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Andrew T. Fede, “Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World” (U Georgia Press, 2017)
Andrew T. Fede
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World
University of Georgia Press, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Ian J. Drake

Andrew T. Fede is a lawyer in private practice in northern New Jersey and an adjunct professor of law at Montclair State University.  His new book Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World (University of Georgia Press, 2017) is a comparative account of... Read More
S. M. Milkis and D. J. Tichenor, “Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor
Rivalry and Reform
Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Heath Brown

Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor have written Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor in the Department of Politics and a senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of... Read More
David A. Nichols, “Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870” (Ohio UP, 2018)
David A. Nichols
Peoples of the Inland Sea
Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870
Ohio University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American West March 18, 2019 Ryan Tripp

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European diseases, technologies, beliefs, and colonists. Yet... Read More
Kellie Carter Jackson, “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence” (U Penn Press, 2019)
Kellie Carter Jackson
Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
University of Pennsylvania 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 & SocietyNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Adam McNeil

What the United States dubs “freedom” is inherently tied to methods of violence. The United States’s abolitionist movement was not free from this connection. This is in spite of one of the best known white abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison, being a pacifist, and many contemporary politicians referencing his method of... Read More
Gregory Dawes, “Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science” (Routledge, 2016)
Gregory Dawes
Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science

Routledge, 2016

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SecularismNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Benjamin Rossi

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both; in this sense, war is always, potentially, just around the corner. In Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science (Routledge, 2016), Gregory Dawes uses the... Read More