History
April 06, 2010
After the Tigers
Sri Lanka is now open for business. The civil war that tore apart the nation is officially over. But Adele Barker journeyed there before the calm sett
March 31, 2010
American Movements
The Making of African America is macrobiotic history—high-minded, unsynthetic, and unrefined—and a noble effort to place this migratory experience alo
March 24, 2010
Family Emergency
Miranda Carter helpfully supplies some helpful family trees at an early point in her engaging and accessible study. The genealogical links between her
March 22, 2010
Landscape and Memory
The most powerful passages of Savage’s fascinating history of monuments in the nation’s capital document the transition of this lost nineteenth-centur
March 08, 2010
Heart of Darkness
In the spring of 1899, a thin, bespectacled French army colonel named Arsene Klobb began making his way eastward from a colonial outpost in Mali. He w
February 24, 2010
The Archaeologist as Minotaur
Gere’s stimulating study repeatedly reminds us that archeology can be not only a recovery of the past, not only a reflection of the present, but also
February 15, 2010
The Other Secret Jews
In The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks, Marc David Baer has produced the first scholarly study of this group. That i
February 09, 2010
Helter Skelter, German Style
This excellent book reconstructs the political agonies of the German Left from the sixties to the present day. The detail is extraordinary, the tempo
February 04, 2010
It Will Not Go Away
Robert Wistrich’s vast and important book is the most comprehensive account in print of the history of anti-Semitism since 1945 in Europe, the Middle
January 25, 2010
George Bernard Shaw Arrives in America
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