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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies13
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Hindu: A History6
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa6
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South6
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa5
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism5
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–15655
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–19305
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–17105
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A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 19464
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Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa3
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry3
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The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy3
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean3
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Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East3
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South3
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism3
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa3
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste2
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy2
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM2
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands2
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania2
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism2
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–18612
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism2
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan2
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales2
Alexander and the Elephants2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–19332
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Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar1
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism1
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Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia1
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The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–19831
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India1
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 20231
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Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–19061
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage1
Sinicizing China’s World Muslim City: Spatial Politics, National Narratives, and Ethnoreligious Assimilation in the PRC1
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority1
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Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders1
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States1
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda1
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana1
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Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope1
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–19491
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier1
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony1
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan1
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Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–19781
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization1
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany1
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora0
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Flexible States in History: Rethinking Secularism, Violence, and Centralized Power in Modern Egypt0
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Heterodoxies of the Body: Death, Secularism, and the Corpse of Raja Rammohun Roy0
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries0
Ritual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern Atrocity0
The Subterranean Unsettling of Science, Race, and Religion: Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and Risk in Trinidad0
Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn0
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West0
The Decay-Life of Things0
A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey0
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Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization0
The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions0
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
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Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements0
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Putting Neoliberalism in a Place: A Memory Site, Urban Restructuring, and Property’s Entanglements in Chile0
Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia0
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Defining Victimhood: The Political Construction of a “Victim” Category in Colombia’s Congress, 2007–20110
Beyond Order and Progress: Legitimacy and Nation-Building in Military Brazil0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race0
Language at the Limits of the Human: Deceit, Invention, and the Specter of the Unshared Symbol0
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A Sovereign and Virtuous Body: The Competent Muslim Woman’s Guide to Health in Thanawi’s Bihishtī Zēwar (1905)0
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary0
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Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–20220
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–18330
Sympathy for Oswald Mosley: Politics of Reading and Historical Resemblance in the Moral Imagination of an English Literary Society0
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“And I Believe in Signs”: Soviet Secularity and Islamic Tradition in Kyrgyzstan0
Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India0
A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin0
Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains0
Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Technology and Magic in the Ghost Dance, Boxer Uprising, and Maji Maji Rebellion0
Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory0
Antislavery, “Native Labour,” and the Turn to Indenture in British Colonial Natal, 1842–18600
The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism0
Return to Orléans: Racism, Rumor, and Social Scientists in 1960s France0
Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan0
When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939)0
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany0
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities0
“Child of Koevoet”: Counterinsurgency, Crisis, and the Rise of Private Security in South Africa0
Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World0
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran0
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia0
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Rancor: Sephardi Jews, Spanish Citizenship, and the Politics of Sentiment0
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov0
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event0
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador0
National Retro and the Re-mattering of History in Twenty-First-Century Hungary0
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective0
Hasidic Dynasties: Geosocial Patterns of Marriage Strategies0
French Law, Danish Cartoons, and the Anthropology of Free Speech0
The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France0
Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality0
Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar0
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism0
Mirrors of the Past: Time and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Western Astrology0
The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate0
Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua0
Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse0
Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain: A Comparative History of Guestworkers and Migration Diplomacy0
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between South Asian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919–19260
“Tomorrow belongs to us”: Pathways to Activism in Italian Far-Right Youth Communities0
Drawing the Jewish Propter Nos: Nineteenth-Century Missions and the Making of Race—CORRECTION NOTICE0
Writing on Death: Plague Narratives. A Review Essay0
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Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits0
Parliament and Revolution: Poland, Finland, and the End of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century0
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness0
The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology0
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan0
The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination0
Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India0
The Illusion of Abstraction0
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries0
Botánica Sephardica0
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–19570
A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–17900
Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire0
Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–8000
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Mediums, Media, and Mediated “Post”-Truth: Baba Vanga in the Russian Imagination0
The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–18890
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office0
The Architecture of Politics and the Politics of Architecture: A Comparative Approach to Parish Church Building and Civic Government in Late-Medieval Europe0
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The Devil and Florentino: Specters of Petro-Populism in Venezuela0
The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia0
Hegemonic Muslim Masculinities and Their Others: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia0
Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean0
A Discipline Like No Other: Marginalized Autonomy and Institutional Anchors in French Public Psychiatry (1945–2016)0
Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters0
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“The wife is the mother of the husband”: Marriage, Crisis, and (Re)Generation in Botswana’s Pandemic Times0
“A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth0
“A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China0
Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands0
Levantine Joint-Stock Companies, Trans-Mediterranean Partnerships, and Nineteenth-Century Capitalist Development—ERRATUM0
Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926–1961)0
Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt0
“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
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India0
Mens Daemonica: Guilt, Justice, and the Occult in South Africa0
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