CSSH Journal
@csshjournal.bsky.social
Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
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This month, we are celebrating new books by
@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!
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@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!
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December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This month, we are celebrating new books by
@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
Our recent issues are replete with essays on death, martyrdom, and immortality. "#Martyrs and Memorials," our latest On the Syllabus by editorial intern Moniek van Rheenen, situates this scholarship within CSSH's rich archive on the subject.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our recent issues are replete with essays on death, martyrdom, and immortality. "#Martyrs and Memorials," our latest On the Syllabus by editorial intern Moniek van Rheenen, situates this scholarship within CSSH's rich archive on the subject.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
We've got more new scholarship on our website! Today, it's a can't-miss conversation between Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar about #decolonization and what might come next: “The location of sovereignty is still in question.” #AcademicSky #History #AcademicChatter
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December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We've got more new scholarship on our website! Today, it's a can't-miss conversation between Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar about #decolonization and what might come next: “The location of sovereignty is still in question.” #AcademicSky #History #AcademicChatter
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Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making."
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![Basset, André, Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pontichery, de l'Amiraute et de la Maison du Gouverneur, [Vers 1750-1785]. Cariatide, bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA, NUM VO Ori 12.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d7i3nuizv3o3ahnjyq4pr6ss/bafkreihisx44jkt6cp3zmcmf5i2ci7f3uozcrb2lscpox3jscpaakynebe@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making."
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
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Our newest Under (and Across!) the Rubric brings together letters by Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love on graves, spirits, martyrs, mourning, reincarnation, curses - the intersections of life and death.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our newest Under (and Across!) the Rubric brings together letters by Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love on graves, spirits, martyrs, mourning, reincarnation, curses - the intersections of life and death.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
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"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair."
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December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair."
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...
Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView!
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December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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What did Islamic justice look like for Venetian merchants trading in premodern Ottoman Empire?
My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What did Islamic justice look like for Venetian merchants trading in premodern Ottoman Empire?
My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Don't miss @tommasoaga.bsky.social's "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: #Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts," out on FirstView and Open Access!
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Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts
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November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Don't miss @tommasoaga.bsky.social's "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: #Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts," out on FirstView and Open Access!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency
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November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency
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Out now, Hélène Quiniou's "#Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of #Decolonization."
"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."
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"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of Decolonization
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November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Out now, Hélène Quiniou's "#Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of #Decolonization."
"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
We'll be waiting!
“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We'll be waiting!
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“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)
Charlotte Ciavarella's "Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen" is out on FirstView! #Development #Capitalism
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Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen
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November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Charlotte Ciavarella's "Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen" is out on FirstView! #Development #Capitalism
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On FirstView from CSSH, don't miss @orenfalk.bsky.social's "The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands." #Norse #twitterstorians
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The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands
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November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
On FirstView from CSSH, don't miss @orenfalk.bsky.social's "The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands." #Norse #twitterstorians
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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This month, CSSH celebrates Arndt Emmerich's award-winning essay and highlights a new book by Christina Schwenkel!
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November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This month, CSSH celebrates Arndt Emmerich's award-winning essay and highlights a new book by Christina Schwenkel!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/11...
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New to FirstView, Daniel Hershenzon's "The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern #Maghrib" explores how "wax formed invisible, often unintended connections between Muslim theologians and rulers, Catholic and Muslim captives, slaves, wax makers, merchants, and redeemers."
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The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib
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November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New to FirstView, Daniel Hershenzon's "The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern #Maghrib" explores how "wax formed invisible, often unintended connections between Muslim theologians and rulers, Catholic and Muslim captives, slaves, wax makers, merchants, and redeemers."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
"Brokering Right-to-Life: #Poland & the Transnational Entanglements of #Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s" by Piotr H. Kosicki and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska "examines multi-vector pro-life exchanges between Poland, the US, & #Chile."
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Brokering Right-to-Life: Poland and the Transnational Entanglements of Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cam...
Brokering Right-to-Life: Poland and the Transnational Entanglements of Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s
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November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Brokering Right-to-Life: #Poland & the Transnational Entanglements of #Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s" by Piotr H. Kosicki and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska "examines multi-vector pro-life exchanges between Poland, the US, & #Chile."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky
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October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky
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Now out, Arthur Shiwa Zárate's "Cosmopolitan Spirits: #Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960" "foregrounds the Islamic tradition’s entanglements with scientific discourses and navigates beyond claims about epistemological rupture."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Cosmopolitan Spirits: Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Cosmopolitan Spirits: Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960
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October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Now out, Arthur Shiwa Zárate's "Cosmopolitan Spirits: #Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960" "foregrounds the Islamic tradition’s entanglements with scientific discourses and navigates beyond claims about epistemological rupture."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Congratulations to Arndt Emmerich, whose CSSH essay "Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany" has won @germanhistsoc.bsky.social's 2025 Rethinking German History Prize!
Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany - Volume 67 Issue 1
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October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congratulations to Arndt Emmerich, whose CSSH essay "Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany" has won @germanhistsoc.bsky.social's 2025 Rethinking German History Prize!
Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arndt Emmerich (University of Hertfordshire) on being awarded the 2025 Rethinking German History Prize for his article in @csshjournal.bsky.social
Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...
Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arndt Emmerich (University of Hertfordshire) on being awarded the 2025 Rethinking German History Prize for his article in @csshjournal.bsky.social
Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...
Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...
"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten (often violent) pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria."
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October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten (often violent) pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
New by Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou: "Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt." #Kurds #Turkey #Druze #Martyrdom
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Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt
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October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New by Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou: "Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt." #Kurds #Turkey #Druze #Martyrdom
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Don't miss our latest! Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Sofía Rodríguez-López's "One Cross, Two Continents: How #Catholic Women’s Resistance in #Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)." #Spain #History #AcademicSky
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One Cross, Two Continents: How Catholic Women’s Resistance in Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936) | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
One Cross, Two Continents: How Catholic Women’s Resistance in Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)
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October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Don't miss our latest! Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Sofía Rodríguez-López's "One Cross, Two Continents: How #Catholic Women’s Resistance in #Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)." #Spain #History #AcademicSky
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