New Books in History
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Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in ...
In her book she describes the development and decline of cuisines throughout world history over 20,000 years...
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Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality...
Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...
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Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
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Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imag...
Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...
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Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy...
Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...
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Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: Fals...
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...
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Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology a...
Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...
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Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López...
Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...
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Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United N...
Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”
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Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rura...
Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...
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Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder...
Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...
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Catherine Clark, "Paris and the Cliché of Histo...
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religi...
Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...
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Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Mission...
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Un...
Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...
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Jon K. Lauck, "The Lost Region: Toward a Reviva...
We discuss why Midwesterners are diffident about their history, and why they both hope that Warren Buffet is listening to this podcast...
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Nianshen Song, "Making Borders in Modern East A...
Song examines a tumultuous period in the history of this vital northeast Asian border, showing how it took shape before and during the era of Japanese empire...
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Co...
Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
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Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped...
"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...
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Elena Albarrán, "Seen and Heard in Mexico: Chil...
Albarran explores the changing politics of childhood during the period 1920-1940, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution...
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Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Str...
Who has the right to have rights?
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aer...
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, ...
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Spain" (Robin...
A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...
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