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"I hope to provide students interested in the Native American past with an understanding of how the varied parts of the story fit into a larger whole. My goal is to tell a story of native peoples, to advance an argument. To that end, I focus upon twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate what I see as the principal themes and developments in Native American history"--

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Cultures, and especially medical cultures, did not develop in isolation from one another, indebted only to their own dynamics, but in constant interchange. A history of the body hence can only be written as a history of entanglements. The article elaborates this thesis with reference to Unani medicine, a cluster of medical systems still today widely in use among the Muslims (and a good number of Hindus) of South Asia. The history of Unani medicine shows that the "Indian body" is the site of a long tradition of multiple influences and entanglements, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Central Asian, Western and Ayurvedic.

AbstractThis paper revisits some methodological and conceptual aspects of scholarly works on the social history of Middle Eastern women based on Ottoman court records that were published in the last three decades. It discusses the main approaches employed by historians in the field for analyzing court records, and the circumstances that shaped these patterns. It shows that, during the 1970s and 1980s, this body of scholarly works on women's history, as part of Middle Eastern social history, adhered to historiographical approaches that did not follow the "cultural turn" characterizing West European and North American historiography. This situation, however, has recently changed.

My project will trace the shifting practices of museum-making in Bihar by juxtaposing the history of the Bihar Museum (Estd. 2017) against the history of the Patna Museum (Estd. 1917). In doing so it will locate the Indian museum movement within the identity politics in postcolonial South Asia. The Patna Museum was instrumental in forging regional identities vis-à-vis the anti-colonial national movement in South Asia, while the Bihar Museum was an assertion of a modern Bihari identity in a postcolonial time. Scholars have extensively debated the exhibitionary spaces and collections at the Patna Museum, but the Bihar Museum, including its strategic and controversial overshadowing of the Patna Museum, remain under-discussed in contemporary scholarly engagements. Indeed, much of the new Bihar Museum's collections was made up at the expense of the old collection of the Patna Museum, including the Chauri Bearer or the Didarganj Yakshi, famous for her Mauryan polish and her modern political import. The Government of Bihar argued that the new museum was necessary to foreground Bihar's history, tradition, achievements, and reinvent Bihari identity for a global age by employing new-age technology and contemporary curatorial practices. The global Bihari identity manifested in the museum in two forms: the organization of galleries, especially the first-ever Indian gallery dedicated to the Girmitiya (indentured laborers who travelled overseas and remains marginalized in Indian history) and in the architectural vision for the museum. The Girmitiya Gallery valorizes the contribution of the Bihari diaspora in their adopted countries, including Fiji, Trindade, and others, and thereby emphasizes the global Bihari presence. The architecture of the museum charts this global connection though simultaneous usage of traditional building material like terracotta with the Corten Steel, by employing a Japanese firm famous for its contemporary design, and by completing the project in an unprecedented speed of four years. Juxtaposing the ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "A Memo That Changed the Course of History" -- 2 From "Free Labor" to "Free Enterprise" -- 3 Free Enterprise versus the New Deal Order -- 4 A "Beautiful but Much-Abused Phrase" -- 5 "The Party of Free Enterprise" -- 6 "Faith in Free Enterprise" -- 7 "Free Enterprise Needs Restatement to Suit Our Modern Needs" -- 8 From Public Spending to "Entitlements" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Contents: Practical Corner: The Evolution of the Exchange Rate from "Sacrosanct" Parity to Flexible Monetary Policy Instrument.- Historical Studies: The Society for Business History: A Decade of Work. The Bankers Simon and Abraham Oppenheim 1812-1880. The Private Background to Their Professional Activity, their Role in Politics and Ennoblement. Russian Business in the Brüning Era.- Reviews of Literature: A Review of the New Literature on Business History.- A Review of the New Literature on Banking History. Reports on Conferences. The German Yearbook on Business History is a source of insights into the entrepreneurial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries. It contains translations of topical journal articles and informative reviews of results and trends in business history research. As in the previous Yearbooks, the authors of this volume are experts in economic theory and practice whose contributions cover a wide spectrum

Cover -- Ugliness: A Cultural History -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Pretty Ugly: A Question of Culture -- One: Ugly Ones: Uncomfortable Anomalies -- Polyphemus: 'A Monster of a Man' -- Dame Ragnell: 'She was a Loathly One!' -- A Grotesque Old Woman: 'The Ugly Duchess' -- William Hay: 'Never was, Nor will be, a Member of the Ugly Club' -- Julia Pastrana: 'The Ugliest Woman in the World' -- Orlan: 'A Beautiful Woman Who is Deliberately Becoming Ugly' -- Ugly Ones: Uncomfortably Grouped -- Two: Ugly Groups: Resisting Classification -- Monsters and Monstrosities: Bordering Uglies -- Outcasts and Outward Signs: Signifying Uglies -- Primitives and Venuses: Colonizing Uglies -- Broken Faces and Degenerate Bodies: Militarizing Uglies -- Ugly Laws and Ugly Dolls: Legislating Uglies -- Uglies United? Commercializing Ugly Groups -- Three: Ugly Senses: Transgressing Perceived Borders -- Ugly Sight: Seeing is Believing? -- Ugly Sound: Do You Hear What I Hear? -- Ugly Smell: A Nose for Trouble? -- Ugly Taste: Are You What You Eat? -- Ugly Touch: Do Not Touch? -- Sixth Sense: Feeling is Believing? -- Epilogue: Ugly us: A Cultural Quest? -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.