TY - THES TI - Boundaries of Nature: national parks and environmental change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1890-1990 AU - Freitas, F. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// M3 - PhD Dissertation PB - Stanford University ER - TY - BOOK TI - The Technological Indian DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// ER - TY - MGZN TI - The Birth of an IT Powerhouse T2 - MIT Technology Review DA - 2016/9// PY - 2016/9// ER - TY - CHAP TI - Grain, storage, and state making in Mesopotamia (3200--2000 BC) AU - Paulette, Tate T2 - Storage in Ancient Complex Societies PY - 2016/// SP - 85-110 PB - Routledge ER - TY - CHAP TI - Espaço, História e Ambiente: Entendendo o Desmatamento Através do SIG Histórico, Minas Gerais 1750-1840 AU - Freitas, Frederico T2 - Ensaios em Ciências Ambientais: Crises Riscos e Racionalidades A2 - Silva, Sandro Dutra e A2 - Sayago, Doris A2 - Toni, Fabiano A2 - Campos, Francisco Itami PY - 2016/// SP - 217-248 PB - Garamond ER - TY - JOUR TI - The material culture and mission of the Late Roman Army on the southeastern imperial frontier - GWYN DAVIES and JODI MAGNESS, with contributions by N. T. Elkins, R. Halbmeier, J. Ramsay, A. Ratzlaff, C. Swan, W. Cockle, Z. Plese, D. Hood and E. Boaretto, THE 2003-2007 EXCAVATIONS IN THE LATE ROMAN FORT AT YOTVATA (Eisenbrauns; Winona Lake, IN 2015). Pp. xii + 268, many figs. including 24 color. ISBN 978-1-57506-347-8. $79.50. AU - Parker, S. Thomas T2 - Journal of Roman Archaeology AB - The material culture and mission of the Late Roman Army on the southeastern imperial frontier - GWYN DAVIES and JODI MAGNESS, with contributions by N. T. Elkins, R. Halbmeier, J. Ramsay, A. Ratzlaff, C. Swan, W. Cockle, Z. Plese, D. Hood and E. Boaretto, THE 2003-2007 EXCAVATIONS IN THE LATE ROMAN FORT AT YOTVATA (Eisenbrauns; Winona Lake, IN 2015). Pp. xii + 268, many figs. including 24 color. ISBN 978-1-57506-347-8. $79.50. - Volume 29 DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// DO - 10.1017/S1047759400073013 VL - 29 SP - 919-923 J2 - J. Roman archaeol. LA - en OP - SN - 1047-7594 2331-5709 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1047759400073013 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - EDITORIAL FOREWORD AU - Khater, Akram AU - Culang, Jeffrey T2 - International Journal of Middle East Studies AB - This issue centers on two predominant themes: space, boundaries, and belonging from the end of empire to the early nation-state era; and the relationship between political discourse, political praxis, and values. The first section, “Belonging, Boundaries, and Law,” opens with Asher Kaufman's article, “Belonging and Continuity: Israeli Druze and Lebanon, 1982–2000,” on the spatial perceptions and practices of communities in the Middle East under the nation-state. Kaufman observes that only over the past few decades have scholars of the post–World War I order in the region begun to question “the ‘nation-state’ as the natural geographical and political unit of analysis.” Using Druze citizens of Israel before, during, and after Israel's occupation of South Lebanon as his case, he readjusts the lens toward substate, suprastate, and trans-state dynamics. Until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Druze communal and religious networks had spanned the whole of bilād al-shām , but these were radically interrupted by Israel's emergence as a bounded polity whose borders with its neighbors were reputedly sealed. This rupture precipitated the emergence of an Israeli Druze community that, isolated from broader Druze communal life and institutional frames, was expected to be loyal to the new state. Eschewing a national frame, Kaufman reveals how Druze, despite these obstacles, actually maintained “crossborder ties through marriage, licit and illicit trade, and religious practices.” Paradoxically, it was Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and its eighteen-year occupation of the South that allowed for a resumption of pre-1948 spatial practices, though these were complicated by Israeli Druze's multiple and sometimes conflicting allegiances. Such practices, restricted again after the Israeli withdrawal of 2000, continued in limited fashion until the start of the Syrian Civil War, which has propelled Israeli Druze to organize politically in support of Druze in Syria. Observing that the Druze continue to live in state and suprastate spatial scales, Kaufman proposes “using the concept ‘hybrid spatial scale’ as a tool for studying communities such as the Druze that operate on multiple territorial scales.” DA - 2016/9/30/ PY - 2016/9/30/ DO - 10.1017/S0020743816000799 VL - 48 IS - 4 SP - 631-633 J2 - Int. J. Middle East Stud. LA - en OP - SN - 0020-7438 1471-6380 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816000799 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - EDITORIAL FOREWORD AU - Khater, Akram AU - Culang, Jeffrey T2 - International Journal of Middle East Studies AB - This issue examines the power of categories, both historically and in contemporary scholarly and public discourse. Whether focused on medicine in colonial Algeria, the varied meanings of the word “mamluk” in Ottoman Tunisia, discursive constructions of the “Jewish refugee,” gender as an analytical category in academic writing, or another topic, our article and roundtable authors push us to consider how categories have shaped modes of life and politics, and how they shape our scholarship. DA - 2016/7/6/ PY - 2016/7/6/ DO - 10.1017/S0020743816000428 VL - 48 IS - 3 SP - 441-443 J2 - Int. J. Middle East Stud. LA - en OP - SN - 0020-7438 1471-6380 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816000428 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - EDITORIAL FOREWORD AU - Khater, Akram AU - Culang, Jeffrey T2 - International Journal of Middle East Studies AB - This issue is focused on reframing analytical categories in ways different from how scholars have used them, and mechanisms of power in juxtaposition to how states intended them. We open with two articles on “Reading in Translation.” Anne-Marie E. McManus's “Scale in the Balance: Reading with the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (‘The Arabic Booker’)” focuses on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, or IPAF. Founded in 2007 with funding from Dubai and based on the more well-known Man Booker Prize, the IPAF is awarded to one Arabic novel each year. The prize supports that novel's translation into English and catapults it from the national domain into a global marketplace of readers whose reading practices, McManus suggests, have already been shaped by the postcolonial Anglophone novel. Arguing that methods inherited from postcolonial studies are inadequate for addressing these modes of reading and interpretation (i.e., the national and the global), McManus develops a comparative “scale-based method” combining insights from postcolonial and world literary theory and from area studies, which she brings to bear on two IPAF-winning Egyptian novels: Bahaʾ Taher's Wahat al-Ghurub ( Sunset Oasis ) and Saud Alsanousi’s Saq al-Bambu ( The Bamboo Stalk ). In her analysis of these literary works, McManus shows us why “a stark either/or between national and world literary frames . . . cannot apprehend the ways in which a movement between them is institutionalized in bodies such as the IPAF, nor can it grapple with the implications for reading.” “Reading with the IPAF,” she suggests, requires instead “a resituation of national frames, institutionally and hermeneutically, within the nodal relation the IPAF represents.” DA - 2016/4/7/ PY - 2016/4/7/ DO - 10.1017/S0020743816000027 VL - 48 IS - 2 SP - 213-215 J2 - Int. J. Middle East Stud. LA - en OP - SN - 0020-7438 1471-6380 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816000027 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - EDITORIAL FOREWORD AU - Khater, Akram AU - Culang, Jeffrey T2 - International Journal of Middle East Studies AB - This issue is focused on the politics of belonging/exclusion at the level of rhetoric and everyday practice. We open with two articles—Jonathan Shannon's “There and Back Again: Rhetorics of al-Andalus in Modern Syrian” and Ellen McLarney's “Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Adab ”—both exploring linkages between culture and political ideas. In his article, Shannon analyzes the interweaving of a mythologized al-Andalus (the Arab-Muslim Iberian Peninsula) into Syrian popular culture, particularly music, in order to show how it was critical to the formation of Syrian memory cultures and, by extension, nation building. Yet within past- and future-oriented nationalist discourse, this rhetoric of nostalgia—whose genesis dates to the Pan-Arab halcyon days of the 1960s—posits “not only a lost paradise of past glory, but also a (utopian) vision of a future state of glory in the Arab world itself, a sort of neo-Andalusia .” Financed by petrodollars and fostered by Arab migration to and investment in Spain, literary, cinematic, and musical productions evoking al-Andalus and linking it intimately to Syria continued in the subsequent era of what one of Shannon's interlocutors describes as “political, economic, and cultural decline,” in part as a source of solace. With today's Syria tragically fractured, Shannon concludes by suggesting that “the rhetoric of al-Andalus, so closely tied not only to Arabism but also to a broad understanding of community, may yet again offer a way to reimagine the Syria of tomorrow as a ‘first rate place.’” DA - 2016/1/14/ PY - 2016/1/14/ DO - 10.1017/S0020743815001439 VL - 48 IS - 1 SP - 1-3 J2 - Int. J. Middle East Stud. LA - en OP - SN - 0020-7438 1471-6380 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743815001439 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Senator James Eastland: Mississippi's Jim Crow democrat AU - Conner, C. A. T2 - Journal of Southern History DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 82 IS - 3 SP - 725-726 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Saint, 1200-1800 AU - Ludington, Charles C. T2 - ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW AB - This book, by Lester K. Little, is clearly a labour of love by a former Director of the American Academy of Rome. Just as clearly, the author’s heart lies not in Rome itself, but in the large swath of northern Italy whose rivers drain the Alps and Apennines into the Adriatic Sea. Ostensibly, it is the story both of the wine porters of this region and of their patron saint, Alberto of Villa d’Ogna. However, it is more accurate to say that it is a book of all the information that Little has acquired that has anything to do, and sometimes very little to do, with either subject. At times delightful, frequently maddening, it is an unconventional and even peculiar book. Take for instance, the opening paragraph: ‘Our story is set in northern Italy within a rectangle of the earth’s surface that would fit comfortably within the bounds of Kansas ... Five million years ago a quarter of it lay under the sea … Our story though, will deal only with a bit over a 10,000th of that period, or about six centuries, and the action will take place mainly between sea level and elevations up to 1,200m’ (p. 1). For those like me, who enjoy accumulating minute facts about specific places, and especially about the history of wine, this will be an entertaining book. However, this is a book of pastiches, not a sustained and focused historical narrative. To be clear, the ‘action’ (such as it is), derives not from the life of St Alberto or from the history of wine porters, but instead from following the author as he turns over every stone in his attempt to explain how an obscure thirteenth-century Italian peasant could possibly have been made a saint—first unofficially, and then through the official process of canonisation. DA - 2016/12// PY - 2016/12// DO - 10.1093/ehr/cew301 VL - 131 IS - 553 SP - 1505-1506 SN - 1477-4534 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Futures of anglophone Indian literary studies AU - Mulholland, J. T2 - Eighteenth Century-Theory and Interpretation DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 57 IS - 4 SP - 531-536 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956 AU - Gilmartin, David T2 - JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE AB - John Slight provides in this book an empire-wide overview of the operation and management of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in the British Empire from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. There is more on India than on any other part of the empire (probably rightly, given its size and influence on British imperial policy), but Slight’s book is noteworthy for its broad coverage of other parts of the empire as well, from Malaysia in the east to Nigeria in the west. The approach is in part comparative, with analysis of similarities and differences in approaches to the Hajj across the empire. But the central emphasis is on the commonalities and problems facing British Hajj administration as a whole, framed in relationship to Slight’s assertion that Britain ruled in this period a “Muslim empire,” encompassing a vast swath of the Muslim world. The “scope and depth” of Britain’s involvement with the Hajj provides one powerful indicator of this in Slight’s account, and he uses the Hajj as a window for studying imperial Anglo-Muslim interactions and, in the end, for “rethinking the nature of Britain’s imperial experience” (p. 2). DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// DO - 10.1093/jcs/csw079 VL - 58 IS - 4 SP - 769-770 SN - 2040-4867 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 AU - Ambaras, D. R. T2 - Journal of Military History DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 80 IS - 4 SP - 1263-1264 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Crescent City Girls: The lives of young black women in segregated New Orleans AU - Charron, K. M. T2 - Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.) DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 103 IS - 2 SP - 513-513 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic AU - Crisp, James E. T2 - WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY AB - The settlement which became Washington-on-the-Brazos was established by one of Stephen F. Austin’s earliest Texas colonists—Andrew Robinson—as a ferry crossing and “house of Entertainment,” where the camino real crossed the iconic river along the old route from San Antonio to the eastern Spanish outpost of Nacogdoches (p. 4). Thus was formed the nucleus of the municipality which was legally organized under Mexican law in spring 1835. Mexican law in Texas, however, lasted only until autumn, when the conflict that became known as the Texas Revolution began a movement toward secession, independence, and the little town’s lasting fame. It was Texan general Sam Houston who insisted that the convention that created the Republic of Texas meet on 1 March 1836, in Washington rather than Austin’s older and larger informal “capital” at San Felipe. It was also Houston who, in response to Mexican incursions during his second term as president of the fledgling republic, moved the nation’s capital back to Washington in 1842 from the threatened frontier outpost of Austin (the capital established by Houston’s archrival Mirabeau B. Lamar). DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// DO - 10.1093/whq/whw127 VL - 47 IS - 4 SP - 495-496 SN - 1939-8603 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The papers of Jefferson Davis, vol 14, 1880-1889 AU - Mobley, J. A. T2 - Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.) DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 103 IS - 1 SP - 202-203 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith AU - Vincent, K. Steven T2 - EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// DO - 10.1080/10848770.2016.1169609 VL - 21 IS - 5-6 SP - 626-628 SN - 1470-1316 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Eternal ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century through punctuated equilibria and beyond AU - Brinkman, P. D. T2 - Isis DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 107 IS - 2 SP - 442-443 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888-2008 AU - De Grand, Alexander T2 - JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES AB - "The Two Mafias. A Transatlantic History 1888–2008." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 21(3), pp. 522–523 DA - 2016/6// PY - 2016/6// DO - 10.1080/1354571x.2016.1169898 VL - 21 IS - 3 SP - 522-523 SN - 1469-9583 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosi, Bolivia AU - McEwen, Abigail R. AU - Hsu-Kim, Heileen AU - Robins, Nicholas A. AU - Hagan, Nicole A. AU - Halabi, Susan AU - Barras, Olivo AU - Richter, Daniel deB. AU - Vandenberg, John J. T2 - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT AB - Potosí, Bolivia, is the site of centuries of historic and present-day mining of the Cerro Rico, a mountain known for its rich polymetallic deposits, and was the site of large-scale Colonial era silver refining operations. In this study, the concentrations of several metal and metalloid elements were quantified in adobe brick, dirt floor, and surface dust samples from 49 houses in Potosí. Median concentrations of total mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), and arsenic (As) were significantly greater than concentrations measured in Sucre, Bolivia, a non-mining town, and exceeded US-based soil screening levels. Adobe brick samples were further analyzed for bioaccessible concentrations of trace elements using a simulated gastric fluid (GF) extraction. Median GF extractable concentrations of Hg, As, and Pb were 0.085, 13.9, and 32.2% of the total element concentration, respectively. Total and GF extractable concentrations of Hg, As, and Pb were used to estimate exposure and potential health risks to children following incidental ingestion of adobe brick particles. Risks were assessed using a range of potential ingestion rates (50–1000 mg/day). Overall, the results of the risk assessment show that the majority of households sampled contained concentrations of bioaccessible Pb and As, but not Hg, that represent a potential health risk. Even at the lowest ingestion rate considered, the majority of households exceeded the risk threshold for Pb, indicating that the concentrations of this metal are of particular concern. To our knowledge, this is the first study to quantify key trace elements in building materials in adobe brick houses and the results indicate that these houses are a potential source of exposure to metals and metalloids in South American mining communities. Additional studies are needed to fully characterize personal exposure and to understand potential adverse health outcomes within the community. DA - 2016/8/15/ PY - 2016/8/15/ DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.152 VL - 562 SP - 237-246 SN - 1879-1026 KW - Bolivia KW - Adobe KW - Bioaccessibility KW - Mercury KW - Arsenic KW - Lead ER - TY - JOUR TI - Tasting French terroir: The history of an idea AU - Ludington, C. C. T2 - Agricultural History DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 90 IS - 1 SP - 127-129 ER - TY - JOUR TI - "The University that Ate Birmingham": The healthcare industry, urban development, and neoliberalism AU - Conner, C. A. T2 - Journal of Urban History DA - 2016/// PY - 2016/// VL - 42 IS - 2 SP - 284-305 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France AU - Vincent, K. Steven T2 - EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS AB - Royal censors in France during the eighteenth century were responsible for examining works that were to be published and/or distributed in France, and as such were charged with upholding the politi... DA - 2016/2/17/ PY - 2016/2/17/ DO - 10.1080/10848770.2015.1097077 VL - 21 IS - 2 SP - 240-242 SN - 1470-1316 ER -