Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was replaced by laws adapted from the French Napoleonic code, edited by international committees, ......
Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was replaced by laws adapted from the French Napoleonic code, edited by international committees, ......
Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changing ideology that undergirded all phases of the language's formation: linguistic purism. ......
The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism
Examining the evolution of South African activists' attitude toward the state of Israel In recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In South Africa today, Israel is notorious for its collaboration with the former white minority ......
The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism
Examining the evolution of South African activists' attitude toward the state of Israel In recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In South Africa today, Israel is notorious for its collaboration with the former white minority ......
The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the world's most impenetrable autocracies. This volume brings together leading scholars to take stock of what we have learned from over a decade of research using the Ba'thist ......
Capitalism and Social Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareholder corporations that wielded significant influence across the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. ......
A profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives. In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians - and only Armenians - to emigrate on the condition that they expatriate and never return to their homeland. A key step in this process ......
