...Nile Green A historian searches Lahore on foot for traces of a pluralistic past, obscured by monolithic official histories of the modern nation. “Memory can be a site of dissent when history is presumed to be a site for constructing a unitary national collective,” Asif explains...

... of the University of California 2024 Ukraine history Cossacks nationalism democracy violence trauma A particular reading of history has been at the center of the Russian justification for the war in Ukraine. In the summer of 2021, an essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians...

...Holly Case At a time of soul-searching and demoralization in Germany, a revival of the great philosopher of history might provide guidance—but many Germans prefer to avoid thinking about their country’s history. Hegel’s World Revolutions , Richard   Bourke ( Princeton University Press...

...Kristy Ironside In Russia, attempts at liberalizing state finances have long run up against the autocratic desire for control of the money supply. Russia ruble monetary policy autocracy sanctions history In the days following Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022...

... supremacy in the United States. [email protected] Bad Mexicans challenges accounts of US history that leave out both this episode of racial terror and the rebellion against white supremacy called for by El Plan de San Diego , as well as the binational context in which they took place...

... of Okoboji , Emily   Mendenhall ( Vanderbilt University Press , 2022 ) © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 COVID-19 pandemic history trust vaccines This is not the place to explain or argue about what happened to that unity and purpose—long the focus of boomer...

... and Jacob Remes point out in their new edited volume Critical Disaster Studies , disaster history ultimately leads us to the moral debates of our own time. “Whose deaths ought to inspire outrage, and whose resignation?” they ask. “What kinds of suffering are a legitimate cost of the status quo, and what...

... Shape International Security , Jeffrey   Mankoff ( Yale University Press , 2022 ) © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 China Russia Turkey Iran Eurasia empire history geopolitics The twenty-first century is shaping up to be an age of empire in Eurasia...

...Francine Hirsch A key element of the propaganda campaign to get the Russian public behind the invasion of Ukraine has been a program of national-patriotic education. Nationwide exhibitions present World War II history with a slant calculated to instill pride in Russian heroism and stir up hostility...

...Nemata Blyden A former foreign correspondent argues in his new book that Africa has been denied its rightful position as an actor at the center of global history. Africa African diaspora African Americans history education In his acknowledgments in his new book Born in Blackness...

... by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Hungary Viktor Orbán migration Europe right-wing populism history In Emir Kusturica’s 1995 film Underground , about Yugoslavia’s troubled history from World War II to the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, the final scene is a cheerful reunion...

...Marc David Baer A new book traces the history of the diverse Muslim population of the Balkans. Carving out legal space for itself as a religious minority in Europe, this community rode the winds of change from the age of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires through the Yugoslav era. Greble repeatedly...

... against today’s increasingly radical right, whether in Poland, Hungary, Brazil, or the United States, seems to lead us precisely to such an antinomy. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Poland fascism right-wing conservatism history World War II “The problem...

..., and radically anti-Lima left, for which there are only two precedents in Peruvian history: the Tahuantinsuyo Committee of the 1920s, and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The wager on history is manifest. So, too, is the simplism: life was harmonious until the Spaniards arrived to usher in centuries...

...Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof A new history of the intertwined stories of Cuba and the United States operates at the human scale to provide fresh perspectives on the impacts of international politics on Cubans’ everyday lives, from the Spanish colonial era through the heyday of US imperialism...

... modernization, and the period since the 1990 Iraqi invasion and occupation, we can assess both the functions and the consequences of the Kuwaiti state’s tendencies toward erasing aspects of the past. The essay also provides examples of how Kuwaiti artists and writers have challenged these official histories...

... called the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It would be known as the Sultanate of Oman from 1970 onward. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Oman heritage history nation-building Islam Gulf states In 2006, a Kuwaiti journalist asked Sultan Qaboos bin Said how he...

...Prakash Kashwan; Jesse Ribot A widespread failure to recognize the social and political-economic causes of climate-related crises is an erasure of history that hides potential solutions and absolves guilty parties of responsibility. This blocking out of causality is perpetuating slow and silent...

... historians who contributed to a Hindu-centric idea of India. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 India history colonialism religion Hinduism The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Manan Ahmed Asif Harvard University Press, 2020 Manan Ahmed Asif...

... of the University of California 2021 Europe history autocracy democracy pluralism Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings Edited by Avi Lifschitz; translated by Angela Scholar Princeton University Press, 2021 I used to fantasize about a pandemic that would confine me to my...