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Political Science
August 11, 2022
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
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Lilly Goren
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding and connection conducive to dismantling the remains of …
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Sociology
August 11, 2022
Generally Speaking
An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology
Eviatar Zerubavel
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Rituparna Patgiri
Defying the conventional split between “theory” and “methodology,” Eviatar Zerubavel's Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology (Oxford UP, 2020) introduces a yet unarticulated and thus far never systematised method of …
Law
August 10, 2022
Who Decides?
States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation
Jeffrey S. Sutton
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William Domnarski
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on …
Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
Music
August 9, 2022
Sampling Politics
Music and the Geocultural
M. I. Franklin
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Gummo Clare
Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice. It was popularized with the rise of Rap and Hip-Hop, as well as ambient music scenes, but it has a history stretching …
Film
August 8, 2022
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream
Grant Wiedenfeld
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Annie Berke
Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs a surprising current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and represent the …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
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Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
August 4, 2022
Nimitz at War
Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Craig L. Symonds
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Mark Klobas
Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate …
Indian Religions
August 2, 2022
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
Wendy Doniger
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Ujaan Ghosh
Wendy Doniger's After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata (Oxford UP, 2022) is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about …
Japanese Studies
August 1, 2022
Eavesdropping on the Emperor
Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan
Peter Kornicki
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Jingyi Li
When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 1, 2022
The Italian Empire and the Great War
Vanda Wilcox
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Roberto Mazza
The Italian Empire and the Great War (Oxford UP, 2021) by Vanda Wilcox brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for …
Philosophy
August 1, 2022
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence
Cécile Fabre
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Robert Talisse
On its face, spying and counter-intelligence activities seem morally suspect. They tend to involve sneaking, deceiving, and manipulating, as well as various forms of betrayal, treachery, and disloyalty. Yet intelligence …
General History
July 28, 2022
The Pursuit of Europe
A History
Anthony Pagden
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Charles Coutinho
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the …
General History
July 26, 2022
Russia Resurrected
Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
Kathryn E. Stoner
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Charles Coutinho
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China …
General History
July 21, 2022
The Rise of English
Global Politics and the Power of Language
Rosemary Salomone
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Miranda Melcher
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its …
General History
July 13, 2022
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy
Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
Michael Mandelbaum
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Caleb Zakarin
The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies on the northeastern edge of …
Environmental Studies
July 12, 2022
Scars on the Land
An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South
David Silkenat
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Brian Hamilton
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By …
Religion
July 12, 2022
Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture
Travis W. Proctor
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (Oxford UP, 2022) analyze how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body …
Music
July 11, 2022
Freedom Girls
Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop
Alexandra Apolloni
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Kristen Turner
Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop (Oxford University Press, 2021) by Alexandra M. Apolloni is about how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined—and sometimes …
Philosophy
July 11, 2022
Perspectival Realism
Michela Massimi
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Carrie Figdor
For many philosophers, the fact that scientists take different perspectives on the world is an obstacle to being a realist about the world. In Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022) …
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