...Jonathan Hyslop Hyslop’s article criticizes Julian Go’s approach to the historical analysis of empires. It views his work as an example of comparative historical sociology and contrasts it with the methods of transnational historians. While both schools constitute valid research directions...

...Jeff Sahadeo Sahadeo’s article examines Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire from the viewpoint of a historian of Russia’s southern borderlands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Go offers a pathway for scholars of other expansionist regimes, including the tsarist state and the Soviet Union, to break down...

...Dane Kennedy Kennedy’s “The Means and Ends of Empires” offers a commentary on Julian Go’s stimulating comparative study of the British and American empires, Patterns of Empire . It argues that Go’s book is strongest in its analysis of the means by which the United States forged an empire, providing...

...Mithi Mukherjee In her response to Julian Go’s book Patterns of Empire , Mukherjee contends that the harder Go seeks to critique American exceptionalism, the more he has to insist on the liberal nature of the British Empire in India. By “liberal British rule,” Mukherjee writes, Go refers to certain...

...Renisa Mawani Mawani’s essay reads Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire through the politics of comparison and through a shared intellectual commitment to a postcolonial sociology. Patterns of Empire is an ambitious and challenging book that places sociology at the heart of Anglo-imperial history...

...Antoinette Burton Burton’s essay introduces the forum on Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire , setting out the terms of the debate and mapping the entanglements of an anti-exceptionalist argument with narratives of rise-and-fall that have predominated until recently in British imperial history. © 2014...

...Augusto Espiritu Espiritu’s essay locates Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire in the context of the critical literature of US-Philippine colonial studies and explains why it is a signal contribution to that literature. It provides an appreciative view of its argument against exceptionalism as well...

...Julian Go Go’s contribution to the book forum on Patterns of Empire responds to the critiques of the other commentators in the section. Although Go disagrees with some of the readings of his work, he welcomes future studies—whether comparative, postcolonial, transnational, or otherwise...

...- ography through an engagement with Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present. As the contributors demonstrate, the afterlife of empire shapes not only our present but also the narratives we deploy...

... Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millenial Mum- focuses on religious reform and nationalism in the bai, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Mzab Valley in Algeria. Antoinette Burton is a professor of history and Bastian Julian Go is a professor of sociology...

... of the American Sociological Association. Thanks also to Marc Gaborieau, Julian Go, and Matthias Koenig for their comments on earlier versions of this essay. References Ahmed Asad Ali . “Specters of Macaulay: Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial Predicament...

... explores the place of misunderstanding and translation in encounters between evangelists and Buddhist audiences. For evangelists, to go public was to open oneself to the possibility, even the likelihood, of being misunderstood. Such misunderstandings emerged in part from the negotiation of similarity...

... Press , 2019 . Go Julian . Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Go Julian . “ The Provinciality of American Empire: ‘Liberal Exceptionalism’ and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1898–1912 .” Comparative...

..., and decades. loans, as the principal way of getting the RDP 3.1.1 The present moment is characterized by a fall-back moving. operation by big capital and its political represen- The tendency to go for quick fix and utterly unsus- tatives. Having failed to margmalize the RDP...

...: Human Rights article/?article=651. civiles (Genocide in Congo: Analysis of the Massacres Watch, 1996), www.hrw.org/reports/1996/Rwanda  of Civilian Populations) (Brussels: Broederlijk, 2002). .htm; Joanne Csete and Juliane Kipperberg, The War 6...

... . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2019 . Go Julian . Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Green Nile , ed. Afghanistan's Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban . Berkeley : University...

... the context of my family. . . . My grandmother, may she rest in peace, was a folk singer. The Yemeni female folk singers master the whole range. They can, on the one hand, go and sing for a woman who just gave birth, or to sing at a henna [pre-wedding party]. And when I'm talking about singing it means...

... of solitary genius, and neither is it a cultural paragraphs, I go through Heidegger’s frame- Studies of                                 achievement. What broadly defines a work of art, work of world, earth, and the battle between                         in more Heideggerian terms...

... camp” in Manipur, only “some mobile camps . . . and the camps go on shifting in the jungles.” 62 But because there are bureaucratic protocols for monitoring these camps, Indian security officials have found an ingenious way to refer to them in their practices; they call them “Camps Taken Note...

... is postcommunist theory such a feeble companion voice in the fore the sun sets and he learns to fly again” (as the pro- dialogue with the postcolonial? tagonist of Julian Barnes’ The Porcupine muses).16 The It is obvious that in the thirteen years since the fall of vampire of totalitarianism once nailed down...