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North, Central & West Asia

Europe

Imperial Russian Naval History Resources in St. Petersburg

A review of the Central Naval Library and Russian State Naval Archive (Центральная военно-морская библиотека; Российский государственный архив военно-...
South Asia

Architecture & Sense of Place in the Indian Himalayas

A review of Spirit of Place and the Evolution of the Vernacular House in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India, by Melissa Malouf Belz. Melissa Belz examin...
Inner/Central Asia

Entangling Modernities in Tajikistan

A review of Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernities along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway, by Till Mostowlansky. The dearth of post-Soviet ethnographies o...
China

Challenging the Politics of Representation in the Study of Tibet

A review of Tibet Beyond Black and White: Racial Formations and Transnational Collusions, by C. Michelle Kleisath. The release of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’...
Fresh from the Archives

Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, University of Nebraska

A review of the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska, United States). The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection (A...
Economic History

The Politics of Oil in the USSR

A review of Baku at All Costs: The Politics of Oil in the New Soviet State, by Sara G. Brinegar. Industrial civilization needs fossil fuels...
Diaspora/Migration

The Centre for Asia Minor Studies

Archive of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies The “Catastrophe” The Greco-Turkish War of 1919 – 1922 ended in what is known in Greek historiography......
China

A China “Specialist” in Istanbul

If I may start this piece with a problematic generalization, I’d say that we Turkish people appreciate education and knowledge but are not big on......
Ottoman/Turkish

Turkish Working Class Formation

A review of Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962, by Barış Alp Özden. This dissertation explores the discourses and everyday practices of work...
China

Transforming Inner Mongolia’s Frontier

A review of Transforming the Frontier: Land, Commerce, and Chinese Colonization in Inner Mongolia, 1700-1911, by Yi Wang.  Recent studies of the Qing ...
Diaspora/Migration

Pastoralism, Local Knowledge, and Biodiversity in Post-Soviet Republics

Pastoralism and the Limits of Local Knowledge: Mapping Biodiversity Preservation in Post-Soviet Republics During this past August of 2014, many became...
Fresh from the Archives

The Turkish Republican Archive

A review of the Turkish Republican Archive (Cumhuriyet Arşivi) (Ankara, Turkey) Back in 2009, when I did my doctoral research in the Republican Archiv...
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