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Cristina A. Bejan, "Intellectuals and Fascism i...
Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania's intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years....
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Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: So...
Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....
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Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: ...
Mandler charts the tension between demands for democracy and the defence of meritocracy within both elite and public discourses, showing how this tension plays out in Britain’s complex and fragmented education system...
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Mark Gilbert, "European Integration: A Politica...
Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about European integration...
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Michael D. Barr, "Singapore: A Modern History" ...
Barr synthesizes a story that complicates this progress narrative and critiques the foundational timeline of the state-sponsored history known as the ‘Singapore Story'...
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Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space ...
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world?
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Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native American...
Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency...
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Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightene...
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”?
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Jon D. Schaff, "Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship...
Rather than smashing societal structures willy-nilly and wielding presidential power like a bludgeon, Schaff’s Lincoln was far more deferential to Congress than many of us realized...
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Tatiana Zhurzhenko, "War and Memory in Russia, ...
This book analyzes the shaping of the commemorative space in the three post-Soviet countries that used to share commemorative practices and memorial space in general...
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Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: T...
In this rhetorical history, Johnson contextualizes and analyzes some of Turner’s key speeches and writings delivered between 1896 and 1915 amid the rise of Jim Crow segregation and the first Great Migration...
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Ned Bertz, "Diaspora and Nation in the Indian O...
The vibrant Swahili coast port city of Dar es Salaam—literally, the “Haven of Peace”—hosts a population reflecting a legacy of long relations with the Arabian Peninsula and a diaspora emanating in waves from the Indian subcontinent...
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Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment:...
The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...
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M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas ...
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements...
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Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot...
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the grand-son of Woodrow Wilson’s senatorial antagonist, did...,
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Benjamin F. Armstrong, "Small Boats and Daring ...
Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history...
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Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier ...
Paosolini, a filmmaker who created art in a variety of media, has something approaching a cult following...
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Saladin Ambar, "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Raci...
Ambar offers the first in-depth analysis of this important speech, illuminating its context and consequences.
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Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women ...
Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...
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Christopher J. Lee, "Making a World After Empir...
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world...
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James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian W...
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote....
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Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US...
Slater takes stock of the conflict from its origins to the present day and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong...
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Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colon...
Yahaya offers a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community's ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia...
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Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Aka...
Eubanks examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000)....
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Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The I...
For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...
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