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General History
December 2, 2016
After the Wrath of God
AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion
Anthony M. Petro
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Christienna Fryar
Emerging in the 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was not just a public health crisis. It was a moral crisis too, argues Anthony M. Petro in his new book, After the …
British Studies
August 30, 2016
The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade
The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846-1896
Marc-William Palen
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Christienna Fryar
Accounts of late-nineteenth-century US expansionism commonly refer to an open-door empire and an imperialism spurred by belief in free trade. In his new book The "Conspiracy" of Free Trade: The …
British Studies
March 2, 2016
London is the Place for Me
Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race
Kennetta H. Perry
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Christienna Fryar
Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, hundreds of thousands of people from the British Commonwealth migrated the United Kingdom with plans to settle and find work. Kennetta Hammond …
British Studies
February 16, 2016
Britannia's Embrace
Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Caroline Shaw
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Christienna Fryar
Published in October 2015, Caroline Shaw's timely new book, Britannia's Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief (Oxford University Press, 2015), traces the intertwined development of the …
Caribbean Studies
October 20, 2015
The Work of Recognition
Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
Jason McGraw
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Christienna Fryar
In the 1850s, when the majority of the population of Colombia (known then as New Granada) embraced the emancipation of the remaining 17,000 people still enslaved, the lettered elite quickly …
General History
September 23, 2015
Fatal Isolation
The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
Richard C. Keller
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Christienna Fryar
In August 2003, a heat wave in France killed close to 15,000 people, the majority of whom were over 75. Prominent among the dead were a group of victims known …