Diana Muir Appelbaum
Web Site and Writings of Author and Historian Diana Muir Appelbaum
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Defining Nationhood
Museum Reviews
Review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C., and the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.
Books
Reflections in Bullough’s Pond
Reviews
Providence Journal
The Boston Globe
Maine Sunday Telegram
Sustainable Population
The Women’s Reviews of Books
Publishers Weekly
Streamer
ArtForum
Conservation Matters
Cambridge Chronicle
News
The Newton Tab, July 1, 2000
The Boston Globe, December 9, 2001
The Daily News Tribune, December 14, 2001
The Boston Globe, August 20, 2000
Thanksgiving
News
Boston Globe 1990
St. Petersburg Times 2002
The Glorious Fourth
News
Chronicle of Higher Education 2002
Cocoa Ice
Reviews
Kirkus Reviews 1997
Ingram
Giants In The Land
News
Boston Globe 2000
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
Contact
Reviews
Cocoa Ice
“Appelbaum spins a fine story… A tasty treat.”
Kirkus Reviews
“The best tales of long ago tell us much about our own time. This picture book of intertwined lives in the 19th century proves the point beautifully.”
Ingram
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Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
2012
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May
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24th:
Miracle of the Dutch Republic
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29th:
In God's Shadow, by Michael Walzer
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29th:
Abu Darweesh Mosque; a Circassian identity statement in Amman, Jordan
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June
(9)
5th:
Emergency Zionism
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8th:
Turn the Temple Mount into a Museum
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8th:
Daily plebicite in Schleswig Holstein
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8th:
Lebanon restores old synagogue - Why?
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12th:
The Joke's on Jobbik
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15th:
We will kill you, marry your young wives, and inherit your estates. Armenia 1915.
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18th:
The Ottoman Footprint
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29th:
Betar/Battir
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29th:
Hong Kong, Singapore, building which nation?
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July
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1st:
In the 237th year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA
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Forgotton hero of the American Revolution
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Syrian Kurdistan
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4th:
The Last Time Ankara and Damascus had a Stare-down
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Eilat to Haifa Railroad
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4th:
Salafis against historic preservation
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6th:
Demographic Engineering in Tibet
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8th:
Armenian Genocide Now Undeniable
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18th:
Israel Museum
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18th:
Language of Difference - without derogation
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20th:
Time for Population Separation in Syria
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23rd:
Tinghir-Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah: The Rediscovery of a Judeo-Berber Culture
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27th:
Peoples drift apart, Singapore and the Chinese, North and South Korea,
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August
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1st:
First, Build an Art School
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1st:
Crude Turkish Blood Libel
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7th:
Population Engineering in Singapore
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7th:
Obama, because Hawaii is unique
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10th:
Islamic Supersessionism - Parsing the Qur'an
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30th:
Reading Yoram Hazony's Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
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31st:
How Gökçeada Became Turkish
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September
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10th:
The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, Yoram Hazony
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21st:
Oriental splendor in Manhattan
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30th:
Ottoman Depopulation
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30th:
Moab - When is a Nation?
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October
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3rd:
Japan - When is a Nation?
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3rd:
Free speech
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4th:
Red Dog Howls
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Mark Lilla on Nations
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Arguing for Catalan Independence
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Saroyan's Lament for a Dying People
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5th:
Horse Meat
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10th:
What is it with North-African Jews and Nobel Prizes?
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10th:
Thoughtful Ross Douthat Post on Supersessionism
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11th:
EU States Most Likely to Secede
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12th:
The Quranic Accusation that Jews and Christians Falsified Scripture
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The Eurocentrism of Post-Colonial Studies
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Paul Knitter on Supersessionism in Islam and Christianity
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15th:
Coptic nationalism
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November
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8th:
Biggest house in the village - when immigrants make good
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9th:
Turkish Supersessionism at MorGabriel
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MeasuringWorth.com
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Jacob's Sons in the Bishop's Palace
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Edward Rothstein on Identity museums
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18th:
Nathan Englander's Twenty-Seventh Man
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28th:
The Potemkin Village of Soviet Yiddish Nationalism
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December
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Sixteenth Century Nationalism
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25th:
Construction of Nationhood, by Adrian Hastings
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2013
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January
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30th:
La Convivencia NOT a Golden Age for publishing; but Ethnic Cleansing kills the book trade
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Publishing and Protestantism
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February
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Timothy Rosendale on sixteenth century English nationalism
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25th:
Jewish Identity and Egyptian Revival Architecture
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March
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5th:
Paint it Habsburg yellow
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14th:
Himyar kingdom and Bowersock's Throne of Adulis
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Nazis and the Greek Revival in Munich
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April
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16th:
Misappropriating Patriots' Day
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16th:
Before Religion
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21st:
The Old Moorish Synagogue in One of England's Densest Muslim Neighborhoods
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22nd:
Nationalism in Heian Japan
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May
(1)
21st:
Liah Greenfeld is wrong on "Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism"
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June
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5th:
Ethnic change, language shift, and Belize
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September
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3rd:
Cathedral of the Viking Ship, and the National Museums of Norway
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Henry Kissinger's father's Stockholm synagogue
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Sweden, Israel, and why national history museums fear history
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Ophel Medallion
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October
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3rd:
A war slave attempts to keep the Sabbath
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24th:
Pasi Inhalainen's Protestant Nations Redefined
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25th:
The sixteenth century rediscovery of the Bible, and the advent of the modern nation state
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31st:
Who said God could only choose one people?
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31st:
Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states
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November
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13th:
Ethnic replacement in the Arab Conquest
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24th:
Fifteenth century nationalism
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24th:
The Bay Psalm Book: America's founding text
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26th:
Kinship, the state and violence
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2014
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January
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2nd:
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
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6th:
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Israel Rank & Roy Horniman
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19th:
The Hebrew Bible remixed
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March
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23rd:
Peter Burke's Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe goes beyond the evidence
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23rd:
"Nation-states are an almost necessary basis for democracy."
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May
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8th:
Æthelstan, King of the All Britain
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Gezellig, Gezelligheid and other Stuff Dutch People Like
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June
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20th:
Best Review I've read yet of Nicholas Wade's A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: Genes, Race, and Human History
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