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31. Publications & Writing
Globalization, Business Politics and Development: North Africa in Comparative Perspective
…1999 IDRF Fellow Melani Cammett’s volume focuses on whether globalization and trade liberalization enable business associations to become real representatives of business interests rather than state-controlled or otherwise ineffective organizations in developing countries. The…
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32. Publications & Writing
Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956
In Governing Spirits, 1997 IDRF Fellow Reinaldo L. Roman explores the changing relationship between those who regulate religious expression and those who practice religion in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico. Not until after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-Ameri…
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33. Publications & Writing
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701–760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticis…
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34. Publications & Writing
Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration Among Kazakhstan’s Germans and Koreans (Mellen Studies in Geography, V. 13)
Through comparative analysis of the reactions of Kazakhstan’s Germans and Koreans to the emergence of an independent Republic of Kazakhstan, 2001 IDRF Fellow Alexander Diener’s book enhances understanding of first, the conflicting dynamics of socio-political integration in po…
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35. Publications & Writing
Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy
In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on the condition that he would convert to Christianity. Over the next century and a half, Rollo and his descendants would become powerful and pious Christian rulers of the mighty European territory, Nor…
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36. Publications & Writing
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
In a groundbreaking and Pulitzer winning debut, Harvard historian and 1998 IDRF Fellow Caroline Elkins has recovered the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. Elkins reveals for the first time what Britain so desperately tried to hide. In the aftermath of…
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37. Publications & Writing
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society
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38. Publications & Writing
In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that sectarianism is intrinsically linked to violence, bloodshed, or social disharmony, 2005 IDRF Fellow Max Weiss uncovers the complex roots of Shi`i sectarianism in twentieth-century Lebanon. The template for conflicted relations between the…
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39. Publications & Writing
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
Intimate Enemies explores the conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and storied history of violent responses to agrarian conflict reacted to land invasions triggered by the Zapatista Rebellion of…
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40. Publications & Writing
Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-first Century Pakistan
Against the backdrop of the turbulent social and political landscape of today’s Pakistan, 2000 IDRF Fellow Robert Rozehnal traces the ritual practices and identity politics of a contemporary Sufi order: the Chishti Sabiris. He does so from multiple perspectives: from the rich U…
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