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Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman
Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry Jackson School of International Studies. Chirot’s most recent book, co-authored with Scott Montgomery, is The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2015.) Chirot’s other books have been about genocide, ethnic conflicts, tyranny, social change, and Eastern Europe.
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
The growing gap in the traditional trajectory from poverty to middle class may have less to do with color than with culture. We can see during this present election process the anger and distress of poor white men, flocking to the rallies of candidate Donald Trump. These men, who were once doing well during the post-WWII era, when our country was a manufacturing giant, are now victims of a changing economy.
Book Review: The Way Of The Knife, Michael Neal
Book Review: The Way Of The Knife, Michael Neal
The Eastern Illinois University Political Science Review
The author reviews the book The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti, specifically looking at the underlying themes of shifting operations in the CIA, relationships between the CIA and United States military, and the growing private-sector.
Lovie: The Story Of A Southern Midwife And An Unlikely Friendship, Sandra C. Clariday
Lovie: The Story Of A Southern Midwife And An Unlikely Friendship, Sandra C. Clariday
The Southeastern Librarian
Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship. Lisa Yarger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4696-3005-2 (cloth, $34.95); ISBN 978-1-4696-3006-9 (ebook: $19.99). 306 p.
Ham: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews
Ham: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews
The Southeastern Librarian
Ham: A Savor the South Cookbook. Damon Lee Fowler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3589-7 (Hardback); 978-1-4696-3590- 3 (ebook) 141 p. $16.96.
Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place And Cultural Resistance, Carol Walker Jordan
Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place And Cultural Resistance, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place and Cultural Resistance. Sara Webb-Sunderhaus and Kim Donehower, eds. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-74426. (pbk, $28); ISBN 978-0-8131- 6559-2 (cloth, $50); ISBN 978-0-8131-6560-8 (epub, $50); ISBN 978-0-8131-6561-5 (web pdf, $50). 238 p.
The Life And Work Of John C. Campbell, Carol Walker Jordan
The Life And Work Of John C. Campbell, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
The Life and Work of John C. Campbell. Olive Dame Campbell; edited by Elizabeth M. Williams. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0- 8131-6854-8 (cloth, $60); ISBN 978-0-8131-6855-5 (web pdf, $60); ISBN 978-0-8131-6856-2 (epub, $60). 720 p.
Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front, Keith Phelan Gorman
Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front, Keith Phelan Gorman
The Southeastern Librarian
Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front. David J. Bettez. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6801-2 (cloth, $45.00); ISBN 978-0-8131-6802-9 (web pdf, $45); ISBN 978-0-8131-6803-6 (epub, $45). 440 p.
Making Gullah: A History Of Sapelo Islanders, Race, And The American Imagination, Carol Walker Jordan
Making Gullah: A History Of Sapelo Islanders, Race, And The American Imagination, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
Making Gullah A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination. Melissa L. Cooper. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-4696-3268-1 (pbk., $29.95); ISBN 978-1-4696- 3267-4 (hardcover, $85); ISBN 978-1-4696-3269-8 (ebook, $19.99). 304 p.
Florida Soul: From Ray Charles To Kc And The Sunshine Band, Carol Walker Jordan
Florida Soul: From Ray Charles To Kc And The Sunshine Band, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. John Capouya. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-5452-0. $24.95 408 p.
The Book Of Isaias: A Child Of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Melanie Dunn
The Book Of Isaias: A Child Of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Melanie Dunn
The Southeastern Librarian
The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America. Daniel Connolly. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781250083067 (hardback). $26.99. 258 p.
The Battle Of New Orleans In History And Memory, Kathelene Mccarty Smith
The Battle Of New Orleans In History And Memory, Kathelene Mccarty Smith
The Southeastern Librarian
The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory. Laura Lyons McLemore, ed.. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8071-6465-5 (Hardback). $38.00. 232 p.
From The Desk Of The Dean: The History And Future Of Arts And Sciences Education, Peter R. Dean
From The Desk Of The Dean: The History And Future Of Arts And Sciences Education, Peter R. Dean
The Southeastern Librarian
From the Desk of the Dean: The History and Future of Arts and Sciences Education. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth A. Say, eds.. Colombia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61117-841-8 (Hardcover, $24.99); ISBN 978-1-61117-842-5 (Ebook, $24.99). 196 p.
Growing Old In New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me, Wendy Moore
Growing Old In New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me, Wendy Moore
South Carolina Libraries
Wendy Moore, Doctoral student at the University of South Carolina's SLIS program, and a cataloger at Francis Marion's James A. Rogers Library, reviews Growing Old in New Town: What Marked Me, What Marred Me, What Made Me by Michael E. Goings.
Leon's Lines, Shelia Martina Keaise
Leon's Lines, Shelia Martina Keaise
South Carolina Libraries
Shelia Martina Keaise, Children's Librarian at Colleton County Memorial Library, reviews Leon's Lines by Ember Estridge.
Corn: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews
Corn: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews
The Southeastern Librarian
Corn: A Savor the South Cookbook. Tema Flanagan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3162-2 (cloth: alk.paper); 978-1-4696-3163-9 (ebook) 131 p. $13.44.
Yes, Lord, I Know The Road: A Documentary History Of African Americans In South Carolina, 1526-2008, Tim Dodge
Yes, Lord, I Know The Road: A Documentary History Of African Americans In South Carolina, 1526-2008, Tim Dodge
The Southeastern Librarian
Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008. J. Brent Morris, ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61117-730-5 (hardcover: alk. paper), ISBN: 978-1-61117-731-2 (paperback: alk. paper), 978-1-61117-732-9 (ebook). 232 p. $49.99 (hardcover), $24.99 (paperback), $24.99 - $58.23 (ebook).
The Civil War Letters Of Alexander Mcneill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Allison Faix
The Civil War Letters Of Alexander Mcneill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Allison Faix
The Southeastern Librarian
The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment. Mac Wyckoff, editor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-61117-536-3. 704 p. $39.99.
No Jim Crow Church: The Origins Of South Carolina's Baha'i Community, Carol Walker Jordan
No Jim Crow Church: The Origins Of South Carolina's Baha'i Community, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Baha’i Community. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8130-6107-8 (hardcover; $74.95); 978-0-8130-5407-0 (pbk.: $27.95). 344 p.
Horace Holley: Transylvania University And The Making Of A Liberal Education In The Early American Republic, Carol Walker Jordan
Horace Holley: Transylvania University And The Making Of A Liberal Education In The Early American Republic, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic. James P. Cousins. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6857-9 (cloth); 978-0-8131-6859-3 (epub). 322 p. $50.
Book Review: Information Literacy: Research And Collaboration Across The Disciplines, Carrie Forbes
Book Review: Information Literacy: Research And Collaboration Across The Disciplines, Carrie Forbes
Communications in Information Literacy
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Book Review: Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises For Creating Information Literate-Learners, Tish Hayes
Communications in Information Literacy
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Food In The Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate, Sarah Kantor
Food In The Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate, Sarah Kantor
The Southeastern Librarian
Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate. Robert Dirks. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4422-4513-6 (hardcover), 978-1-4422-4514-3 (ebook). 209 pages. $38.00 (hardcover), $37.99 (ebook).
The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across The Color Line In Early Twentieth-Century Virginia, Carol Walker Jordan
The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across The Color Line In Early Twentieth-Century Virginia, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia. Clayton McClure Brooks. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 978-0-8139-3950-6 (ebook); 978-0-8139-3949-0 (cloth). 288 p. $45.
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights And The Politics Of Race In Richmond, Virginia, Carol Walker Jordan
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights And The Politics Of Race In Richmond, Virginia, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia. Julian Maxwell Hayter, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8131-6948-4 (hardback). 346 p. $60.
Island Passage: An Illustrated History Of Jekyll Island, Georgia, Melanie J. Dunn
Island Passage: An Illustrated History Of Jekyll Island, Georgia, Melanie J. Dunn
The Southeastern Librarian
Island Passages: An Illustrated History of Jekyll Island, Georgia. Jingle Davis; Photographs by Benjamin Galland. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8203-4869-8 (hardbound). 288 p. $34.95
Sapelo People And Place On A Georgia Sea Island, Melinda F. Matthews
Sapelo People And Place On A Georgia Sea Island, Melinda F. Matthews
The Southeastern Librarian
Sapelo People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island. Buddy Sullivan; Photographs by Benjamin Galland. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8203-5016-5 (hardcover: alk.paper); 334 p. $34.95.
Democracy Abroad, Lynching At Home, Racial Violence In Florida, Carol Walker Jordan
Democracy Abroad, Lynching At Home, Racial Violence In Florida, Carol Walker Jordan
The Southeastern Librarian
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home, Racial Violence in Florida. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2015. 978-0-8130-6104-7 (hardcover) $74.95; 978-0-8130-6239-6 (pbk.) $24.95. 288 p.
Writing The Legal Record: Law Reporters In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Peter R. Dean
Writing The Legal Record: Law Reporters In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Peter R. Dean
The Southeastern Librarian
Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. Kurt X. Metzmeier. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6860-9. 211p. $50.
Fruit: A Savor Of The South, Melinda F. Matthews
Fruit: A Savor Of The South, Melinda F. Matthews
The Southeastern Librarian
Fruit: A Savor the South Cookbook. Nancie McDermott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3251-3 (cloth: alk.paper); 978-1-4696-3252-0 (ebook) 163 p. $12.78.