The New York Times Sunday Book Review has a review of Ramachandra Guha’s new book India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy. Added bonus: an excerpt from the first chapter.
Archive for August, 2007
NYT Review of “India After Gandhi”
August 27, 2007The Cuban Missile Crisis
August 15, 2007The latest issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies features three articles on the Cuban Missile Crisis (links to Project Muse PDFs):
Coleman, David G., The Missiles of November, December, January, February . . .: The Problem of Acceptable Risk in the Cuban Missile Crisis Settlement
Tierney, Dominic, “Pearl Harbor in Reverse”: Moral Analogies in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cheng, Yinghong, Sino-Cuban Relations during the Early Years of the Castro Regime, 1959–1966
Also of note in this issue, a review essay on U.S. & European popular culture during the Cold War:
Chapman, Roger, Cold War Legacies: The Migration and Transformation of Popular/ Unpopular Culture
August Issue of International Journal of Middle East Studies
August 3, 2007The August 2007 issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies has two “quick studies” devoted to Middle East Studies after 9/11:
Zachary Lockman, Did the Events of 9/11 Change the Field of Middle East Studies? Pensée 1: Of Course—But How?
Seteney Shami and Marcial Godoy-Anativia, Pensée 2: Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Middle East Studies in the Aftermath of 9/11
And the articles:
Scott C. Lucas, ABU BAKR IBN AL-MUNDHIR, AMPUTATION, AND THE ART OF IJTIHAD
Devin Stewart, THE STRUCTURE OF THE FIHRIST: IBN AL-NADIM AS HISTORIAN OF ISLAMIC LEGAL AND THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS
Meir Hatina, WHERE EAST MEETS WEST: SUFISM, CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT, AND POLITICS
Barbara Zollner, PRISON TALK: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S INTERNAL STRUGGLE DURING GAMAL ABDEL NASSER’S PERSECUTION, 1954 TO 1971
Yigit Akin, RECONSIDERING STATE, PARTY, AND SOCIETY IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY: POLITICS OF PETITIONING
