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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
What's in a Name?
Review of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty , by Kirsten McKenzie (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010)
Mars: A Planet Too Far?
… to argue that research on the moon would be the most meaningful extension of Kennedy’s vision and far more …
Albania’s First Republic
… in Albania. One detrimental factor that continued to plague Albanian politics was the lingering presence of …
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Review of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America , by Ira Katznelson (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005), preface, appendix, index, 238 pp.
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
Review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout (New York: Viking, 2006)
… by a certainty that infuses nationalism with spiritual meaning. He demonstrates the need for critical voices during …
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) , by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press)
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Review of A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps, by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014)
… power disparity. As a result, these problems continue to plague Britain and the world. We hope passengers appreciate …
From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?
… on the other hand, 1948 is referred to as " Naqba ," meaning outright catastrophe, the dispossession of some …
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
… from intemperance to crime and prostitution on this “plague of strangers.” Epidemic disease became one more …
What to Do About the Money?
Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Modern China and Its Institutions
Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… and uncritical truisms of Chinese history, which sometimes plagues other historical works on the country. Deng Xiaoping …
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
Review of Heretics and Believers: A Short History of the English Reformation, by Peter Marshall New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017
