The Middle Ground Journal
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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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Film-in-Contemporary-Southeast-Asia:-Cultural-interpretation-and-social-intervention-by-David-C.-L.-Lim-and-Hiroyuki-Yamamoto&cat=7&art=226
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Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural interpretation and social intervention. David C. L. Lim and Hiroyuki Yamamoto. London: Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780415617635 This collection of essays fits within Routledge’s Media, Culture, and Social Change in Asia series, with a loose focus on the intersection of local media production and consumption. The book contains eleven essays that…
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A cold and windy week 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…
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The Middle Ground Journal reviews The Historian’s Toolbox, at http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-The-Historians-Toolbox:-A-Students-Guide-to-the-Theory-and-Craft-of-History-Third-Edition-by-Robert-C.-Williams&cat=7&art=225
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The Historian’s Toolbox: A Student’s Guide to the Theory and Craft of History,Third Edition. Robert C. Williams. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2012. 230 p. Cloth ISBN: 9780765633262; Paper ISBN: 9780765633279 The Historian’s Toolbox: A Student’s Guide to the Theory and Craft of History is Robert C. Williams’ third edition of this popular introductory text.…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Words-Made-Flesh:-Nineteenth-Century-Deaf-Education-and-the-Growth-of-Deaf-Culture-by-R.A.R.-Edwards&cat=7&art=224
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Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture. R.A.R. Edwards. New York: New York University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780814722435 For nearly two centuries, deaf residential schools have been controversial, celebrated as the core of deaf culture at the same time as being torn by educators’ debates over oralism and sign language in…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=The-Mask-or-the-Veil:-Unraveling-the-Cultural-Discourse-in-France-and-Popular-Culture&cat=5&art=223
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Racing-the-Enemy:-Stalin,-Truman,-and-the-Surrender-of-Japan-by-Tsuyoshi-Hasegawa&cat=7&art=221
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Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780674022416 Perhaps no single topic in American history is as controversial as the decision to use atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. While scholars have debated the issue, few have looked at it from…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Understanding-Central-Asia:-Politics-and-Contested-Transformations-by-Sally-M.-Cummings&cat=7&art=220
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Understanding Central Asia: Politics and Contested Transformations. Sally M. Cummings. New York: Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780415297035 In this book, Sally Cummings offers a sociopolitical orientation to Central Asia, focusing on five countries: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. In the introduction, the author is quick to point out that the term Central Asia is defined in…
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Review of a Modern History of the Middle East 5th Edition
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A History of the Modern Middle East, Fifth Edition. William Cleveland and Martin Bunton. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813348339 This essay is a part of our new series, Graduate Students and The Middle Ground Journal. The fifth volume of William L. Cleveland and Martin Bunton’s History of the Modern Middle East is a comprehensive…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Review-of-Cross-Cultural-History-and-the-Domestication-of-Otherness-Edited-by-Michal-Jan-Rozbicki-and-George-O.-Ndege&cat=7&art=218
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Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness. Edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN: 9780230339972 Historians have labored to define systems of culture and their shifting meanings when those cultures are exposed to foreign concepts. Michal Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege have edited a collected volume of…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=Teaching-World-History-for-the-First-Time&cat=6&art=217
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See: http://mgjnorthstarproject.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/the-north-star-project-2013-2014-report-number-six-jintai-temple-china-by-brock-erdahl/
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History Hunting: A Guide for Fellow Adventurers. James W. Cortada. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2011. 9780765633224 James Cortada leads a deeply interesting life. His professional career combines an obsessive love for history with a flair for business. Cortada’s academic credentials are impeccable and include a Ph.D. in Modern American and European History. His…
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http://mgjnorthstarproject.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/the-north-star-project-2013-2014-report-number-one-zhuhai-city-china-brock-erdahl/
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Slaves Tell Tales: And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece. Sara Forsdyke. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780691140056 The study of ancient Greek history has relied heavily on written literature, most of which record contemporary social and political life from the elite class’s point of view, because education is typically…
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Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Matthew G. Stanard. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780803237773 This essay is a part of our new series, Graduate Students and The Middle Ground Journal In 1998, Adam Hochschild’s book, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror,…
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Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture. Ziad Fahmy. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780804772129 With the recent revolution in Egypt, Ziad Fahmy’s Ordinary Egyptians Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture is a timely publication that engages the question of agency in Egypt’s 1919 Revolution. It begins with the premise…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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A busy and sunny end of the summer 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 housed at The College of St. Scholastica and…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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A busy end-of-the-summer week 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 housed at The College of St. Scholastica and published by the Midwest…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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The North Star Project: Collaboration between The Middle Ground Journal Student Interns, The College of St. Scholastica, and North Star Academy 8th Grade Global Studies Classes, 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reports. Under the leadership of our North Star host teachers and student interns, The North Star Project has flourished for two years. For a brief…
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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A busy summer week at the Home Office of The Middle Ground Journal …. 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 housed at The College of St. Scholastica and…
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http://www2.css.edu/app/depts/HIS/historyjournal/index.cfm?name=The-North-Star-Project,-2013-Summer-Report-Number-Thirty-Two—-Northern-Ireland,-Lady-Thatcher-and-Historical-Memory&cat=9&art=199
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The Middle Ground Journal Home Office, Book Review Department update. A scholarly, teaching journal — from its establishment I have thought of The Middle Ground as a scholarly teaching journal, very much in the spirit of a teaching hospital. The Middle Ground Journal Book Review Working Group has been created in that spirit, consisting of…
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