Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "History"
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Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons
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Accepting difference, seeking common ground: Sino-Indian statistical exchanges 1951–1959
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)Starting as early as 1951, and with increasing urgency after 1956, Chinese and Indian statisticians traded visits as they sought to learn from each other's experiences. At the heart of these exchanges was the desire to ... -
Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Asia: Changing Dynamics in Contemporary West Africa's Political Economy
(African Finance and Economic Association, 2011)The last two to three decades have witnessed significant transformation in West Africa’s relations to the Arabian Gulf and Asia. While ties to countries such as Saudi Arabia are historic, economic liberalization since the ... -
The Air Cure Town: Commodifying Mountain Air in Alpine Central Europe
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)Does air have value? In the first volume of Capital, Marx suggested it did not: “A thing can be a use-value, without having value,” he explained. “This is the case whenever its utility to man is not due to labour. Such are ... -
Als wär’ es ein Stuck von uns . . . German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany
(Berghahn Journals, 2010)This essay looks at postunification Germany through the pages of German Politics and Society. The articles published during this period reveal the evolution of intellectuals' understanding of the unified country—concerns ... -
Antidepressants and Advertising: Psychopharmaceuticals in Crisis
(YJBM, 2012)As the efficacy and science of psychopharmaceuticals has become increasingly uncertain, marketing of these drugs to both physicians and consumers continues to a central part of a multi-billion dollar per year industry in ... -
Aoko, Gaudencia
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The Appropriation of Native Status: Forming and Reforming Insiders and Outsiders in the Spanish Colonial World
(Max Planck Institut fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, 2014)This article examines the different meanings of native status in Spanish America. It argues that the classification of Indigenous peoples as »natives« was not meant to reflect a reality of indigeneity as many have assumed, ... -
The Archives of Universal History
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2008)This article looks at early proposals for an international archive, at the different respects in which archives are international or transnational, and at the development since 1946 of the archives of international ... -
Archivos de conocimiento y la cultura legal de la publicidad en la Marsella medieval
(Editorial CSIC, 1997)Based on a case study of Marseille in the fourteenth century, this article argues that a foundational metaphor of medieval legal culture was publicity, even in the late medieval world where the written norms of Roman law ... -
Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
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Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-07-20)China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic ... -
Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape
(University of California Press, 2009)This article examines the Legio Maria Church of western Kenya, a relatively rare example of schism from the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. One of more than seven thousand African Initiated Churches in existence today, ... -
Between history and nation: Paul Robert Magocsi and the rewriting of Ukrainian history
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)"Getting history wrong is an essential factor in the formation of a nation,” wrote Ernest Renan, basing this observation on his analysis of the nation-building experience in nineteenth-century Europe (qtd. in Eric Hobsbawm, ... -
Between Surprise and Social Science
(European University Institute, 2009)Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ... -
Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago)
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the “anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means ... -
Bohemians Before Bohemianism
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Book Review: Indian Ocean In The Balance
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Book Review: Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)