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… economy, and political ecology in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. He is currently a postdoctoral … include the history of international development, state formation, agrarian reform, and the role of law in shaping historical change. Her dissertation, …

… issues throughout the semester: comparative nation/state formation of Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine out … and the question of late twentieth-century nostalgia for a cosmopolitan past.  While the weekly readings will proceed in … by showcasing them as central players in every significant event of life. The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy: At a Slight Angle …

… Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, and Lucas Rambo Bender, Assistant … poet, Du Fu (712–770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the … philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and …

… Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, and Lucas Bender, Assistant … poet, Du Fu (712–770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the … philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and …

… East or Imperial Outpost? Baltic Germans in the Russian Empire February 7-8, 2025 | In-person   Symposium of the Ghosts of Empire January 31, 2025 | In-person   2024 Association for … April 27 - 28, 2018   Language and Group Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean Conference November 2 - 3, 2017   …

… of African American Studies & History, for “ Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World ” (Harvard University Press, 2018). … of enlightened ideas of liberty and human dignity. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic …

… Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2018), The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (2019), and the forthcoming … He curates The Lemkin Project: A Digital Archive of Law, Literature and Global Thought. Raphael Lemkin, Robert …

… are products of colonial rule that favored burgeoning cosmopolitan port cities that had once served to link …

… in Xinjiang under Qing rule in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Moreover, by situating this arid …

… a critical site in which processes of state and family formation came to be intertwined.  Rochisha Narayan develops … Brotherhoods and Sectarian Orders: Constituting Hindu Law and Community in Eighteenth Century Banaras”, in the … Women in Modern India and Family and Caste and Religion in Early Modern South Asia, c 1500-1800 . Drawing on her …

… Islam and about their residential lives. I looked at the Empire of Ghana, which was founded in the 5th century, long … and contending scattered dynasties, and ethics and law that spawned the impressive law schools for which Islam … recognize that Islam has built into it a tendency toward a cosmopolitan and a more universal view of the human family. …

… democracy has been shaped by American slavery. In the early United States, the two institutions were linked by … helped reconcile democratic commitments, often forged in cosmopolitan contexts, with the expansion of chattel slavery. …