In Globalization and Christopher Columbus in the Americas, Elise Bartosik-Vélez considers the responses of scholars working in colonial and early modern studies to recent exponential increases in the transnationalization of...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit The Toast's Website., I’m sitting alone in Girvan, Scotland, on one of the...
The fingerpost is that ubiquitous hand with one extended finger we have long seen in public places, accompanied by directions such as to the ladies' toilets or exit this way. More recently, that same finger has been...
How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings...
The Turkish Republic that emerged from the collapsing Ottoman Empire offers an instructive example of a self-conscious deployment of history by political elites to build a nation fitting the new state. The purpose of official...
Published as: Commins, David. “Syria.” In Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion , 2nd ed., edited by Robert Wuthnow. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2006. For more information on the published version, visit CQ Press's Website....
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Commins, David. Wahhabism. In The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spencer Tucker. Santa...