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North, Central & West Asia

Russia/Soviet

Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution

A review of Empire’s Children: Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution, by Loraine de la Fe. Loraine de la Fe’s dissertation is an impressive......
Islamic Studies

Jews, Muslims & Legal Pluralism in Morocco

A review of In the Courts of the Nations: Jews, Muslims and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century Morocco, by Jessica M. Marglin. Jews in nineteenth c...
Latin America

Russian-Argentine Literary Exchanges

A review of Russian-Argentine Literary Exchanges, by Dina Odnopozova. Dina Odnopozova’s dissertation skillfully traces the history of the literary dia...
Islamic Studies

The Ottoman Learned Class, 1300-1600

A review of The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and Legal Scholarship (1300-1600), by Abdurrahman Atçıl. In this dissertation Abdurrahman Atçıl...
Islamic Studies

The South Asian Diaspora in Australia

A review of Camels, Ships, Trains: Translation Across the ‘Indian Archipelago’ 1860-1930, by Samia Khatun. Samia Khatun’s remarkable PhD dissertation,...
Russia/Soviet

Poet-Translators in the Soviet & Post-Soviet Eras

A review of A Remedy For Solitude: Russian Poet-Translators in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras, by Maria Yevgenievna Khotimsky. Maria Khotimsky’s diss...
China

The Qing Invention of Nature

A review of: The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment, Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia, 1750-1850 by Jonathan Schlesinger. For Western trave...
Russia/Soviet

Buddhism in Modern Russian Culture

A review of The Buddhist World in Modern Russian Culture (1873-1919): Literature and Visual Arts, by Adele Di Ruocco. Academic writing at its best sho...
Iran/Persian

Construction of Islamic Iran in Abbasid Historiography

A review of The Arab-Sasanian Narrative in the Early Islamic Historiographical Tradition, by Scott Savran. Many Arabic and Persian histories penned du...
China

Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East

Navigating Northeast Asia in Vladivostok: A Review of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East (Российский Государственный Исторический Ар...
Russia/Soviet

Pastoral Activism & Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia

A review of The White Priest at Work: Orthodox Pastoral Activism and the Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia, by Daniel Scarborough. Drunken, uneduc...
Islamic Studies

Ambiguity in Arabic Philosophy of Language

A review of A Linguistic Frame of Mind: ar-Rāġib al-Iṣfahānī and What It Meant to Be Ambiguous, by Alexander Key. Despite medieval Arabic culture’s “o...
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