New Books in Peoples & Places
Annabel Cooper, “Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen” (Otago UP, 2018)
Annabel Cooper
Filming the Colonial Past
The New Zealand Wars on Screen
Otago University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in FilmNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 14, 2018 Jason Schulman

In her new book, Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen (Otago University Press, 2018), Annabel Cooper, an Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Otago, explores how filmmakers have portrayed the New Zealand wars of the 19th century and how those productions... Read More
Patrick B. Mullen, “Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Patrick B. Mullen
Right to the Juke Joint
A Personal History of American Music
University of Illinois Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FolkloreNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in MusicNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books Network December 14, 2018 Rachel Hopkin

On its back cover, Patrick B. Mullen’s Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is aptly described as “part scholar’s musings and part fan’s memoir”. Mullen is professor emeritus of English and folklore at the Ohio State University and across the... Read More
R. David Cox, “The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee” (Eerdmans, 2017)
R. David Cox
The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee

Eerdmans, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 14, 2018 Crawford Gribben

One of the most recent additions to the well-known and highly regarded Eerdmans series, the Library of Religious Biography, is The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee (Eerdmans, 2017), by R. David Cox, a professor of history at Southern Virginia University. Professor Cox’s book presents his perennially controversial subject as... Read More
Jinping Wang, “In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China 1200-1600” (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
Jinping Wang
In the Wake of the Mongols
The Making of a New Social Order in North China 1200-1600
Harvard University Asia Center, 2018

New Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network December 14, 2018 Ed Pulford

On the background of widespread portrayals of China as a monolithic geographical and political entity moving through time, insights into the endlessly contingent, local and contested events which have occurred in this part of East Asia over time are always valuable. This arguably applies all the more the further back... Read More
Brenden W. Rensink, “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands” (Texas A&M UP, 2018)
Brenden W. Rensink
Native but Foreign
Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Texas A&M University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network December 13, 2018 Tim Heise

In his new book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2018), Brenden W. Rensink asks the question “How do national borders affect and react to Native identity?” To answer this question he compares indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in... Read More

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