.... This introduction seeks to hack through the rigid and monolithic concepts of stateness that shape colonial and postcolonial thought about political sovereignty. The special section as a whole provides empirical examples and conceptual reflections that broaden scholarly understandings of genealogies and modalities...

... McHale, Shawn disi, Mak-Ussama Klaren, Peter Fawaz, Leila Bose, Sugata Blyden, says appear in the journal, Muriel Atkin, es- whose Isa those to addition Blumi,In 2003. inApril DC, NemataWashington, Nineteenth Century,” heldat GeorgeWashington University, Long inthe Empires British...

... with alliances striking and networks trade expanding than rather magnates oflarge eration coop- tacit the atleast securing and production agrarian dependent onexploiting creasingly power,revenues werein- their and military to naval from shifted having focus empire, their much aland...

...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...

...Rohan Deb Roy The themed section “Nonhuman Empires” contributes to a critique of anthropocentrism in the field of imperial history. It reveals the variety of ways in which the historical trajectories of nonhuman animals and empires both intersected and informed one another. Beyond merely...

...” to the extent that it proliferated in the successor states of the Mughal empire over the eighteenth century. Lally’s article analyzes the transformation of the equestrian portrait, using this topos as a set of sources through which to examine changes in kingship and imperial politics from the seventeenth...

... alism, perhaps, at least of the Ottoman sort, is not. In other words, the Ottoman Empire as an an as Empire Ottoman the words, other not.In is sort, Ottoman ofthe atleast perhaps, alism, Rights, PaternalRights, Privilege, and Gender in French Syria andLeba- Verso, Elizabeth 1999...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Paul Sedra Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Imagining an Imperial Race: Egyptology in the Service of Empire PAUL SEDRA Archaeology under the limelight is a new and true. Hence the irresistible fascination of Egyptol- rather bewildering...

... Resurrecting Empire 3 4 now Libya, because they act in line with U.S. Then there is Palestine. Little of what security concerns or give...

...Benjamin C. Fortna Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence...

... 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish, exacerbated, accord- pline (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001). Pp...

... Book Reviews 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish...

...Julia Clancy-Smith Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Collaboration and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction and Response1 Julia Clancy-Smith In 1801, a great rumpus erupted over the unto- cerned British families and officials...

...Lâle Can; Aimee M. Genell Abstract Were Ottoman autonomous provinces nation-states in the making or signs of a semicolonial and irredeemably weak empire? Or, were they evidence of alternative arrangements of imperial sovereignty? By taking a long view of Ottoman history and examining “exceptional...

... geography that disrupts the Cold War binary. The space, in which a Soviet-African Modern emerged, was profoundly shaped by the intellectual and professional mobilities of actors, crossing the boundaries of the Cold War, the Atlantic, the world of former empires, as well as different Pan-African imaginaries...

...Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular Abstract This review essay of Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires focuses on the late imperial and the postimperial context of inter-Islamic networks. It emphasizes the Ottoman, Balkan, and Eurasian exchanges...

... Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires , Faiz Ahmed shows how Afghanistan could be regarded as a pivot for Islamic intellectual currents from the late nineteenth century onward, especially between the Ottoman Empire and South Asia. Afghanistan Rising makes us aware of our own...