New Books in Intellectual History
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2901
Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing ...
Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document...
60 min
2902
Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural Hi...
Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...
78 min
2903
Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: ...
Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...
64 min
2904
Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revea...
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen...
50 min
2905
Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexualit...
The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...
77 min
2906
Bhakti Shringarpure, "Cold War Assemblages: Dec...
Shringarpure integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold War and decolonization and the post-colonial experience...
43 min
2907
Paul J. Croce, "Young William James Thinking" (...
James’s mature thinking as a radical empiricist was formed through his experiences and intellectual curiosity as a young man...
61 min
2908
Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princ...
"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.
57 min
2909
Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Cat...
Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...
59 min
2910
Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its ...
Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...
56 min
2911
David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
2912
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
2913
Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Op...
Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...
54 min
2914
Craig Keener, "Galatians: A Commentary" (Baker ...
Keener's commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians offers a wealth of fresh insights...
50 min
2915
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
35 min
2916
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min
2917
Terence Keel, "Divine Variations: How Christian...
With trenchant analyses of Christian intellectual history and the founding figures of ethnology, Keel documents an infrastructure of thought – about universalism, the supercession of knowledge, creation, and human dispersion – that shaped and still shapes the science of race...
51 min
2918
Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
2919
Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Af...
Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...
27 min
2920
Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The R...
Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...
136 min
2921
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas...
Marino follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who not only championed feminism for the continent but also contributed to defining the meaning of international human rights...
51 min
2922
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and th...
Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...
33 min
2923
Thomas Dodman, "What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire...
Dodman explores the history of nostalgia from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century...
59 min
2924
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Em...
Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an anachronism imposed by more recent generations...
45 min
2925
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of...
Francesca Trivellato draws upon the economic, cultural, intellectual, and business history of the period to trace the origin of this myth and what its usage in early modern Europe reveals about contemporary views of both commerce and Judaism...
58 min