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In Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks display
Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ
At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Manchester U
In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighti
Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laun
Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not
In Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land (Yale University Press, 2024), Dr
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the stor
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer b
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at
Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s Univers
In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and en
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more t
Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a R
The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) comp
This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of thei
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformit
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in
