Douglas Bevington's 2009 book explores how grassroots environmental organizations reinvigorated the environmental movement through their focus on biodiversity and its aggressive litigation strategy over political alliances and mass mailing funding drives. Painting the big national environmental organizations as sluggish at best by the 1980s, he...
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I find the charge of presentism one of the most annoying things someone can say to a historian. Every historian is deeply affected by the times in which they live..
Joshua Rubenstein provides a nice, quick overview to the life of Leon Trotsky that I would recommend for anyone interested in learning a bit more about this enigmatic figure of.
Nancy Langston's superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American regulatory agencies, how cultural conceptions about gender have shaped our response to and use of...
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a.
Conspirata is the second of Robert Harris' trilogy of novels on the career of Marcus Tullius Cicero, as narrated by Cicero's slave and clerk Tiro. Conspirata begins on the eve.
While working on my Statecraft and the State syllabus, I happened upon this Amazon review of Margaret Levi's Of Rule and Revenue:"As specialization and division of labor increase, there is greater demand on the state to provide collective goods where once there were solely private...
I just finished reading Karen Greenberg's excellent The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, a book that is (for obvious reasons) relevant to the hyperventilating spasms currently being mistaken.
Speaking of conservative histories, I'd be remiss in not mentioning A Patriot's History of the United States, a jaw-droppingly terrible book that would only appeal to readers who aren't literate.
This review of Gusher Of Lies makes me wonder whether the bad arguments are the book's or the reviewer's. For example, Bryce's attacks on ethanol seem very convincing, but in what way do they challenge "cherished green beliefs?" This is djw's department, but it seems...
Over the break I finished Vincent O'Hara's U.S. Navy Against the Axis. I strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Pacific War, and in surface naval combat.