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152355
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Through their interactions with French archaeologists from around 1930, Afghan historians formulated a new official historical identity for Afghanistan based on its pre-Islamic past. This article provides the first analysis of this process by tracing the emergence of the new historiography through the career of its chief promoter, Ahmad ʿAli Kuhzad, as curator of the National Museum (founded 1931) and director of the Afghan Historical Society (founded 1942). Through placing Kuhzad in these official institutional settings and reading his major works, the article shows how traditional Persianate historiography was challenged by an imported and amended version of world civilizational history. In the decades after independence in 1919, this new historical vision allowed the young Afghan nation-state to stake its civilizational claims on an international stage. In these previously unexcavated historiographical strata lie the roots of the Taliban's iconoclasm, which are revealed as a dialogical response to the state cultural institutions that remade Afghanistan as Aryana.
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080575
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2007.
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This article proceeds through a case study of commemorative rhetoric in a British settler state, Australia, and in a provincial capital, Brisbane, whose dominant commemorative group, the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC), had claims to have invented the national memorial rituals for the principal day of remembrance. It briefly surveys the broader Australian commemorative background, then explores the control of Anzac Day in Brisbane, focusing on accommodations and alliances between political, civil and religious leaders and the principal returned soldiers' organization, the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (RSSILA) on the ADCC, in Anzac Day activities, and in Anzac Day rhetoric. The article suggests that the theme of 'triumphalism' has been underplayed in analysis of interwar commemorative rhetoric in Australia, and that cooperation, accommodation and alliance were more typical of interwar commemoration than contest
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ID:
025372
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3rd ed.
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London, The Cresset Press, 1985.
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xviii, 624p.: ill., mapspbk
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 000253 | 951.05/FIT 000253 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
032018
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London, WeidenFeld and Nicolson, 1968.
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291p.Hbk
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 022771 | 909.08515/SNE 022771 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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121541
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2013.
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The Great War's No Man's Land and the trenches that faced into it, with destructive weapons ruling the space, created a dislocated environment that spawned stories of death and haunting. The Canadian soldiers' belief systems were robust and varied, but some men embraced the magical, uncanny, and supernatural to make meaning of their war experiences. An attempt to locate and situate these "grave beliefs" within soldiers' narratives brings to light an understudied aspect of the cultural history of the war.
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178159
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This introductory essay provides an overview of the main subfields of research into the histories of foodstuffs, diet and nutrition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia, thus situating the contributions to this themed special section in wider historiographical debates and controversies. It argues that the bulk of existing research has focused either on the conflictual role of food and diet in the colonial encounter, or on the emergence of nutritional sciences in India (and in the countries providing food aid to India) during the post-colonial phase in response to the protracted recurrence of food scarcity in the subcontinent. It subsequently identifies a research lacuna by pointing to the conspicuous absence of historical studies on Dalits and food in spite of the topic’s obvious relevance for the creation and maintenance of social hierarchies. The article ends with short previews of the individual essays assembled in this collection.
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143478
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Santa Monica, Rand Corp., 1967.
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ix, 146p.pbk
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| 000495 | 627.0959/CRO 000495 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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131576
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2014.
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My engagement with the social history of the Middle East, as I embarked on graduate studies, coincided with Judith Tucker's lamentation in 1990 that it was a field understudied to the point of being largely ignored. I came to the study of this new region with training in the native history of Canada, which had introduced me to the challenges and rewards of reconstructing the stories of people who had been denied agency in a narrative dominated by European conquest and nation-building.
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042837
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Mysore
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1972
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New Delhi, National Book Trust, 1972.
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v, 196p.hbk
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| 008428 | 954.87/RAM 008428 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
180011
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The recent revival of interest in Moroccan thinker Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009) around the English release of his seminal 1983 essay, Maghreb Pluriel represents an opportunity to place this thinker in the inner circle of post-1967 Arab thought. This article argues that most coverage and commemoration of him has been devoted to a glorified side of his trajectory that fits neatly within the framework of ‘postcolonial francophone intellectuals.’ However, this article argues that we must revise the meaning of his seminal book and his call for a ‘plural Maghreb’ to see it also as the demise of his project for a decolonized sociology in Morocco, which was necessary to set his sights toward semiology and his significant literary oeuvre. His example informs us on Arab intellectual strategies after the end of grand ideological narratives, and how to write Arab intellectual and cultural histories without succumbing to the trap of nostalgia.
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131566
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2014.
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In scholarship on the Middle East, as on other regions of the world, the sort of social history that climaxed from the 1960s through the 1980s, and in Middle East history through the 1990s-that is, studies of categories such as "class" or "peasant"-has been declining for some time. The cultural history that replaced social history has peaked, too. In the 21st century, the trend, set by non-Middle East historians, has been to combine an updated social-historical focus on structure and groups with a cultural-historical focus on meaning making. Defining society against culture and policing their boundaries is out. In is picking a theme-consumption or travel, say-then studying it from distinct yet linked social and cultural or political/economic angles. This trend has spawned new journals like Cultural and Social History, established in 2004, and has been debated in established journals and memoirs by leading historians of the United States and Europe
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103504
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2011.
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During roughly a thousand years, from c 800 to 1830, in each of mainland South East Asia's three principal corridors, once self-sufficient political and cultural isolates became integrated into larger, more stable systems. In basic form, chronology and dynamics, this long-term process resembled that in other parts of Eurasia's 'protected rimlands', including Europe and Japan. But despite certain pan-Eurasian features, long-term integration in the rimlands remained distinct from that in India and China, both part of the 'exposed zone' of Eurasia.
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090337
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2009.
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Lucknow occupies a particularly poignant place in the musical imagination of North India. A city with a proud cultural history, Lucknow in the first half of the nineteenth century nurtured an explosion of innovations in vocal music, instrumental music and dance whose effects were felt well beyond the Awadh region. Memories of this sublime period of creativity are still today capable of evoking a potent sense of nostalgia amongst connoisseurs. That such memories so passionately endure is testimony to the special place that the arts occupied in the life of that city when it was the capital of a kingdom.
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161625
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The study examines the factors that have contributed to shaping the crisis in the culture of tolerance and moderation in Arab societies and its limits. I look at the dilemmas and risks necessitated by the problematic issues surrounding tolerance in contemporary Arab societies. I present a brief theoretical framing of the concept of ‘tolerance’ and a look at its manifestations in the structure of Arab societies. I also examine the variables shaping the content, meaning, and philosophy of tolerance in the structure of contemporary societies at large and of Arab societies in particular. The paper suggests that political, economic, social, and structural transformations have negatively affected Arab societies, which have then contributed to the culture of tolerance in Arab communities.
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127435
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