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Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for any cross-posting but I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2023).

Here is a brief description of the book from the back cover: 

Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition. Closely reading key eighth-century texts, Hayrettin Yücesoy

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Affective Bonds, Intimate Exchanges: Family, Kinship, & Gender in Business History

5th Biennial Richard Robinson Workshop on Business History

Portland State University

May 23–25, 2024, Portland OR

The modern economy is often conceived as a realm of anonymity, where strangers, motivated by rational and individual objectives, exchange goods and services with “no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment’” (as famously described in The Communist Manifesto). Yet actual business practices, in both the past and present, reveal

The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS), a highly regarded publication that is essential reading for scholars from a wide array of disciplines who share an interest in the world’s connectedness between 1750 and 1914, has been published. Guest edited by Keith Clavin, Volume 2.1 is a special issue on Transimperial Latin America. In addition, you will also find reviews of the latest books in the field.

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INTRODUCTION: TRANSIMPERIAL RHYTHMS
KEITH CLAVIN

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CUBAN

Conversion and imperial expansion often coincided. Sacred places of the former dominant religion were destroyed or transformed and provided with symbols of the new religion. Objects of the material world of the old faith were alienated from their original purpose, desecrated and refashioned for the liturgy of the new faith. Existing discourses and rituals were adapted to the belief system of the new religion. New spaces were established and participation in the religious life of the new community was controlled and regulated. However, converts not infrequently applied the knowledge of the