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Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/

A soil conditioner testing site near FELDA Bukit Goh (photo by author).
1979 Comité leaflet entitled “The Mexican Government Lies.” UACM, CAMENA, Fondo Comité Eureka, exp. 89, vol. 1. Author’s photo, March 2020.
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Wiki.
Sultan Selim III holds court. Oil on canvas, ca. 1789 (Topkapi Palace Museum, Wiki).
An artificial mountain is presented to the Sultan, Surnāme-i Hümāyūn, Topkapı Palace Museum Hazine no. 1344, fols. 58b–59a. Reproduced with permission of The Directorate of National Palaces, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Saint culture, Martyr of Fascism by Angela Nebot. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Wikimedia Commons.
Mural depicting Iraqi people's resistance. Baghdad, 1959. (Photographer unknown, Wiki)
Basset, André, Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pontichery, de l'Amiraute et de la Maison du Gouverneur, [Vers 1750-1785]. Cariatide, bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA, NUM VO Ori 12.
The author browsing the book market.
‘Ammar Abu Bakr’s wall of martyrs with wings, Muhammad Mahmoud Street, February 2012. Author’s photo.
Colonial instruments of torture in French Indochina: Fetter, handcuff, truncheon, hammer and knife. Source: Vietnam National Museum of History (Bảo Tàng Lịch Sử Việt Nam), Hà Nội, Vietnam, Roi bằng xương cá và roi da, Xích khóa tay, Xích chân, author’s photo, 12 April 2023.
A child levitating in front of witnesses due to the influence of witchcraft. Saducismus Triumphatus, London, by author Joseph Glanvill. 1681.
The grave of an Algerian martyr guillotined in the prison of Oran, next to unmarked burial plots. Author’s photo, May 2019.
The IPC export terminal at Faw, sited in land formerly devoted to date cultivation, ca. 1956. Source: British Petroleum Archives 223591. © BP plc
Hanna Safar’s letter to the patriarch, 12 January 1888. The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Archive of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran (Dayro d-Kurkmo), Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 05-607/608. Image courtesy of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
Excerpts from a list of sergis Azer Angel purchased from local merchants
The cloth cover of Xinjiang Affairs (General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Army, 1943, currently deposited at Waseda University Library).
File no. 2/1–555 from the Institute of Popular Culture, titled “Bills and Ministerial Decrees on the Establishment of the Institute (the Popular University) and its Board of Directors.” The document dates within this file range from 1945 to 1959.
Cover illustration, “Seven Occupations,” Molla Nasraddin, 6 June 1910. Illustrator: Oscar Schmerling. Image reproduced by Çınar-Çap Nəşriyyatı (vol. 3, 2005).