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E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, “Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Best Possible School” (Routledge, 2018)
Elizabeth Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss
Freud/Tiffany
Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Best Possible School
Routledge, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology July 19, 2019 Tracy Morgan

When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us? I have a snapshot image in my mind of a woman, almost nondescript, decidedly meek, standing usually near her father, Sigmund Freud.  Her posture, bad from years spent stooping towards him, reflects not that of a woman, with her... Read More
Benjamin Meiches, “The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Benjamin Meiches
The Politics of Annihilation
A Genealogy of Genocide
University of Minnesota Press, 2019

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Jeff Bachman

In The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Benjamin Meiches takes a novel approach to the study of genocide by analyzing the ways in which ideas, concepts, and understandings about what genocide is and how it is to be prevented have become entrenched politically and intellectually.... Read More
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, “Reading Lacan’s Écrits” (Routledge, 2018)
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, eds.
Reading Lacan’s Écrits

Routledge, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network July 15, 2019 Jordan Osserman

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching. Notoriously difficult to read, the editors of the book we’re discussing today describe the Écrits as “an unwieldy, conglomerate ‘urtext’ … not a book at all … but ‘the waste’... Read More
David Varel, “The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
David Varel
The Lost Black Scholar
Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 12, 2019 Alex Golub

Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south,  challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago. And yet despite these contributions Davis’s work is little read today. The Lost... Read More
Seán Moore, “Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Seán Moore
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries
British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society July 11, 2019 Ryan Tripp

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 (Oxford University Press, 2019) bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans’ profits... Read More
Jonathan Gienapp, “The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jonathan Gienapp
The Second Creation
Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 10, 2019 Derek Litvak

In his book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Harvard University Press, 2018), Jonathan Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document. Looking at the Constitution’s creation, Gienapp makes a compelling case for why we should reconceptualize just what this... Read More
Robert Louis Wilken, “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom” (Yale UP, 2019)
Robert Louis Wilken
Liberty in the Things of God
The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion July 10, 2019 Ian J. Drake

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist... Read More