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Thomas Borstelmann, “Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Thomas Borstelmann
Just Like Us
The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology August 7, 2020 Dexter Fergie

The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent. The United States, it is commonly said, is a nation of immigrants; today, it’s the most demographically diverse great power. But on the other side of that spectrum have been anxiety about and hatred for the foreign. And there’s no shortage... Read More
José Alamillo, “Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
José Alamillo
Deportes
The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Rutgers University Press, 2020

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sports August 7, 2020 Tiffany Jasmin González

In Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Professor José Alamillo, a specialist in Chicana/o Studies, Labor, and Sports history, examines the powerful way Mexican Americans have used sports to build transnational networks for personal and community empowerment across the United States and Mexico before... Read More
Costas Lapavitsas, “The Left Case Against the EU” (Polity, 2018)
Costas Lapavitsas
The Left Case Against the EU

Polity, 2018

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public Policy August 7, 2020 Daniel Lucas

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left... Read More
Richard Breitman, “The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies”(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
Richard Breitman
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Oxford Academic/USHMM, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in World Affairs August 7, 2020 Kelly McFall

The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is turning twenty-five.  One of the first academic journals focused on the study of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies, it has been one of a few journals that led the field in new directions. So it seemed appropriate to mark the moment by talking with... Read More
John C. McManus, “Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Dutton Caliber, 2019)
John C. McManus
Fire and Fortitude
The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Dutton Caliber, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs August 6, 2020 Mark Klobas

For most Americans, the war the United States waged in the Pacific in the Second World War was one fought primarily by the Navy and the Marine Corps. As John C. McManus demonstrates in Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Dutton Caliber), however, this obscures... Read More
David Tavárez, “Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America” (U Colorado Press, 2017)
David Tavárez
Words & Worlds Turned Around
Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America
University of Colorado Press, 2017

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith August 6, 2020 Krzysztof Odyniec

Professor David Tavárez’s edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America (University of Colorado Press, 2017), is a collection of eleven essays from historians and anthropologists grappling with the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several... Read More
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace” (All Point Books, 2020)
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
The War of Return
How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
All Points Books, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books NetworkVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel August 6, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no “right of return.” In 1948, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the first Arab-Israeli... Read More
Joshua Nall, “News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Joshua Nall
News from Mars
Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 6, 2020 Mikey McGovern

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hearing an awful lot about the fraught relationship between science and media. In his book, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), historian of science Joshua Nall shows us that a... Read More
J. Browning and T. Silver, “An Environmental History of the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2020)
J. Browning and T. Silver
An Environmental History of the Civil War

University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Co-AuthoredNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 6, 2020 Brian Hamilton

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans’ relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war... Read More

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