The Limits of Westernization

Perin Gürel

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollst... Lees meer

Peace on Our Terms

Mona L Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female... Lees meer

Disenchanting the Caliphate

Hayrettin Yücesoy

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and... Lees meer

Building States

Eva-Maria Muschik

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the Unit... Lees meer

Refuge and Resistance

Anne Irfan

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Shortlisted, 2024 Academic Book Award, Palestine Book Awards In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime... Lees meer

Fixing the Sky

James Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bou... Lees meer

Global Intellectual History

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual histo... Lees meer

Refuge and Resistance

Anne Irfan

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Shortlisted, 2024 Academic Book Award, Palestine Book Awards In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime... Lees meer

Imperial Mecca

Michael Christopher Low

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for th... Lees meer

Building States

Eva-Maria Muschik

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the Unit... Lees meer

The Other Cold War

Heonik Kwon

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly pa... Lees meer

Identifying with Nationality

Will Hanley

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalizati... Lees meer

Wiring the World

Simone Müller

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the ... Lees meer

Unsettling Utopia

Jessica Namakkal

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was no... Lees meer

Global Population

Alison Bashford

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was un... Lees meer

The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia

Cemil Aydin

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the ... Lees meer

Melancholy Order

Adam McKeown

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of global... Lees meer

Company and the Shogun

Adam Clulow

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself agg... Lees meer

Beauty in the Age of Empire

Raja Adal

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century, ar... Lees meer

A Taste for Purity

Julia Hauser

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating... Lees meer

The Making of a Periphery

Ulbe Bosma

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and ... Lees meer

The Limits of Westernization

Perin Gürel

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollst... Lees meer

Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled

Dominic Sachsenmaier

• Hardcover | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his... Lees meer

The African Diaspora

Patrick Manning

• Paperback | Engels | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes t... Lees meer