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Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed …
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Blackness As a Universal Claim
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Damani Partridge
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In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University of California Press, 2023), Damani Partridge examines the possibilities …
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September 24, 2023
Defectors
How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World
Erik R. Scott
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Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were told in sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. In contrast …
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The Golden Passport
Global Mobility for Millionaires
Kristin Surak
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September 24, 2023
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War
Aaron Skabelund
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Ran Zwigenberg
In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2022), Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the …
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September 24, 2023
The Secret History of the Mongols
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September 24, 2023
The Future of Ukraine
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September 24, 2023
Good Soldiers Don't Rape
The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence
Megan MacKenzie
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September 23, 2023
The New True Crime
How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence
Diana Rickard
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September 23, 2023
The Other #MeToos
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
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Monuments for Posterity
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Antony Kalashnikov
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Queering the Enlightenment
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Tracy Rutler
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Time and Space in Video Games
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Federico Alvarez Igarzábal
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Baseball
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Steven P. Gietschier
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Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the …
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How to Speak in Spanglish
Mónica Mancillas
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