...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...

...     in city: obligatory attendance at communal prayer, and conquest is accounted for in recognizably the suppression of alcohol and “fornication,” Khaldunian terms of the cyclical rise and fall and the application of al-­hadd al-­shar‘i [Ko- of ‘umran (settled civilization) (178). In its age...

... 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...

.... It was not the Drawing on nineteenth-­century Persian and fall of ancient Bactria, the scourge of the Mon- European travel literature, this essay traces the gol hordes, or the discovery of new trade routes ecological factors that contributed to the de- that spurred the decline...

...-Muslim conceptions of Islamic law. Nonetheless, Afghanistan is, as Ahmed reminds us, the first Muslim-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...

... 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...

... 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 as the deceased, disappeared, and dispossessed continued to occupy an uncanny position within their homes. According to Sigmund Freud...

... of Global Turbulence tells the story of the world over-capacity in manufacturing and the rise of German economy from the postwar boom (in the US) to the manufacturing costs in international terms had made Clinton era and the onset of a systematic budget- it ever more difficult for the German economy...

... 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...

... standards. Whether or not Padmakar and Man Kavi would have 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...

...: 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...

..., 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...

... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . ———. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . Getachew Adom . “The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination: Towards a History of Anti-colonial World...

... — a male- centric narrative evolution and in her inability to rise to her sta- form written to glorify history’s victors over its tion, her “inadequacy to [her] fate.” Dedes vanquished. Through the contrasts between experiences the extension...

... Middle Easts Michael Christopher Low ince the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the European Union, many of the categories of scholarly inquiry that once seemed entirely self-­evident have entered an era of protracted critique, if not outright crisis. Old assumptions...