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Ghosh, Arunabh - Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History (Article)

July 20, 2017

Arunabh Ghosh (2017). Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History. The Journal of Asian Studies, 76(3), 697-727. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817000456 Abstract China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border...

Hankins, James - Reforming Elites the Confucian Way (Article)

July 01, 2017

American Affairs 1.2 (Summer 2017) - Link to Article James Hankins Professor of History Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical...

Blair, Ann - The 2016 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: Humanism and Printing in the Work of Conrad Gessner (Article)

May 01, 2017

Ann M. Blair - Renaissance Quarterly, 70:1 (2017), pp. 1-43. Link to Full Text Abstract I discuss how printing affected the practice of scholarship by examining the working methods of Conrad Gessner (1516–65), a prolific humanist, bibliographer, and...

Lewis, Mary Dewhurst - Legacies of French Slave-Ownership, or the Long Decolonization of Saint-Domingue (article)

April 27, 2017

Mary Dewhurst Lewis. History Workshop Journal, Volume 83, Issue 1, 1 April 2017, Pages 151–175, Published: April 27, 2017. Link to Article Abstract After insurgent slaves in Saint-Domingue proclaimed the colony’s independence from France in 1804, France...

Armitage, David - Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

February 17, 2017

David Armitage, Knopf, 2017. Publisher's Link ABOUT CIVIL WARS We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn’t, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern...

Ulrich, Laurel - A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

January 10, 2017

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Penguin Random House. January 10, 2017. Publisher's Link A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by...

Plokhy, Serhii - The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies)

January 09, 2017

Serhii Plokhy (Editor). Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, January 9, 2017 Link Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine...

McCormick, Michael - Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond (Book Chapter 13)

December 21, 2016

McCormick, M. (2016) Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond, in On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death (eds J. Bodel and W. Scheidel), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/9781119162544.ch13 Link to Book Summary...

Kloppenberg, James T. - The Worlds of American Intellectual History

December 13, 2016

Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O'Brien, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. Oxford University Press. December 13, 2016 Publisher's Link The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is...

Plokhy, Serhii - The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

December 06, 2016

Serhii Plokhy. Basic Books, December 6, 2016 Link In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of...

Gordon, Peter E. - Adorno and Existence

November 01, 2016

Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University Press. November, 2016. Publisher's Link From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of...

Johnson, Walter - To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice (Article)

October 26, 2016

Walter Johnson. Boston Review, A Political and Literary Forum. 2016. Link to Article Walter Johnson Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African American Studies I have written a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana...

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