New Books in History
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John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" ...
Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...
54 min
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Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
51 min
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Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: ...
Hahamovitch discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers...
39 min
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Stephen R. Taaffe, "Washington’s Revolutionary ...
Taaffe describes the roles Washington's commanders played and their contributions to the war effort...
41 min
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C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Rail...
Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...
49 min
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Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Fai...
Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.
54 min
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Andrew Roberts, "Leadership in War: Lessons Fro...
This outstanding contribution identifies significant new themes in its collective biography of some of those individuals who, for good or ill, have done most to shape the modern world...
30 min
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Caroline Weber, “Proust’s Duchess” (Knopf, 2019)
Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...
69 min
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, "In a Pure Muslim Land: S...
Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....
46 min
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Nosheen Ali, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule a...
Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...
40 min
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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U...
Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...
55 min
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Roland Elliot Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet An...
Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..
44 min
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Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Emp...
The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...
54 min
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What Should We Think of the British Empire?
The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...
46 min
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Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Frin...
Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...
66 min
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Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservat...
Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...
41 min
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Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prospe...
Yellen provides a transnational exploration of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious, confused, and much maligned attempt to create a new bloc order in East and Southeast Asia during World War II...
74 min
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Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New Histor...
Hämäläinen provides a comprehensive history of Lakota migration, expansion, resistance, survival, and resilience...
35 min
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The...
Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...
58 min
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David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative...
The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...
60 min
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Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women A...
Haberland discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race and globalization in the southern apparel industry from the 1930s to today...
43 min
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Li...
In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...
75 min
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Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scanda...
With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th century...
69 min
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Charles Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible: Free to R...
Halperin’s Ivan IV emerges as a ruler at once less—and more—mysterious than in previous treatments of this subject...
59 min
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Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Easte...
Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...
55 min