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    <title>Empires (Doyle, 1986)</title>
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CMU access link: https://www-fulcrum-org.cmu.idm.oclc.org/concern/monographs/5999n353w]]></description>
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    <title>now publishers - Randomized Controlled History?</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A newer strand of research in historical political economy applies a "design-based inference" approach to history in order to approximate a randomized controlled trial. But can this exacting approach work given the messy nature of historical data? Using the example of research on the long-term effects of British colonialism in India, I evaluate six recent articles that use techniques like natural experiments of history, instrumental variable analyses, and matching designs to overcome the fact that colonization was not random. I find that despite generating important methodological conversations about causation, the use of these techniques in these studies depends on thin or sometimes inaccurate historical evidence. It is therefore unclear that "randomized controlled history" can make more credible causal inferences than a selection on observables approach. This article suggests best practices for future research that aims to study history in an experimental format."]]></description>
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    <title>Languages in Russia Disappearing Faster than Data Suggests, Activists Warn - The Moscow Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is genuinely sad, but also probably inevitable, barring a major breakdown in travel and communications.  (As in, we'd have to revert to a level below the early 1800s.)]]></description>
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    <title>The Crisis of Soviet Power in Central Asia: The 'Uzbek cotton affair' (1975-1991) - E-Theses</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The crisis of Soviet power in Central Asia: The 'Uzbek cotton affair', 1975-1991 aims at reconstructing and interpreting the final phases of Soviet political history and its effects in Uzbekistan. To this end, the reconstruction of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ – a judicial and political case linking the falsification of cotton production data and corruption that involved thousands of party and state officials in the republic – is something of a case study in evaluating Moscow’s grip on the ‘periphery’ of its empire. This case tracks the life story of Uzbekistan from its consolidation as a Soviet republic, through crisis and ultimately its transition into an independent state. Thus, we can identify ‘the Uzbek cotton affair’ as a critical reason for the transformations within republican political society. At the same time, it can be read as a symptom of a greater incurable disease within the whole Soviet Union itself, a system that collapsed when this kind of top-down hierarchical order – led by ideology, elite politics, social forces and interest groups and even administrators and bureaucrats – cracked down. This dissertation is divided in three parts with a total of seven chapters. The first part is introductory and aims to contextualize the Uzbek ‘periphery’ within the Soviet state, at both the political and at socio-economic level. In the first chapter, I introduce the political features that determined the consolidation of Soviet power in the UzSSR. After the formation of Uzbekistan, the Stalinist terror and the destalinization transition, the Soviet leadership transitioned to a peaceful, decentralized and tolerant pattern of control over the farthest regions of the USSR. During the 70s, the Moscow leadership and the republican party cadres built a patrimonial system that relied on local figures who could ensure loyalty to the central state. This led to the creation of autonomous client networks inside the republic and the mediation of the FS CPUz between Moscow and the national elites. This approach was particularly evident during the long ‘reign’ of the FS CPUz Sharaf Rashidov (1959-1983), a controversial figure at the center of the Cold War who – as we will see in the second chapter – turned Uzbekistan into a ‘cotton republic.’ In fact, the UzSSR became the main supplier of ‘white gold’ and from the ‘60s it essentially doubled down on cotton monoculture as a strategic task for ‘building communism’: for the tenth FYP (1976-1981), Soviet planners demanded an annual production of six million tons of raw cotton from Tashkent and reaching this target at any cost became a matter of political stability and legitimacy for the Uzbek ruling elite. The second part is argumentative and focuses on the three phases of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair.’ Hence, the third chapter analyzes the context of the second economy in the USSR and the features related to corruption and falsification of cotton production data in Uzbekistan. The rise of Andropov and his ‘moralization campaign’ would see an attempt to legalize, cleanse and – ultimately – revitalize a system in which stagnation and fraud had reached unprecedented levels. In 1983, the so called ‘Bukhara affair’ exposed the level of ‘official corruption’ and overwhelmed the higher echelons of the party and state of the UzSSR. Nevertheless, this ‘silent phase’ – characterized by preliminary inquiries, the preservation of power structures in Uzbekistan and general institutional silence – culminated in the death of Rashidov, the subsequent struggle among local elites and a nominal transformation of the patrimonial system. Thus, in the fourth chapter we analyze the ‘systemic phase’ of the Uzbek affair (1984-1985), when Moscow’s moralizing campaign was extended during the XVI plenum CPUz (1984) to map on to discord within the national party elites, the donos (complaints) wars and the internal struggles within the bureaucracy in post-Rashidovian Uzbekistan. The fifth chapter analyzes Moscow’s subsequent ‘trusteeship’ over the republic, reflected in the ‘krasnyi desant’ campaign endorsed by the CC CPSU, the derashidovization crusade, and the zenith of internal struggles in the wake of the ouster of the FS CPUz Usmankhodzhaev and his replacement with the Moscow loyalist Nishanov who attempted and failed to destroy local patrimonial networks. Third and final part is aimed at evaluating the results of the Uzbek cotton affair in the center and in the periphery, and see if this story became a factor determining the collapse of the Soviet system as in Moscow as in Tashkent. The sixth chapter focuses on the investigators Gdlyan and Ivanov who became a symbol of the prosecution of the ‘big fish’ and alleged prominent members of the CC CPSU – and even Gorbachev – of being in collusion with the ‘Uzbek mafiya.’ The case, the related media circus and the political campaign of the two radical mavericks threatened the credibility of Gorbachev and the legitimacy of the CPSU, the state and its survival in a time of serious changes and great internal challenges. Democrats and the inner opposition to the Gensek in the CPSU exploited the ‘Gdlyan-Ivanov affair’, and the whole case became a symptom of the collapsing system. The seventh chapter deals with the myth-building of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ in early Karimov’s Uzbekistan, where the story was narrated using critical discourse – such as ‘colonial,’ ‘purge,’ ‘terror,’ ‘new 1937,’ and even ‘genocide’ – in a Republic that had once been considered one of the most loyal within the Soviet system. Thus, the ‘Uzbek affair’ became a crucial event of Karimov’s ‘ideological shift’ from communism to Mustaqillik – the ideology based on the values of the Uzbek independence – and a sensitive identity issue of revenge/resistance against the former rulers, investing in a post-colonial trauma that contributed to legitimize the president’s regime and his relations with local power networks. Thus, dealing with recent Soviet times still represents a great challenge for contemporary historiography. The last decades of USSR history are still debated, defining a period that needs more work still to understand the characteristics, the limits and the contradictions that led to the end of the Soviet system. In that sense my primary goal in reconstructing these crucial and still obscure events here has been historiographical and it is intended at using primary unpublished sources, literature and oral history to uncover opaque aspects of the past. Relatedly, this research aims at offering a non-centrally oriented historiographical reconstruction of the final decades of the Soviet system, analyzing the evolutions of patrimonialism in USSR and the impact of perestroika, the dynamics of the purges and the symptoms of the collapse in the periphery of the empire in order to fill a historiographical gap of research on perestroika in Central Asia that is practically nonexistent. Furthermore, this research aims to recompose the framework of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ beyond its existence as a ‘simplistic label’ created by the media and too often related to the ‘Gdlyan-Ivanov affair’ only. Nevertheless, the case proceeded at different levels involving the party, prokuratura, MVD, KGB and soviets at the local and even at the central level, while only a part of the corruption and the other ‘negative phenomena’ revealed in the republic were related to cotton and a great part of the involved officials were not Uzbeks. Finally, this research aims at interpreting the last decades of Soviet history through a new interpretative key to understand how collapse-symptoms that had been exploited in Moscow and in Tashkent in order to avow the split from the USSR. The research is based on extensive unpublished archival material, literature and interviews and is aimed at expanding the horizon of current historiography."]]></description>
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    <title>Settling for Less | Princeton University Press</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the twentieth century? At the same time, why did states loudly committed to decolonization like Indonesia and China start settling the lands of such minorities as the West Papuans and Uyghurs? Settling for Less traces this bewildering historical reversal, explaining when and why indigenous peoples suffer displacement at the hands of settlers.
"Lachlan McNamee challenges the notion that settler colonialism can be explained by economics or racial ideologies. He tells a more complex story about state building and the conflicts of interest between indigenous peoples, states, and settlers. Drawing from a rich array of historical evidence, McNamee shows that states generally colonize frontier areas in response to security concerns. Elite schemes to populate contested frontiers with loyal settlers, however, often fail. As societies grow wealthier and cities increasingly become magnets for migration, states ultimately lose the power to settle frontier lands.
"Settling for Less uncovers the internal dynamics of settler colonialism and the diminishing power of colonizers in a rapidly urbanizing world. Contrasting successful and failed colonization projects in Australia, Indonesia, China, and beyond, this book demonstrates that economic development—by thwarting colonization—has proven a powerful force for indigenous self-determination."]]></description>
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    <title>Colonialism did not cause the Indian famines - History Reclaimed</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-23T04:30:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/colonialism-did-not-cause-the-indian-famines/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Roy seems to be a pukka economic historian (you should excuse the expression), so perhaps worth taking seriously.
--- I'd bet a beer that the Spiked crew is somewhere in the origin of this website, though.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975377">
    <title>Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-21T14:13:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975377</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by encounters with European colonialism? How would our understanding of sovereignty, as well as our theories about the causes of the decline of Great Powers and international orders, change as a result? For the first time, Before the West offers a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts and debates of international relations, such as order and decline."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182797/empires-of-the-weak">
    <title>Empires of the Weak | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-16T04:19:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182797/empires-of-the-weak</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default because local land-oriented polities were largely indifferent to war and trade at sea.
"Europeans were overawed by the mighty Eastern empires of the day, which pioneered key military innovations and were the greatest early modern conquerors. Against the view that the Europeans won for all time, Sharman contends that the imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a relatively transient and anomalous development in world politics that concluded with Western losses in various insurgencies. If the twenty-first century is to be dominated by non-Western powers like China, this represents a return to the norm for the modern era."]]></description>
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    <title>People of the Book: Empire and Social Science in the Islamic Commonwealth Period - Musa al-Gharbi, 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-04T03:53:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Social science is often described as a product of nineteenth-century Europe and as a handmaiden to its imperial and colonial projects. However, centuries prior to the Western social science enterprise, Islamic imperial scholars developed their own “science of society.” This essay provides an overview of the historical and cultural milieu in which “Islamic” social science was born and then charts its development over time through case studies of four seminal scholars—al-Razi, al-Farabi, al-Biruni, and Ibn Khaldun—who played pivotal roles in establishing fields that could be roughly translated as psychology, political science, anthropology, and sociology. The axioms undergirding Islamic social science are subsequently explored, with particular emphasis paid to the relations between said axioms and the discursive tradition, “Islam.” The essay concludes with an exploration of how looking to social science enterprises beyond the “modern” West can clarify the purported relationships between social science and empire."]]></description>
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    <title>Neanderthal and the fossilization of the Third World - Ryan Higgitt, 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T14:23:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312720983460</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Neanderthal is the quintessential scientific Other. In the late nineteenth century gentlemen-scientists, including business magnates, investment bankers and lawmakers with interest in questions of human and human societal development, framed Europe’s Neanderthal and South Asia’s indigenous Negritos as close evolutionary kin. Simultaneously, they explained Neanderthal’s extinction as the consequence of an inherent backwardness in the face of fair-skinned, steadily-progressing newcomers to ancient Europe who behaved in ways associated with capitalism. This racialization and economization of Neanderthal helped bring meaning and actual legal reality to Negritos via the British Raj’s official ‘schedules of backward castes and tribes’. It also helped justify the Raj’s initiation of market-oriented reforms in order to break a developmental equilibrium deemed created when fair-skinned newcomers to ancient South Asia enslaved Negritos in an enduring caste system. Neanderthal was integral to the scientism behind the British construction of caste, and contributed to India’s becoming a principal ‘Third World’ target of Western structural adjustment policies as continuation of South Asia’s ‘evolution assistance’."

--- Isn't there, in fact, a claim that these groups have unusually high percentages of Denisovan ancestry?]]></description>
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    <title>Cultural extinction in evolutionary perspective | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-30T19:20:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/cultural-extinction-in-evolutionary-perspective/035F093515E2A445FCA0D78DA542075B</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Cultural diversity is disappearing quickly. Whilst a phylogenetic approach makes explicit the continuous extinction of cultures, and the generation of new ones, cultural evolutionary changes such as the rise of agriculture or more recently colonisation can cause periods of mass cultural extinction. At the current rate, 90% of languages will become extinct or moribund by the end of this century. Unlike biological extinction, cultural extinction does not necessarily involve genetic extinction or even deaths, but results from the disintegration of a social entity and discontinuation of culture-specific behaviours. Here we propose an analytical framework to examine the phenomenon of cultural extinction. When examined over millennia, extinctions of cultural traits or institutions can be studied in a phylogenetic comparative framework that incorporates archaeological data on ancestral states. Over decades or centuries, cultural extinction can be studied in a behavioural ecology framework to investigate how the fitness consequences of cultural behaviours and population dynamics shift individual behaviours away from the traditional norms. Frequency-dependent costs and benefits are key to understanding both the origin and the loss of cultural diversity. We review recent evolutionary studies that have informed cultural extinction processes and discuss avenues of future studies."]]></description>
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    <title>Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T04:57:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299125.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This book describes a period of several decades during the sixteenth century when conquistadores, Catholic friars, and imperial officials attempted to conquer the Inca Empire and impose Spanish colonial rule. When Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca warlord Atahuallpa at Cajamarca in 1532, European Catholics and Andean peoples interpreted the event using long-held beliefs about how their worlds would end, and what the next era might look like. The Inca world did not end at Cajamarca, despite some popular misunderstandings of the Spanish conquest of Peru. In the years that followed, some Inca lords resisted Spanish rule, but many Andean nobles converted to Christianity and renegotiated their sovereign claims into privileges as Spanish subjects. Catholic empire took a lifetime to establish in the Inca world, and it required the repeated conquest of rebellious conquistadores, the reorganization of native populations, and the economic overhaul of diverse Andean landscapes. These disruptive processes of modern world-building carried forward old ideas about sovereignty, social change, and human progress. Although they are overshadowed by the Western philosophies and technologies that drive our world today, those apocalyptic relics remain with us to the present."

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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161396/central-asia">
    <title>Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-22T19:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161396/central-asia</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule.
"Predominantly Muslim with both nomadic and settled populations, the peoples of Central Asia came under Russian and Chinese rule after the 1700s. Khalid shows how foreign conquest knit Central Asians into global exchanges of goods and ideas and forged greater connections to the wider world. He explores how the Qing and Tsarist empires dealt with ethnic heterogeneity, and compares Soviet and Chinese Communist attempts at managing national and cultural difference. He highlights the deep interconnections between the “Russian” and “Chinese” parts of Central Asia that endure to this day, and demonstrates how Xinjiang remains an integral part of Central Asia despite its fraught and traumatic relationship with contemporary China.
"The essential history of one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant regions on the planet, this panoramic book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering."]]></description>
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    <title>Inca Apocalypse - R. Alan Covey - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-19T19:27:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/inca-apocalypse-9780190299125?cc=us&amp;lang=en#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
"Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle"-in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands-demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority.
"Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and transformation of the Inca realm. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two civilizations. Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the worldviews of those on each side of the conflict.. The survivors built colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy or the enduring supernatural power of the Andean landscape.
"Covey retells a familiar story of conquest at a larger historical and geographical scale than ever before. This rich new history, based on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas."

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    <title>Collision of Worlds - David M. Carballo - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-19T19:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the globalized world we inhabit today. The violent clash that culminated in the Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-21 and the new colonial order it created were millennia in the making, entwining the previously independent cultural developments of both sides of the Atlantic.
"Collision of Worlds provides a deep history of this encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain, from their prehistories to the urban and imperial societies they built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Leading Mesoamerican archaeologist David Carballo offers a unique perspective on these fabled events with a focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic perspective, and their interweaving in an encounter characterized by conquest and colonialism, but also resilience on the part of Native peoples. An engrossing and sweeping account, Collision of Worlds debunks long-held myths and contextualizes the deep roots and enduring consequences of the Aztec-Spanish conflict as never before."

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    <title>Uyghurs in Xinjiang Ordered to Replace Traditional Décor With Sinicized Furniture</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-27T05:12:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/furniture-01092020165529.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>xinjiang china:prc imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-03/china-inner-mongolia-bilingual-education-assimilation-xinjiang-resistance-crackdown?_amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true">
    <title>China's push to teach in Mandarin sparks Mongol resistance - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-01T21:49:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-03/china-inner-mongolia-bilingual-education-assimilation-xinjiang-resistance-crackdown?_amp=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>china:prc imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/endgame-9781350179981/">
    <title>Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia: Jennifer Siegel: Bloomsbury Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-01T03:27:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/endgame-9781350179981/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the 'Great Game' - with rapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the field told a different story. The momentum of imperial rivalry, spiced by oil and railway development, could not be arrested and various interests on both sides continued to stoke the fire with increasing aggressiveness. By 1914 Britain and Russia were on the brink of war with each other to be saved only by the outbreak of World War I. This book is a groundbreaking and original study based on hitherto unseen archives in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as original research in London."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted history imperialism central_asia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/epidemic-illusions">
    <title>Epidemic Illusions | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-04T17:23:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/epidemic-illusions</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment—help perpetuate global inequities.
"In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices—from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference—play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492.
"Deploying a range of rhetorical tools, including ironism, “redescriptions” of public health crises, Platonic dialogue, flash fiction, allegory, and koan, Richardson describes how epidemiology uses models of disease causation that serve protected affluence (the possessing classes) by setting epistemic limits to the understanding of why some groups live sicker lives than others—limits that sustain predatory accumulation rather than challenge it. Drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, he concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions—one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production."

--- Hopefully this will be a bit more than "Did you know Ross was working for the British Raj?!?  Have I blown your mind yet?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted epidemiology imperialism color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pipe-dreams/EDBEF6C32CA25A6076C00FE9ECC112BB">
    <title>Pipe Dreams by Maya K. Peterson</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T03:07:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pipe-dreams/EDBEF6C32CA25A6076C00FE9ECC112BB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when engineers, scientists, politicians, and entrepreneurs around the world united in the belief that universal scientific knowledge, together with modern technologies, could be used to transform large areas of the planet from 'wasteland' into productive agricultural land. Though ostensibly about bringing modernity, progress, and prosperity to the deserts, the transformation of Central Asia's landscapes through tsarist- and Soviet-era hydraulic projects bore the hallmarks of a colonial experiment. Examining how both regimes used irrigation-age fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia, Maya K. Peterson brings a fresh perspective to the history of Russia's conquest and rule of Central Asia."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted central_asia ussr imperialism environmental_management aral_sea</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316537350">
    <title>The Aztec Economic World by Kenneth G. Hirth</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:37:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316537350</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the book are threefold. The first is to construct an in-depth understanding of the economic organization of precolumbian Aztec society and how it developed in the way that it did. The second is to explore the livelihoods of the individuals who bought, sold, and moved goods across a cultural landscape that lacked both navigable rivers and animal transport. Finally, this study models Aztec economy in a way that facilitates its comparison to other ancient and premodern societies around the world.  What makes the Aztec economy unique is that it developed one of the most sophisticated market economies in the ancient world in a society with one of the worse transportation systems. This is the first book to provide an updated and comprehensive view of the Aztec economy in thirty years."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted native_american_history economic_history economics aztec_empire economic_geography re:in_soviet_union_optimization_problem_solves_you imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwhi/article/view/817">
    <title>Demographic Models for Projecting Population and Migration: Methods for African Historical Analysis | Manning | Journal of World-Historical Information</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-04T01:58:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwhi/article/view/817</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This study presents methods for projecting population and migration over time in cases were empirical data are missing or undependable. The methods are useful for cases in which the researcher has details of population size and structure for a limited period of time (most obviously, the end point), with scattered evidence on other times. It enables estimation of population size, including its structure in age, sex, and status, either forward or backward in time. The program keeps track of all the details. The calculated data can be reported or sampled and compared to empirical findings at various times and places to expected values based on other procedures of estimation.
"The application of these general methods that is developed here is the projection of African populations backwards in time from 1950, since 1950 is the first date for which consistently strong demographic estimates are available for national-level populations all over the African continent. The models give particular attention to migration through enslavement, which was highly important in Africa from 1650 to 1900. Details include a sensitivity analysis showing relative significance of input variables and techniques for calibrating various dimensions of the projection with each other. These same methods may be applicable to quite different historical situations, as long as the data conform in structure to those considered here."

--- The final for the Kids.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read demography history africa imperialism slavery great_transformation to_teach:data_over_space_and_time simulation manning.patrick in_NB re:demography_and_the_slave_trade</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo28055950">
    <title>Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands, Kinzley</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-23T19:24:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo28055950</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes and political disputes. In Natural Resources and the New Frontier, historian Judd C. Kinzley takes a different approach—one that works from the ground up to explore the infrastructural and material foundation of state power in the region.
"As Kinzley argues, Xinjiang’s role in producing various natural resources for regional powers has been an important but largely overlooked factor in fueling unrest. He carefully traces the buildup to this unstable situation over the course of the twentieth century by focusing on the shifting priorities of Chinese, Soviet, and provincial officials regarding the production of various resources, including gold, furs, and oil among others. Through his archival work, Kinzley offers a new way of viewing Xinjiang that will shape the conversation about this important region and offer a model for understanding the development of other frontier zones in China as well as across the global south."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted imperialism china:prc xinjiang central_asia</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-018-9305-y">
    <title>Have wars and violence declined? | SpringerLink</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-17T13:36:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-018-9305-y</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For over 150 years liberal optimism has dominated theories of war and violence. It has been repeatedly argued that war and violence either are declining or will shortly decline. There have been exceptions, especially in Germany and more generally in the first half of the twentieth century, but there has been a recent revival of such optimism, especially in the work of Azar Gat, John Mueller, Joshua Goldstein, and Steven Pinker who all perceive a long-term decline in war and violence through history, speeding up in the post-1945 period. Critiquing Pinker’s statistics on war fatalities, I show that the overall pattern is not a decline in war, but substantial variation between periods and places. War has not declined and current trends are slightly in the opposite direction. The conventional view is that civil wars in the global South have largely replaced inter-state wars in the North, but this is misleading since there is major involvement in most civil wars by outside powers, including those of the North. There is more support for their view that homicide has declined in the long-term, at least in the North of the world (with the United States lagging somewhat). This is reinforced by technological improvements in long-distance weaponry and the two transformations have shifted war, especially in the North, from being “ferocious” to “callous” in character. This renders war less visible and less central to Northern culture, which has the deceptive appearance of being rather pacific. Viewed from the South the view has been bleaker both in the colonial period and today. Globally war and violence are not declining, but they are being transformed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB sociology history comparative_history imperialism war violence statistics mann.michael to_teach:data_over_space_and_time</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a12eadbbb6ef/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286146">
    <title>The Global Transformation of Time — Vanessa Ogle | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-23T14:47:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286146</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards.
"Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism.
"Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted modernity imperialism time-keeping history_of_technology history the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:62fbfc1dd90b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140832">
    <title>The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade, and Economic Development</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-01T15:22:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140832</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The 1870-1913 period marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization. How did this tremendous increase in trade affect economic development? This work isolates a causality channel by exploiting the fact that the introduction of the steamship in the shipping industry produced an asymmetric change in trade distances among countries. Before this invention, trade routes depended on wind patterns. The steamship reduced shipping costs and time in a disproportionate manner across countries and trade routes. Using this source of variation and novel data on shipping, trade, and development, I find that (i) the adoption of the steamship had a major impact on patterns of trade worldwide; (ii) only a small number of countries, characterized by more inclusive institutions, benefited from trade integration; and (iii) globalization was the major driver of the economic divergence between the rich and the poor portions of the world in the years 1850-1900."

--- For "characterized by more inclusive institutions", read "characterized by imperial power"?]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics economic_history globalization imperialism 19th_century_history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-antiwesternism-in-asia/9780231137782">
    <title>The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia - Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought | Columbia University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-03T14:36:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-antiwesternism-in-asia/9780231137782</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["n this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism.
"Aydin compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He looks at when the idea of a universal "West" first took root in the minds of Asian intellectuals and reformers and how it became essential in criticizing the West for violating its own "standards of civilization." Aydin also illustrates why these anti-Western visions contributed to the decolonization process and considers their influence on the international relations of both the Ottoman and Japanese Empires during WWI and WWII. 
"The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia offers a rare, global perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Aydin's approach reveals the epistemological limitations of Orientalist knowledge categories, especially the idea of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the way in which these limitations have shaped not only the contradictions and political complicities of anti-Western discourses but also contemporary interpretations of anti-Western trends. In moving beyond essentialist readings of this history, Aydin provides a fresh understanding of the history of contemporary anti-Americanism as well as the ongoing struggle to establish a legitimate and inclusive international society."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted history_of_ideas imperialism in_NB</dc:subject>
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    <title>Jansen, J.C. and Osterhammel, J.; Riemer, J., et al., trans.: Decolonization: A Short History. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T22:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10963.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history.
"Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike."]]></description>
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    <title>Power in Stone: Cities as Symbols of Empire, Parker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-04T13:53:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo18015565.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From ancient Persia to the Third Reich, imperial powers have built cities in their image, seeking to reflect their power and influence through a show of magnificence and a reflection of their values. Statues, pictures, temples, palaces—all combine to produce the necessary justification for the wielding of power while intimidating opponents. In Power in Stone, Geoffrey Parker traces the very nature of power through history by exploring the structural symbolism of these cities.
"Traveling from Persepolis to Constantinople, Saint Petersburg to Beijing and Delhi, Parker considers how these structures and monuments were brought together to make the most powerful statement and how that power was wielded to the greatest advantage. He examines imperial leaders, their architects, and their engineers to create a new understanding of the relationship among buildings, design, and power. He concludes with a look at the changing nature of power in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the way this is reflected symbolically in contemporary buildings and urban plans. With illuminating images, Power in Stone is a fascinating history of some of the world’s most intriguing cities, past and present."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/empires-and-bureaucracy-world-history-late-antiquity-twentieth-century?format=PB">
    <title>Empires and Bureaucracy in World History | Global History | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-22T14:26:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/empires-and-bureaucracy-world-history-late-antiquity-twentieth-century?format=PB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the so-called 'Rise of the West'."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/revolution-and-resistance">
    <title>Revolution and Resistance: Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T13:21:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/revolution-and-resistance</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"—including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics—is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States’ recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance demonstrates that contemporary conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are simply the final stages in the unraveling of Euro-American imperialism.
"Tucker explores why it was so difficult for indigenous people and states to resist imperial power, which possessed superior military technology and was driven by a curious moral imperative to conquer. He also explains how native populations eventually learned to fight back by successfully combining guerrilla warfare with political warfare. By exploiting certain Euro-American weaknesses—above all, the instability created by the fading rationale for empire—insurgents were able to subvert imperialism by using its own ideologies against it. Tucker also examines how the development of free trade and world finance began to undermine the need for direct political control of foreign territory.
"Touching on Pontiac’s Rebellion of 1763, Abd el-Kader’s jihad in nineteenth-century Algeria, the national liberation movements that arose in twentieth-century Palestine, Vietnam, and Ireland, and contemporary terrorist activity, Revolution and Resistance shows how changing means have been used to wage the same struggle. Emphasizing moral rather than economic or technological explanations for the rise and fall of Euro-American imperialism, this concise, comprehensive book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the character of contemporary conflict."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://sup.org/books/title/?id=27275">
    <title>Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market | Kwangmin Kim</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-15T20:36:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/books/title/?id=27275</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. Borderland Capitalism argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration needed the Turkic begs to develop resources and raise military revenue while the begs needed access to the Chinese market.
"Drawing upon multilingual sources and archival material, Kwangmin Kim shows how the begs aligned themselves with the Qing to strengthen their own plantation-like economic system. As controllers of food supplies, commercial goods, and human resources, the begs had the political power to dictate the fortunes of governments in the region. Their political choice to cooperate with the Qing promoted an expansion of the Qing's emerging international trade at the same time that Europe was developing global capitalism and imperialism. Borderland Capitalism shows the Qing empire as a quintessentially early modern empire and points the way toward a new understanding of the rise of a global economy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted china central_asia imperialism economic_history in_NB xinjiang</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10702.html">
    <title>Marek, C.: In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World. (Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-05T16:12:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10702.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.
"In the Land of a Thousand Gods is truly panoramic in scope. Blending rich narrative with in-depth analyses of political, social, and economic history, the book traces Asia Minor’s shifting orientation between East and West and examines its role as both a melting pot of nations and a bridge for cultural transmission. Marek takes readers from the earliest known Stone Age settlements to the end of antiquity. He covers the emergence of early Greek poetry and science, the invention of coinage, Persian domination, the prosperity of cities under the Hellenistic kings, and the establishment of Roman provinces. Marek draws on the latest research—in fields ranging from demography and economics to architecture and religion—to describe how Asia Minor became a center of culture and wealth in the Roman Empire. He shows how the advancement of Hellenic culture and civic autonomy was the irreversible legacy of the Pax Romana."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/the-awful-diseases-on-the-way/">
    <title>The Awful Diseases on the Way by Annie Sparrow | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-28T00:27:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/the-awful-diseases-on-the-way/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>plagues_and_peoples epidemiology imperialism books:noted book_reviews</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India | Ajay Verghese</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-29T17:05:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/books/title/?id=24505</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer's residents rioted while Jaipur's citizens stayed calm. What explains these divergent patterns of ethnic conflict across multiethnic states? Using archival research and elite interviews in five case studies spanning north, south, and east India, as well as a quantitative analysis of 589 districts, Ajay Verghese shows that the legacies of British colonialism drive contemporary conflict.
"Because India served as a model for British colonial expansion into parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, this project links Indian ethnic conflict to violent outcomes across an array of multiethnic states, including cases as diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia. The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India makes important contributions to the study of Indian politics, ethnicity, conflict, and historical legacies."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted imperialism india violence political_science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286092">
    <title>Afghan Modern — Robert D. Crews | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-13T16:14:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286092</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold challenge to these misperceptions, revealing how Afghans, over the course of their history, have engaged and connected with a wider world and come to share in our modern globalized age.
"Always a mobile people, Afghan travelers, traders, pilgrims, scholars, and artists have ventured abroad for centuries, their cosmopolitan sensibilities providing a compass for navigating a constantly changing world. Robert Crews traces the roots of Afghan globalism to the early modern period, when, as the subjects of sprawling empires, the residents of Kabul, Kandahar, and other urban centers forged linkages with far-flung imperial centers throughout the Middle East and Asia. Focusing on the emergence of an Afghan state out of this imperial milieu, he shows how Afghan nation-making was part of a series of global processes, refuting the usual portrayal of Afghans as pawns in the “Great Game” of European powers and of Afghanistan as a “hermit kingdom.”
"In the twentieth century, the pace of Afghan interaction with the rest of the world dramatically increased, and many Afghan men and women came to see themselves at the center of ideological struggles that spanned the globe. Through revolution, war, and foreign occupations, Afghanistan became even more enmeshed in the global circulation of modern politics, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the tumultuous decades that followed."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo20708635">
    <title>How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism, Anievas, Nisancioglu</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-05T00:13:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo20708635</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the colonies, and bourgeois revolutions, Alex Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu offer an account of capitalism’s origins that convincingly argues against the prevailing Eurocentric narratives."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10571.html">
    <title>Andrade, T.: The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. (Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-01T23:01:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10571.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind?
"Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world’s great military powers."]]></description>
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    <title>The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age, Kiernan</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-04T00:03:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo20517118</link>
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    <title>Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture — Colin M. MacLachlan | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-14T11:46:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967632</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violent clash of two empires and shows how modern Mestizo culture evolved over the centuries as a synthesis of Old and New World civilizations.
"Colin MacLachlan begins by tracing Spain and Mesoamerica’s parallel trajectories from tribal enclaves to complex feudal societies. When the Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlán and destroyed it in 1521, the Aztecs could only interpret this catastrophe in cosmic terms. With their gods discredited and their population ravaged by epidemics, they succumbed quickly to Spanish control—which meant submitting to Christianity. Spain had just emerged from its centuries-long struggle against the Moors, and zealous Christianity was central to its imperial vision. But Spain’s conquistadores far outnumbered its missionaries, and the Church’s decision to exclude Indian converts from priesthood proved shortsighted. Native religious practices persisted, and a richly blended culture—part Indian, part Christian—began to emerge.
"The religious void left in the wake of Spain’s conquests had enduring consequences. MacLachlan’s careful analysis explains why Mexico is culturally a Mestizo country while ethnically Indian, and why modern Mexicans remain largely orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history."]]></description>
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    <title>Apocalypse Then</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-20T02:47:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/reviews/010218.18senlt.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amartya Sen reviewing Mike Davis's _Late Victorian Holocausts_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews famine economics imperialism british_empire</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Hellenistic Far East - Rachel Mairs - Hardcover - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-05T18:44:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281271</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted ancient_history afghanistan hellenstic_era imperialism central_asia cultural_exchange</dc:subject>
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    <title>Erikson, E.: Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-31T23:54:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10262.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
"Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company’s flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance."

--- Curious to see how she handles the possibility that the East India Company was successful because of England's great purely military capacity...]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted imperialism india economics economic_history social_networks the_violence_inherent_in_the_system 19th_century_history 18th_century_history in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/07/first-draft-oversharing-about-money-an-international-financial-wire-transfer-from-lafayette-california-usa-to-ahero-nyan.html#more">
    <title>FIRST DRAFT: Oversharing About Money: An International Financial Wire Transfer from Lafayette, California, USA to Ahero, Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-12T20:54:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/07/first-draft-oversharing-about-money-an-international-financial-wire-transfer-from-lafayette-california-usa-to-ahero-nyan.html#more</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now when we look at the totals on our quarterly index-fund statements, there is perhaps a difference in the third significant figure. Now if you were to go to Ahero, Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya, you would find an extra well--one located not near the rice fields but in among the houses, with an elderly woman charging pennies for you to fill a bucket. And perhaps you would find a substantial number of additional girls sitting in school rooms rather than walking extra miles with buckets on their heads. And perhaps a substantial number of men and their relatives are grateful to Moses for getting them some money by giving them the opportunity to work on the well.
"So a feel-good story, no? But telling it again reminds me that I ought to set this process in motion with a better heart. Telling it again reminds me that we ought not to live in a world in which $20K distributed among AIDS-survivors in Ahero, Kenya has the same salience that $5M has for people like me in Greater San Francisco. And telling it again reminds me that we ought not to live in a world in which we lack the organizational competence to use productive modern rather than less-productive 3000-year-old technologies to dig wells near the shores of Lake Victoria."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics political_economy kenya imperialism great_transformation AIDS the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake moral_philosophy delong.brad to:blog</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Great Game, 1856–1907</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-17T19:27:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/great-game-1856%E2%80%931907</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Great Game, 1856–1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives. His efforts amplify our knowledge of Russia by considering the important influences of local Asian powers.
"Ultimately, this book disputes the characterization of the Great Game as a proto–Cold War between East and West. By relating it to other regional actors, Sergeev creates a more accurate view of the game’s impact on later wars and on the shape of post–World War I Asia."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted central_asia imperialism 19th_century_history in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/prehistory/globalizations-and-ancient-world?format=HB">
    <title>Globalizations And Ancient World | Prehistory | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-24T21:02:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/prehistory/globalizations-and-ancient-world?format=HB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies, Jennings examines how the growth of the world’s first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. The cities required unprecedented exchange networks, creating long-distance flows of ideas, people, and goods. These flows created cascades of interregional interaction that eroded local behavioral norms and social structures. New, hybrid cultures emerged within these globalized regions. Although these networks did not span the whole globe, people in these areas developed globalized cultures as they interacted with one another. Jennings explores how understanding globalization as a recurring event can help in the understanding of both the past and the present."

--- This seems to involve a huge shift in meaning for the term "globalization"...]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted ancient_history cities globalization social_networks imperialism cultural_exchange world_history comparative_history in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10082.html">
    <title>Bethencourt, F.: Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century. (eBook and Cloth)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-15T21:41:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10082.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Groundbeaking in its global and historical scope, Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism in the West, distinguished historian Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources.
"Bethencourt focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. He looks at different forms of racism, particularly against New Christians and Moriscos in Iberia, black slaves and freedmen in colonial and postcolonial environments, Native Americans, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and Jews in modern Europe. Exploring instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, Bethencourt reflects on genocide and the persecution of ethnicities in twentieth-century Europe and Anatolia. These cases are compared to the genocide of the Herero and Tutsi in Africa, and ethnic discrimination in Japan, China, and India. Bethencourt analyzes how practices of discrimination and segregation from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries were defended, and he systematically integrates visual culture into his investigation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted racism history_of_ideas early_modern_european_history early_modern_world_history imperialism</dc:subject>
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    <title>American Political Science Review - Abstract - What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-11T19:37:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=1028252</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scholars of world politics enjoy well-developed theories of the consequences of unipolarity or hegemony, but have little to say about what happens when a state's foreign relations take on imperial properties. Empires, we argue, are characterized by rule through intermediaries and the existence of distinctive contractual relations between cores and their peripheries. These features endow them with a distinctive network-structure from those associated with unipolar and hegemonic orders. The existence of imperial relations alters the dynamics of international politics: processes of divide and rule supplant the balance-of-power mechanism; the major axis of relations shift from interstate to those among imperial authorities, local intermediaries, and other peripheral actors; and preeminent powers face special problems of legitimating their bargains across heterogeneous audiences. We conclude with some observations about the American empire debate, including that the United States is, overall, less of an imperial power than it was during the Cold War."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16744364">
    <title>Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture, Makdisi</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-08T18:14:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16744364</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The central argument of Edward Said’sOrientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise inMaking England Western, identifying the convergence between the British Empire’s civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to Romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial culture in Britain after 1815.
"Makdisi argues that there existed places and populations in both England and the colonies that were thought of in similar terms—for example, there were sites in England that might as well have been Arabia, and English people to whom the idea of the freeborn Englishman did not extend.The boundaries between “us” and “them” began to take form during the Romantic period, when England became a desirable Occidental space, connected with but superior to distant lands. Delving into the works of Wordsworth, Austen, Byron, Dickens, and others to trace an arc of celebration, ambivalence, and criticism influenced by these imperial dynamics, Makdisi demonstrates the extent to which Romanticism offered both hopes for and warnings against future developments in Occidentalism. Revealing that Romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue, Making England Western is an exciting contribution to the study of both British literature and colonialism."

--- I think something was lost by not titling this _The Wogs Began at Stepney_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted history_of_ideas orientalism imperialism ideology great_transformation modernity peasants_into_englishmen european_history racism</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5722a7d5125c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/pekka-hamalainen-the-comanche-empire/">
    <title>The Comanche Empire | Haquelebac</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-19T01:07:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/pekka-hamalainen-the-comanche-empire/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The alternate history sketched here is one which desperately needs to be written.]]></description>
<dc:subject>american_history imperialism institutions violence economics political_economy state-building native_american_history to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:701dde5e75e8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:violence"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html">
    <title>Maurer, N.: The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-05T13:59:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue.
"Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government to intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small--at least at the outset--but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they were backing, making disengagement more difficult. Maurer discusses how, all the way through the 1970s, the United States not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in the absence of active American involvement. Foreign nations expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation--despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of institutions focusing on international arbitration finally gave the executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more."]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism political_science economic_history us_politics us_military american_history maurer.noel in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:407456520b6e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0558">
    <title>[1306.0558] Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-06T16:52:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0558</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Caribbean basin is home to some of the most complex interactions in recent history among previously diverged human populations. Here, by making use of genome-wide SNP array data, we characterize ancestral components of Caribbean populations on a sub-continental level and unveil fine-scale patterns of population structure distinguishing insular from mainland Caribbean populations as well as from other Hispanic/Latino groups. We provide genetic evidence for an inland South American origin of the Native American component in island populations and for extensive pre-Columbian gene flow across the Caribbean basin. The Caribbean-derived European component shows significant differentiation from parental Iberian populations, presumably as a result of founder effects during the colonization of the New World. Based on demographic models, we reconstruct the complex population history of the Caribbean since the onset of continental admixture. We find that insular populations are best modeled as mixtures absorbing two pulses of African migrants, coinciding with early and maximum activity stages of the transatlantic slave trade. These two pulses appear to have originated in different regions within West Africa, imprinting two distinguishable signatures in present day Afro-Caribbean genomes and shedding light on the genetic impact of the dynamics occurring during the slave trade in the Caribbean."]]></description>
<dc:subject>genetics human_genetics historical_genetics imperialism early_modern_world_history in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8e15af1161c2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/11/05/what-wont-change-i/">
    <title>What Won’t Change (I) | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-05T22:00:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/11/05/what-wont-change-i/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Burke articulates my fears (not convictions, yet).]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics american_hegemony imperialism national_surveillance_state our_national_shame our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:148b7a266ee3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:imperialism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_national_shame"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2012/08/30/reading-kim-in-echternach-14627965/">
    <title>Reading &quot;Kim&quot; in Echternach - Magistra et Mater</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-30T13:21:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2012/08/30/reading-kim-in-echternach-14627965/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have to say, this seems like a VERY strange reading of the lessons of the British empire.  (Maybe not of _Kim_, which I've never read.)  Family history: one branch of my family is from (what's now) Tamil Nadu; in the 1800s they became Anglican Christians and adopted English as their domestic language.  (My grandmother is a native English speaker, who actually knows more Hindi than Tamil.)  I guess it's not _impossible_ that some minor British gentry around the same time declared themselves Hindus (perhaps if they were _very_ into Theosophy?), but none of them would've raised their children to speak an Indian language instead of English.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural_exchange imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1520afe22f49/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300123579">
    <title>Contagion - Harrison, Mark - Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-08T18:56:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300123579</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout modern history. For centuries commerce has been the single most important factor in spreading diseases to different parts of the world, the author shows, and today the same is true. But in today's global world, commodities and germs are circulating with unprecedented speed.
"Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in the fourteenth century, Harrison charts both the passage of disease and the desperate measures to prevent it. He examines the emergence of public health in the Western world, its subsequent development elsewhere, and a recurring pattern of misappropriation of quarantines, embargoes, and other sanitary measures for political or economic gain—even for use as weapons of war. In concluding chapters the author exposes the weaknesses of today's public health regulations—a set of rules that not only disrupt the global economy but also fail to protect the public from the afflictions of trade-borne disease."

Favorable review in _Nature_ (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/488153a)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted epidemics cultural_exchange globalization imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b146b5a34a38/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:globalization"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ks0g7dr">
    <title>Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History [eScholarship]</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-19T18:53:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ks0g7dr</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The analysis of political organization in Afghanistan is clouded by a number of myths (unconquerable, ungovernabale and graveyard of empires) that are contradicted by the facts.  Historically Afghanistan was peacefully governed by a wide variety of conquerors and native dynasties, but all used combinations of direct and indirect rule to create stable polities. They also relied on theories of political legitimacy that vested authority in ruling elites that, once established, returned to power after periods of disruption to bring order to the country.  This pattern of successful governance has been overlooked in rebuilding Afghanistan today to the detrement of political stability."

(Sounds like a reprise of his excellent book.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB afghanistan political_science imperialism barfield.thomas via:? state-building legitimacy anthropology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:89264cc6991b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_science"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:state-building"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/colonialism-in-africa-helped-launch-the-hiv-epidemic-a-century-ago/2012/02/21/gIQAyJ9aeR_story.html">
    <title>Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-01T19:00:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/colonialism-in-africa-helped-launch-the-hiv-epidemic-a-century-ago/2012/02/21/gIQAyJ9aeR_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Leopold II: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description>
<dc:subject>history genetics aids imperialism africa track_down_references to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6e19e4a9bccd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/51/20444.abstract">
    <title>Native Americans experienced a strong population bottleneck coincident with European contact</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-20T22:01:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/108/51/20444.abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the annals of confirming the obvious: "The genetic and demographic impact of European contact with Native Americans has remained unclear despite recent interest. Whereas archeological and historical records indicate that European contact resulted in widespread mortality from various sources, genetic studies have found little evidence of a recent contraction in Native American population size. In this study we use a large dataset including both ancient and contemporary mitochondrial DNA to construct a high-resolution portrait of the Holocene and late Pleistocene population size of indigenous Americans. Our reconstruction suggests that Native Americans suffered a significant, although transient, contraction in population size some 500 y before the present, during which female effective size was reduced by ∼50%. These results support analyses of historical records indicating that European colonization induced widespread mortality among indigenous Americans."]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism genocide human_genetics plagues_and_peoples native_american_history historical_genetics in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7ecb73310108/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man">
    <title>Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Civilisation’ by Niall Ferguson (LRB 3 November 2011)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-11T20:29:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews ferguson.niall imperialism world_history via:arsyed mishra.pankaj racist_idiocy gives_historians_a_bad_name utter_stupidity the_decline_of_the_west running_dogs_of_reaction evisceration</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:46b3cb2ec013/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/detail.html?bookId=bo12471252">
    <title>The Prophet's Camel Bell: A Memoir of Somaliland, Laurence</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-11T18:16:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/detail.html?bookId=bo12471252</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted travelers'_tales imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cf8873230129/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/niall-ferguson-does-not-know-what.html">
    <title>Noahpinion: Niall Ferguson does not know what &quot;Western Civilization&quot; means</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-01T02:15:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/niall-ferguson-does-not-know-what.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Actually, I suspect that Ferguson knows _all too well_ what "western civilization" has historically meant...]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_decline_of_the_west racist_idiocy evisceration ferguson.niall smith.noah utter_stupidity gives_historians_a_bad_name imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:882efa1a0ecf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-0195377828">
    <title>The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-05T17:48:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-0195377828</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>world_history early_modern_world_history ottoman_empire books:noted imperialism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Science Fiction and Empire, Kerslake</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T03:17:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/detail.html?bookId=bo5456509</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted science_fiction imperialism literary_criticism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier - Shah Mahmoud Hanifi</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-05T20:27:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20670</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. 
British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan. "
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<dc:subject>books:noted afghanistan imperialism economic_history state-building</dc:subject>
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    <title>Mattingly, D.J.: Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-29T22:54:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9329.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I will be very disappointed if this doesn't quote the "What have the Romans ever done for us?" dialogue.
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<dc:subject>books:noted ancient_history imperialism roman_empire</dc:subject>
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    <title>Language extinction ain’t no big thing? « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-26T12:09:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/25/language-extinction-aint-no-big-thing/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>linguistics evisceration imperialism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Rany on the Royals: Abd el-Kader and the Massacre of Damascus.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-18T03:17:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2010/07/abd-el-kader-and-massacre-of-damascus.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not what you expect to see on a baseball blog.
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<dc:subject>via:making_light algeria imperialism moral_responsibility heroism abd-elkader islam</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Archaeo-Linguistic Ghost of Neo-Colonialism | Beyond The Beyond</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-03T11:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/05/the-archaeo-linguistic-ghost-of-neo-colonialism/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My father's mother, and much of that side of my family, would be among those Indians raised speaking English instead of more-remotely-ancestral languages (in her case, Tamil).
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<dc:subject>poetry globalization cultural_exchange cosmopolitanism cultural_imperialism imperialism english india bollywood authenticity sterling.bruce</dc:subject>
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    <title>To the Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark Twain</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-23T03:13:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come out of apparent evil. True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best."
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