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Our summer issue is out! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Imperial Translations; Palimpsestic Frontiers; Scales of Racialization; and Agrarian Revolutions. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/07/0…

A new paper in the Comparative Studies in Society and History examines how one of the vital building blocks of British power in India took shape. The paper is Open Access, download and read at doi.org/10.1017/S00104….

CSSH congratulates Kristen Alff and Matei Candea on their latest publications! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06/2…

Learn more about this issue's authors, including Önder Eren Akgül, Nora Elizabeth Barakat, R. Alan Covey, @sholleykline, Mina Khanlarzadeh, Leo Ramirez, Alessandro Rippa, @whywinter, Alice Yao, and Emrah Yıldız, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/07/0…

Our summer issue is out! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Imperial Translations; Palimpsestic Frontiers; Scales of Racialization; and Agrarian Revolutions. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/07/0…

In recognition of esteemed anthropologist Renato Rosaldo's passing, we offer free access to his 1981 CSSH review essay, "The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Find the corresponding article here: doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

CSSH is thrilled to share our newest feature, On the Playlist! We’ll bring you commentary on CSSH essays by the scholars who wrote them! First up: enjoy @whywinter's discussion of shipwrecks, colonial treasure, and the limitations of the national museum. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06/1…

For your second course, savor @hershenz's "Technologies of Devotion and Religious Cooperation in the Mediterranean, 18th-20th Century," examining a surprising case of accommodation between Muslims and Christians at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06/2…

CSSH offers a double dose of "Behind the Scenes" insights today! First, enjoy @Reem_AbouElFadl's "Voices for Palestine in Egyptian Protest History," on why oral history was key to uncovering the salience of #Palestine to #Egypt’s 1970s student activists. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06/2…

Our new On the Syllabus is "a pilgrimage across contemporary and classic CSSH essays examining the roles that aesthetics, circulation, markets, colonial encounters, infrastructures, violence, & place-making play in shaping the material life of #religion." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06/0…

Don't miss our latest Under the Rubric feature, "Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/05/2…

"Through the humble banana, Paredes provides us with a window into the enduring structures of empire, desire, and dispossession that continue to shape the hills and lives of Mindanao long after the taste that conjured them has been forgotten." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Congratulations to @pare_desu, whose "Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands" has just been awarded the the Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence by @ASFS_org! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/1…

"This article follows activists and researchers brought into conflict through an REE processing facility, where research on commercial applications for post-processing wastes has been treated as a pathway to economic diversification and a threat to minoritized communities."

New to FirstView: Tom Özden-Schilling's "Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery." #Mining #Malaysia doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Nicholas McGee's "Two Journeys into #Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Küresel Gümüş Çağında Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Değer ve Otorite Performansları: Paranın Yargılanması Nye, para politikasını padişah, sadrazam, yabancı tüccarlar, sarraflar ve sıradan şehir halkı arasında sürekli yeniden üretilen bir güç, itimat ve meşruiyet mücadelesi olarak okuyor

Head to #FirstView for @ellen_nye's "Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in #Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Yukiko Koga's "Post-imperial Reckoning: Transitional Injustice and the Unmaking of the Japanese Empire in East Asia," on what it means to reckon with imperial violence decades after the #JapaneseEmpire’s demise in 1945, is out on #FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Vanessa Freije's ""The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s #Mexico" "contends that the struggle over information and recognition became the central battlefield for negotiating state violence and opening in Mexico." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…