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Armitage, David - Oceanic Histories

Editors: David Armitage, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Publisher's Link David Armitage Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor...

Hankins, James - The intimate Michelangelo (Article)

The New Criterion 36 (December 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...

Smail, Daniel - Pattern in History (Article)

Daniel Lord Smail, "Pattern in History," KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 1, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 155-169. Link to text Daniel Lord Smail Department Chair Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History Daniel Lord Smail is professor of History at...

Chaplin, Joyce E. - Asking the Wolf (Article)

By Joyce E. Chaplin - Link to Article | PDF You can read Professor Chaplin’s article “ Can the Nonhuman Speak?: Breaking the Chain of Being in the Anthropocene” in this quarter’s edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas . Joyce E. Chaplin James...

Jasanoff, Maya - The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Random House. November 7, 2017. Publisher's Link ABOUT THE DAWN WATCH “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le CarréA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph...

Hinton, Elizabeth K. - From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

Elizabeth Hinton. 2017. Published by Harvard University Press. Publisher's Link Summary: In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the...