Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Tam Ngo and Justine B. Quijada, eds., "Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia" (Palgrave, 2015) by Todd Weir

Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal Asad, there is a growing literature tha…

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Paul R. Josephson, "Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Paul R. Josephson‘s new book explores everyday technologies – fish sticks, sports bras, sugar, bananas, aluminum cans, potatoes, fructose, and more – as technological syst…

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Timothy Snyder, "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" (Tim Duggan Books, 2015) by Kelly McFall

It’s rare when an academic historian breaks through and becomes a central part of the contemporary cultural conversation. Timothy Snyder does just this with his book Black Earth: The H…

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Erica Fox Brindley, "Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Erica Fox Brindley‘s new book is a powerful study of the history of conceptions of ethnicity in early China that focuses on the Hua-xia and the peoples associated with its southern fro…

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Jessica Martucci, "Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America" (U of Chicago Press, 2015) by Carla Nappi

Jessica Martucci‘s fascinating new book traces the emergence, rise, and continued practice of breastfeeding in America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Back to the Breast: …

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Michelle Chase, "Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962″ (UNC Press, 2015) by Christy Thornton

This episode features Michelle Chase, who joins us to discuss her fascinating new book, Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962 (University of North Ca…

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Renata Keller, "Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2015) by Christy Thornton

When former Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas traveled to Havana in 1959 to celebrate the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he stood shoulder to shoulder with Fidel Castro in front of a cro…

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Julie Des Jardins, "Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Bruce Berglund

In anticipation of Super Bowl 50, Sports Illustrated and WIRED magazines teamed up to speculate about the state of football fifty years from now, at the time of Super Bowl 100. Of course…

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Samuel Moyn, "Christian Human Rights" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Lilian Calles Barger

Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and History at Harvard University. In Christian Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Moyn provides a historical intervention in our underst…

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Cindy R. Lobel, "Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York" (U of Chicago Press, 2014) by Keith Duhamel

New York City’s growth, from colonial outpost to the center of the gastronomic world is artfully crafted by Cindy R. Lobel, Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College and the CUN…

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