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Announcing our 202425 First Book Workshop Competition Winner Historicizing a planetary future A discussion with Emma Rothschild on the convergence of climate science and historical thinking in the 1800 Histories project. Review Inspectors for Peace by Elisabeth Roehrlich Plowshares into Swords An Interview with David Ekbladh Privilege Economy and State in Old Regime France An Interview with Lewis Wade What We039re Reading December 2023 Discussing the History of International Orders A Workshop Report Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition An interview with Shahla Hussain Often told as the cleaving of the provinces of Bengal and the Punjab most studies of Partition and its aftermath have not devoted attention to the region of Kashmir. Treated as an exceptional case in official narratives and consequently in histories Kashmir has been largely absent from accounts of Partition and its ramifications for the lives of millions of its inhabitants many of whom faced displacement and violence as the erstwhile princely state was prized apart. Shahla Hussains Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition Cambridge University Press 2021 offers a corrective to this absence by braiding the history of Kashmir into the history of Partition and by introducing a bottomup approach to this study.