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New Books in History

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Shannon Gayk joins Jana Byars to discuss her new book. Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom

It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire

During the Second World War, FDR promised thousands of tons of US material to Chiang Kai Shek in ord

The phrase "racial capitalism" was used by Cedric Robinson to describe an economy of wealth accumula

The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimagi

The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism t

To the untrained eye there’s nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige,

In this compelling and informative interview, Carrie N. Baker discusses her newest book, Abortion Pi

Nearly a quarter century after the decade of the 1990s ended, what really mattered in America during

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance,

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Cindy Ermus on her recently published book, The Great

In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russia

In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a go

In 2024, people around the world focus on an American president who calls for the imprisonment of cr

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English

In Cambodian history most people have heard of the great Khmer empire of Angkor, and the radical com

How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by hi

With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal librar

The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (Academic Studies Press, 2024) in Poland offers a com

Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design,