...Lawrence McCrea Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 review essay In the World of Men and beyond It Thoughts on Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men Lawrence McCrea t is a rarity...

...Ravinder Kaur When and how did the third world transform into an emerging market in the global economy? Kaur addresses this ongoing reinscription of the old third world as market, unpacking new modes of imagination and knowledge at the heart of this historical shift. She argues that if the quest...

...., $24.95 (cloth) Introduction: Slow Reading in an Ever-­Faster World Gandhi’s African-­Based Indian Opinion With her most recent book, Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading, Isabel Hofmeyr makes a significant contribution to several...

... and Assad helps illustrate the ways in which gender roles and representations, in the Arab and Muslim world as elsewhere, are always multiple and contradictory, varying across lines of social class and intimately connected to and shaped by the ever changing political and ideological projects of states...

... in the Netherlands) and the late seventeenth cen- THE MAKING AND CLOSING tury (John Locke in England), the legal founda- OF EUROCENTRIC INTERNATIONAL LAW tion of land expropriation and appropriation was The Opening of a Multipolar World...

... to and the Arab World t man Amy Mills, James A. Reilly, and Christine Philliou...

...Yigal Bronner © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars REVIEW ESSAY Yigal Bronner...

...Yusuf Sarfati Democratic Values in the Muslim World Fattah Moataz A. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2006 v + 209 pp., $23.50 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Mocha’s commercial ties. The Merchant Houses of Trade...

... protagonists to the problems faced by youth in the Arab world today. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The 99: Superhero Comic Books from the Arab World Mary- Jane Deeb n the Kuwaiti media company Teshkeel Media Group (TMG) was established. It would revolutionize...

..., the metaphysical veil, the discursive veil, the veil of perception, the psychological veil, or the veil between subjects, all of which contribute to an all-encompassing veil in the sense of a “world metaphor.” Different literary texts from the corresponding periods in literary history use veils as epistemological...

... of comparison, and separating them are the details of the comparative practice, its ends and its powers. More specifically, the main difference between the two journals concerns the fate of the world covered on their pages: the first engages in comparative destruction, the second in comparative construction...

... Third World movement. Building on diverse fields including Chinese, Islamic, Middle Eastern, and global history, this essay seeks to decouple Chinese Muslim history from narratives of marginalization and to decouple histories of China and the Middle East from the fraught encounter between “West...

...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...

... . MacDonald Alexander . The Land of Ararat; or, Up the Roof of the World . London : Eden, Remington , 1893 . Makdisi Ussama . “ Ottoman Orientalism .” American Historical Review 107 , no. 3 ( 2002 ): 768 – 96 . Mann Michael . “ The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins...

...Erin Stiles Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Empire and in the states...

..., a concept like "modernity"discussed in the theoretical sec- tion, with Nehru's concepts of modernization discussed in Nationalist %ugh and the Colonial World: A Derivative the last chapter; or, had...

... of authority that informed not only the end of the empire but also its afterlife. 2 References Aydın Cemil . The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought . New York : Columbia University Press , 2007 . Beverley Eric Lewis...

... world. In this conceptual redefinition, Getachew reveals how slavery was not simply a metaphor for imperial domination. Rather, political thinkers like Du Bois, James, and Williams developed a thoroughgoing critique of “empire as enslavement” in which twentieth-century colonialism was an extension...

... demonstrates how these statistics' public circulation not only enabled Ottoman officials to identify regions they considered ripe for further agricultural development, but also supported French officials' justifications for imposing colonial rule post–World War I. elizabeth_williams@uml.edu Copyright...

...Elleni Centime Zeleke; Arash Davari Abstract This essay outlines a research agenda the authors call “Third World Historical,” combining reflections from Ethiopia and Iran to query the legacies of revolutionary politics in our present. Third world activists from the 1960s and 1970s engaged...