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61. Publications & Writing
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, 1997 IDRF Fellow James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipie…
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62. Publications & Writing
Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa
…1999 IDRF fellow Jonathan Miran examines how a particular historical conjuncture of amplified global interactions in the second half of the nineteenth century formed and transformed society, culture and notions of identity in the Red Sea port town of Massawa, in present-day Eritr…
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63. Publications & Writing
Reform and the Non-State Economy in China: The Political Economy of Liberalization Strategies
Private and foreign economic sectors (termed non-state sectors in China) have been the main engine of China’s phenomenal economic growth. Building on rich data analyses, 1997 IDRF Fellow Hongyi Lai offers a fresh and in-depth explanation of how China’s pro-reform leaders succ…
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64. Publications & Writing
Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
…1999 IDRF Fellow Duanfang Lu’s book charts the evolution of the contemporary Chinese urban built environment. Following the socialist revolution of 1949, China’s architects and planners attempted to remodel urban settlements according to modern neighborhood design and plannin…
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65. Publications & Writing
Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
…2001 IDRF Fellow Scott Gehlbach’s Representation Through Taxation challenges the conventional wisdom that politicians favor groups that are organized over those that are not. Gehlbach uses the postcommunist experience to challenge the traditional emphasis on collective action,…
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66. Publications & Writing
Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries
How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? 1997 IDRF Fellow Michael Tomz offers a new perspective on this elemental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. Tomz develops a theory of cooperation between sovereign governments…
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67. Publications & Writing
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today. 1997 IDRF Fellow Diana K. Davis’s…
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68. Publications & Writing
Ritual and World Change in a Balinese Princedom
…1997 IDRF Fellow Lene Pedersen’s book, Ritual and World Change in a Balinese Princedom, is an ethnography of a contemporary Balinese princedom as it engages with globally influenced circumstances. Buy from Amazon.
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69. Publications & Writing
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960
In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, 2001 IDRF fellow Eiko Maruko Siniawer demonstrates that the practice of politics in Japan has been dangerous, chaotic, and far more violent than previously thought and that instead, violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese p…
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70. Publications & Writing
Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies
As Argentina, Brazil, and Chile made transitions from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. 1997 IDRF Fellow Mala Htun’s study expl…
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