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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa11
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–171010
Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect9
Hindu: A History8
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism8
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–19308
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa7
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–15657
Buffalo Politics: Sovereignty and Sacrificial Publics in the Highlands of East India – ADDENDUM7
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry6
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 19466
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean5
The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire5
A Seven-Headed Public: Empire and Satire in Revolutionary Caucasus5
Editorial Foreword4
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa4
Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen4
Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East4
The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands4
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste4
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East3
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa3
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands3
Editorial Foreword3
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM3
Constitutionalism of the Dispossessed: Land Occupations, Revolution, and the Political Economy of a Counter-Revolution in the Ottoman Empire3
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan3
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism3
Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet Moscow3
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania3
Alexander and the Elephants3
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation3
Editorial Foreword2
The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities2
The Archive of Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, Algeria2
Editorial Foreword2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–19832
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India2
The Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies2
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–19332
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State Archives in Egypt2
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders2
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States2
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage1
Building an Ottoman National Economy1
The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry1
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism1
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office1
Beyond Order and Progress: Legitimacy and Nation-Building in Military Brazil1
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan1
Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the Basra Oil Frontier1
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–19061
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 20231
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–19781
Sinicizing China’s World Muslim City: Spatial Politics, National Narratives, and Ethnoreligious Assimilation in the PRC1
Editorial Foreword1
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany1
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The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France1
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–19491
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana1
Buffalo Politics: Sovereignty and Sacrificial Publics in the Highlands of East India1
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier1
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope1
A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945–2016)1
Mirrors of the Past: Time and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Western Astrology1
Editorial Foreword1
Parliament and Revolution: Poland, Finland, and the End of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century0
Flexible States in History: Rethinking Secularism, Violence, and Centralized Power in Modern Egypt0
A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey0
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race0
The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination0
The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship : Fireworks and the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean0
Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt0
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Botánica Sephardica0
A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late Ottoman Surreal0
The Subterranean Unsettling of Science, Race, and Religion: Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and Risk in Trinidad0
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–20220
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization0
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities0
The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, Peru0
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora0
Decolonizing Decolonization0
The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions0
Hasidic Dynasties: Geosocial Patterns of Marriage Strategies0
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–18330
Levantine Joint-Stock Companies, Trans-Mediterranean Partnerships, and Nineteenth-Century Capitalist Development—ERRATUM0
Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions0
Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World0
The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib0
Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters0
Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean0
Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race—CORRECTION NOTICE0
How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in Guatemala, 1910–19530
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Hirak and Hosha : Modalities of Collective Action in Jordan in the Wake of the Arab Spring0
Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt0
Language at the Limits of the Human: Deceit, Invention, and the Specter of the Unshared Symbol0
Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia0
Editorial Foreword0
Antislavery, “Native Labour,” and the Turn to Indenture in British Colonial Natal, 1842–18600
Editorial Foreword0
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness0
The Architecture of Politics and the Politics of Architecture: A Comparative Approach to Parish Church Building and Civic Government in Late-Medieval Europe0
“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
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Cosmopolitan Spirits: Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–19600
The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology0
Return to Orléans: Racism, Rumor, and Social Scientists in 1960s France0
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran0
One Cross, Two Continents: How Catholic Women’s Resistance in Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)0
Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum0
When is a Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at China’s Borderlands with Burma and Laos0
Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–18500
“Child of Koevoet”: Counterinsurgency, Crisis, and the Rise of Private Security in South Africa0
National Retro and the Re-mattering of History in Twenty-First-Century Hungary0
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event0
From Disorder to Distinction: Lactose Intolerance and the Racialization of Digestion in Postwar Medicine (1950–1980)0
The Unsettled Frontier: Historical Imagination and Asynchronous Belonging on the Amur River0
The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia0
The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality0
Kaçak Territorialization: The Syria-Turkey Border as a Palimpsest of Sovereignty0
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective0
Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn0
Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern Torture0
French Law, Danish Cartoons, and the Anthropology of Free Speech0
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West0
Theorizing Moral Liminality: Historical Biography, Political Co-optation, and the Decolonization of Public Space0
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary0
“The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting Turkestan in Imperial Japan’s Muslim Policy0
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India0
Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Technology and Magic in the Ghost Dance, Boxer Uprising, and Maji Maji Rebellion0
Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands0
The Decay-Life of Things0
Editorial Foreword0
Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits0
Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar0
“And I Believe in Signs”: Soviet Secularity and Islamic Tradition in Kyrgyzstan0
The Devil and Florentino: Specters of Petro-Populism in Venezuela0
Portrait of a Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of Photographs in Revolutionary Egypt0
Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–8000
The Illusion of Abstraction0
Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire0
Mediums, Media, and Mediated “Post”-Truth: Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination0
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The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism0
Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains0
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia0
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements0
Heterodoxies of the Body: Death, Secularism, and the Corpse of Raja Rammohun Roy0
Editorial Foreword0
A Sovereign and Virtuous Body: The Competent Muslim Woman’s Guide to Health in Thanawi’s Bihishtī Zēwar (1905)0
“The wife is the mother of the husband”: Marriage, Crisis, and (Re)Generation in Botswana’s Pandemic Times0
Brokering Right-to-Life: Poland and the Transnational Entanglements of Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s0
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–19570
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The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–18890
Ottoman Justice and Political Economies of Empire: Venetian Merchants in Ottoman Courts in the Seventeenth Century – ADDENDUM0
Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts0
Editorial Foreword0
Ritual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern Atrocity0
“The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s Mexico0
Editorial Foreword0
Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of Decolonization0
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between South Asian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919–19260
Defining Victimhood: The Political Construction of a “Victim” Category in Colombia’s Congress, 2007–20110
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