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Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, “Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense” (Abbreviated Press, 2020)
Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales
Painter and Patron
The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense
Abbreviated Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network November 30, 2020 Jenny Peruski

Today I talked to Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales about their book Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense (Abbreviated Press, 2020). The Códice Casanatense, or Codex Casanatense 1889 as it is formally known, is a 16th-century Indo-Portuguese collection of some 76 captioned watercolours now... Read More
J. E. Peterson, “The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
J. E. Peterson
The Emergence of the Gulf States
Studies in Modern History
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network November 23, 2020 Yasmine Al Bastaki

The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History (Bloomsbury, 2016) offers an overview of the history of Saudi Arabia and the five Persian/Arabian Gulf states that emerged from British rule between 1961 and 1971–including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. The book synthesized the works... Read More
David Chai, “Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness” (SUNY Press, 2018)
David Chai
Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness

SUNY Press, 2018

New Books in Chinese StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 20, 2020 Alexus McLeod

Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness (SUNY Press, 2018) offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought. Through a careful analysis of the text and its appended commentaries, David Chai reveals not only... Read More
Ned Bertz, “Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Space in Tanzania” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
Ned Bertz
Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean
Transnational Histories of Race and Space in Tanzania
University of Hawaii Press, 2015

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World November 19, 2020 Micheal Rumore

The vibrant Swahili coast port city of Dar es Salaam—literally, the “Haven of Peace”—hosts a population reflecting a legacy of long relations with the Arabian Peninsula and a diaspora emanating in waves from the Indian subcontinent. By the 1960s, after decades of European imperial intrusions, Tanzanian nationalist forces had peacefully... Read More
R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, “A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Princeton University Press, 2019

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books NetworkPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast November 16, 2020 Marshall Poe

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on... Read More
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, “Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Fluid Jurisdictions
Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
Cornell University Press, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network November 16, 2020 Janna Aladdin and Kelvin Ng

Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) by Prof. Nurfadzilah Yahaya is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community’s ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast... Read More
Sujit Sivasundaram, “Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire” (William Collins, 2020)
Sujit Sivasundaram
Waves Across the South
A New History of Revolution and Empire
William collins, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World Affairs November 12, 2020 Kelvin Ng

In Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins, 2020), Sujit Sivasundaram brings together far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research. Too often, history is told from the northern hemisphere, with modernity, knowledge, selfhood and politics moving from Europe to influence... Read More
Zaina Arafat, “You Exist Too Much” (Catapult, 2020)
Zaina Arafat
You Exist Too Much

Catapult, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network November 10, 2020 Yakir Englander

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator... Read More
Jeremy M. Glick, “The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution” (NYU Press, 2016)
Jeremy Matthew Glick
The Black Radical Tragic
Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
Jeremy Matthew Glick, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 10, 2020 Lee Pierce

What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over? On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Dr. Jeremy Matthew Glick (h/h) about how and why the Haitian Revolution, which was the only slave rebellion to achieve state sovereignty,... Read More
Beth Kurland, “Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life” (Wellbridge Books, 2018)
Beth Kurland
Dancing on the Tightrope
Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life
Wellbridge Books, 2018

New Books in PsychologyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessNew Books Network November 10, 2020 Elizabeth Cronin

If life can feel at times like a challenging tightrope walk, how do we face life’s difficulties yet remain resilient and open-hearted? Rather than seeking “perfect” balance, or tiptoeing on our journey, how do we learn to embrace life and “dance,” in order to live most fully? In Dancing on... Read More

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