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Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of...
Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....
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David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
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Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Se...
Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virginia...
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S. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Bi...
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come...
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Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, a...
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis?
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Lindsay Farmer, "Making the Modern Criminal Law...
Lindsay Farmer offers a historical and conceptual analysis of theories of criminalization. The book shows how criminalization is inextricably linked to the making of the modern criminal law...
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Sujit Sivasundaram, "Waves Across the South: A ...
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Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Ch...
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains.,,.
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Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the ...
Julius Margolin was a Polish Jew caught between the twin 1939 invasions of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent the years 1940-1945 in Soviet labor camps...
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Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
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Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Mode...
Tracing the changes and evolution of writings on political counsel during the “monarchy of counsel,” from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War, Joanne Paul examines English thought in its domestic and transnational context...
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Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: ...
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies....
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Ronald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolut...
Suny provides a wealth of detail as to the young Stalin’s life, and he embeds that life story in the broader story of Bolshevism...
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Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Pu...
Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a comprehensive look into the music, zines, films, bands, and punk Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics...
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Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted:...
On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land...
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Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, t...
People did suffer under the Eastern European socialist regimes, the author says, and not only in prison and labour camps, but also juggling careers and family responsibilities, witnessing the gulf between the state’s delusional propaganda and reality...
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Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pear...
This book examines the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries...
72 min
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Jeremy Black, "Other Pasts, Different Presents,...
What if there had been no World War I, or no Russian Revolution? Or if the German Spring Offensive of 1918 had succeeded?
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Julie Gibbings, "Our Time is Now: Race and Mode...
Gibbings offers an ambitious exploration of modernity, history, and time in post-colonial Guatemala..,
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R. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A Histor...
Natural Law in Court (Harvard UP, 2015) serves as a guide to the uses of natural law in the past...
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Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the...
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights...
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John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Percept...
Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,
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K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towar...
"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...
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Chas Smith, "Cocaine and Surfing: A Sordid Hist...
Irreverent, cynical, and surprisingly erudite, Chas Smith tells us time and time again that he hates being a surf journalist and despise the surfing industry....
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