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World History and Global Studies
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- “Politics, Protests, and Popular Culture: The Global Legacy of Akira Toriyama and His Dragon Ball”
- “Underprepared but Overperformed: Explaining the Enigma in Study Abroad”
- Review of Chasing Greatness by Anatoly Reshetnikov
- Review of Black Sun by Julia Kristeva
- The Clash of Trade Ideologies: Revisiting the Battle of Liaoluo Bay through the Lens of Hans Putmans’ Interpretation of Vrijen Handel and the Ming Tributary System
- Pursuing the Global in a Local Setting: Particularistic Silences in the Teaching, Deconstructing, Researching, and Writing of Asian History
- South Asian Migration and Colonial Records: Some Challenges in Reconstructing the Bengali Historical Migration
- The First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises in Cold-War Asia: An Overview
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Special Forum: Nature and The Natural in the Middle Ages – Proceedings from the 2012 Sixth Annual University of North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
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The Fall 2014 elections of the World History Association will fill three Executive Council positions. In order to identify the best possible candidates for these posts, the Nominations Committee of the WHA respectfully requests the assistance of the Association’s members. The Nominations Committee seeks persons with a demonstrated commitment to world history studies and to…
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The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Department, Home Office. We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published…
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Review of Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923 by Ryan Gingeras
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Review of The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us by Francis Tapon
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Review Essay: Examining Race, Gender and Identity in American Popular Culture
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Review of Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France by Naomi Davidson
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Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Naomi Davidson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978080147831 In Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France, Naomi Davidson has written a compelling and timely history of the official French attempt to “manage” Islam within France since World War I. This was achieved through something Davidson names as Islam…
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A Small Minnesota Town by Jennifer Hendrickson.
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Review of Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region by Guy E. Gibbon
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Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region. Guy E. Gibbon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780816679096 This essay is a part of our series, Graduate Students and The Middle Ground Journal. In this ambitious text, Guy Gibbon offers the first comprehensive survey of Minnesota’s 13,000 years of pre-contact history. Gibbon…
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Call for Reviewers: The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies From: Hong-Ming Liang, The College of St. Scholastica HLIANG@CSS.EDU The Middle Ground Journal, (http://themiddlegroundjournal.org) an open-access, refereed, and nonprofit scholarly journal of world history and global studies, is seeking qualified reviewers. For a list of the available books, documentaries and other artifacts, please…
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EXTENDED Call for Proposals – “Rights” in World History 5th Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association 26-27th September 2014, Governors State University (University Park, Illinois) NEW DEADLINE MAY 16TH! The Midwest World History Association is happy to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to…
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Review of The Family: A World History by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner
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The Family: A World History. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780195338140 One of the latest volumes in Oxford’s New World History series is The Family: A World History, a slim volume designed for use in classrooms. Both Maynes and Waltner are well-known historians of gender, childhood and family,…
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The “Durbar Settlement” and the Union of South Africa: Railways and the Logic of Imperial Administration, 1905-1914
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of…
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“The Big Loaf and the First Opium War: Free Trade and Domestic Politics in the British Empire, 1813-1846” by Colin Sargent, Graduate Student, Northeastern University, Boston, MA © 2014 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 8, Spring 2014 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of…
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Review of The Rise of the Atlantic Economies by Ralph Davis
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The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. Ralph Davis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1973. ISBN: 9780801491436 Before the rise of Atlantic history, there was The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. Forty years ago, long before historians had come together to champion the transatlantic perspective as a way to concurrently analyze the early modern periods in Europe…
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Nos amis étrangères: French Feminism and Foreign Women Between the Wars
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Special Forum: Proceedings from Northeastern University 2012 Graduate Student World History Conference on Empires and Technologies in World History
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Review Essay: An Imperial Path to Modernity
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An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzo and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905-1937. Jung-Sun N. Han. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. ISBN: 9780674065710 Yoshino Sakuzo is understood to be one of the most influential liberal intellectuals of Taisho Japan (1912-1926). As a professor in the Faculty of Law of Tokyo University,…
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Review of Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by The Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco
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Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War. The Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2013. ISBN: 9781936239573 This essay is a part of our series, Borders in the Classroom. For Full Article: heiskanenreviewReviews2014TheMiddleGroundJournal.org Edited by Benita Heiskanen, Andrae M. Marak, and Jeanne E. Grant (c) 2014 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 8, Spring,…
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A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Jeremy D. Popkin. West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2012. ISBN: 9781405198219 The Age of Revolutions – beginning in 1775 by dissatisfied American colonials subjects and ending in the defeat of liberal European revolutionaries in 1848 – is an era of world-change sweeping in the Modern Era. Anchoring this time…
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The North Star Project, 2013-2014 Report Number Forty-Five, My Globalized Medicine Experience, by Nick Power.
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Review of Documentary: Breaking the Taboo, a film produced by Sam Branson, Sundog Pictures, 2011, and Narcotráfico para Inocentes: el Narco en México y Quien lo U.S.A. Rafael Barajas. Mexico City: Nostra Ediciones, 2011. ISBN: 9786077972037
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The North Star Project, 2013-2014 Report Number Forty-Four, Nowruz at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, by Marin Ekstrom.
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Review of Documentary: Breaking the Taboo, a film produced by Sam Branson, Sundog Pictures, 2011, and Narcotráfico para Inocentes: el Narco en México y Quien lo U.S.A. Rafael Barajas. Mexico City: Nostra Ediciones, 2011. ISBN: 9786077972037 This essay is a part of our series, Borders in the Classroom. For U.S. students, there is no narrative that explains…
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Review of Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands edited by Pekka Hamalainen and Benjamin H. Johnson
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Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands. Pekka Hämäläinen and Benjamin H. Johnson, eds. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012. ISBN 0495916927 This essay is a part of our series, Borders in the Classroom. One of the most recent additions to the long-standing series from Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Major Problems in the History of North…
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of…
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Teaching Borderlands History to Undergraduates: Some Reflections From a First-Year Faculty Member
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We celebrate the end of the work week with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of…
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Review of The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolutions, Consequences, 1947-2011 by Ishtiaq Ahmed
Review of The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolutions, Consequences, 1947-2011 by Ishtiaq Ahmed
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The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolutions, Consequences, 1947-2011. Ishtiaq Ahmed. Karachi: Oxford University Press Pakistan, 2013. ISBN: 9780199066360 Ishtiaq Ahmed’s latest book is another outstanding piece of scholarship by an erudite scholar. This intellectually stimulating work is an important addition to the corpus of writings on modern and contemporary Pakistan, which by design and default…
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Border Life as Seen Through Rural Schools in Southern Arizona
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The North Star Project, 2013-2014 Report Number Forty-Three, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, by Marin Ekstrom and Misha Ignatenko.
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“MY ADDRESS IS THE SOVIET UNION!”: SUPRANATIONAL SELVES IN TRANSNATIONAL UKRAINE
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We celebrate the weekend with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest World History Association, an affiliate of the World History Association.…
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The North Star Project, 2013-2014 Report Number Forty-Two, Crisis in Ukraine, by Misha Ignatenko with assistance from Marin Ekstrom.
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From the Bottom-Up: Grassroots Approach to Border Studies in the Classroom
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Is winter over yet?! Polar Vortex (formerly known as a cold spell ….) Part III at the Home Office of The Middle Ground Journal. We celebrate the weekend with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly,…
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The North Star Project, 2013-2014 Report Number Forty-One, “Well, which America? There are many Americas.” by Megan Hennen.
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Teaching Physical and Conceptual Borders: A Case Study
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Thunder snow! We are snowed-in at the Home Office of The Middle Ground Journal. We celebrate the weekend with a photo of our host institution, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies is a scholarly, teaching journal housed at The College of St. Scholastica and…
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