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...Haider A. Khan Ranajit Guha New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. x,116. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Book Reviews Ranajit Guha. History at the Limit of World-History New so tenaciously and honestly demonstrated, history and York...

...Sucheta Mazumdar © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Symposium on “Nationalism, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts” Locating Modernity in World History* Sucheta Mazumdar In this very interesting and provocative essay Mo- tempts...

... a remarkable text that looked far beyond his home in Ethiopia. His ‘Acer ya’alam tarik bamerena (Short History of the World in Amharic), which he subtitled Histoire Universelle, concisely surveyed two millennia...

...Peter E. Pope The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World John F. Richards Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 696 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle East...

... Modernity,” Social Science History , 18 , 3 (Fall), pp. 339 –358. Trouillot , Michel-Rolph . 1988 . Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Wallerstein , Immanuel . 1974 . The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture...

... to Scheherazade or Women The author is well versed in Tunisian history of Algiers cannot be dissociated from the commodi- and politics, as evidenced in the informative and fi cation of Islamic Otherness in the Western world...

... to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's ideas on civilizational relations in world history and how Toynbee's writings were utilized in critiques of modernization...

... alike. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 capitalism decolonization South markets economy world history References Comaroff Jean Comaroff John L. Theory from the South; or, How Euro-America Is Evolving toward Africa . Boulder, CO : Paradigm...

... to frame global circularities within Indian Ocean pasts. How have imbrications with other world regions affected the networks and boundaries of the Indian Ocean region? And how have Indian Ocean societies affected the wider world? To answer these questions this article traces Indian Ocean histories within...

... also not “lose sight of the history of unrealized emancipatory potential of this period,” as Su Lin Lewis reminds us, for these networks “left important imprints on both cultural production and international engagements in the postcolonial world.” 21 Only by broadening existing understandings...

... 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...

... or inadvertently exclude certain intellectuals. Nyabongo's case also exposes the limits of the categories into which historians typically slot African thinkers. Such scholarship ironically returns to the “great man” approach to intellectual history long abandoned in other parts of the world, gravitating toward...

...Rebecca Gould This essay aims at a methodological interpretation of Sheldon Pollock's oeuvre from the perspective of comparative literary history. Part 1 focuses on his recent magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men . Part 2 compares the Sanskrit cosmopolis in Pollock's...

... Pant and the history of Indian engagement with Rhodesia has not, until now, been explored. This article argues that the central role of India in the colonial world ensured that London reined in the white settler Rhodesian government from enacting discriminatory legislation against its minority Indian...

... in the subcontinent and much of Asia and Africa. Histories and legacies of borderland autonomy have important implications for contemporary sovereign practice in much of the world. This article examines the making, unmaking, and endurance of borderlands around Hyderabad in the eastern Deccan. It describes the region...

... . London : Verso , 2013 . Mouffe Chantal . Democratic Paradox . London : Verso , 2000 . Mouffe Chantal . On the Political . London : Routledge , 2005 . Purushotham Sunil . “ World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal...

...Margrit Pernau Global history needs common concepts. European concepts are deeply problematic, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has shown, because their genealogy in European experience makes them particular and universal at the same time and reduces the rest of the world to a history of lack. Taking...

... represents a powerful example of insurgent thought within the global history of slavery and emancipation in the British imperial world. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. References Banaji Jairus . “ Capitalist Domination...

... of the latter’s story. Although no one is arguing that the monsoon coasts of Southeast Asia are per se part of the Middle East, they are a component part of the history of this region of the world. Tagliacozzo shows how this embrace across the Indian Ocean came about, primarily though the lenses of commerce...