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Carolyn J. Dean, “The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Carolyn J. Dean
The Moral Witness
Trials and Testimony after Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Natasha Margulis

Carolyn J. Dean’s The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States.  She portrays the witness in non-traditional genocide court trials as the moral compass.  In fact, many... Read More
Alexandra M. Nickliss, “Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics” (Bison Books, 2018)
Alexandra M. Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
A Life of Power and Politics
Bison Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Mark Klobas

Though not as well known today as her husband George or her son William Randolph, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was a woman who rose beyond the gender norms of her age to exert considerable influence both within her community and nationally. In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics... Read More
David Green, “The Hundred Years War: A People’s History” (Yale UP, 2014)
David Green
The Hundred Years War
A People’s History
Yale University Press, 2014

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Al Zambone

The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War. Depending on how you count even the most conservative estimate of its beginnings... Read More
Eleonor Gilburd, “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Eleonor Gilburd
To See Paris and Die
The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Jennifer Eremeeva

Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West.  A nation weary of war and terror welcomed with relief the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev and its focus on peaceful cooperation with foreign powers.  A year after Stalin’s death, author and commentator Ilya Ehrenburg... Read More
Shennette Garrett-Scott, “Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Shennette Garrett-Scott
Banking on Freedom
Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Daniel Peris

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott‘s new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an... Read More
Joseph Hill, “Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Joseph Hill
Wrapping Authority
Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Shobhana Xavier

Joseph Hill‘s new book Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal (University of Toronto Press, 2018), is an ethnographic study of women Sufi leaders in the Taalibe Baay or Fayda branch of the Tijaniyya. Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas... Read More
Stacy Fahrenthold, “Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Stacy Fahrenthold
Between the Ottomans and the Entente
The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Joshua Donovan

In her debut book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (Oxford University Press, 2019), Stacy Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early... Read More