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Isa Blumi, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State (New York: Routledge, 2011). Pp. 272. $125.00 cloth, $125.00 e-book.
M. Safa Saraçoğlu
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05 March 2013, pp. 161-163
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Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011). Pp. 200. $55 cloth, $55 e-book.
Babak Elahi
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25 April 2013, pp. 375-377
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MEMORY STUDIES: LEBANON AND ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Susan Slyomovics
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30 July 2013, pp. 589-601
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Why are humans fated to remember and forget? For Plato, it is because we are wounded by our memory of a previous existence, namely the Platonic “realm of ideas,” to which we forever long to return. In the social sciences, especially history and anthropology, burgeoning cross-disciplinary methodologies and approaches have emerged to study the ways in which humanity remembers and forgets; “cultural memory studies” and the “anthropology of memory” constitute a contemporary realm of ideas concerned with discursive contestations over memory and history. The books under review here, all of which relate to the study of collective memory in Lebanon or Israel/Palestine, have recourse to French theories, despite time lags due to delayed English translation. Foundational writers of a field loosely grouped under the rubric “memory studies” include French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, whose Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire (1925) and posthumously published La mémoire collective (1950) both appeared in English in 1980, under confusingly similar titles. The English-language publication of Halbwachs’ corpus on the individual in relation to “collective memory” coincidentally corresponded with the American Psychiatric Association's 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, in which categories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) extended collective memory into collective traumatic memory, through the notion that “Post-traumatic disorder is fundamentally a disorder of memory.” Another seminal thinker in this field is Pierre Nora, especially the multivolume, multiauthored essays produced under his direction entitled Les Lieux de mémoire, which appeared in French between 1984 and 1992.

Allan Christelow, Algerians without Borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2012). Pp. 266. $74.95 cloth.
Julia Clancy-Smith
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15 October 2013, pp. 813-815
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Martin Evans, Algeria: France's Undeclared War, The Making of the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Pp 496. $57.00 cloth, $49.99 paper.
Phillip C. Naylor
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15 October 2013, pp. 815-818
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Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. 344. $93.00 cloth.
Gail Minault
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05 March 2013, pp. 163-164
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Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Pp. 240. $74 cloth.
Hale Yilmaz
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25 April 2013, pp. 377-379
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Lisa Balabanlilar, Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire: Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia (New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2012). Pp. 256. £54.50 cloth.
Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst
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30 July 2013, pp. 603-604
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Hemant Shah, The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and “The Passing of Traditional Society” (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2011). Pp. 226. $74.50 cloth.
Begüm Adalet
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15 October 2013, pp. 818-820
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Amal N. Ghazal, Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s–1930s), Culture and Civilization in the Middle East (London: Routledge, 2010). Pp. 178. $130.00 cloth.
J. E. Peterson
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05 March 2013, pp. 164-165
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John Borneman, Political Crime and the Memory of Loss, New Anthropologies of Europe (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2011). Pp. 262. $80.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
Shea C. McManus
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30 July 2013, pp. 604-606
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Eyal Chowers, The Political Philosophy of Zionism: Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Pp. 274. $99.00 cloth.
Jeff Spinner-Halev
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25 April 2013, pp. 379-381
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Nina Berman, German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000–1989 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2011). Pp. 336. $70.00 cloth.
Ursula Wokoeck
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25 April 2013, pp. 381-383
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Robert Kramer, Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman during the Mahdiyya, 1885–1898 (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Weiner, 2010). Pp. 214. $89.95 cloth, $28.95 paper.
Lisa Pollard
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05 March 2013, pp. 166-167
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Craig Daigle, The Limits of Détente: The United States, The Soviet Union, and the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1969–1973 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012). Pp. 448. $55.00 cloth.
Seth Anziska
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15 October 2013, pp. 820-822
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Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2010). Pp. 468. $55.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.
George R. Trumbull IV
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30 July 2013, pp. 606-608
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Raouf Abbas and Assem El-Dessouky, The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837–1952 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011). Translated from the Arabic by Amer Mohsen with Mona Zikri. Edited by Peter Gran. Pp. 296. $29.95 cloth.
Paul Sedra
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25 April 2013, pp. 383-385
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Jason Brownlee, Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.–Egyptian Alliance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Pp. 290. $85.00 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24.00 e-book.
Kirk J. Beattie
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15 October 2013, pp. 822-824
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Arash Khazeni, Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2010). Pp. 304. $60.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
Jean-Pierre Digard
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05 March 2013, pp. 167-170
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David De Vries, Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine (New York: Bergahn Books, 2010). Pp. 362. $95.00 cloth.
Charles Anderson
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30 July 2013, pp. 608-610
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