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Asbestos's Animacy; or, Salamander Cotton
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1 December 2021)As new technologies emerge, they demand reinscriptions of the ordinary. Some cope with these changes by ascribing an animacy or liveliness to the technologies. In this respect, they solicit a reappraisal of matter's agency, ... -
Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar
(Brill Academic Publishers, 26 November 2021)The collection of essays in this volume examines forms of business documentation in the late Persianate world and the Indian Ocean, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Looking upon business in its broadest ... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires
(Cambridge University Press, 27 March 2020)Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from ... -
Long COVID: tackling a multifaceted condition requires a multidisciplinary approach.
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Rioting in the Age of Emancipation: An exploration into the instigation and outcomes of the 1866 Memphis race riots in Reconstruction Tennessee.
(University of Exeter Humanities, 22 November 2021)The end of the Civil War in America (1861-1865) was a time for rebuilding in the shadow of grief. Over six hundred thousand fatalities had resulted from the battle for Emancipation, and social changes were legislatively ...