Landscape and Resettlement in Peru (16th-17th c.)
A review of Building Subjects: Landscapes of Forced Resettlement in the Zaña and Chamán Valleys, Peru, 16th and 17th Centuries C.E., by Nathaniel Parker VanValkenburgh….
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Teacher Strikes and the Rise of Neoliberalism
A Review of Against the Public: Teacher Strikes and the Decline of Liberalism, 1968-1981, by Jon Shelton In this award-winning dissertation, Jon Shelton recasts the…
Female Same-Sex Intimacy and the Growth of Modern Sexual Categories in the U.S.
A review of ‘She’s That Way’: Female Same-Sex Intimacy and the Growth of Modern Sexual Categories in the U.S., 1920-1940, by Anastasia Jones. While there…
US-China Trade, 1784-1862
A review of Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c. 1784-1862, by Dael A. Norwood. In the twenty-first century, government officials…
Urban Slavery in Colonial Puebla (Mexico)
A review of Urban Slavery in Colonial Puebla de los Ángeles, 1536-1708, by Pablo Sierra. This dissertation is an excellent study of an interior Mexican…
Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother
A review of A Certain Kind of Girl: Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother, 1918-1940, by Cara Kinzelman Cara Kinzelman begins…
Genealogy Collection at the Newberry Library
Review of the Genealogy Collections at the Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois). The Newberry Library, in many ways, needs no introduction. It has been an independent…
Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archive
A Review of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archive (Madison, Wisconsin, United States) The library-archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society are located on the campus of…
Comics, Telenovelas, and Mexican History
A review of Entertaining Education: Teaching National History in Mexican State-Sponsored Comic Books and Telenovelas, 1963-1996, by Melanie Huska. “Entertaining Education” is a study of…
Cultural Films and the National Imaginary in South Korea
A review of Uneven Screens, Contested Identities: USIS, Cultural Films, and the National Imaginary in South Korea, 1945-1972, by Han Sang Kim. Han Sang Kim’s…