The “Watson Way” at IBM in Endicott, NY
A review of Factory Town in Transition: A Community’s Reaction to Change, by Kristina Wilcox. In 2011, the undisputed winner in a three-night Jeopardy standoff…
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Why did the Turkish Republic remain neutral in World War II?
A review of Russophobic Neutrality: Turkish Diplomacy 1936-1945, by Onur İşçi. Why did the Turkish Republic remain neutral during World War II? This is the…
Habsburg-Ottoman Espionage
A review of Espionage in the 16th Century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry, by Emrah Safa Gürkan. Emrah Gürkan’s dissertation deals…
Kennedy Administration & Herbicides in Vietnam
A review of Into the Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Herbicides in South Vietnam, by Evelyn Krache Morris. At the crossroads of…
Pastoral Activism & Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia
A review of The White Priest at Work: Orthodox Pastoral Activism and the Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia, by Daniel Scarborough. Drunken, uneducated puppets…