Comparative Studies in Society and History

Papers
(The median citation count of Comparative Studies in Society and History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia14
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa7
Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar7
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities6
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation6
Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory6
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The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–19335
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South4
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies4
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–17104
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries4
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–19304
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A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin3
The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology3
The Subterranean Unsettling of Science, Race, and Religion: Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and Risk in Trinidad3
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope3
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–15653
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Hindu: A History3
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness3
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries2
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany2
The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism2
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States2
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism2
The Decay-Life of Things2
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Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany2
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador2
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Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism2
Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia2
Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire2
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A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–17902
Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains2
Botánica Sephardica1
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry1
The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–18891
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Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization1
The Architecture of Politics and the Politics of Architecture: A Comparative Approach to Parish Church Building and Civic Government in Late-Medieval Europe1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov1
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Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office1
“Child of Koevoet”: Counterinsurgency, Crisis, and the Rise of Private Security in South Africa1
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean1
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Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South1
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism1
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Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran1
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements1
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–19831
Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–8001
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event1
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan1
Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–18501
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Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa1
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Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana0
Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits0
Sinicizing China’s World Muslim City: Spatial Politics, National Narratives, and Ethnoreligious Assimilation in the PRC0
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization0
The Devil and Florentino: Specters of Petro-Populism in Venezuela0
Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism: A Meaningful Distinction?0
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM0
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia0
The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France0
The Plantation's Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India0
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam0
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales0
Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters0
Hegemonic Muslim Masculinities and Their Others: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia0
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between South Asian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919–19260
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier0
Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence: Ethnicity and Loyalty in Precolonial Myanmar, and Britain0
Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926–1961)0
Subterranean Properties: India's Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–19750
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The Illusion of Abstraction0
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora0
The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination0
A Sovereign and Virtuous Body: The Competent Muslim Woman’s Guide to Health in Thanawi’s Bihishtī Zēwar (1905)0
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism0
Mediums, Media, and Mediated “Post”-Truth: Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination0
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Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India0
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India0
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage0
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Sympathy for Oswald Mosley: Politics of Reading and Historical Resemblance in the Moral Imagination of an English Literary Society0
Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Technology and Magic in the Ghost Dance, Boxer Uprising, and Maji Maji Rebellion0
Megasthenes on the Military Livestock of Chandragupta and the Making of the First Indian Empire0
Flexible States in History: Rethinking Secularism, Violence, and Centralized Power in Modern Egypt0
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Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua0
Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India0
Heterodoxies of the Body: Death, Secularism, and the Corpse of Raja Rammohun Roy0
A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945–2016)0
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–18330
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–19570
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority0
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective0
National Retro and the Re-mattering of History in Twenty-First-Century Hungary0
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–18610
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Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan0
Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse0
Language at the Limits of the Human: Deceit, Invention, and the Specter of the Unshared Symbol0
“If your ox does not pull, what are you going to do?”: Persistent Violence in South Africa’s Deep-Level Gold Mines and Its Contribution to the 1922 Rand Rebellion0
Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn0
Return to Orléans: Racism, Rumor, and Social Scientists in 1960s France0
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism0
French Law, Danish Cartoons, and the Anthropology of Free Speech0
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan0
Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands0
Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World0
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda0
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan0
“A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China0
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy0
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West0
Writing on Death: Plague Narratives. A Review Essay0
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste0
Ceremony, Medicine, Caffeinated Tea: Unearthing the Forgotten Faces of the North American Stimulant Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria)0
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Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–19060
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The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia0
Parliament and Revolution: Poland, Finland, and the End of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century0
Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt0
“And I Believe in Signs”: Soviet Secularity and Islamic Tradition in Kyrgyzstan0
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania0
“Tomorrow belongs to us”: Pathways to Activism in Italian Far-Right Youth Communities0
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary0
Antislavery, “Native Labour,” and the Turn to Indenture in British Colonial Natal, 1842–18600
Rancor: Sephardi Jews, Spanish Citizenship, and the Politics of Sentiment0
Mirrors of the Past: Time and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Western Astrology0
When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939)0
The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate0
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Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders0
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–19490
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar0
Levantine Joint-Stock Companies, Trans-Mediterranean Partnerships, and Nineteenth-Century Capitalist Development—ERRATUM0
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony0
The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race—CORRECTION NOTICE0
The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado0
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women0
Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain: A Comparative History of Guestworkers and Migration Diplomacy0
“A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race0
Beyond Order and Progress: Legitimacy and Nation-Building in Military Brazil0
Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India0
Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality0
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East0
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–19780
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Defining Victimhood: The Political Construction of a “Victim” Category in Colombia’s Congress, 2007–20110
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Putting Neoliberalism in a Place: A Memory Site, Urban Restructuring, and Property’s Entanglements in Chile0
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 20230
Mens Daemonica: Guilt, Justice, and the Occult in South Africa0
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Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–20220
A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey0
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism0
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Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa0
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