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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya

An Ambivalent Modernism

By Brian L. McLaren

To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan culture brought its systems...

A Moveable Empire

Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees

By Resat Kasaba

A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Unlike earlier...

Islamist Mobilization in Turkey

A Study in Vernacular Politics

By Jennifer B. White

Winner of the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology

The emergence of an Islamist movement and the startling buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkey--a model of secular modernization, a cosmopolitan frontier, and NATO ally--has...

Activists in Office

Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey

By Nicole F. Watts

Thousands of Kurdish politician-activists have been prosecuted and imprisoned, and hundreds have been murdered for espousing Kurdish political and cultural rights over the past twenty years. The risks are high, yet Pro-Kurdish political parties have...

Modernism and the Middle East

Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

By Sandy Isenstadt, Kishwar Rizvi

This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial...

Nationalizing Iran

Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940

By Afshin Marashi

When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi...

The Landscape of Stalinism

The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space

By Evgeny Dobrenko, Eric Naiman

This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and...

Modernism and Nation Building

Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic

By Sibel Bozdogan

Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians

Winner of the M. Fuat Koprulu Book Prize in Turkish Studies sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

With the proclamation of the Turkish...

Everyday Modernity in China

By Madeleine Yue Dong, Joshua Lewis Goldstein

Is modernity in non-Western societies always an “alternative” modernity, a derivative copy of an “original modernity” that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of...

Empire, Architecture, and the City

French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

By Zeynep Celik

Winner of the 2010 Spiro Kostof Award (sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians)

Empire building and modernity dominate the history of the nineteenth century. The French and Ottoman empires capitalized on modern infrastructure and city...

Chandigarh's Le Corbusier

The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India

By Vikramaditya Prakash

When India emerged from colonial rule in 1947, the division of Punjab left its historic capital, Lahore, in newly created Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that Punjab's new capital, Chandigarh, should be a...