American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction

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The American South: A Very Short Introduction

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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction

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Empire: A Very Short Introduction

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Racism: A Very Short Introduction

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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

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American History: A Very Short Introduction

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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction

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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

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History: A Very Short Introduction

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Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

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Refugees: A Very Short Introduction

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The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction

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Politics: A Very Short Introduction

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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

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Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction: 2nd Edition

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Socialism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

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British Politics: A Very Short Introduction

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Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

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Religion: A Very Short Introduction

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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction

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Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

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Dynasty: A Very Short Introduction

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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

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Demography: A Very Short Introduction

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American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction

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George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction

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Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction

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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition)

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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

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Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

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Behold a Pale Horse

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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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Own It All: How to Stop Waiting for Change and Start Creating It. Because Your Life Belongs to You.

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Parable of the Sower

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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The Hate U Give

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The Road

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Radiolab: Journey Through The Human Body

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Name of the Wind

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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The Overstory

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The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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The Lonely Dad Conversations

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Chantelle Gray, "Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2022): An interview with Chantelle Gray

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Anthropology, Philosophy and Symmetrisation: Philippe Descola, one of Anthropology's most influential figures, invites us to go beyond the traditional boundaries of nature and culture and redefine our understanding of humanity's relationship with the world around us.

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Philosophy of language and mind: Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?

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HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration: An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.

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The Romantics: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.

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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture" (U Toronto Press, 2018): Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture" (U Toronto Press, 2018): Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World" (UNC Press 2020): The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World" (UNC Press 2020): The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

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J. Samaine Lockwood, “Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism” (UNC Press, 2015): J. Samaine Lockwood, Associate Professor in the English Department at George Mason University, specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and gender and sexuality studies. In an hour-long conversation,

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Gurminder K Bhambra on Postcolonial Social Science: “I grew up in this country,” says Gurminder K Bhambra, , “and [yet] I always thought I was an immigrant. School told me I was an immigrant; the media told me I was immigrant; everything around me was that I was immigrant. When the Brexit debates...

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Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" (Oxford UP, 2019): Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

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Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023): An interview with Sara Marcus

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Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023): An interview with Sara Marcus

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Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019): Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...

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Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024): An interview with Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster

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Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024): An interview with Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster

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Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster eds., "Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World" (Cornell UP, 2024): An interview with Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster

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Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memory" (Indiana UP, 2016): The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of both the past and the current century. And like many popular events it is filled with mis-understandings and mis-interpretations...

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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Autumn Womack

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Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021): An interview with Philip Tsang

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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Autumn Womack

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Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Mark Christian Thompson

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Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022): An interview with Harvey J. Kaye

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Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020): An interview with Leigh T. I. Penman

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Carina L. Johnson, "Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017" (Berghahn, 2019): An interview with Carina L. Johnson

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Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017): Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of ...

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Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity" (UP of Florida, 2018): As scholars and readers, we often view literary history in rigid, simplistic terms. We imagine that nineteenth-century aesthetic and thematic preoccupations withered away as 1899 became 1900, only to be replaced immediately by a new literature of the twentieth century...

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Andrew Curran, “The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011): We’ve dealt with the question of how racial categories and conceptions evolve on New Books in History before, most notably in our interview with Nell Irving Painter. She told us about the history of “Whiteness.