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New Books in History

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Total: 949

For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world reg

A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public

There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentie

How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information

The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in

From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute ar

What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is i

Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and e

Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood (Pengu

From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and ci

In scholarly and popular discourse, popular sovereignty and self-determination are typically conceiv

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2022) proposes the exist

Konrad Bercovici's The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years With the Legends Who Lunch (SUNY Press, 2024)

In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international no

Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherent

In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies,

Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University

How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad.Blue Coll

In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I tried to send several letters to her Chinese counterpart