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New Books in Intellectual History
Melissa E. Sanchez, “Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition” (NYU Press, 2019)
Melissa E. Sanchez
Queer Faith
Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
NYU Press, 2018

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith September 19, 2019 Jana Byars

Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (NYU Press, 2019) reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of... Read More
Larry E. Morris, “A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Larry E. Morris
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith September 17, 2019 Daniel Stone

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon (Oxford University Press, 2019), by Larry E. Morris, presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus... Read More
Lawrence Glickman, “Free Enterprise: An American History” (Yale UP, 2019)
Lawrence Glickman
Free Enterprise
An American History
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 13, 2019 Dexter Fergie

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it is so central to the idea of the United States that some even labeled Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims free enterprisers. In his new book, Free Enterprise:... Read More
Kate Kirkpatrick, “Becoming Beauvoir: A Life” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Kate Kirkpatrick
Becoming Beauvoir
A Life
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New Books in BiographyNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 10, 2019 Lilian Calles Barger

Kate Kirkpatrick is a lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Culture at King’s College London and author of Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Kirkpatrick has given us a biography that addresses the puzzle and contradictions of the life of the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, drawn from never-before-published diaries and... Read More
Chiara Russo Krauss, “Wundt, Avenarius and Scientific Psychology: A Debate at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Chiara Russo Krauss
Wundt, Avenarius and Scientific Psychology
Debate at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network September 10, 2019 Carrie Figdor

At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul. How did psychology come to define itself as a separate area of inquiry, and how did it come to be a science? In Wundt, Avenarius and Scientific... Read More
Matthew Crow, “Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Matthew Crow
Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection

Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 5, 2019 Derek Litvak

Today I talked to Matthew Crow about his book Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.  Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political... Read More
Anne M. Kornhauser, “Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Anne M. Kornhauser
Debating the American State
Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 5, 2019 Stephen Colbrook

The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This “leviathan” state was championed by the political left, and its continued growth and... Read More