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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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'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky

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A child levitating in front of witnesses due to the influence of witchcraft. Saducismus Triumphatus, London, by author Joseph Glanvill. 1681.
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"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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The grave of an Algerian martyr guillotined in the prison of Oran, next to unmarked burial plots. Author’s photo, May 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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
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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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The IPC export terminal at Faw, sited in land formerly devoted to date cultivation, ca. 1956. Source: British Petroleum Archives 223591. © BP plc
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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Hanna Safar’s letter to the patriarch, 12 January 1888. The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Archive of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran (Dayro d-Kurkmo), Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 05-607/608. Image courtesy of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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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Excerpts from a list of sergis Azer Angel purchased from local merchants
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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
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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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The cloth cover of Xinjiang Affairs (General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Army, 1943, currently deposited at Waseda University Library).
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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
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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
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New work by @chihab.bsky.social, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State #Archives in #Egypt," is out on FirstView!

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File no. 2/1–555 from the Institute of Popular Culture, titled “Bills and Ministerial Decrees on the Establishment of the Institute (the Popular University) and its Board of Directors.” The document dates within this file range from 1945 to 1959.
July 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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In our latest Behind the Scenes, "Runways and Relations," Carla Jones analyzes a series of images to show how the public #catwalk operates as a platform for political communication in #Indonesia. Don't miss it!

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July 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Our new issue is out and fully #OpenAccess! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Marital Strategies; Institutional Power; Imperial Geographies; and Long Histories. #Anthropology #History #Sociology

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June 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alyssa Paredes compares highland bananas to other luxury fruits and describes how the banana disrupted assumptions about Japanese palates and sensitivities to taste. Bon appétit!

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June 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We are delighted to share a syllabus of scholarship on food and feasting! Gather at the CSSH table, with "Comestibles, Cuisines, and Convivia."

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June 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death. Don't sleep on it!

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June 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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New on FirstView: Serkan Yolaçan's "A Seven-Headed Public: #Empire and #Satire in Revolutionary #Caucasus." #History #Anthropology

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Cover illustration, “Seven Occupations,” Molla Nasraddin, 6 June 1910. Illustrator: Oscar Schmerling. Image reproduced by Çınar-Çap Nəşriyyatı (vol. 3, 2005).
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin's "After Exploratory #Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global #Afghanistan" is out on FirstView! #Mining #Anthropology #History

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Miners' hands sift through metamorphic rock searching for rare flashes of emerald green crystals (author’s photo).
May 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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CSSH celebrates new books by its authors Julia Elyachar and Courtney Handman!

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May 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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If you are similarly obsessed, don't miss his 2021 CSSH essay and our subsequent interview, "Elephants, Kings, and Comparison, a Conversation with Tom Trautmann."

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April 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Our latest Under the Rubric brings together Mary Neuburger, Adam Hanzel, and @omrielisha.bsky.social, authors of two essays that explore alternative ways of predicting the future: clairvoyance and astrology. Enjoy!

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The Astrologer - The Contemporary. Alexey Akindinov. (Wiki images)
April 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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We are excited to highlight new books by CSSH authors Matei Candea, Paolo Heywood, Kevin P. Donovan, and Said Amir Arjomand!

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April 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM