Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
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Greg Barnhisel’s Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power and Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
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David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson’s Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games
“an encyclopedia of African American Olympic participation” –Erin E. Redihan
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David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson’s Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games
“an encyclopedia of African American Olympic participation” –Erin E. Redihan
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Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974
“FIFA [has] ... become an influential voice in international politics and economics.” –Christos Kassimeris
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Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui’s The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974
“FIFA [has] ... become an influential voice in international politics and economics.” –Christos Kassimeris
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John Bernell White Jr.’s “Breaking the Strategic Glass: The Carter Administration and Oman, 1977–1980”
“important...to understand how Carter worked to create a new security architecture in the Gulf after the collapse of the Shah” –Benjamin V. Allison
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John Bernell White Jr.’s “Breaking the Strategic Glass: The Carter Administration and Oman, 1977–1980”
“important...to understand how Carter worked to create a new security architecture in the Gulf after the collapse of the Shah” –Benjamin V. Allison
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Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation
“a central puzzle of decisionmaking in the realm of war and peace: why do leaders choose to start wars they wind up losing at high cost with little or no payoff?” –Jack Snyder
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Tyler Jost’s Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation
“a central puzzle of decisionmaking in the realm of war and peace: why do leaders choose to start wars they wind up losing at high cost with little or no payoff?” –Jack Snyder
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Francesca Piana’s Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War
“a complex story that defines a period of in betweenness: from war to peacetime; from empire to nation-states” –Doina Anca Cretu
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Francesca Piana’s Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War
“a complex story that defines a period of in betweenness: from war to peacetime; from empire to nation-states” –Doina Anca Cretu
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Paul Schroeder’s Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered
“breaks with the majority of historians who believe that Germany’s restless, aggressive policy was perhaps the most important cause of World War I” –Thomas Parker
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Paul Schroeder’s Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered
“breaks with the majority of historians who believe that Germany’s restless, aggressive policy was perhaps the most important cause of World War I” –Thomas Parker
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Lucie Kadlecová’s Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace
“countries may have to…allow for some genuine erosion of their authority and control…to reflect the limitations of any individual state’s control over the global internet” –Josephine Wolff
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Lucie Kadlecová’s Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace
“countries may have to…allow for some genuine erosion of their authority and control…to reflect the limitations of any individual state’s control over the global internet” –Josephine Wolff
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Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy
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“it was Reagan’s embrace of the Christian right and the white backlash to civil rights that helped pave the way for Trump’s populist movement” –Henry Richard Maar III
Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy
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“it was Reagan’s embrace of the Christian right and the white backlash to civil rights that helped pave the way for Trump’s populist movement” –Henry Richard Maar III
Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology: Communist Czechoslovakia and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia during the Cold War, 1955–1974”
“reveals the existence of loopholes for maneuverability within the Socialist-bloc countries” –Solomon Getahun
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Jan Záhořík’s “Shifting between Pragmatism and Ideology: Communist Czechoslovakia and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia during the Cold War, 1955–1974”
“reveals the existence of loopholes for maneuverability within the Socialist-bloc countries” –Solomon Getahun
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Jean-Jacques Matignon Les 55 jours de Pékin: Journal d’un médecin au siège des légations, 28 mai–18 août 1900
“the Boxer rebellion was...a protest against foreign invasion and missionaries because advantages had been given to the missions” –Iside Costantini
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Jean-Jacques Matignon Les 55 jours de Pékin: Journal d’un médecin au siège des légations, 28 mai–18 août 1900
“the Boxer rebellion was...a protest against foreign invasion and missionaries because advantages had been given to the missions” –Iside Costantini
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David T. Byrne’s James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
“will help connect Burnham’s philosophy with the United States’ post-World War II-era political philosophy…[and] those who support current US President Donald Trump” –Seth Offenbach
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David T. Byrne’s James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
“will help connect Burnham’s philosophy with the United States’ post-World War II-era political philosophy…[and] those who support current US President Donald Trump” –Seth Offenbach
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David I. Goldman’s “The Autobahn Crises of 1963: The US Military and the Last Major Cold War Showdowns over Berlin”
“anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin as a Cold War borderland...will benefit from reading it” –Adam R. Seipp
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David I. Goldman’s “The Autobahn Crises of 1963: The US Military and the Last Major Cold War Showdowns over Berlin”
“anyone who is interested in the history of Berlin as a Cold War borderland...will benefit from reading it” –Adam R. Seipp
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Douglas Porch’s Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942 and Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942–1945
“brilliant addition to World War II military history” –Deborah Bauer
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Douglas Porch’s Defeat and Division: France at War 1939–1942 and Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942–1945
“brilliant addition to World War II military history” –Deborah Bauer
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Donald Stoker’s Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present
“a critique of both American policymakers...[and] American scholars in their efforts to employ the concept of grand strategy” –Jeremy Friedman
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Donald Stoker’s Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present
“a critique of both American policymakers...[and] American scholars in their efforts to employ the concept of grand strategy” –Jeremy Friedman
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Natasha Piano’s Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science
“a crucial read for future theorists of democracy” –Robert P. Jackson
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Natasha Piano’s Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science
“a crucial read for future theorists of democracy” –Robert P. Jackson
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Paul W. Schroeder’s America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016
“makes it easy to understand why so many of those who knew him regarded him not only with great respect but also with affection” –John A. Thompson
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Paul W. Schroeder’s America’s Fatal Leap, 1991–2016
“makes it easy to understand why so many of those who knew him regarded him not only with great respect but also with affection” –John A. Thompson
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Giles Scott-Smith’s “‘Of the Utmost Importance for the Survival of Mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992”
“worthwhile to look at the way non-state actors advocated for change” –Rósa Magnúsdóttir
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Giles Scott-Smith’s “‘Of the Utmost Importance for the Survival of Mankind’: The Alerdinck Foundation, the Media, and Citizen Diplomacy to End the Cold War, 1984–1992”
“worthwhile to look at the way non-state actors advocated for change” –Rósa Magnúsdóttir
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Liliane Stadler’s Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992
“challenges the view of neutrality as static, showing how Switzerland adapted this policy in order to maintain relevance” –Sandra Bott
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Liliane Stadler’s Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992
“challenges the view of neutrality as static, showing how Switzerland adapted this policy in order to maintain relevance” –Sandra Bott
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Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds.' Relational Peace Practices
“Peace should not be characterized as stagnation. Social change can be peaceful and aided by constructive conflict.” –Louis Kriesberg
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Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo, eds.' Relational Peace Practices
“Peace should not be characterized as stagnation. Social change can be peaceful and aided by constructive conflict.” –Louis Kriesberg
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Paolo Fonzi, Sabine Rutar, and Xavier Bougarel, eds.’ Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
“Food...as a means of propaganda, as a symbol of dominance and control, and a tool of revolution and empire building” –Gaj Trifković
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Paolo Fonzi, Sabine Rutar, and Xavier Bougarel, eds.’ Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
“Food...as a means of propaganda, as a symbol of dominance and control, and a tool of revolution and empire building” –Gaj Trifković
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Tehila Sasson’s The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
"challenges the faith in the market, self-employment, and small-scale financialization solutions as a path forward for developing nations” –John Shields
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Tehila Sasson’s The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
"challenges the faith in the market, self-employment, and small-scale financialization solutions as a path forward for developing nations” –John Shields
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Wang Chenyi’s “Mao’s Cambodian Legacy: An ‘Ideological Victory’ and a Strategic Failure”
Why did the CCP support "the Pol Pot regime rhetorically and materially, even as it murdered...hundreds of thousands of Cambodian Chinese?” –Matthew Galway
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Wang Chenyi’s “Mao’s Cambodian Legacy: An ‘Ideological Victory’ and a Strategic Failure”
Why did the CCP support "the Pol Pot regime rhetorically and materially, even as it murdered...hundreds of thousands of Cambodian Chinese?” –Matthew Galway
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Alexis Peri’s Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women
“sometimes power can emanate from unexpected places.” –Rachel Applebaum
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Alexis Peri’s Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women
“sometimes power can emanate from unexpected places.” –Rachel Applebaum
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