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Articles in the Issue
Commensurabilities
MARTHA LAMPLAND
The Illusion of Abstraction
GINA ANNE TAM
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949
Frontier Commodities
TAMARA FERNANDO
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in Indian Ocean Pearling 1889–1925
TOMÁS JOAQUIN BARTOLETTI
Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850
Police and Strikes in Colonial and Postcolonial Bureaucracies
EILAT MAOZ
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary
AARON G. JAKES
Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt
Victims and Unforgiveness
ANOUSH TAMAR SUNI
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia
KRISTIN FORINGER
Defining Post-Conflict Victimhood: The Political Construction of a “Victim” Category in Colombia’s Congress, 2007-2011