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Volume 50 Number 1 January 2008

Editorial Foreword

In Retrospect

RAYMOND GREW  On the Society and History of CSSH

THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN  Being Editor

Continuities of Development

ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN  On the Internal Border: Colonial Difference, the Cold War, and the Locations of “Underdevelopment”

SUBIR SINHA  Lineages of the Developmentalist State: Transnationality and Village India, 1900–1965

Informal Networks and the System

GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS  Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s–1940s

ALENA LEDENEVA  Blat and Guanxi: Informal Practices in Russia and China

Transnational Revisions

DAVID FITZGERALD  Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations

C. J. FULLER and HARIPRIYA NARASIMHAN  From Landlords to Software Engineers: Migration and Urbanization among Tamil Brahmans

Modernizing Missions

STEPHANIE CRONIN  Importing Modernity: European Military Missions to Qajar Iran

DAFNA HIRSCH  “Interpreters of Occident to the Awakening Orient”: The Jewish Public Health Nurse in Mandate Palestine

Anti Anti-secularism

JANAKI BAKHLE  Music as the Sound of the Secular

The Human as Specimen

SIMON J. HARRISON  Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military: Keeping the Enemy Dead in British Frontier Warfare

LYNN M. MORGAN  The Embryography of Alice B. Toklas

CSSH Discussion

CSSH Notes


Volume 50 Number 2 April 2008

Editorial Foreword

Martyrs and Memorials

TAMIR SOREK   Cautious Commemoration: Localism, Communalism, and Nationalism in Palestinian Memorial Monuments in Israel

LARA DEEB   Exhibiting the “Just-Lived Past”: Hizbullah’s Nationalist Narratives in Transnational Political Context

Contesting Commodities

SUSANNE FREIDBERG   The Triumph of the Egg

BRENDA CHALFIN   Cars, the Customs Service, and Sumptuary Rule in Neoliberal Ghana

Divine Agents

WEI-PING LIN   Conceptualizing Gods through Statues: A Study of Personification and Localization in Taiwan

SEAN HANRETTA   Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla

Jews in Transition

ELI LEDERHENDLER   Classless: On the Social Status of Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century

ABIGAIL GREEN   Nationalism and the ‘Jewish International’: Religious Internationalism in Europe and the Middle East c.1840–c.1880

CSSH Discussion

ANUPAMA RAO   Affect, Memory, and Materiality: A Review Essay on Archival Mediation

CSSH Notes


Volume 50 Number 3 July 2008 (in press)

Editorial Foreword

Convergences

JOHANNA BOCKMAN and MICHAEL A. BERNSTEIN   Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority during the Cold War

LAURA L. ADAMS   Globalization, Universalism, and Cultural Form

Building Transregional Systems

ERIK LINDBERG   The Rise of Hamburg as a Global Marketplace in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective

ERICA SCHOENBERGER   The Origins of the Market Economy: State Power, Territorial Control, and Modes of War Fighting

VICTOR LIEBERMAN   Protected Rimlands and Exposed Zones: Reconfiguring Premodern Eurasia

Comparative Politics of Difference

KATHERINE E. HOFFMAN   Purity and Contamination: Language Ideologies in French Colonial Native Policy in Morocco

CHOI CHATTERJEE   Transnational Romance, Terror, and Heroism: Russia in American Popular Fiction, 1860–1917

ROBERT SHILLIAM   What the Haitian Revolution Might Tell Us about Development, Security, and the Politics of Race

CSSH Discussion

PETER VAN DER VEER   Embodiment, Materiality, and Power. A Review Essay

CSSH Notes


Volume 50 Number 4 October 2008 (forthcoming, currently in production process)

Editorial Foreword

J. LORAND MATORY   Islands are Not Isolated: Reconsidering the Roots of Gullah Distinctiveness

JAMES BRENNAN   Lowering the Sultan’s Flag: Sovereignty and Decolonization in Coastal Kenya

KEN MACLEAN   In Search of Kilometer Zero: Digital Archives, Technological Revisionism, and the Sino-Vietnamese Border

JUDITH SCHEELE   A Taste for Law: Rule-Making in Kabylia (Algeria)

PAUL NUGENT   Putting the History Back into Ethnicity: Enslavement, Religion, and Cultural Brokerage in the Construction of Mandinka/Jola and Ewe/Agotime Identities in West Africa, c.1650–1930

LARRY FROHMAN   The Break-Up of the Poor Laws—German Style: Progressivism and the Origins of the Welfare State, 1900–1918

SUNIL AMRITH   Hunger, Charity, and the Indian Nation

CSSH Discussion

GREGORY STARRETT   Authentication and Affect: Why the Turks Don’t Like Enchanted Counterpublics. A Review Essay

CSSH Notes

 


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