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August 12, 2022
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey
State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic
Sevgi Adak
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Reuben Silverman
The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s …
General History
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Music
August 12, 2022
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Christopher M. Reali
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Emily Ruth Allen
The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul …
General History
August 12, 2022
Disgrace
Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Joanna Bourke
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Jana Byars
Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence--what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (Reaktion, 2022) is the first …
Military History
August 12, 2022
The Lion of Round Top
The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War
Hans G. Myers
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Boris Karpa
Hans G. Myers' book The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War (Casemate, 2022) presents the story of the true …
Early Modern History
August 12, 2022
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Adam Sundberg
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Douglas Bell
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an …
General History
August 12, 2022
Political Enthusiasm
Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments
Andrew Poe
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Miranda Melcher
Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as …
General History
August 12, 2022
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
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Charles Coutinho
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of the Atlantic (Robinson, 2022), Jeremy …
Film
August 12, 2022
History by HBO
Televising the American Past
Rebecca Weeks
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Joel Tscherne
The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at …
African Studies
August 12, 2022
When Soldiers Rebel
Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa
Kristen A. Harkness
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Andrew Miller
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains understudied, especially over the last decade …
Public Policy
August 12, 2022
Single Payer Healthcare Reform
Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement
Lindy S. F. Hern
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Gregory Soden
In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Lindy Hern provides a comprehensive history of the grassroots Movement …
Jewish Studies
August 11, 2022
Power and Progress
Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History
Alexander Green
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Ari Barbalat
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress …
Asian Review of Books
August 11, 2022
Empire of Salons
Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Helen Pfeifer
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Nicholas Gordon
It’s the sixteenth century, and the Ottoman Empire has just defeated the Mamluk Sultanate, conquering Damascus and Cairo, important centers of Arab learning and culture. But how did these two …
Political Science
August 11, 2022
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
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Lilly Goren
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding and connection conducive to dismantling the remains of …
Genocide Studies
August 11, 2022
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones
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Kelly McFall
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's been influential in drawing attention …
British Studies
August 11, 2022
British Rail
A New History
Christian Wolmar
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Miranda Melcher
You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation …
British Studies
August 10, 2022
Built on the Ruins of Empire
British Military Assistance and African Independence
Blake Whitaker
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national …
Film
August 10, 2022
Competing with Idiots
Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
Nick Davis
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Daniel Moran
A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both. One most famous for having …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
August 10, 2022
Heroin
An Illustrated History
Susan C. Boyd
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Jay Shifman
Dr. Susan Boyd is a scholar/activist and Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Victoria. Her research examines a variety of topics related to the history of drug prohibition and …
General History
August 10, 2022
Feminism's Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner
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Michael Vann
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions …
American West
August 10, 2022
Visions of Nature
How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism
Jarrod Hore
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Stephen Hausmann
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According to Dr. Jarrod Hore, a postdoctoral researcher and …
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