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Why Sati Was Abolished: The Battle Between Colonial Law and Living Tradition
The British abolition of sati in India in 1829 remains one of the most debated moments in colonial legal history. It was not simply a p...
The History of Sati in Indian Culture: From Ancient Ritual to Colonial Abolition
The history of sati in Indian culture is a story of extraordinary complexity, one that spans multiple centuries, engages the deepest qu...
Sati and Cultural Conflict: The Ancient Practice at the Heart of Modern Debate
Few subjects in the history of cultural conflict between Western law and indigenous tradition are as complex, contested, and morally se...
Themes in Bruce Westrate’s Altar of Ashes: Multiculturalism, Law, and National Identity
A novel can operate on many levels at once. It can tell a compelling story, stage moral conflict, and still function as a serious intel...
Historical Accuracy in Bruce Westrate’s Work: The Scholar Behind the Story
There is a meaningful distinction between a novelist who researches history for storytelling purposes and a historian whose entire inte...
Bruce Westrate’s Political Storytelling: Putting Multiculturalism in the Dock
Political fiction is difficult to write well. When it is too direct, it becomes polemic. When it is detached, it becomes irrelevant. Th...
The Inspiration Behind Altar of Ashes: How Bruce Westrate Came to Write His Most Daring Work
Every novel has a starting point, but not every starting point is easy to identify. For Bruce Westrate, the inspiration behind Altar of...
Who Is Bruce Westrate? Meet the Historical Fiction Author Behind Altar of Ashes
There are writers who come to fiction having spent their lives in the literary world — workshop graduates, MFA holders, reviewers...
Another Confederate Soldier Falls
I was born in 1952, during the presidency of Harry Truman. Nine years later, this country began its centennial commemoration of the Civ...
Bruce Westrate. The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916–1920. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1992. Pp. xvi, 240. $35.00.
152 Albion partly how to find the money, at a moment when fiscal questions were becoming a matter of bitter controversy within their ra...