Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora
In the period between the twentieth century's two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the United States, South Asia, and the Caribbean collided across an expansive diasporic geography. As these people and their ideas came into contact, they reignited the practice of Islam among people of African descent living in the United States and the ......
Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora
In the period between the twentieth century's two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the United States, South Asia, and the Caribbean collided across an expansive diasporic geography. As these people and their ideas came into contact, they reignited the practice of Islam among people of African descent living in the United States and the ......
Topics covered include the evolving meaning of the "economic miracle" in developmentalist discourse; the relationship between economic miracles and authoritarian regimes/state violence; the pursuit of development in postcolonial nations and the allure of the miracle; the impacts on everyday life in the global South following failed economic ......
Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History
Cities, states, and nations are grappling with how best to commemorate historical events and anniversaries in ways that are fair, accurate, and open public dialogue about the often contested past. This volume springs from varied approaches to the historical commemoration of Maine's state bicentennial in 2020 that involved academics, independent ......
Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History
Cities, states, and nations are grappling with how best to commemorate historical events and anniversaries in ways that are fair, accurate, and open public dialogue about the often contested past. This volume springs from varied approaches to the historical commemoration of Maine's state bicentennial in 2020 that involved academics, independent ......
This is the entertaining story of a Texas History college class from Sam Houston State University that saved a 180-year-old log cabin from destruction during a long hot summer in 2001 as part of a Main Street Program. Members of the class, including the oldest graduate at Sam Houston State and a retired colleague, all contributed chapters that ......
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province-among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With ......
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province-among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With ......
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialism City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the ......
