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Slavery in World History

Slavery in World History
A Discussion with Jeremy Black
New Books Network, 2020

Arguing HistoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs February 14, 2020 Charles Coutinho

Notwithstanding the fact that slavery is almost as old if not older than human civilization itself, involving almost every country and continent on the face of the planet, the vast majority of scholarly attention tends to be focused on the North American continent and for less than two-hundred years. In... Read More
Alistair Sponsel, “Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Alistair Sponsel
Darwin’s Evolving Identity
Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network February 14, 2020 Michael F. Robinson

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist. His close reading of Darwin’s journals and letters reveals insights about the man that would become known as the father of evolution. Sponsel is the author Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of... Read More
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, “Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy” (The New Press, 2018)
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
The New Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network February 14, 2020 Beth A. English

Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, Professors of History at California State University—Fresno, discuss their co-authored book, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (The New Press, 2018), competing narratives about slavery in the South, and the fraught history of race, memory and memorialization in... Read More
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, “Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018” (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019)
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Dead Silent
Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society February 14, 2020 Nicoletta Marini-Maio

Robin Pickering-Iazzi’s Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 is the first history of its kind in English. An open access ebook, this study literally “unburies” the identities of over two-hundred girls and women who lived in Italy between 1878 and 2018, and... Read More
Shai M. Dromi, “Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Shai M. Dromi
Above the Fray
The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network February 13, 2020 Dave O'Brien

How should we understand humanitarian NGOs? In Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Shai M. Dromi, a lecturer in sociology at Harvard University, uses insights from cultural sociology to reframe the history of the Red Cross. The book... Read More
Rupert Lewis, “Marcus Garvey” (UP of West Indies, 2018)
Rupert Lewis
Marcus Garvey

University Press of the West Indies, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 13, 2020 Kirk Meighoo

Rupert Lewis has written a biography of Marcus Garvey published by the University Press of the West Indies in 2018. His book Marcus Garvey documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the... Read More
Carol Zaleski, “The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings” (FSG, 2016)
Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
The Fellowship
The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society February 13, 2020 Mark Klobas

Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings, it was in part from their companionship that some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature were produced. In their... Read More
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