.... WORDS THAT WORLD Provincializing Concepts The Language of Transnational History Margrit Pernau istory writing in recent years has adopted an increasingly transnational, if not global, perspec- tive. A comparative view of different regions, which have long been studied...

..., the rise of transnational history has made the work of comparativists more complex, in ways Go does not sufficiently recognize. Especially, it highlights the difficulty of drawing lines between the political units that are to be compared. While the article appreciates the elegance of Go’s comparison...

... exclusivist mythologies and think beyond the nation. In turn, Sahadeo’s article examines steps toward a transnational history of empire that builds on Go’s peripheral model. 630 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 34:3 • 2014 Hutchins, Francis G...

... . Hofmeyr Isabel . The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of “The Pilgrim's Progress.” Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Hourani Albert . Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1789–1939 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1983 . Kornicki Peter F...

... a more legitimate unit of themselves from the precepts of German and Ital- analysis than, say, France or North Africa. He also ian nationalism, espousing instead a cosmopolitan foregrounded the history of transnational com- discourse of liberal humanism. A second...

... , no. 3 ( 2012 ): 584 – 90 . ———. The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of “The Pilgrim's Progress.” Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . ———. “Universalizing the Indian Ocean.” PMLA 125 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 721 – 29 . ———. “Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers...

...Razak Khan Abstract The current turn in the histories of modern India and Germany is a movement away from their respective national and linguistic boundaries toward exploration of global connections and resultant entanglements. It has been facilitated by new interventions made by transnational...

...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...

... that build upon historical and ritual precedents while simultaneously crafting new paradigms within a transnational, postcolonial arena. Taking inspiration from this translocative orientation, the contributors explore precolonial histories of Buddhist movement alongside more recent networks of Buddhist...

... and Zainab Saleh writes on Iraqi Jewish narratives. Thomas Crowley's essay brings back the conversation on anti-caste philosophies as way of critically interrogating ideas of transnational histories. ...

... accustom readers to transnational modes tories for global histories of print. These routes of thinking and reading. Some, like the letter, include Sufi networks, madrassas, pilgrims, the clipping, or quotation excerpted from news- students...

...Anupama Rao In this introduction, Rao discusses the importance of The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory , edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko, and the resulting Kitabkhana, or book forum. The contributors to the Kitabkhana address The Birth...

... of overlapping desires, experiences, and expectations connected to histories of migration, settlement, and return, as well as attitudes toward death and beliefs about the afterlife. Consequently, the corpse offers a compelling window into the transnational afterlives of migration and empire. In relating how...

...Kishwar Rizvi Abstract The afterword to the special section “Architecture as a Form of Knowledge” considers the effect of transnational religious and commercial networks in transforming urban histories in Pakistan, with a focus on Karachi. The essay discusses the renovations of the shrine...

...Timothy Mitchell; Anupama Rao © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Editors’ Note Timothy Mitchell and Anupama Rao his issue begins by revisiting the interwar as a formative period for understanding transnational histories of Islamic modernism and addressing postapartheid...

... does it Some commentators question the compara- devote all of its attention to them. But there is a tive method and instead trumpet an “imperial cir- reason for this. Like Mawani, I do see the value of culations” approach or a “transnational history” studies that emphasize imperial...

...- relations. It is the common concern—and a par- tric character. Debates on transnational and ticular contribution—of the articles presented translocal histories as well as more recent...

... eclipses the authority of the modern state. The section titled “The German Connection” looks at the burgeoning field of transnational history through the lens of South Asia's connection with Germany. Taken together, these essays challenge the singular focus on the British Empire for studies...

... University. She is cur­ University, where he has taught since receiving his rently pursuing a PhD in history at Princeton Univer­ PhD from the University of California-­Berkeley in sity, where she studies global/transnational history. 1998. He is the author of two previous books: Know Your Enemy...

.... 610 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 34:3 • 2014 Cannadine, David. “Statecraft: The Haunting Fear of Na- Comparative Historical Sociology and tional Decline.” In In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting Transnational History...