Forthcoming, edited with David Sneath
The history of Mongolia. Global Oriental, 2008?.
A collection of key articles by both Western and Mongolian scholars, as well as translations of source documents from the Mongolian.
Truth, history and politics in Mongolia: the memory of heroes. RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Click on the title to read Chapter One in PDF format, or click the cover below to order it from Amazon.
Editor,
Twentieth century Mongolia, by Baabar. White Horse Press, 1999.
This one is also available (much more cheaply) in Mongolia as 'The History of Mongolia,' which shows up every so often with a new cover.
Forthcoming (2008) 'Prelude to violence: show trials and state power in 1930s Mongolia' in American Ethnologist, 35(2).
Forthcoming (2008) 'Neither truth nor reconciliation: political violence and the surfeit of memory in post-socialist Mongolia' in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
2006 'Exemplars and heroes: the individual and the moral in the Mongolian political imagination' States of mind: Power, place and the subject in Inner Asia, David Sneath, ed. Pp. 63-90. Bellingham, WA: Western Washington University.
2005 'The case of the disappearing Chinggis Khaan: dismembering the remembering' in Ab Imperio, 4/2005: 147-173.
2003 'Editor's Introduction' Inner Asia. 5(2).
2002 'Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia' in Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy, Kenneth Christie and Robert Cribb, eds. Pp. 155-168. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
2001 'Reconstructing Mongolian nationalism: the view ten years on' in Mongolian political and economic development during the past ten years and future prospect, pp. 329-365. Taipei: Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission.
2000 'The role of the Mongols in Eurasian history: a reassessment' in The Role of Migration in the History of the Eurasian Steppe : Sedentary Civilization Vs. 'Barbarian' and Nomad, Andrew Bell, ed. Pp. 251-274. New York: St. Martin's Press.
1999 'Blame, guilt and avoidance: the struggle to control the past in post-socialist Mongolia'
History and Memory
11(2):94-114.
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1998 'Creating national identity in socialist Mongolia'
Central Asian Survey. 17(1):35-49.
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1997 'One hundred years of history: changing paradigms in Mongolian historiography' Inner Asia: Occasional Papers. 2(1):48-68.
1993 'Collective memory and Chingunjav's rebellion' History and Anthropology 6(2-3):235-259.
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A note on digitized versions, and acknowledgementsPlease be aware that the PDF versions of the files I am offering here are (for the most part) scans I have myself made from offprints of the published articles. As a result, the scans aren't always picture perfect. More often than not, this is due to the original offprint I was working from. All the files, nonetheless, are perfectly fine in terms of legibility, etc.
Permission to offer Chapter One of Truth, history and politics in Mongolia and "Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia" here courtesy of Taylor and Francis,
the publishers.
Permission to offer 'Creating national identity...' and "Collective Memory and Chingunjav's Rebellion" here courtesy of www.tandf.co.uk/journals.
Permission to offer 'Blame, guilt and avoidance' here courtesy of Indiana University Press.