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Echoes of Very Distant Wars

10/12/2006

Echoes of Very Distant Wars, an essay by Ann M. Little, Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University and author of Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial… READ MORE

CLIO Reviews Colonizing Nature

10/10/2006

A review of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 appears in CLIO, a Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Volume 35:3. Reviewer Janet… READ MORE

Eichmann’s Reappearance

A recent Human Rights & Human Welfare review of Harry Mulisch’s Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichman: An Eyewitness Account, translated by Robert Malcom, compares Mulisch’s portrait of… READ MORE

Old Roles in New Books

10/09/2006

Cooking for Your Man, Cooking for Mr. Right, and Saucepans & the Single Girl sound like titles you might find at a used book table of a flea market. Yet… READ MORE

Now Available–Civic Engagement

10/06/2006

Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City John Louis Recchiuti 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3957-1 | $59.95… READ MORE

Now Available–Unhuman Culture

Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3956-3 | $34.95 | £23.00 Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and… READ MORE

Lustick on The Brian Lehrer Show

09/22/2006

WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer will interview Ian. S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, on Monday,  9/25 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Listeners can call in comments and… READ MORE