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New Books in History

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Total: 949

Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new

Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple questio

What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religiou

Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the

Unlike a flood or fire, a the Farming Crisis of the 1980s did not have a set beginning of ending. Ra

Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Speci

Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist'

The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance:

Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony

The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer trea

Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petroza

The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and sev

School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evi

One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the jus

When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurge

Martha Rampton, Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Corn

Kaitlin Sidorsky’s new book, All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Offi

In The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), An

Is there much to say about historical ties between two countries that are 8000 kilometres apart from

A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the n