by Nilab Saeedi and Luke Wilkinson The JHI Blog team is pleased to share with our readers a new reading list that was recently added to our repository. The Reading List on Islamic Intellectual History is a comprehensive compendium of... Continue Reading →
by Niels Lee In 1899, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Oscar S. Straus, approached Sultan-Caliph Abdulhamid II for a diplomatic favor. The United States had recently annexed the Philippines from the Spanish Empire, but the transition was fraught... Continue Reading →
by Alperen Arslan and Zac Endter Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University, working at the intersection of economic sociology and Science and Technology Studies. Doganova spoke with Alperen Arslan and... Continue Reading →
In this two-part interview, Rose Facchini interviews Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry (Corky) White, authors of Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (University of California Press, 2023). Ben Wurgaft is a writer and historian. His books include Meat... Continue Reading →
In this two-part interview, Rose Facchini interviews Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry (Corky) White, authors of Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (University of California Press, 2023). Ben Wurgaft is a writer and historian. His books include Meat... Continue Reading →
by Edoardo Vaccari Can exploring the history of socialist thought help us critically examine the current state of the international left? In what ways have contemporary challenges reshaped our understanding of socialism? How can we reevaluate the role of European... Continue Reading →
by Zac Ender and Jonas Knatz On September 17, 2024, Princeton University Press will publish a new translation of Volume 1 of Karl Marx's Capital. Contributing editors Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz spoke with Paul Reitter, the translator, and Paul... Continue Reading →
The JHI Blog's sixth-annual Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024. This year's symposium, "The Uses and Abuses of History," will include papers that explore the complex, multivalent, and ever-evolving concepts of history writing to analyze how... Continue Reading →