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Mark Rice, "Making Machu Picchu: The Politics o...
Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the “lost city” of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu “is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering.”
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Eric Helleiner, "Forgotten Foundations: Interna...
The story of Bretton Woods has been told by countless historians...
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Andrew Roberts, "Churchill: Walking With Destin...
For all of the books written about Winston Churchill, much remains to be said about his extensive life and career...
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Patricia O'Toole, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson...
Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Woodrow Wilson...
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstruct...
The process of colonialism seeks to demean Indigenous intellect and destroy Indigenous literary traditions...
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Hüseyin Yılmaz, "Caliphate Redefined: The Mysti...
In Islamic intellectual history, it is generally assumed that the Ottomans did not contribute much to Islamic thought...
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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, "Transition Economies: ...
In his book he also discusses the aspect of human transition. I started our conversation asking ‘transition towards what?’
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Paola Bertucci, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Scien...
Paola Bertucci's Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France (Yale University Press, 2018) is an innovative new look at the role of artisans in the French Enlightenment.
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, "Lookout Ameri...
One of the major aspects of the end of the Cold War has been the discovery and release of records related to many government activities from the period...
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Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney, "An Unse...
Most people will know that Memphis, Tennessee is where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968...
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Adam Malka, "The Men of Mobtown: Policing Balti...
Criminal justice, policing, and mass incarceration have gained significant political attention recently, and the problems of these systems have drawn increasingly frequent calls for reform from the right and left....
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Laszlo Borhi, "Dealing with Dictators: The Unit...
How does a political regime function? What contributes to a regime’s longevity and subversion?
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Jennifer Altehenger, "Popularizing Laws in the ...
In her new book, historian Jennifer Altehenger, a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London, grapples with the complex issue of how authorities and cultural workers attempted to create effective law propaganda...
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John C. Hajduk, "Music Wars: Money, Politics, a...
In his new book Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960 (Lexington Books, 2018)...
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Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Thomas Cromwell: A Revolu...
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Sara Egge, “Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in t...
While the campaign to win for women the right to vote in America was waged on a national scale, this often obscures the fact that the most of battles took place at the state level, where local perspectives were key.
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Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, “Forging Commu...
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs, practices, and constraints on Indigenous peoples.
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Daniel Siemens, “Stormtroopers: A New History o...
In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at Newcastle University, writes a comprehensive history of the SA,
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Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, “The Human...
The prologue to The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (University of Chicago Press, 2018) begins by provocatively invoking a question American physiologist Walter Cannon first asked in 1926: “Why...
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Michael E. Staub, “The Mismeasure of Minds: Deb...
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America’s schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multi-decade debate over race, class, and IQ. In The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and...
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Ruma Chopra, “Almost Home: Maroons between Slav...
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone (Yale University Press,
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Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tra...
What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that gave us cultural touchstones spawn Nazism? In his new book Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton University Press, 2018), Eric D.
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James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Re...
It wasn’t always this way. From the Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership on natural resource conservation to Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ronald Reagan’s singing of the Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting chemica...
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Pedith Pui Chan, “The Making of a Modern Art Wo...
The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Gouhua in Republican Shanghai (Brill, 2017) investigates the production and consumption of guohua (“national painting”) in Shanghai between 1929 and the outbreak of the Second...
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