Letters & Science Bookshelf

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Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
The Ordinal Society Marion Fourcade; Kieran Healy 2024 Book
The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi Abhishek Kaicker 2020 Book
The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico Cori Hayden 2022 Book
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age David Bates 2024 Book
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History Martin Jay 2021 Book

Unlearning Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

2021

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field...Read more about Unlearning Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

2021

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past.

When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with...Read more about The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

Turkey: A Past Against History

2021

From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state and on the absolute unity of the Turkish nation. In...Read more about Turkey: A Past Against History

The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

2020

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to...Read more about The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

wyrd] bird

2020

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen,...Read more about wyrd] bird

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

2020

Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American...Read more about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

2020

How can sites of waste disposal be marked to prevent contamination in the future? The United States government addressed this challenge in planning for nuclear waste repositories. Consulting with experts in imagining future scenarios, in language and communication, and in anthropology, the...Read more about The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

2020
An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects...Read more about The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

2020
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave†'owning women were sophisticated economic...Read more about They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

The Black Experience in Four Genres: A Handbook

2019

Four pieces in this text by writer Judy Juanita - a poem, drama, short story and essay - bring themes of

adolescence self-determination & ethnic pride grief and regret, and the gun as romantic symbol or literal destruction,

to college and high school students and to...Read more about The Black Experience in Four Genres: A Handbook