New Books in Intellectual History
Kellie Carter Jackson, “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence” (U Penn Press, 2019)
Kellie Carter Jackson
Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Adam McNeil

What the United States dubs “freedom” is inherently tied to methods of violence. The United States’s abolitionist movement was not free from this connection. This is in spite of one of the best known white abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison, being a pacifist, and many contemporary politicians referencing his method of... Read More
Gregory Dawes, “Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science” (Routledge, 2016)
Gregory Dawes
Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science

Routledge, 2016

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SecularismNew Books Network March 18, 2019 Benjamin Rossi

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both; in this sense, war is always, potentially, just around the corner. In Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science (Routledge, 2016), Gregory Dawes uses the... Read More
Andrew Sobanet, “Generation Stalin:  French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality” (Indiana UP, 2018)
Andrew Sobanet
Generation Stalin
French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network March 14, 2019 Beth Mauldin

In his 1924 biography of Mahatma Gandhi, writer Romain Rolland embraced the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence and decried the “dictators of Moscow” and the “idolatrous ideology of the Revolution.”  Seven years later, in a startling reversal, Rolland expressed his support for the USSR and confidence in Soviet leaders:  “The builders... Read More
Prakash Shah, “Western Foundations of the Caste System” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Prakash Shah
Western Foundations of the Caste System

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network March 13, 2019 Raj Balkaran

The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it? Join me as I speak with Dr. Prakash Shah (Reader in Culture and Law at the Queen Mary University of London, UK) about his co-edited work, Western Foundations of the Caste System (Palgrave... Read More
Richard Drake, “Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Richard Drake
Charles Austin Beard
The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism
Cornell University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society March 12, 2019 Mark Klobas

During the first half of the 20th century the American historian Charles Austin Beard enjoyed both professional success and a national prominence that suffered with his outspoken opposition to the direction of foreign policy under Franklin Roosevelt. In Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism... Read More

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