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Intellectual History
February 26, 2019
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Geraldine Heng
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Carl Nellis
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press 2018), Geraldine Heng collects a remarkable array of medieval approaches to race that show the breadth and …
Intellectual History
November 7, 2018
The World Come of Age
An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
Lilian Calles Barger
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Carl Nellis
A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American liberation theologies, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation …
Intellectual History
August 3, 2018
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Irina Dumitrescu
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Carl Nellis
A sharply observed study of the representations of education found in Anglo-Saxon texts, Irina Dumitrescu’s The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge University Press 2018) invites readers to recognize …
Intellectual History
March 15, 2018
Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Carl Nellis
Since it was published in 2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press, 2016) has been many times heralded …
Intellectual History
January 9, 2018
List Cultures
Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed
Liam Cole Young
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Carl Nellis
The list is the origin of culture. At least, that's according to Umberto Eco, whose words open Liam Cole Young's new book, List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to …
Intellectual History
October 19, 2017
Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
John Rieder
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Carl Nellis
A deft and searching exploration of genre theory through science fiction, and science fiction through genre theory, John Rieder's Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (Wesleyan University Press …
Intellectual History
July 6, 2017
Medievalism
A Critical History
David Matthews
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Carl Nellis
A revealing exploration of representative modes of medievalism, Medievalism: A Critical History (Boydell & Brewer; hardcover 2015, paperback 2017), by David Matthews, examines the people, institutions, and moments that have …
Literary Studies
May 26, 2017
The Bittersweet Science
Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra, eds.
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Carl Nellis
"Boxing has always attracted writers because it issues a standing challenge to their powers of description and imagination, and also a warning--really a promise--that no matter how many layers of …
Intellectual History
May 4, 2017
The Age of Charisma
Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940
Jeremy C. Young
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Carl Nellis
In the age of the railroad, social movements, revivals, and campaigns for political office spread like wildfire across the United States. Leaders and their surrogates could go travel faster than …
Intellectual History
March 14, 2017
Apostles of Reason
The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
Molly Worthen
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Carl Nellis
Beginning with a network of reformed figures that orbited around Billy Graham, from J. Howard Pew's money to Carl Henry's passion for cultural esteem, Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason: The …
Intellectual History
February 9, 2017
The Watchman in Pieces
Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso
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Carl Nellis
"Surveillance and literature, as kindred practices, have light to shed on each other." When David Rosen and Aaron Santesso considered the discipline of surveillance studies in the wake of the …
Intellectual History
December 18, 2016
Human Programming
Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom
Scott Selisker
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Carl Nellis
In Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Scott Selisker offers readers a fascinating new history of American anxieties along the borderland between the machine …
Intellectual History
December 14, 2016
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
Gail Ashton
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Carl Nellis
Dilapidated thirteenth-century walls as a playscape for today's children, medieval relics made as fetish objects for twenty-first century enthusiasts, tourism at "the birthplace of King Arthur," Harry Potter's pageantry, Game …
General History
December 2, 2016
Brothers at Arms
Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Larrie Ferreiro
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Carl Nellis
Was the War for American Independence really about American independence? It depends on who you ask. In his new book, Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France …
Intellectual History
October 27, 2016
The Birth of Theory
Andrew Cole
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Carl Nellis
Was Hegel a medieval thinker? In The Birth of Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Andrew Cole puts forward a reexamination of Hegelian dialectics that embeds Hegel in a long …
Intellectual History
September 30, 2016
Empire and Revolution
The Political Life of Edmund Burke
Richard Bourke
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Carl Nellis
Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his history of Edmund Burke's political thought in …
General History
September 21, 2016
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
E.R. Truitt
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Carl Nellis
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Clarke's third law, coined in 1973, expresses the difficulty that people of any era have in reconciling the bounds of current knowledge …
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