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Adrian J. Boas
The Crusader World

Routledge, 2015

New Books in Archaeology New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel March 25, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

The Crusader World (Routledge, 2015), edited by Adrian J. Boas, is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies, an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In this volume Adrian Boas draws together an impressive range of academics,... Read More

Steven Seegel, “Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2018)

Steven Seegel
Map Men
Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Geography New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 24, 2020 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Steven Seegel’s Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men. The book focuses primarily on four countries: Germany, Hungary,... Read More

Nicholas R. Jones, “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain” (Penn State UP, 2019)

Nicholas R. Jones
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Penn State University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society March 20, 2020 Elizabeth Spragins

Nicholas R. Jones’s book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, 2019), analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, when performing habla de negros—how Africanized Castilian was commonly referred to—was... Read More

Jessie Labov, “Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation” (Central European UP, 2019)

Jessie Labov
Transatlantic Central Europe
Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation
Central European University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Geography New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 20, 2020 Steven Seegel

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term “Central Europe” carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries―all involved... Read More

Áine O’Healy, “Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame” (Indiana UP, 2019)

Áine O'Healy
Migrant Anxieties
Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame
Indiana University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in European Studies New Books in Film New Books in Italian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 20, 2020 Giancarlo Lombardi

In her recently published Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (Indiana University Press, 2019), Áine O’Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.... Read More

Karima Moyer-Nocchi
The Eternal Table
A Cultural History of Food in Rome
Rowman and Littlefield, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Italian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 19, 2020 Molly Taylor-Poleskey

Karima Moyer-Nocchi is a professor of modern languages at the University of Siena and a lecturer for the Master in Culinary Studies program at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Her first book, Chewing the Fat – An Oral History of Italian Food from Fascism to Dolce Vita (Medea, 2015)... Read More

Christopher J. Lee, “Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa” (Duke UP, 2014)

Christopher J. Lee
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Duke University Press, 2014

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 19, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher J. Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. By carefully reading fragmented correspondence, colonial reports, periodicals and oral testimonies, the author... Read More