...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...

... : Penguin , 2003 . ———. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power . New York : Basic Books , 2004 . Gallagher John . The Decline, Revival, and Fall of the British Empire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1982 . Hitchens...

... Africa is routinely included in narratives of the rise of Ottoman power, these provinces seem to fade into obscurity after the “golden age” of the corsair frontier in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Correspondingly, North Africa rarely features in discussions of the often-­fraught...

... followed the road to purported neoliberal stability. The sudden rise and fall of revolutionary Ghana reveals both the possibility of alternative modes of political power in Africa and how these forms have been contained through both violence and the control of representational practices...

...Robbie Shilliam Abstract Shilliam approaches Adom Getachew's book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination as an intervention into political theory. The book provides three provocations to that field. Getachew helps recast the sources and materials by which political theory...

... century. The decline of Balkh was chronicled in the writings of nineteenth-century explorers, travelers, and their surveying missions. Based on a reading of Persian and European travel narratives, this essay chronicles the decline of Balkh and its transformation from a center to a periphery of the Central...

...-majority country to gain independence, to codify its own laws, and to ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The apex of Ahmed's narrative is the constitution of Afghanistan in 1923, “one of the twentieth century's first projects of Islamic state making,” a collaborative effort...

... the Haitian Revolution within the Age of Revolutions in The Black Jacobins was completed. This endeavor followed closely on the heels of World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (1937), a Trotskyist account of the Bolshevik Revolution and its demise after the ascension...

... narrates a story about picking” to show that the American state was inter- the rise and fall of hegemons (not, as some of the ested in colonization. It is showing that the Ameri- commentators seem to think, the rise and fall of can state was interested...

... the 1980s many families increasingly enjoyed the gradual improvement of personal and familial fortune during the market era, but at the cost of a renewed rise in economic inequality. This situa- tion left many residents with an uneasy feeling about their domestic ownership and occupancy claims, particularly...

...Fredric Jameson Turbulence in Brenner Fredric Jameson There are two ways of summarizing: one is to re- of 1979-1982-1983, and following a policy of “mone- capitulate the basic narrative, the other is to identify tarism in the name of exports” @.226), never fully...

... from Andrew Glyn, Alan Hughes, Alain Lipietz, and Ajit Singh, “The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age,” in on the capitalist path (p. 235), a few scattered refer- Stephen A. Marglin and Juliet Schor, eds., The Golden Age of Capi...

... Michael Beard Beard Michael capitalist worldsystem. capitalist the of fall the and rise onthe project tivolume onamul working currently Heis movements. identitarian cultural new of rise...

... and the address complex historical phenomena. Both authors rise of industrial capitalism in Britain. He built upon construct historical narratives by establishing sequences two very different works: Lowell Ragatz, ZZe Fall ofthe...

... regarded themselves as historians, they would have deemed their poems true stories about past events. Their narrative inventions were grounded on a desire to imaginatively capture for posterity the delicate circumstances of Anupgiri's rise to power in Bundelkhand. It should not surprise us, given...

...: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times .” Journal of Asian Studies 69 , no. 4 ( 2010 ): 963 – 83 . Getachew Adom . Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . Gillis John . Islands of the Mind: How the Human...

... to look beyond the “empire mind, these critiques fall under the rubric of to nation-­state” narrative. Other targets in- doing history backwards: assuming that what clude Wilder, Freedom Time, and Shepard...

..., is therefore a discursive choice. Success and failure are both historical crafts. Put another way, “Afghanistan Falling” is a book already written—and what a popular genre it is. In Afghanistan Rising , I choose to uncover a history of what Afghans achieved, as it were, exactly a century ago...

...Molly Emma Aitken; Allison Busch Abstract This essay explores a single illustrated manuscript of Maulana Daud's Sufi narrative the Cāndāyana from the Rylands Library, Manchester, to help make sense of how Sufi poets and the sultanate-period painters who illustrated their verses realized...

...: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies .” In Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen , edited by al-Rasheed Madawi Vitalis Robert , 11 – 34 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . Cooke Miriam . Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations...