book reviews
H.H. Shugart, a systems ecologist at the University of Virginia, has written a book using the Book of Job to frame both environmental change over the long period of human.
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
The borderlands historian Andrew Graybill's latest book is an extremely readable saga into the great complexities of what it has meant to be mixed-race in the American West. The Red.
Now that one book is in the can and the other is under review, I have time to read again. So I will review the recent books I get through.
I reviewed Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell's China's Search for Security for H-Net: Nevertheless, Nathan and Scobell argue that, despite its growing power, China’s international position remains almost uniquely precarious..
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation's food, particularly one as laden.
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington, a former abolitionist preacher, led a military expedition against an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado. The.
At the intersection of our hyperactive 24-hour news cycle media culture and the long-term effects of environmental inequality lies what the post-colonial literary scholar Rob Nixon calls "slow violence." Nixon.