Shapira’s Allon Biography Raises Questions
01/10/2008
In a Daily Jewish Forward review of Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, Miriam Shaviv asks why the former "golden boy" of Israel has faded into relative obscurity.
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Fanny Kemble Makes Foreword’s Outstanding List
01/10/2008
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
Schoolcraft Overshadowed No Longer
01/03/2008
The most recent volume of The Michigan Historical Review praises Robert Dale Parker, editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,… READ MORE
Singing the New Song–Now Available
01/02/2008
Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England Katherine Zieman 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth Dec 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4051-1 | $59.95… READ MORE
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa–Now Available
01/02/2008
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe 360 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Terror, Insurgency, and the State–Now in Paperback
12/21/2007
Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O’Leary, and John Tirman, Editors 512 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 30 illus. Paper 2007 |… READ MORE
Race and the Cherokee Nation–Now Available
12/21/2007
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Fay A. Yarbrough 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Peoples of the River Valleys–Now in Paperback
12/21/2007
Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians Amy C. Schutt 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3993-5 | $45.00… READ MORE
Choice Recommends Fanny Kemble
12/21/2007
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life has earned a "highly recommended" rating from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. According to Choice reviewer D. B. Wilmeth, "this scholarly, erudite, and thorough… READ MORE
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone–Now Available
12/20/2007
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka Sandya Hewamanne 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4045-0 |… READ MORE
