We are living in a renaissance of historical writing. There's always been a good market for popularly written histories, but that market consisted of books on presidents and wars written.
I don't read much, or really any, political theory at this point in my life. It's an important field but I have little background in it and the start-up cost.
Robert La Follette I tend to choose books for review here rather randomly, often picking something off the new book shelf at my university's library. So when I saw Michael.
Karen Piper has written a powerful book about how water privatization threatens people around the world. Connecting the subject to the world's colonial past, she demonstrates how a handful of.
Ellen Spears' new environmental history of the chemical industry in Anniston, Alabama is a worthy addition to the literature on environmental justice. She tells the story of Anniston, a city.
The racial and cultural politics of northern New Mexico are tremendously complicated and fraught with conflict. This is primarily for two interconnected reasons. First, three major racial groups all compete.
Eric Thomas Chester’s new book on the rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I provides several key new insights about this.
In Enacting the Corporation, the anthropologist Marina Welker seeks to humanize corporate behavior by examining how the Denver-based mining conglomerate Newmont attempts to enact the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility.
