Klarman Hall

Mostafa Minawi

I am interested in the history of experience at the end of the Age of Empire. In short, experiential history of global events. I study the global history of imperialism seen primarily through the lens of Ottoman-, Turkish-, and Arabic-language archival records and the everyday lived experience of people living in Southeast Europe, Northeast Africa, and West Asia. I am interested in uncovering how the region's people experienced the often violent transition from Ottoman imperial rule to Western colonial rule, and on to the age of the nation-state.

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Klarman Hall

Tamara Loos

Email: History_Chair@cornell.eduTamara Loos's most recent book, Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur, narrates the story of Prince PrisdangChumsai (1852–1935). He served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited.

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