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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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."
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"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."
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'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."
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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."
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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."
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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
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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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🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicSky #OpenAccess
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October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicSky #OpenAccess
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New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier."
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October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier."
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Interesting new paper in @csshjournal.bsky.social about how geological surveys have repeatedly portrayed Afghanistan as a "land of untold mineral wealth" and untapped potential over the last two centuries:
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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October 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Interesting new paper in @csshjournal.bsky.social about how geological surveys have repeatedly portrayed Afghanistan as a "land of untold mineral wealth" and untapped potential over the last two centuries:
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CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and @bishara.bsky.social!
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October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and @bishara.bsky.social!
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In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History
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September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History
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It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below.
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The latest from CSSH: "The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late #Ottoman Empire" by Henry Clements. #History #AcademicSky
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September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The latest from CSSH: "The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late #Ottoman Empire" by Henry Clements. #History #AcademicSky
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New at CSSH: Foroogh Farhang's "Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of #Displacement in the #MiddleEast."
"The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights."
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"The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights."
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Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East
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September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New at CSSH: Foroogh Farhang's "Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of #Displacement in the #MiddleEast."
"The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
"The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights."
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Congratulations again to our 2025 Goody Award-winner Elizabeth Chatterjee! CSSH enjoyed the opportunity to chat with Dr. Chatterjee about "Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics." Don't miss it! #AcademicSky
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Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics, a conversation with Elizabeth Chatterjee, winner of the 2025 Goody Award – Comparative Studies in Society and History
CSSH interviews 2025 Jack Goody Award-winner Elizabeth Chatterjee.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Congratulations again to our 2025 Goody Award-winner Elizabeth Chatterjee! CSSH enjoyed the opportunity to chat with Dr. Chatterjee about "Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics." Don't miss it! #AcademicSky
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Now out on FirstView, Aviv Derri's "The #Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking #Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies."
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August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Now out on FirstView, Aviv Derri's "The #Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking #Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies."
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In our latest Behind the Scenes, Marco Garrido describes the act of organization that led to the revelations in his essay, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946."
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August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In our latest Behind the Scenes, Marco Garrido describes the act of organization that led to the revelations in his essay, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946."
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Exciting new double issue on animals!
Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org
Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales).
Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée !
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Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales).
Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée !
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August 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Exciting new double issue on animals!
The latest at CSSH: Peng Hai's ""The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting #Turkestan in Imperial #Japan’s Muslim Policy." #maps #History
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August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The latest at CSSH: Peng Hai's ""The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting #Turkestan in Imperial #Japan’s Muslim Policy." #maps #History
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CSSH is excited to announce that Elizabeth Chatterjee is the winner of the 2025 Jack Goody Award! Our judges deemed her essay, Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States, "comparative social science at its best."
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2025 Jack Goody Award – Comparative Studies in Society and History
CSSH announces 2025 Jack Goody Award winner Elizabeth Chatterjee!
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August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
CSSH is excited to announce that Elizabeth Chatterjee is the winner of the 2025 Jack Goody Award! Our judges deemed her essay, Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States, "comparative social science at its best."
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08...
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CSSH highlights new books by former journal authors Joseph Masco, Judith Scheele, and @margaretjwiener.bsky.social!
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August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
CSSH highlights new books by former journal authors Joseph Masco, Judith Scheele, and @margaretjwiener.bsky.social!
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Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...
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