Browsing HIS Faculty Publications by Title
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Book review: National parks and the woman's voice: A history - Kaufman,PW
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Book review: Pop History, vol 1, Concept and Methods
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 2, Contemporary Historical Case Studies 1958-1988
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Public values, private lands: Farmland preservation policy, 1933-1985 - Lehman,T
(Environmental History, 1996-07-01)Review of the book: Public Values, Private Lands:Farmland Preservation Policy,1933-1985. By Tim Lehman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xii + 239 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95, paper ... -
Book review: Religious bodies politic: rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014-07)In the twenty-first century, Buddhism is one of the older established-by-law religions of the Russian Republic. In the eighteenth century, Yellow Hat, Mahayana Buddhism was brought by Mongol Lamas from Tibet through ... -
Book Review: Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall – By Jonathan Haslam
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-06-07) -
Book review: Russia's own orient: the politics of identity and oriental studies in the late imperial and early Soviet periods
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09)Having previously written extensively on the creation of early twentieth-century Russian identity, Vera Tolz has tackled an important issue in her recent research: the development of regional identity in late Imperial ... -
Book review: Siberia: a history of the people
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-04)This volume joins a growing literature on the history of ethnography in Russia and the Soviet Union. The collection includes essays by scholars from German, Russian, American, Swiss, British,and Austrian institutions. ... -
Book review: Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-10)Review of the book: Watrous, Stephen D., ed. John Ledyard’s Journey through Russia and Siberia. 1787– 1788. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xiv + 293 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-299-04224-0. -
Book review: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
(Oxford University Press, 2018-06-01)Mehrsa Baradaran has produced an important, sobering assessment of historic and contemporary African American banks. Although The Color of Money focuses on black financial institutions, the book’s scope is much larger than ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ... -
Book review: The quest for forbidden lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his followers on inner Asian tracks
(Wiley, 2019-04)Andreyev, Alexandre, Mikhail Baskhanov, and Tatiana Yusupova. The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks. Eurasian Studies Library, Vol. 10. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 392 + xviii ... -
Book Review: The store in the hood: a century of ethnic business and conflict
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Steven J. Gold's The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict provides a panoramic discussion and critique of the literature related to the historic relationship between ethnic enterprises and their customers. -
Book review: Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
(Southern Historical Association, 2017-11)Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman is not a biography of the famous Founder, nor does it pretend to be. Rather, it offers five critical essays covering significant ... -
Book review: William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812
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Book review: Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
(Western History Association, 2013-03)Book review: Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. x + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, ... -
Chapter 10 -- Punk Authenticity: Difference across the Iron Curtain
(Berghahn Books, 2019)Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive "authenticity" that could help activists to understand fundamental truths ... -
Chapter 4 -- In order to form a more perfect worker: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and reform in Post-Ludlow Southern Colorado
(University of Colorado Press, 2014)The tumultuous events of the winter and early spring of 1913–14 transformed the coalfields and company towns of southern Colorado and marked a new episode in relations between labor and management. In the aftermath of the ... -
Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-09-18)Commercial conflict resolution in the medieval Mediterranean has been treated by a number of scholars in recent years, notably through the use of documents from the Cairo Geniza and the archives of the Italian port of ... -
Crosstown traffic: punk rock, space and the porosity of the Berlin wall in the 1980s
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)This paper argues that crosstown traffic in the East and West German punk subculture was an essential aspect of how popular music helped to challenge the political legitimacy of the East German government. West German punks ...