...Magdy El-Shamma Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, and Y. Hakan Erdem, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006 336 pp., $30.00 (paper) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion...

... by Duke University Press 2013 Religious Anxieties in Two Marginal Regions Reformist Debates on Funerary Ritual among Tanzanian and Acehnese Muslims in the Twentieth Century Felicitas Becker...

... of centuries of oppression of the Hui. Long ago the social system of Islam produced the boundary that defined the Hui, who continued their development as a nation, adapting to the unique historical conditions of China. The first half of the twentieth century was simply the most recent phase in that process...

... on the railways of East Africa and plantations of South Africa. In the twentieth century, “passenger” Indians migrated across the ocean of their own volition, seeking a brighter future in new lands. Deflected from entering South Africa due to immigration restrictions, many made their way across Mozambique...

...Beeta Baghoolizadeh Abstract This article looks to two songs, “Layla Said” and “Mammad, You Weren't There to See,” to examine the politics of representation, race, religion, and nationalism in late twentieth-century Iran. “Layla Said,” a religious eulogy sung by Jahanbakhsh Kurdizadeh, would serve...

... nTetehCnuyIndia Twentieth-Century in Soccer Women’s Backward: and Forward...

...Monica M. Ringer Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Rethinking Religion: Progress and Morality in the Early Twentieth-Century Iranian Women’s Press MONICA M. RINGER By the twentieth century, the “The Woman Ques- thus primarily concerned...

... and Revolutionary Projects for the Twentieth Century Alan F. Fogelquist. Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism. London: society. Specifically, the author questions Marx's assump- George Allen and Unwin. 1983. xii, 244 pages. tions...

...Kevin M. Doak Duke University Press 2006 Romancing the East, Rejecting the West: Japanese Intellectuals’ Responses to Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century Kevin M. Doak...

...Eric Germain Duke University Press 2007 Southern Hemisphere Diasporic Communities in the Building of an International Muslim Public Opinion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century...

...Joel Gordon Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: History and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt Di-Capua Yoav . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 406 pp., $65.00 (cloth) , $36.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

..., and sounds of the colonial city. Yet as Senegal's cities experienced unprecedented growth in the twentieth century, a wider variety of constituencies started making claims on public space that challenged the norms of colonial urban management and put pressures on authorities in new ways. By the early...

... service to all Egyptians regardless of religious affiliation amid the most polemical sectarian encounters and debates of the early twentieth century. They mediated these tensions by employing a language of sectarian neutrality and claiming to contribute to Egypt's march toward “civilization” through...

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..., excepting the Ottoman Empire. Even in the case of the Ottoman Empire, the study of the cross-border link has been limited to the nonreciprocal impact that the movement for change and reform in the Ottoman Empire had on late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Iran, with no reference...

...Jairan Gahan Abstract This article investigates the history of the formation of the red-light district of Tehran in 1922, to tackle larger questions about the genealogy of the constitutional Islamic state in Iran in the twentieth century. Through an engagement with the Islamic local campaign...

...Debjani Bhattacharyya Abstract If one were to chart the momentous transformations that South Asia witnessed in the twentieth century, the sea and its coasts would be an essential cipher. The geopolitical, socio-legal, and economic transformations over the past century in South Asia are a seaborne...

...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...

...Etienne Benson In the twentieth century, conservation biology became one of the forms of expert knowledge contributing to governmental efforts to manage territories and populations. This article offers a situated account of the development of one of the key concepts deployed by biologists...