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Review Of Michael Pitassi, The Navies Of Rome, Fred Drogula

Fred K. Drogula

Between The Local And The Global: Characteristics Of The Chinese-Language Press In America, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

The one event of the day that made him get up out of his easy chair was the [Chinese] newspaper. He looked forward to it. He opened the front door and looked for it hours before the mailman was due. The Gold Mountain News … came from San Francisco in a paper sleeve on which his name and address were neatly typed. He put on his gold-rimmed glasses and readied his smoking equipment. … He killed several hours reading the paper, scrupulously reading everything, the date on each page, the page numbers, the want ads.… —Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men …

Brokers Of Public Trust: Notaries In Early Modern Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer

Laurie Nussdorfer

No abstract provided.

Race, Medicine And The South, Sharla Fett

Sharla Fett

Three recent studies by historians Todd Savitt, Steven Stowe, and Marie Jenkins Schwartz demonstrated both the importance of social history methods to southern medical studies and the insights that medical history offers to understanding slavery and race in the U.S. South. Todd Savitt’s collection of essays combine the insights of contemporary public health and medical science with meticulous archival research to present an important body of work detailing African American health and medical institutions before and after emancipation. Steven Stowe and Marie Jenkins Schwartz, both of whom produced important earlier works on slavery and southern family life, turn their attention …

School Reform That Matters, Michael Johanek

Michael C Johanek

A "loving critic" of the U.S., Dean Kishore Mahbubani at the National University of Singapore, suggests that "American society could ... fail if it does not force itself to conceive of failure." Our "first systemic failure," claims Mahbubani, is "groupthink." evident in our collective inability to challenge the "manifest nonsense" from financial sector officials years ago. Today, "the belief that American society allows every idea to be challenged has led Americans to assume that every idea is challenged. They have failed to notice when their minds have been enveloped in groupthink."[1] Might this apply to our ideas about school reform? …

Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character - Re-Framing Questions Of Identity, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of the Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, which ran from May 1, 2010 through August 23, 2010.

Lords Of The Samurai - A Refreshing Perspective, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of the Asian Art Museum's Lords of the Samurai exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2009 through September 20, 2009.

Institutional Repositories, Paul Royster

Paul Royster

Summary of collection strategies at UNL:

Be inclusive, not exclusive

Be proactive, even aggressively so

Think of the global audience

Everything open access

Everything full-text

Ample metadata—especially abstracts

Utilize work-study students

Link back to your site

Give depositors feedback — publishers don't

Measure, measure, measure, . . .

Objectivity, Collective Sight, And Scientific Personae, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.

Haunting History: Deconstruction And The Spirit Of Revision, Ethan Kleinberg

Ethan Kleinberg

This essay explores the ways that the specter of deconstruction has been haunting history over the past thirty years, in particular this specter’s effects on the revision of intellectual and cultural history. The essay uses the terms “specter” and “haunting” to express the fact that while deconstruction is repeatedly targeted in attacks against the dangers of postmodernism, poststructuralism, or the linguistic turn, very few historians actively use deconstruction as a historical methodology; in this regard the target has always been a phantom. However, some historians have employed the methods of deconstruction, and by examining their work as well as the …

Review Of Francois Cusset, "French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed The Intellectual Life Of The United States", Ethan Kleinberg

Ethan Kleinberg

Review of Francois Cusset's French Theory (University of Minnesota Press)

The Reaper's Garden: Death And Power In The World Of Atlantic Slavery, Sharla Fett

Sharla Fett

The article reviews the book "The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery," by Vincent Brown.

A Law Unto Themselves: Historical Consequences And Cultural Realities From The Neglect Of Africana Studies In Policymaking Processes, Seneca Vaught

Seneca Vaught

No abstract provided.

Frock Coat And Flag: Union Soldier Markers In Central Maine, Kimberly Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

The Frock Coat and Flag motif of gravestone is a short-lived memorial theme borne from a compressed period of American history. The horrors, tragedy, and impact of the U.S. Civil War on American civilians and a lack of a comprehensive plan by the U.S. Congress to provide means or methods to bury and mark the graves of soldiers who died in service contributed to the manifestation of a portrait-style grave marker used by families in a relatively compact geographic region of central Maine between 1861 and 1864.

In Search Of A New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka's Recommendations For Japanese In Hawai'i, Masako Gavin

Masako Gavin

Extract: After the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), over-population and unemployment became pressing issues in Japan. Many intellectuals were concerned about the social and economic hardships caused by these problems and advocated solving them through emigration. The prominent journalist and a professor of geography at the Tokyo Senmon Gakkô (presently Waseda University), Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927), believed Hawai’i was an ideal migration destination for the unemployed and impoverished Japanese.

Happy Serf Liberation Day: China And Tibet, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

No abstract provided.

Palestinian Refugees And Their Oral Histories: History's Silence, Memory's Burden, Randa Farah

Randa R Farah Dr.

No abstract provided.

Book Review: The Great Warming: Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of Civilizations, James Fleming

James R. Fleming

No abstract provided.

Religion And Clergy, Jill Gill

Jill K. Gill

No abstract provided.

Religious Communities And The Vietnam War, Jill Gill

Jill K. Gill

No abstract provided.

Inventing Autopia: Dreams And Visions Of The Modern Metropolis In Jazz Age Los Angeles, Jeremiah Axelrod

Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod

In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of …

Enlightenment And The Creation Of German Catholicism, Michael Printy

Michael Printy

This book tells the story of how eighteenth-century German Catholics rethought the Church. Educated German Catholics envisioned a Church that would solidify the link between religion, civilization, and morality. The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which eighteenth-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state. Seeking a balance between Germany and Rome, Catholic reformers desired a national Church that would enjoy a large measure of autonomy but would still be in communion with the universal Church. In trying to reform the Church, educated Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire questioned …

Criminal Injustice: Slaves And Free Blacks In Georgia's Criminal Justice System, Glenn Mcnair

Glenn McNair

No abstract provided.

The Alliance For Progress And Housing Policy In Rio De Janeiro And Buenos Aires In The 1960s, Leandro Benmergui

Leandro Benmergui

This article explores the construction of publicly financed low-income housing complexes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1960s. These housing developments were possible thanks to the arrival of foreign economic and technical assistance from the Alliance for Progress. Urban scholars, politicians, diplomats and urbanists of the Americas sought to promote middle-class habits, mass consumption and moderate political behaviour, especially among the poor, by expanding access to homeownership and ‘decent’ living conditions for a burgeoning urban population. As a result, the history of low-income housing should be understood within broader transnational discourses and practices about the …

Visual Tours Of Housing Projects In Buenos Aires And Rio De Janeiro, 1960s And 1970s (Multimedia Companion To The Special Issue: Transnational Urbanism In The Americas), Leandro Benmergui

Leandro Benmergui

The Multimedia Companion for the special issue of Urban History: 'Transnational Urbanism in the Americas', is an editorial project of Urban History’s North American Editorial Board. The emerging transnational paradigm raises many interesting possibilities for the historical study of cities. As the articles in the special issue suggest, transnationalism challenges us to map out the patterns of human life in new ways as they cross and construct cities, nations, and other crucial formations. Even as this new paradigm is causing a fundamental rethinking of our scholarship, the internet and the World Wide Web are also challenging our current modes of …

A Massachusetts Mystery: The 1801 Tragedy Of Jason Fairbanks And Elizabeth Fales, Dale Freeman

Dale H. Freeman

No abstract provided.

Review: Roger Griffin, Fascism And Modernism, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

No abstract provided.

New Orleans Research Collaborative, Michael Mizell-Nelson

Michael Mizell-Nelson

Founding Board Member and Developer, Creating online, interdisciplinary bibliographies for a wide range of New Orleans-related subjects, including: Music, Race, Tourism, Culinary, Urban Studies, and Labor. Partnered with Emory University’s History Department and Library.

Skinner And Pocock In Context: Early Modern Political Thought Today, Michael Printy

Michael Printy

Review essay about two books concerning J. G. A. Pocock, and Quentin Skinner's Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Galbert Of Bruges And The Historiography Of Medieval Flanders, Jeff Rider, Alan Murray

Jeff Rider

Galbert of Bruges's The Murder, Betrayal and Assassination of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders is one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. It recounts the assassination of Charles, count of Flanders, and the events leading up to and following the murder. Galbert was a resident of Bruges and had served in the count's administration for at least thirteen years by the time of the assassination in 1127. He was well-acquainted with Charles and many of the other actors in this drama, an eyewitness to many of the events he relates, and exceptionally well positioned to …