You’re Invited:   "An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane's breathtaking analysis of the  making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where the very layers of  earth's riches are at its center."  —Ann Laura Stoler, author of Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Along the  Archival Grain  How the disenchantment of empire led … Continue reading The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization with Mohamed Amer Meziane