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Mark T. Calhoun, “General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army” (UP of Kansas, 2018)
Mark T. Calhoun
General Lesley J. McNair
Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army
University Press of Kansas, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Bob Wintermute

Even now, eighty years after its beginning in Europe, the Second World War continues to exert tremendous cultural and social influence on American historical writing. Perhaps one of the best testaments to this phenomenon is the increased interest in biographies of the war’s primary and secondary army commanders. Remarkably there... Read More
William Kelso, “Jamestown: The Truth Revealed” (U Virginia Press, 2017)
William Kelso
Jamestown
The Truth Revealed
University of Virginia Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 18, 2019 0813939933

In Jamestown: The Truth Revealed (University of Virginia Press, 2017; paperback, 2018), William Kelso, Emeritus Head Archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, takes us literally to the soil where the 1607 Jamestown colony began, unearthing footprints of a series of structures, beginning with the James Fort, to reveal fascinating evidence of the... Read More
Rodrigo Zeidan, “Economics of Global Business” (MIT Press, 2018)
Rodrigo Zeidan
Economics of Global Business

MIT Press, 2018

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

I spoke with Professor Rodrigo Zeidan of New York University, Shanghai. He has just published Economics of Global Business (MIT Press, 2018), a great book with innovative real-world macroeconomic analyses of timely policy issues, with case studies and examples from more than fifty countries. The book is particularly suitable for use as an... Read More
Volker Berghahn, “Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Volker Berghahn
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer
From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Ryan Stackhouse

What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal? How did they navigate the Third Reich as “internal emigrants”? How did the emerging Cold War shape new tensions with their government and publishers? Volker Berghahn examines the lives and careers of three media giants with his latest book... Read More
Clarence Taylor, “Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City” (NYU Press, 2018)
Clarence Taylor
Fight the Power
African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
NYU Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Beth Harpaz

In his most new book Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City (NYU Press, 2018), Clarence Taylor, dean of the history of the civil rights movement in New York, looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the... Read More

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