Diana Muir Appelbaum

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  • Articles
    • How the Sinai Peacekeeping Force Staged a Military Coup in Fiji
    • The Last Berber Jews
    • The First War of National Liberation
    • Settling for Statehood
    • Risks in a Muslim Reformation
    • A Tale of Two Nation-States
    • My Mother’s Hurricane
    • Building Bust
  • Scholarly articles
    • Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states
    • The Gene Wars
    • The Rootless Roma
    • A Land without a People for a People without a Land
  • Book Reviews
    • A Problematic Reading of the Genetic History of the Jews
    • America the Biblical
    • In Defense of the Nation-State
    • The Dangerous Mr. Nelson
    • Terrible Lizard
    • Wild Nights
    • The Tapir’s Morning Bath
    • Cultivating Delight
    • Salt
    • Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery into Asia’s Forbidden Wilderness
    • Cradle to Cradle
    • Listening to Whales
    • Inventing America
    • Exploration of the Inca Heartland
    • Plundering Paradise: The Hand of Man on the Galapagos Islands
    • Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rain Forest on the Tail of the World’s Largest Gold Rush
    • Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory/ How New Science is Tracing America’s Ice Age Mariners
    • Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in the History of the Earth
    • Collapse
    • Wars and Stratagems
    • A Tragedy of the Commons
    • The Politics of Caspian Oil
    • Constant Battles
    • How to Get Rid of Noisy Airplanes and Still Get There on Time
    • Strange Bedfellows
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Articles

The First War of National Liberation

Settling for Statehood

A Tale of Two Nation-States

Risks in a Muslim Reformation

My Mother’s Hurricane

Building Bust

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blogroll

  • Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
  • 2014 (8)
    • January (3)
      • 2nd: Tomorrow Belongs to Me (0)
      • 6th: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Israel Rank & Roy Horniman (0)
      • 19th: The Hebrew Bible remixed (0)
    • March (2)
      • 23rd: Peter Burke's Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe goes beyond the evidence (0)
      • 23rd: "Nation-states are an almost necessary basis for democracy." (0)
    • May (2)
      • 8th: Æthelstan, King of the All Britain (0)
      • 8th: Gezellig, Gezelligheid and other Stuff Dutch People Like (0)
    • June (1)
      • 20th: Best Review I've read yet of Nicholas Wade's A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: Genes, Race, and Human History (0)
  • 2013 (26)
    • January (2)
      • 30th: La Convivencia NOT a Golden Age for publishing; but Ethnic Cleansing kills the book trade (0)
      • 30th: Publishing and Protestantism (0)
    • February (2)
      • 18th: Timothy Rosendale on sixteenth century English nationalism (0)
      • 25th: Jewish Identity and Egyptian Revival Architecture (0)
    • March (3)
      • 5th: Paint it Habsburg yellow (0)
      • 14th: Himyar kingdom and Bowersock's Throne of Adulis (0)
      • 18th: Nazis and the Greek Revival in Munich (0)
    • April (4)
      • 16th: Misappropriating Patriots' Day (0)
      • 16th: Before Religion (0)
      • 21st: The Old Moorish Synagogue in One of England's Densest Muslim Neighborhoods (0)
      • 22nd: Nationalism in Heian Japan (0)
    • May (1)
      • 21st: Liah Greenfeld is wrong on "Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism" (0)
    • June (1)
      • 5th: Ethnic change, language shift, and Belize (0)
    • September (4)
      • 3rd: Cathedral of the Viking Ship, and the National Museums of Norway (0)
      • 3rd: Henry Kissinger's father's Stockholm synagogue (0)
      • 4th: Sweden, Israel, and why national history museums fear history (0)
      • 9th: Ophel Medallion (0)
    • October (5)
      • 3rd: A war slave attempts to keep the Sabbath (0)
      • 24th: Pasi Inhalainen's Protestant Nations Redefined (0)
      • 25th: The sixteenth century rediscovery of the Bible, and the advent of the modern nation state (0)
      • 31st: Who said God could only choose one people? (0)
      • 31st: Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states (0)
    • November (4)
      • 13th: Ethnic replacement in the Arab Conquest (0)
      • 24th: Fifteenth century nationalism (0)
      • 24th: The Bay Psalm Book: America's founding text (0)
      • 26th: Kinship, the state and violence (0)
  • 2012 (59)
    • May (3)
      • 24th: Miracle of the Dutch Republic (0)
      • 29th: In God's Shadow, by Michael Walzer (0)
      • 29th: Abu Darweesh Mosque; a Circassian identity statement in Amman, Jordan (1)
    • June (9)
      • 5th: Emergency Zionism (0)
      • 8th: Turn the Temple Mount into a Museum (2)
      • 8th: Daily plebicite in Schleswig Holstein (0)
      • 8th: Lebanon restores old synagogue - Why? (0)
      • 12th: The Joke's on Jobbik (0)
      • 15th: We will kill you, marry your young wives, and inherit your estates. Armenia 1915. (4)
      • 18th: The Ottoman Footprint (0)
      • 29th: Betar/Battir (2)
      • 29th: Hong Kong, Singapore, building which nation? (0)
    • July (13)
      • 1st: In the 237th year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA (0)
      • 1st: Forgotton hero of the American Revolution (0)
      • 2nd: Syrian Kurdistan (0)
      • 4th: The Last Time Ankara and Damascus had a Stare-down (0)
      • 4th: Eilat to Haifa Railroad (0)
      • 4th: Salafis against historic preservation (2)
      • 6th: Demographic Engineering in Tibet (1)
      • 8th: Armenian Genocide Now Undeniable (1)
      • 18th: Israel Museum (0)
      • 18th: Language of Difference - without derogation (0)
      • 20th: Time for Population Separation in Syria (7)
      • 23rd: Tinghir-Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah: The Rediscovery of a Judeo-Berber Culture (2)
      • 27th: Peoples drift apart, Singapore and the Chinese, North and South Korea, (0)
    • August (7)
      • 1st: First, Build an Art School (0)
      • 1st: Crude Turkish Blood Libel (1)
      • 7th: Population Engineering in Singapore (0)
      • 7th: Obama, because Hawaii is unique (0)
      • 10th: Islamic Supersessionism - Parsing the Qur'an (0)
      • 30th: Reading Yoram Hazony's Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (1)
      • 31st: How Gökçeada Became Turkish (0)
    • September (4)
      • 10th: The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, Yoram Hazony (1)
      • 21st: Oriental splendor in Manhattan (0)
      • 30th: Ottoman Depopulation (0)
      • 30th: Moab - When is a Nation? (0)
    • October (14)
      • 3rd: Japan - When is a Nation? (0)
      • 3rd: Free speech (0)
      • 4th: Red Dog Howls (1)
      • 4th: Mark Lilla on Nations (0)
      • 4th: Arguing for Catalan Independence (0)
      • 4th: Saroyan's Lament for a Dying People (0)
      • 5th: Horse Meat (0)
      • 10th: What is it with North-African Jews and Nobel Prizes? (3)
      • 10th: Thoughtful Ross Douthat Post on Supersessionism (0)
      • 11th: EU States Most Likely to Secede (0)
      • 12th: The Quranic Accusation that Jews and Christians Falsified Scripture (0)
      • 12th: The Eurocentrism of Post-Colonial Studies (0)
      • 12th: Paul Knitter on Supersessionism in Islam and Christianity (0)
      • 15th: Coptic nationalism (0)
    • November (7)
      • 8th: Biggest house in the village - when immigrants make good (0)
      • 9th: Turkish Supersessionism at MorGabriel (0)
      • 13th: MeasuringWorth.com (0)
      • 14th: Jacob's Sons in the Bishop's Palace (0)
      • 16th: Edward Rothstein on Identity museums (0)
      • 18th: Nathan Englander's Twenty-Seventh Man (0)
      • 28th: The Potemkin Village of Soviet Yiddish Nationalism (0)
    • December (2)
      • 18th: Sixteenth Century Nationalism (0)
      • 25th: Construction of Nationhood, by Adrian Hastings (0)

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