Laura Robson (historian)

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Laura Robson is a historian and professor at Penn State. Her work focuses on the modern history of the Middle East. [1]

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  2. ↑ Sherrard, Brooke (2012). "Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine. By Laura Robson. Jamal and Rania Daniel Series in Contemporary History, Politics, Culture, and Religion of the Levant. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xii + 229 pp. $55.00 cloth". Church History. 81 (4): 1023–1025. doi:10.1017/S0009640712002363. S2CID   154820261.
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  11. ↑ Makhdoumian, Helen (2023). "Armenian Studies in Conversation with Critical Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies: An Invitation". Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies: 1–26. doi:10.1163/26670038-12342790. ISSN   2667-0038. S2CID   258173836.
  12. ↑ Schayegh, Cyrus (2019). "Laura Robson. States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East". The American Historical Review. 124 (4): 1555–1557. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz261.
  13. ↑ Ahram, Ariel I. (February 2018). "Laura Robson, States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2017). Pp. 244. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520292154". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1017/S0020743817001040. S2CID   165339471.
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  15. ↑ Dube, Pankhuree (2021). "Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. 400. $30.00 (paper)". Journal of British Studies. 60 (2): 486–487. doi:10.1017/jbr.2020.220. S2CID   234842628.
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