In 1564, Nahua singers performed three protest songs in Mexico City in the lead up to street riots. This talk will show how colonial period Nahua singers used their song […]
Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, […]
Everyday Occupation examines the everyday encounter between American soldiers and Chinese civilians from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon […]
This book probes why ecological instability has time and again emerged as a catalyst for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. It will do so by examining the genealogy […]
The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological […]
This talk will examine Thomas Paine’s imprisonment during the French Revolution, and the refusal of the United States Ambassador to France, Gouverneur Morris, to intervene on his behalf. The episode […]