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2014 Dissertation

106 posts

The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands

  • Kalliopi Amygdalou
  • 7 minute read
A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914),…
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Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples of Laos and Vietnam

  • Sarah Grant
  • 7 minute read
A review of Forests, Spirits, and High Modernist Development: A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in…
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A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power

  • Christopher Bell
  • 16 minute read
A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master…
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A Market for Speech: Poetry in Late Mughal India

  • Arthur Dudney
  • 7 minute read
Review of A Market for Speech: Poetry Recitation in Late Mughal India, 1690-1810, by Nathan Tabor. Something strange happened to…
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Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary in Japan

  • Eleanor Robinson-Yamaguchi
  • 11 minute read
A review of Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and “Foreign Hero”, by James Mitchell…
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Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses

  • Salvatore Morelli Salvatore Morelli
  • 8 minute read
A review of What We Deserve:The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It, by Jacob S.…
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Biopower, Governmentality & Life Insurance in Modern Japan

  • Hansun Hsiung
  • 11 minute read
A review of Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1945, by Ryan Moran. From the 1820s onward, Western societies,…
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Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India

  • Danna Agmon
  • 5 minute read
A review of Mercantile Aesthetics: Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India (1664-1761), by Liza Oliver. This dissertation unravels the…
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Sex Ratios and Female Educational Attainment in China

  • Andrew Janco
  • 5 minute read
A review of The Relationship Between Cohort Sex Ratios and Relative Female Educational Attainment in Post-1949 China, by Christina Jenq…
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Money and Mercantilism in the 17th-cent. English Atlantic

  • Matthew David Mitchell
  • 11 minute read
A review of Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607-1697, by Jonathan Barth. Historians of the seventeenth-century…
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