The Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History features a review forum on Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors.
The other articles in this issue (links to Project Muse HTML):
Smith, Thomas H., The Discourse of Violence: Transatlantic Narratives of Lynching during High Imperialism
Owens, Geoffrey Ross, Exploring the Articulation of Governmentality and Sovereignty: The Chwaka Road and the Bombardment of Zanzibar, 1895-1896
The September 2007 issue of Diplomatic History contains the following articles (links to article summary pages):
David C. Engerman, Bernath Lecture: American Knowledge and Global Power
Mark T. Hove, The Arbenz Factor: Salvador Allende, U.S.-Chilean Relations, and the 1954 U.S. Intervention in Guatemala
Kristin L. Ahlberg, “Machiavelli with a Heart”: The Johnson Administration’s Food for Peace Program in India, 1965–1966
Donna R. Jackson, The Carter Administration and Somalia
Eric Paul Roorda, McCarthyite in Camelot: The “Loss” of Cuba, Homophobia, and the Otto Otepka Scandal in the Kennedy State Department
A little belatedly, here’s the contents for the latest issue (vol. 16, issue 3) of Contemporary European History (links are to the abstracts):
Graham Ford, Constructing a Regional Identity: The Christian Social Union and Bavaria’s Common Heritage, 1949–1962
Giuliano Garavini, The Colonies Strike Back: The Impact of the Third World on Western Europe, 1968–1975
Erik van der Vleuten, et al., Europe’s System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks
John Rogers, The Foreign Policy of Small States: Sweden and the Mosul Crisis, 1924–1925
Sam Johnson, ‘Communism in Russia Only Exists on Paper’: Czechoslovakia and the Russian Refugee Crisis, 1919–1924
and two review articles:
Idesbald Goddeeris, The Temptation of Legitimacy: Exile Politics from a Comparative Perspective
Michael Keating, National and Regional Identities in Europe
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.
The 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
The 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
The latest issue of the Journal of Global History (vol. 2, no. 2) is devoted to the Islamic World (links are to article abstracts):
William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Editorial – Islamic history as global history
Hayrettin Yücesoy, Ancient imperial heritage and Islamic universal historiography: al-Dinawari’s secular perspective
Amira K. Bennison, The peoples of the north in the eyes of the Muslims of Umayyad al-Andalus (711–1031)
Nelly Hanna, Literacy and the ‘great divide’ in the Islamic world, 1300–1800
Már Jónsson, The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609–1614: the destruction of an Islamic periphery
Scott C. Levi, The Ferghana Valley at the crossroads of world history: the rise of Khoqand, 1709–1822
B. D. Hopkins, The bounds of identity: the Goldsmid mission and the delineation of the Perso–Afghan border in the nineteenth century
The summer issue of Isis is here and features a set of articles on the intersection of law and science (links are to the article abstracts):
D. GRAHAM BURNETT: Introduction: Cross-Examination?
SILVIA DE RENZI: Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts
DANIEL J. KEVLES: Patents, Protections, and Privileges: The Establishment of Intellectual Property in Animals and Plants
ALISON WINTER: A Forensics of the Mind
SHEILA JASANOFF: Bhopal’s Trials of Knowledge and Ignorance
In the June 28th issue of the New York Review of Books, Roderick MacFarquhar reviews Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World:
She points out that in the aftermath both sides had their disappointments. Nixon and Kissinger “went too far, for example, in making assurances to China about withdrawing American forces from Taiwan, which they were not, in the end, able to keep.” As for the “China card”—the additional leverage that the new détente with China was supposed to give to the US—the Americans found that it did not lead to the North Vietnamese either ending the war or giving ground in the Paris peace talks. Nixon’s visit occurred, she argues, because both sides came to the conclusion at the same time that it was a promising idea. In the end it was the will of just four men to begin the week that changed history.
The June 2007 issue of The American Historical Review (vol. 112, no. 3) features a forum on “Entangled Empires in the Atlantic World:”
James Epstein, “Politics of Colonial Sensation: The Trial of Thomas Picton and the Cause of Louisa Calderon“
Rafe Blaufarb, “The Western Question: The Geopolitics of Latin American Independence“
Eliga H. Gould, “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery“
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, “Entangled Histories: Borderland Historiographies in New Clothes?“
The are also two articles in this issue not related to the forum:
Daniel Wickberg, “What Is the History of Sensibilities? On Cultural Histories, Old and New“
Michael J. Sauter, “Clockwatchers and Stargazers: Time Discipline in Early Modern Berlin“
