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Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center: "The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran"

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned…

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Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption

For all of the real and important contrasts between them, the Indigenous peoples and French Catholic colonists who encountered one another in 17th-century New France were both convinced that…

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At Home in a Foreign Land: The Internment of Boer Prisoners-of-War in Ceylon 1900-1902

This project explores the reasoning behind Britain’s decision to intern over 2 000 captured Boer (Afrikaner) combatants on the island of Ceylon from 1900-1902 during the South African War.…

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