David Motadel
Biographic Data
| ID | 295663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Motadel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Motadel |
| SIGNATURE | MOTADEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2218-618X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Global Monarchy: Royal Encounters in the Age of Empire
Monarchy is one of the oldest truly global social structures. On the eve of the imperial age, most of the world was governed by monarchs. But as the European empires expanded, this order was radically transformed. During the long nineteenth century, most non-European monarchies were conquered by imperial powers. Often, European imperial powers abolished them, imprisoning, killing, or exiling local rulers; in other cases, the imperial powers incor…
Global Social History: Rethinking Class and Social Transformation in the Modern World
The rise of global history has fundamentally reshaped historical scholarship over recent years. Questions about class structures, however, have rarely been specifically addressed by global historians. Scholars of social history, meanwhile, have traditionally studied social stratification within national frameworks. The introduction to this special issue addresses these shortcomings, exploring global social history as a new field of historical inq…
The Political Role of the Historian
Debates about history have never been strictly confined to the world of scholarship. They have also been at the centre of political controversies in society. ‘The problem for professional historians’, Eric Hobsbawm once observed, ‘is that their subject has important social and political functions’. 1 ‘This duality’, he noted, ‘is the core of our subject’. This essay offers some reflections on the political role of historians, exploring the relati…
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II
Over the last few years, scholars have shown a rapidly growing interest in the global history of the Second World War. Going beyond traditional military histories of the “Desert War,” the “Pacific War,” or the “Jungle War” in Southeast Asia, they have begun to look at the impact of the conflict on the civilians in these war zones, the military deployment of millions of colonial soldiers, and the role of anti-imperial movements. At the same time, …
Revolutionary World: Global Upheaval in the Modern Age
Material conditions and ideas in global history
Since the rise of a "scientific" historiography in the nineteenth century, the role of ideas in history versus that of material forces has been a key philosophical problem. Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2019), read as a work of global history, offers a provocative rehearsal of this question. On the one hand, the book is an attempt to provide a narrative historical frame for the hard data of the World Inequality Database. On the other, pa…
Globaliser l'Europe
Globaliser l'EuropeCet essai propose une réflexion sur l'étude historique des liens entre l'Europe moderne et contemporaine et le reste du monde. Il explore les manières dont l'histoire européenne peut être intégrée à l'histoire globale, en considérant l'Europe non seulement comme un moteur, mais aussi comme un produit des transformations mondiales. À partir d'un large aperçu historiographique, l'auteur discute de l'influence du ' tournant global…
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. This book explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. The book compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the…
Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
Nationalist Internationalism in the Modern Age
On the morning of 24 June 2016, the day after the UK EU referendum, right-wing nationalists across Europe (and beyond) were united in their jubilation, hailing the result as a victory of the supremacy of the nation over a crumbling liberal order. From the Front National's party headquarters outside Paris, a triumphant Marine Le Pen announced the beginning of a 'patriotic' international 'movement' that 'can't be stopped'. In the Netherlands, far-r…
Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad, ed. Xavier Bougarel, Raphaëlle Branche and Cloé Drieu
Historians of twentieth-century warfare and military conflict have long studied the histories of soldiers and armies within national frameworks. Yet, in reality, most wars in modern history were fought between multi-national, multi-ethnic and multi-religious armies. Scholars of Europe’s empires have shown an increasing interest in the subject, as reflected, most notably, in works by Myron Echenberg, Gregory Mann and Tarak Barkawi. In particular, …
The Global Authoritarian Moment and the Revolt against Empire
realism,'" Mark Mazower claims, that "deprived the Germans of the chance of exploiting nationalism as a tool of political warfare" in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. 4 Historians of empire have generally concurred.Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper assure us that "Hitler"-for "ideological as well as practical reasons"-did not engage "effectively" in "the colonies of the countries Germany conquered" and "failed to make a syst…
Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire
This chapter examines the global history of Islamic movements in anti-imperial struggles, spanning from West Africa to Southeast Asia. It demonstrates that Islamic movements, ranging from messianic to reformist groups, were at the very centre of the struggles against the European empires across the lands of Islam. It traces the diverse forms of anti-colonial resistance adopted by the various Islamic movements, including violent opposition, which …
Nazi Germany and the Arab World
Some of the most innovative recent research on the Second World War has dealt with the conflict's impact on its global periphery. The war shook large parts of the non-European world, shaping societies and political orders in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. Recent studies have addressed a wide range of questions, from non-European experiences and perceptions of the war, to the political, military, and social history of colonial soldiers…
Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization, trans. Brian McNeil, by Hans G. Kippenberg
Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization, trans. Brian McNeil, by Hans G. Kippenberg." The International History Review, 38(1), pp. 235–236
Islam and the European Empires
At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great political significance, and were quite cautious when it came to matters of the religious life of their Muslim subjects. In the colonies, they regularly employed Islamic religious leaders and insti…
Iran and the Aryan myth
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War
Islam and Nazi Germany's War
With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world
Islam and Germany’s War in the Soviet Borderlands, 1941–5
The article examines Germany’s policy towards Islam in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. At the height of the war, when German troops entered Muslim territories in the Crimea and the Caucasus, officials in Berlin began to see Islam as politically and strategically significant. In both areas, Nazi Germany started to promote a military alliance with the Muslim population against the Soviet Union. The article enquires into the ways in wh…
The ‘Muslim Question’ in Hitler's Balkans
This article examines Germany's efforts to instrumentalize Islam in the Balkans during the Second World War. As German troops became more involved in the region from early 1943 onwards, German officials began to engage with the Muslim population, promoting Germany as the protector of Islam in south-eastern Europe. Focusing on Bosnia, Herzegovina, and the Sandžak of Novi Pazar, the article explores the relations between German authorities and reli…
Deutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen: Eskalation von Gewalt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts
Islam and the European Empires
This essay surveys literature on the engagement of different European empires, including the French, British, Dutch, Russian, and German, with Islam. While the history of Islam and empire has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, most of their studies have been written primarily as contributions to the historiography of a specific empire or a distinct geographic region and rarely refer to research on other imperial powers, even though …
Islam and the European Empires
This essay surveys literature on the engagement of different European empires, including the French, British, Dutch, Russian, and German, with Islam. While the history of Islam and empire has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, most of their studies have been written primarily as contributions to the historiography of a specific empire or a distinct geographic region and rarely refer to research on other imperial powers, even though …
Nationalist Internationalism in the Modern Age
On the morning of 24 June 2016, the day after the UK EU referendum, right-wing nationalists across Europe (and beyond) were united in their jubilation, hailing the result as a victory of the supremacy of the nation over a crumbling liberal order. From the Front National's party headquarters outside Paris, a triumphant Marine Le Pen announced the beginning of a 'patriotic' international 'movement' that 'can't be stopped'. In the Netherlands, far-r…
Global Social History: Rethinking Class and Social Transformation in the Modern World
The rise of global history has fundamentally reshaped historical scholarship over recent years. Questions about class structures, however, have rarely been specifically addressed by global historians. Scholars of social history, meanwhile, have traditionally studied social stratification within national frameworks. The introduction to this special issue addresses these shortcomings, exploring global social history as a new field of historical inq…
Nazi Germany and the Arab World
Some of the most innovative recent research on the Second World War has dealt with the conflict's impact on its global periphery. The war shook large parts of the non-European world, shaping societies and political orders in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. Recent studies have addressed a wide range of questions, from non-European experiences and perceptions of the war, to the political, military, and social history of colonial soldiers…
Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
Around 1900, German commercial advertisers became obsessed with images of the ‘African native’. Highly stylized product illustrations featured black figures with enormous red lips, white eyes and teeth, oversized ears and round heads. They appeared virtually everywhere, on advertisement posters plastered on buildings and trucks, in storefronts, in the pages of newspapers and tabloids, on cigar tins and soap packages. In Advertising Empire, David …
The German Other: Nasir al-Din Shah's Perceptions of Difference and Gender during his Visits to Germany, 1873–89
The article examines the travelogues kept by the Qajar ruler Nasir al-Din Shah during his European tours in 1873, 1878 and 1889. To the monarch, Europe appeared to be an exotic and at times troubling place and he recorded his experiences with delight, criticism and humor. Focusing on his notes on Germany, the article explores Nasir al-Din Shah's encounters with people on the streets and at court, and in particular his perception of the female sex…
Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
Around 1900, German commercial advertisers became obsessed with images of the ‘African native’. Highly stylized product illustrations featured black figures with enormous red lips, white eyes and teeth, oversized ears and round heads. They appeared virtually everywhere, on advertisement posters plastered on buildings and trucks, in storefronts, in the pages of newspapers and tabloids, on cigar tins and soap packages. In Advertising Empire, David …
Qajar Shahs in Imperial Germany
At six o'clock on the evening of 31 May 1873, Shah Nasir al-Din of Persia, fourth king of the Qajar dynasty, and his entourage arrived at Potsdam Station in Berlin, where they were greeted by the German Emperor Wilhelm I, Crown Prince Friedrich, Chancellor Bismarck and Field Marshal Moltke. Welcomed by the cheering of thousands, the shah entered Berlin along Unter den Linden, sitting in an open carriage next to the kaiser. The Persian monarch ret…
Deutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen: Eskalation von Gewalt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts
Islam and the European Empires
This essay surveys literature on the engagement of different European empires, including the French, British, Dutch, Russian, and German, with Islam. While the history of Islam and empire has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, most of their studies have been written primarily as contributions to the historiography of a specific empire or a distinct geographic region and rarely refer to research on other imperial powers, even though …
Islam and Germany’s War in the Soviet Borderlands, 1941–5
The article examines Germany’s policy towards Islam in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. At the height of the war, when German troops entered Muslim territories in the Crimea and the Caucasus, officials in Berlin began to see Islam as politically and strategically significant. In both areas, Nazi Germany started to promote a military alliance with the Muslim population against the Soviet Union. The article enquires into the ways in wh…
The ‘Muslim Question’ in Hitler's Balkans
This article examines Germany's efforts to instrumentalize Islam in the Balkans during the Second World War. As German troops became more involved in the region from early 1943 onwards, German officials began to engage with the Muslim population, promoting Germany as the protector of Islam in south-eastern Europe. Focusing on Bosnia, Herzegovina, and the Sandžak of Novi Pazar, the article explores the relations between German authorities and reli…
Islam and the European Empires
At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great political significance, and were quite cautious when it came to matters of the religious life of their Muslim subjects. In the colonies, they regularly employed Islamic religious leaders and insti…
Iran and the Aryan myth
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War
Islam and Nazi Germany's War
With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world
Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization, trans. Brian McNeil, by Hans G. Kippenberg
Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization, trans. Brian McNeil, by Hans G. Kippenberg." The International History Review, 38(1), pp. 235–236
Nazi Germany and the Arab World
Some of the most innovative recent research on the Second World War has dealt with the conflict's impact on its global periphery. The war shook large parts of the non-European world, shaping societies and political orders in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. Recent studies have addressed a wide range of questions, from non-European experiences and perceptions of the war, to the political, military, and social history of colonial soldiers…
Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire
This chapter examines the global history of Islamic movements in anti-imperial struggles, spanning from West Africa to Southeast Asia. It demonstrates that Islamic movements, ranging from messianic to reformist groups, were at the very centre of the struggles against the European empires across the lands of Islam. It traces the diverse forms of anti-colonial resistance adopted by the various Islamic movements, including violent opposition, which …
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. This book explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. The book compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the…
Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
Nationalist Internationalism in the Modern Age
On the morning of 24 June 2016, the day after the UK EU referendum, right-wing nationalists across Europe (and beyond) were united in their jubilation, hailing the result as a victory of the supremacy of the nation over a crumbling liberal order. From the Front National's party headquarters outside Paris, a triumphant Marine Le Pen announced the beginning of a 'patriotic' international 'movement' that 'can't be stopped'. In the Netherlands, far-r…
Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad, ed. Xavier Bougarel, Raphaëlle Branche and Cloé Drieu
Historians of twentieth-century warfare and military conflict have long studied the histories of soldiers and armies within national frameworks. Yet, in reality, most wars in modern history were fought between multi-national, multi-ethnic and multi-religious armies. Scholars of Europe’s empires have shown an increasing interest in the subject, as reflected, most notably, in works by Myron Echenberg, Gregory Mann and Tarak Barkawi. In particular, …
The Global Authoritarian Moment and the Revolt against Empire
realism,'" Mark Mazower claims, that "deprived the Germans of the chance of exploiting nationalism as a tool of political warfare" in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. 4 Historians of empire have generally concurred.Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper assure us that "Hitler"-for "ideological as well as practical reasons"-did not engage "effectively" in "the colonies of the countries Germany conquered" and "failed to make a syst…
Revolutionary World: Global Upheaval in the Modern Age
Material conditions and ideas in global history
Since the rise of a "scientific" historiography in the nineteenth century, the role of ideas in history versus that of material forces has been a key philosophical problem. Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2019), read as a work of global history, offers a provocative rehearsal of this question. On the one hand, the book is an attempt to provide a narrative historical frame for the hard data of the World Inequality Database. On the other, pa…
Globaliser l'Europe
Globaliser l'EuropeCet essai propose une réflexion sur l'étude historique des liens entre l'Europe moderne et contemporaine et le reste du monde. Il explore les manières dont l'histoire européenne peut être intégrée à l'histoire globale, en considérant l'Europe non seulement comme un moteur, mais aussi comme un produit des transformations mondiales. À partir d'un large aperçu historiographique, l'auteur discute de l'influence du ' tournant global…
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II
Over the last few years, scholars have shown a rapidly growing interest in the global history of the Second World War. Going beyond traditional military histories of the “Desert War,” the “Pacific War,” or the “Jungle War” in Southeast Asia, they have begun to look at the impact of the conflict on the civilians in these war zones, the military deployment of millions of colonial soldiers, and the role of anti-imperial movements. At the same time, …
The Political Role of the Historian
Debates about history have never been strictly confined to the world of scholarship. They have also been at the centre of political controversies in society. ‘The problem for professional historians’, Eric Hobsbawm once observed, ‘is that their subject has important social and political functions’. 1 ‘This duality’, he noted, ‘is the core of our subject’. This essay offers some reflections on the political role of historians, exploring the relati…
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