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Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.

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CSSH celebrates a new book by Leslie James! Don't miss The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960.

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January 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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This issue features work by Marcel Berni, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, @orenfalk.bsky.social, Maria Kastrinou, Piotr H. Kosicki, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Stephanie V. Love, Hélène Quiniou, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Lucie Ryzova, Marlene Schäfers, and Arthur Shiwa Zárate!

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January 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Start the year with a fresh issue of CSSH! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of #Martyrs; #Spirit Movements; #Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of #Bereavement.

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#AcademicSky #History #Anthropology
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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This month, we are celebrating new books by
@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!

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December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Our recent issues are replete with essays on death, martyrdom, and immortality. "#Martyrs and Memorials," our latest On the Syllabus by editorial intern Moniek van Rheenen, situates this scholarship within CSSH's rich archive on the subject.

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Saint culture, Martyr of Fascism by Angela Nebot. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Wikimedia Commons.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We've got more new scholarship on our website! Today, it's a can't-miss conversation between Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar about #decolonization and what might come next: “The location of sovereignty is still in question.” #AcademicSky #History #AcademicChatter

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Mural depicting Iraqi people's resistance. Baghdad, 1959. (Photographer unknown, Wiki)
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making."

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Basset, André, Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pontichery, de l'Amiraute et de la Maison du Gouverneur, [Vers 1750-1785]. Cariatide, bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA, NUM VO Ori 12.
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Our newest Under (and Across!) the Rubric brings together letters by Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love on graves, spirits, martyrs, mourning, reincarnation, curses - the intersections of life and death.

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December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair."

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The author browsing the book market.
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView!

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‘Ammar Abu Bakr’s wall of martyrs with wings, Muhammad Mahmoud Street, February 2012. Author’s photo.
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency

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Colonial instruments of torture in French Indochina: Fetter, handcuff, truncheon, hammer and knife. Source: Vietnam National Museum of History (Bảo Tàng Lịch Sử Việt Nam), Hà Nội, Vietnam, Roi bằng xương cá và roi da, Xích khóa tay, Xích chân, author’s photo, 12 April 2023.
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This month, CSSH celebrates Arndt Emmerich's award-winning essay and highlights a new book by Christina Schwenkel!

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November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky

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A child levitating in front of witnesses due to the influence of witchcraft. Saducismus Triumphatus, London, by author Joseph Glanvill. 1681.
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten (often violent) pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria."

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The grave of an Algerian martyr guillotined in the prison of Oran, next to unmarked burial plots. Author’s photo, May 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicSky #OpenAccess

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October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier."

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The IPC export terminal at Faw, sited in land formerly devoted to date cultivation, ca. 1956. Source: British Petroleum Archives 223591. © BP plc
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and @bishara.bsky.social!

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October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History

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September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below.

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September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The latest from CSSH: "The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late #Ottoman Empire" by Henry Clements. #History #AcademicSky

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Hanna Safar’s letter to the patriarch, 12 January 1888. The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Archive of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran (Dayro d-Kurkmo), Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 05-607/608. Image courtesy of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Now out on FirstView, Aviv Derri's "The #Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking #Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies."

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Excerpts from a list of sergis Azer Angel purchased from local merchants
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In our latest Behind the Scenes, Marco Garrido describes the act of organization that led to the revelations in his essay, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946."

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August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The latest at CSSH: Peng Hai's ""The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting #Turkestan in Imperial #Japan’s Muslim Policy." #maps #History

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The cloth cover of Xinjiang Affairs (General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Army, 1943, currently deposited at Waseda University Library).
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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CSSH highlights new books by former journal authors Joseph Masco, Judith Scheele, and @margaretjwiener.bsky.social!

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August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.

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July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM