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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 & Letters New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies New Books in Communications New Books in Film New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New 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

R. David Cox
The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee

Eerdmans, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in Christian Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New 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 Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books in World Affairs New 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 Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American West New 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

James R. Rush, “Hamka’s Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia” (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)

James R. Rush
Hamka's Great Story
A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network December 13, 2018 Patrick Jory

From Indonesia’s declaration of independence in 1945 up until today, the relationship between Indonesian nationalism, Islam, and modernity has been a key subject of debate. One of the central figures in this debate was the great writer, journalist, public intellectual – and pious Muslim from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Haji Abdul... Read More