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Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China

The Dynastic Imagination

Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Classical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy

Chapter in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy: From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era

Being in North Korea

August 2020

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**See our dedicated book page for more information about the book, including praise, reviews, and author commentary.**In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the...

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

July 2020

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edited by Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the...

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

June 2020

Author(s): 
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Dylan Connor
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

June 2020

Author(s): 
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Dylan Connor
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.

In Praise of Depth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hidden

February 2020

Author(s): 
Joshua Landy
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous.

Legitimacy in the ‘secular church’ of the United Nations

February 2020

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This article argues that how the United Nations (UN) conceptualizes legitimacy is not only a matter of legalism or power politics.

Heidegger Never Got Beyond Facticity

December 2019

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(1) The “thing itself” of Heidegger’s thinking was Ereignis. (2) But Ereignis is a reinscription of what Being and Time had called thrownness or facticity.

The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and Their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon

September 2019

Author(s): 
David Laitin, Rajesh Ramachandran, Stephen L. Walter
The relative educational returns on colonial versus indigenous language instruction in sub-Saharan countries have yet to be decisively estimated.

Networks of Enlightenment Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters

August 2019

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edited by Chloe Edmondson, Dan Edelstein
The first volume that brings together the work of scholars pioneering digital approaches to the Republic of Letters Innovative applications of social network analysis and digital methods to provide...

Professions of Friendship: Revisiting the Concept of the Political in the Middle East

This essay examines “professions of friendship”: efforts by populations who are targeted as enemies of the state to proclaim their historical fidelity to the state's foundation and preservation...

1919 in Korea: National Resistance and Contending Legacies

May 2019

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The year 2019 is the centennial of several anti-colonialist movements that emerged in Asia, including the March First Movement of Korea, the first nationwide political protest in Korea under...

Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works (Transforming Literary Studies)

April 2019

Author(s): 
Joan Ramon Resina (editor and contributor), and Christoph Wulf (editors and contributors), Vincent Barletta (contributor)
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition.

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts

January 2019

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This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience.

Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World, Edited by Paula Findlen

August 2018

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Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena...

Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality

August 2018

Author(s): 
Dan Edelstein, Anton M. Matytsin, editors
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M.

Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds

August 2018

Author(s): 
Lisa Blaydes, Justin Grimmer, Alison McQueen
When did European modes of political thought diverge from those that existed in other world regions?

Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla’s Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings

August 2018

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In 1670 the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) devised an entirely new way of depicting fossils when he wrote and illustrated his Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670–1671), which...

Authenticity, Complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish Literature

July 2018

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Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and their critics embraced the notion that their work displayed an affinity to Russian and Yiddish literature, especially to the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky...

Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution

April 2018

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We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology.
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