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August 9, 2022
The Literacy Myth
Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century
Harvey J. Graff
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Nathan Moore
Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative …
General History
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Interviews with historians about their new books.
Environmental Studies
August 9, 2022
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Redefining the Universe Through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging
Lindsay Starkey
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Aspen Brown
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question within a framework of gravity and geologic deep-time, Lindsay Starkey …
Medicine
August 9, 2022
Building Schools, Making Doctors
Architecture and the Modern American Physician
Katherine L. Carroll
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Rachel Pagones
In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 189 …
East Asian Studies
August 9, 2022
Opportunity in Crisis
Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China
Steven B. Miles
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Huiying Chen
Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China (Harvard UP, 2021) explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
August 9, 2022
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
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Nick Cheesman
Anastasia Shesterinina begins Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) with an account of Georgian troops crossing into eastern Abkhazia, in the Southern Caucasus …
Film
August 8, 2022
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream
Grant Wiedenfeld
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Annie Berke
Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and represent the …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
August 8, 2022
Sonorous Desert
What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us
Kim Haines-Eitzen
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Mark Klobas
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God …
African American Studies
August 8, 2022
Riding Jane Crow
African American Women on the American Railroad
Miriam Thaggert
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Deidre Tyler
Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black …
Jewish Studies
August 8, 2022
The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism
A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity
Jason A. Staples
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Michael Morales
How did the concept of Israel impact early Jewish apocalyptic hopes of restoration? How diverse was Israelite identity in antiquity? Tune in as we talk with Jason A. Staples about …
Diplomatic History
August 8, 2022
China's European Headquarters
Switzerland and China During the Cold War
Ariane Knüsel
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and …
French Studies
August 8, 2022
Toxique
Enquête sur les essais nucléaires français en Polynésie
Sébastien Philippe and Tomas Statius
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Roxanne Panchasi
What happens when you bring together an important collection of previously secret archival documents dealing with France's nuclear detonations in the Pacific from 1966 to 1996, a nuclear scientist, and …
Popular Culture
August 8, 2022
A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse
A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and Ceos
Tara Nurin
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Rebekah Buchanan
Tara Nurin explores women in all aspects of the brewing industry in A Women's Place is in the Brewhouse (Chicago Review Press, 2021). Women have brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Last Witches of England
A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
John Callow
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Miranda Melcher
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and …
American Studies
August 5, 2022
Living the Dream
The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Daniel T. Fleming
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James West
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (UNC Press, 2022) tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle …
General History
August 5, 2022
Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975
Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia
Nicholas Ferns
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Bernard Keo
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of the focus lies on the …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France
The Sins of Silence
Itay Lotem
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Michael Vann
In The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Itay Lotem explores the remembering of empire in Britain and France. By comparing these two former …
Military History
August 5, 2022
The Castle
A History
John Goodall
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Miranda Melcher
In The Castle: A History (Yale University Press, 2022) Dr. John Goodall presents a vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day …
Japanese Studies
August 5, 2022
Middlemen of Modernity
Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan
Christopher Craig
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Ran Zwigenberg
Christopher Craig’s Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2021) is a thoroughly research and engaging study of the role of local elites …
Recall This Book
August 4, 2022
Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Dana Stevens
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Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Dana Stevens joins Elizabeth and John to discuss Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Her fantastic new book serves as occasion …
Asian Review of Books
August 4, 2022
Shrimp to Whale
South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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Nicholas Gordon
If there’s a country that “punches above its weight”, it’s South Korea. It’s home to some of the world’s largest and most important companies, and the source of pop culture …
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