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Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, by Sanjay Subrahmanyam (2004)

November 12, 2014 by all2445

By Ben Breen  Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian of remarkable erudition and imagination. His personal itineraries over the years—from the New Delhi School of Economics to the École des Hautes Études in Paris, and from Oxford to UCLA, where he currently holds an endowed chair in history—mirror those of the early modern travellers who frequently […]

Filed Under: 1400s to 1700s, Books, Empire, Transnational Tagged With: Entangled history, Ganges, Indian History, Pacific Ocean, Subrahmanyam, Tagus

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

September 29, 2013 by all2445

Four excellent books about Islam in modern western politics and history.

Filed Under: 1400s to 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, Books, Europe, Ideas/Intellectual History, Middle East, Periods, Politics, Regions, Religion, Topics, Transnational, United States

UT Gender Symposium: Women’s Bodies and Political Agendas

September 16, 2013 by all2445

by Julia Gossard and Shaherzad Ahmadi

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog, Gender/Sexuality, Politics, Transnational

Great Books on Siberian Voices

September 1, 2013 by all2445

Four great books and three great documentaries about the history and people of Siberia.

Filed Under: 1900s, Asia, Books, Periods, Regions, Topics, Writers/Literature Tagged With: Featured Reads, Russia, Siberia

Great Books on Modern Economic History

April 30, 2013 by all2445

Joseph Schumpeter’s influence in modern economic thought cannot be overestimated and it turns up in some surprising and interesting places.

Filed Under: Books, Business/Commerce, Capitalism, Ideas/Intellectual History, Topics

Transpacific China in the Cold War

April 29, 2013 by all2445

Last week scholars from around the world gathered at the UT Institute for Historical Studies for a conference on Chinese diaspora and the Cold War. The conference was organized by UT historian Madeline Hsu and her colleagues in Hong Kong and the US. You can read a summary of the research they presented here.

Filed Under: IHS & Public History

“And really,” she concluded, “History is kind of the king.”

April 2, 2013 by all2445

That’s what Rachel Maddow said at Stanford last month when asked what she looks for in a successful job candidate:

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog

When a Government Tells Historians How to Write and How to Teach

March 23, 2013 by all2445

Yesterday, Russia Beyond the Headlines published an article explaining that President Vladimir Putin has ordered historians to write a single Russian history textbook for secondary-school students. Putin wants a textbook with no “internal contradictions,” or “different interpretations.”

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog, Europe, Politics

Sarin Over Aleppo

January 12, 2013 by all2445

UT Grad Student, Jonathan Hunt, wrote an excellent blog essay  — published in the Huffington Post — on the role of chemical weapons in recent US-Russian negotations over Syria.

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog, Middle East, Science/Medicine/Technology, Transnational, United States

New Partnership between Not Even Past and Teaching Texas

December 18, 2012 by all2445

We are proud to announce that Not Even Past is now a partner with the Texas history site, Teaching Texas!

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