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History Ex Silo is place where historians step outside of their expertise silos to engage with the work of other historians who focus on different chronological or geographical contexts. Brought to you by the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, History Ex Silo is hosted by Kritika’s Special Topics Editor, Stephen V. Bittner.
Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture? How does the practice of law change over time in …
What do the histories of currency and monetary policy tell us about societies at large, political structures, and cultures? Ekaterina Pravilova and Re…
Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulati…
In two new books, Fabian Baumann and Lauren Stokes examine the past through the lens of family structures and relations. In Dynasty Divided: A Family …
If you are reading this, it’s probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—without print, books, newspapers, signs, graffiti, ad…
Focusing on gender relations, family formation, and marriage patterns in areas peripheral to the England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, Christian…
Two new books on secularism and atheism in German and Soviet socialist cultures are reshaping scholarly understandings of the relationship between soc…
Why does state-led and intercommunal violence occur? How do past episodes of mass violence reverberate in the present? How do victims and perpetrators…
Where lay the fissures of Soviet power in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Why did France fail in its postwar efforts to make its African colonies …
On first glance, Soviet hippies would seem to have little in common with right-wing student protestors in West Germany in 1968. Yet as Juliane Fürst a…
Historians often think of World War I and the period surrounding it as the acme of nationalism in European politics. In two very different books, Josh…