to this emerging empire, I am fascinated by the way how different social …

… intellectual historian of modern Korea during the Japanese empire. Her dissertation (Ph.D., Harvard, 2008), “Space and … and the West” and “Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Trans-difference.” Her dissertation in German, …

… Neelam Khoja … Neelam Khoja Neelam Khoja is a historian of trans-imperial and trans-regional early modern and modern Iran, Afghanistan, … Iran and Hindustan. The book situates Afghans within the context of Safavid and Mughal decline and rise of European …

… Civil War? Second, although the structure of the class is chronological, moving from the antecedents of the conflict to … undertaken to place the present in its proper historical context. The main aim of this course is to provide students … by showcasing them as central players in every significant event of life. The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy: At a Slight Angle …

… International Book Prize for best first book for Alibis of Empire (Princeton University Press, 2010). Timothy Snyder, … increasingly emphasized the link between liberalism and empire. In Alibis of Empire, Karuna Mantena complicates the … a policy of indirect rule premised on a theory of cultural difference. The intellectual progenitor of this new approach, …

… undertaken to place the present in its proper historical context. The main aim of this course is to provide students … period to the present day. The organization is both chronological and thematic, and focuses on key external and … by showcasing them as central players in every significant event of life. MGRK 202, LITR 285, WGST 327: The Poetry of C. …

… to 47,000 individual slave-owners throughout the Empire, in order to highlight areas of silence and elision in … in museums in Amsterdam, locating them within a broader context of what I have called an anxious politics of the … such material is not always situated in its enslaved context. In part, this is because, when viewed from London or …

… term. Can you define it and explain how it fits in the context of your book? Jihad in the Islamic tradition means … Islam and about their residential lives. I looked at the Empire of Ghana, which was founded in the 5 th century, long … religious scholars and Sufi masters were, in the main, the engine of the expansion of Islam. Whenever the state got …

… death conceptually and perceive it physically, through corpses, mummies, ghosts, and relics. Na Sil Heo is a … intellectual and political history. His dissertation, “Empire of Luck: Trust and Suspicion in Early China,” examines …

… corner of the country to document the total number of corpses. It is simply not possible. Many corpses were thrown into the river or burned and will never … uncertainty if we cannot reduce the gap further. The difference between 400,000 and 850,000 is enormous, and it is …