November 2007
2 posts
New Books 11/27/07
D21.3 .U56 2006—Unmaking the West : “what-if” scenarios that rewrite world history / Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned D804.G3 S35 2006—Hitler’s African victims : the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940 / Raffael Sche DD244 .G63 2007—Tales from Spandau : Nazi criminals and the Cold War / Norman J.W. Goda. DS793.G67...
New books 11/7/07
CB353 .N46 2001—Daily life in the Middle Ages / by Paul B. Newman. DS134.64 .A25 2007—The zookeeper’s wife / Diane Ackerman. DS146.G4 V6513 2006—Germans, Jews, and antisemites : trials in emancipation / Shulamit Volkov. DS215 .A385 2007—Contesting the Saudi state : Islamic voices from a new generation / Madawi Al-Rasheed. DS706...
October 2007
1 post
BL313.C28 1993—The hero with a thousand faces / Joseph Campbell. BL782 .A45 1994—The gods and goddesses of Olympus / written and illustrated by Aliki. CT25 .I58 1998—Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker … [et al.] ; edited with an intr D421 .B496 2006—A short history of the 20th century / Geoffrey Blainey....
September 2007
10 posts
D804.3 .P3776 2006—Open wounds : the crisis of Jewish thought in the aftermath of Auschwitz / David Patterson. DS145.S273 J83 2006—Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish question : anti-antisemitism and the politics of the French intellec DS59.K86 N38 2005—The Kurds and the state : evolving national identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran / Denise Natali. ...
F106 .H23 2006—A handbook to Appalachia : an introduction to the region / edited by Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust F1224 .M49 2007—Mexican soundings : essays in honour of David A. Brading / Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young. F128.9.S75 M36 2001—Mambo montage : the Latinization of New York / [edited by] Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene Dávila. F129.W85...
DS195.5 .A385 2007—The knock at the door : a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide / Margaret Ajemian A E78 .N7 S87 2005—Adirondack : of Indians and mountains, 1535-1838 / Stephen B. Sulavik. E78.N78 J57 2006—Art of the Northwest coast / Aldona Jonaitis. E813 .F74 1972—The Truman Doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism; :...
CT25 .I58 1998—Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir / Russell Baker … [et al.] ; edited with an intr D208 .S57 2006—Europe and the Americas : state formation, capitalism and civilizations in Atlantic modernity / by J D810 .P6 W4 2005—Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States,...
August 2007
6 posts
CT9971.M38 K73 1997—Into the wild / Jon Krakauer. DS609.9 .L44 2006—The Straits Chinese house : domestic life and traditions / Peter Lee & Jennifer Chen. DS79.76 .O634 2006—Operation homecoming : Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the words of U.S. troops and their G1541.S1 L3 2007—An atlas and survey of Latin American history /...
July 2007
17 posts
D767.25.H6 L33 2006—Hiroshima and Nagasaki : fire from the sky / by Andrew Langley. D767.92 .F57 2006—Pearl Harbor : day of infamy / by Stephanie Fitzgerald. D769.8.A6 B84 2007—The Japanese American internment : civil liberties denied / by Michael Burgan. DS135.S7 J49 1997—The Jews of Spain and the expulsion of 1492 / edited by Moshe...
E743 .K55 2007—Killed cartoons : casualties from the war on free expression / edited by David Wallis. E813 .F47 2006—Harry S. Truman and the Cold War revisionists / Robert H. Ferrell. F128.9.M5 S64 2006—Mexican New York : transnational lives of new immigrants / Robert Courtney Smith. F129.W85 S5 2006—Woodstock : history and hearsay /...
BL803 .R58 2007—Religion in the Roman Empire / James B. Rives. BV3417 .B76 2007—Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey. BX1735 .S63 2006—The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614 : an anthology of sources / edited and translated by Lu Ann Homza BX1766 .S59 2006—Gothic arches, Latin crosses :...
June 2007
4 posts
E18.82 .E44 2006—Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 / J.H. Elliott. E183.8.V4 L36 2006—Living with Hugo : U.S. policy toward Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela / Richard Lapper. E184.A1 D37 2005—Destination America [videorecording] : [the people and cultures that created a nation] / a series by E185.86...
D1056.2.M87 S56 2006—Breeding Bin Ladens : America, Islam, and the future of Europe / Zachary Shore. D1065.U5 C42 2006—Changing identities and evolving values : is there still a transatlantic community? / edited by Esth D743.23 .M45 2006—We’ll always have the movies : American cinema during World War II / Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. D757...
May 2007
4 posts
D217 .R37 2007—Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America / E175.85 .L64 2005—Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen. E169.12 .B73 2006—As others see us : the causes and consequences of foreign perceptions of America / Stephen Brooks. E176.1...