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Paula C. Austin, “Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life” (NYU Press, 2019)
Paula C. Austin
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life
NYU Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 1, 2020 Hettie V. Williams

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2019) by Paula C. Austin, an Assistant Professor of history at Boston University, is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought... Read More
Jatin Dua, “Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean” (U California Press, 2019)
Jatin Dua
Captured at Sea
Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network April 1, 2020 Jeffrey Bristol

Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Somalia, the UK and other parts of Africa and the Middle East, Jatin Dua describes a tale that is not... Read More
Kevin O’Connor, “The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga” (NIUP, 2019)
Kevin O'Connor
The House of Hemp and Butter
A History of Old Riga
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network April 1, 2020 Jennifer Eremeeva

Latvia’s elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. Strategically located on the Eastern Baltic coast at the mouth of the River Daugava, Riga was founded in the early 13th century as a trading hub, a military outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, and a base for Roman Catholic... Read More
Kimberly A. Hamlin, “Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener” (Norton, 2020)
Kimberly A. Hamlin
Free Thinker
Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 1, 2020 Lilly J. Goren

Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian and associate professor in American studies at Miami University of Ohio. Her book Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener (W. W. Norton, 2020) offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader. Gardner began life as Alice... Read More
Brian A. Hatcher, “Hinduism Before Reform” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Brian A. Hatcher
Hinduism Before Reform

Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 1, 2020 Raj Balkaran

Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the “reforms” instigated by “progressive” colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy? Brian A. Hatcher‘s new book Hinduism Before Reform (Harvard University Press, 2020) challenges this prevalent notion. Aimed at sidestepping the obfuscating binary of “progressive” vs “traditional”, this book examines in tandem two... Read More
Mark Haber, “Reinhardt’s Garden” (Coffee House Press, 2019)
Mark Haber
Reinhardt's Garden

Coffee House Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network April 1, 2020 GP Gottlieb

Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who Jacov Reinhardt believes knows the key to understanding melancholy. Carried in circles through the jungle on a stretcher, the narrator recalls how Reinhardt fueled himself with copious amounts of cocaine, built... Read More
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, “The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen
The First Political Order
How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology April 1, 2020 Beth Windisch

Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen‘s new book The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance... Read More

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