New Books in History
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Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tid...
Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy...
64 min
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Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteent...
Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse...
48 min
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Randy E. Barnett, "An Introduction to Constitut...
Want to know under what pretexts a local government can seize your house?
75 min
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Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American ...
For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.
36 min
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David Ambaras, "Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: I...
Ambaras interrogates the spatial and ideological formations of modern Japan in its first seven decades or so as a nation-state and empire, especially vis-à-vis China...
58 min
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Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in M...
McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...
69 min
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Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the ...
Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...
49 min
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Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers...
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
64 min
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Lisa Balabanlilar, "The Emperor Jahangir: Power...
Despite a reign that lasted for over two decades, the Mughal emperor Jahangir has often been regarded as a weak ruler...
62 min
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Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion ...
Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...
53 min
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Sheetal Chhabria, "Making the Modern Slum: The ...
Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...
35 min
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Kwasi Konadu, "In Our Own Way In this Part of t...
Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual...
59 min
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Abram Van Engen, "City on a Hill: A History of ...
Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...
32 min
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Christian Wright, "Carbon County, USA: Miners f...
During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials...
55 min
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Alexander Zevin, "Liberalism at Large: The Worl...
Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...
66 min
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David A. Bateman, "Disenfranchising Democracy: ...
Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?
52 min
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: T...
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature.,.
54 min
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Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Poli...
Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
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Lucia Rubinelli, "Constituent Power: A History"...
48 min
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Laurence Monnais, "The Colonial Life of Pharmac...
Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context...
46 min
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Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, ...
Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life...
68 min
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María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
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Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Ex...
Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...
45 min
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Portugal" (Ro...
Black's book does exactly what it says on the tin...
30 min
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Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
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