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Victoria Lamont, “Westerns: A Women’s History” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)

Victoria Lamont
Westerns
A Women’s History
University of Nebraska Press, 2016

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Film New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American West New Books Network October 19, 2018 Stephen Hausmann

Westerns are having a bit of a moment in the early twenty-first century. Westworld was recently nominated for eight Emmys, the hit show Deadwood is slated for a return to television in the next few years, and in 2015 Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight grossed over $150 million. Victoria Lamont’s... Read More

Michael G. Hanchard, “The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracies” (Princeton UP, 2018)

Michael G. Hanchard
The Spectre of Race
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracies
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 19, 2018 Lilly Goren

Michael G. Hanchard’s new book The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracies (Princeton University Press, 2018) is a rich and complex examination of the question of discrimination in general, and racial discrimination specifically, within the study of comparative politics as a discipline, but more broadly how this particular issue, discrimination—of... Read More

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” (U California Press, 2017)

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

University of California Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture October 19, 2018 Nathan Bierma

Jack Benny was one of the first crossover stars in broadcast comedy, rising from the vaudeville circuit to star in radio, film, and television. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley chronicles Benny’s career in her bookJack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy (University of California Press, 2017). The book recently received... Read More

Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Gill Bennett
The Zinoviev Letter
The Conspiracy that Never Dies
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in British Studies New Books in History New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books in World Affairs October 18, 2018 Charles Coutinho

The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still resonates nearly one-hundred years after it was written. Almost certainly a forgery, the so-called Zinoviev Letter, had no original and has never been traced. Notwithstanding, the Letter... Read More

Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)

Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds.
The Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Amsterdam University Press, 2017

New Books in Central Asian Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New Books Network October 18, 2018 Ed Pulford

China’s growing presence in all of our worlds today is felt most keenly by those living directly on the country’s borders. They, together with the Chinese people who also inhabit the borderlands, are parties to a dazzling array of of China-driven transformations unfolding on a vast scale in economics, politics,... Read More