...Sanjay Joshi Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class Keith David Watenpaugh Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 xi + 325 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in...

... saison à Rihata, like Suk’s Cahier, evokes in her reading a series of intertextual, ar- Gaurav Desai. Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning chetypal referents, including biblical and mythical ante- and the Colonial Library. Durham: Duke University Press, cedents (107). These intertextual...

... 2017 nationalism internationalism cosmopolitanism colonialism References Bauer Otto . Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (The National Question and Social Democracy) . In Werkausgabe , vol. 1 . Wien : Europaverlag , 1975 . Chatterjee Partha...

...Francesca Orsini; Sara Marzagora; Karima Laachir Abstract Against the nationalist production of monolingual literary histories, this introduction to the special section “Multilingual Locals” urges literary and intellectual historians to “place languages back into dialogue.” Colonialism did not...

...Ashley L. Cohen The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory Carey Daniel Festa Lynn , eds. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 xii + 378 pp. , $100.00 (cloth) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Sumita S. Chakravarty Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xx, 121 pp. $16.95 Copyright 1985: Regents of University of California 1985 9ovM ASIA BULL- Vol. V No. 2, Spring 1985...

...Peter B. Mayer Copyright 1985: Regents of University of California 1985 SOUTH MIA BULLETIN, Vol. V No. 2, Spring 1985. CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM AND INDIA Peter B. Mayer What would we think of. a history of Europe which did ii) the use of political and legal...

...Shayoni Mitra The Colonial Staged: Theatre in Colonial Calcutta Sudipto Chatterjee London: Seagull Books, 2007 160 pp., $84.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–  1830 in the process...

...Vasant Kaiwar Copyright 1983: Regents, University of California 1983 REFERENCES AddyP.I. Azad, 1975 , “Politics and Society in Bengal”, in Blackburn , R. (ed.) Explosion in a Sub-Continent , Harmondsworth: Penguin. Alavi , H. , 1981 , “Structure of Colonial Social...

...Jakob Krais Abstract During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial...

... across national and social divisions and dominated over 90 percent of the film industry in colonial India in the 1920s. The discourse around the film industry constituted a locus in which stereotypes about identity and attitudes toward empire and toward the United States were debated if not resolved. The...

...Wilson Chacko Jacob Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 Martin Thomas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xiii + 428 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle East...

...Malek Abisaab Studies on colonial Lebanon explain social change and the engagement with the state from the perspective of the rural landed elites and urban notables. Lebanon is usually investigated as a place for exhibiting or reconciling diverse sectarian cultures that ultimately develop a...

...Philip S. Zachernuk The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 xii + 425 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis...

...Paul Sedra The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...C. S. Adcock Proponents of cow protection in colonial north India around the turn of the twentieth century made abundant use of “economic” arguments for a legislative ban on cow slaughter. Drawing on recent critical reflections on secular history, this essay explores what it might mean to take...

... crisscrossed multiple jurisdictions, local, British, Dutch, and that of the Ottoman Empire. Properties of different kinds were held in different places under different legal rulings. Colonial and Islamic legal practices in the colonial period are illuminated by a detailed treatment of a complex petition to...

...Shaswati Mazumdar Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture Mufti Aamir R. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2007 344 pp. , $25.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The...

...Saad Abi-Hamad This article examines the nature of the colonial state as it existed in Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. It delves into issues surrounding the multiple societal relations that the colonial state had to maintain to ensure its continued existence. It also considers the very...

..., Mason and Partners, both responsible for forging the town’s first decade of urban existence under the aegis of colonial urbanism. Second, it analyzes how the nationalization of Egypt’s Suez Canal in 1956 and the growth of regional and local anti-British sentiments that also targeted the KOC compelled...