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Dennis Duncan’s entertaining and informative “Index, A History of the” moves from the 13th-century origins of the form to the world of digital search engines. 
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David Sim appreciates a sharp and well-written book which forces us to appreciate the ways in which nationalism was perceived as a liberating force by many in the 19th century.
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an innovative book by Elizabeth Rosner. Ellis Spicer believes this book's contribution to the field lies in its raw emotionality, personal stories and thematic strengths.
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She earned a place of honor in art-historical and art-world circles with her provocatively titled 1971 essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
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Some topics are just too important to be treated as mere topics of academic inquiry. After reading Rees’s book, no longer will I open my seminar class with the line: ‘So, how useful do you think the term “Holocaust” is as an interpretive tool for understanding the Nazi genocide of European Jewry?’ Only to be met with blank stares. Instead, we’ll look at the facts first. Facts don’t ‘speak for themselves’, as the saying goes, but they do prevent a whole range of possible, misguided interpretations. Rees’s book provides the facts in a gripping narrative interspersed with compelling, moving and relatable testimony. It’s exactly what’s needed in 2017.
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Postmodernism was conceived largely by the Left as a safeguard against totalizing ideologies. Yet today, it has been appropriated on behalf of an encroaching…
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The essayist is Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. Her book about the 2013–2014 revolution in Ukraine, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, is forthcoming from Yale University Press; she is also at work on a longer book project titled Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe. Her recent essays include ‘Surreal Love in Prague’ (TLS); ‘Out of the Desert: A Heidegger for Poland’ (TLS); ‘Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine’ (New York Review of Books); ‘Rachelka’s Tablecloth: Poles and Jews, Intimacy and Fragility “on the Periphery of the Holocaust”’, (Tr@nsit Online); ‘Can We See Ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy’ (Modern European Intellectual History); ‘Entscheidung am Majdan: Eine Phänomenologie der Ukrainischen Revolution’ (Lettre International); ‘Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine’ (The New Yorker); and ‘The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things are Falling Apart’ (The New Yorker).
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Getting religion out of politics was the key to Europe’s success, this work of economic history argues. The turning point was the Reformation
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In The Islamic Enlightenment, Christopher de Bellaigue aims to address a bias he perceives among general readers about the history of Islamic political liberalization. According to widespread assumptions, efforts to transform Islamic nations into modern societies were mainly imposed “from above” by Western-leaning autocrats—the underlying premise being that the Enlightenment was an exclusively Judeo-Christian (or post-Christian) movement that had no parallel in Islamic societies. This “historical fallacy,” in de Bellaigue’s view, has led “triumphalist Western historians, politicians and commentators, as well as some renegade Muslims who have turned on the religion of their births,” to insist that “Islam [still] needs its Enlightenment.” By contrast, de Bellaigue argues convincingly that efforts to bring modern political ideas to the Muslim world had a “natural constituency” among the educated minority and that, despite opposition, they slowly gained general acceptance.
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As the film 'Denial' hits theaters, the real-life subject sees echoes of the past in the present.
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The books interview: the bestselling historian talks to Stephen Moss about Britishness, Blackadder and the centenary of the conflict (Canadian and @RyersonU prof!
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Paul Addison is director of the centre for second world war studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is a former visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of Churchill: The Unexpected Hero recently published by Oxford University Press
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In light of the new film on Winston Churchill, 'Darkest Hour' - with what looks like an Oscar-winning performance by Gary Oldman as Churchill - it seemed timely to republish historian Paul Addison's 10 recommendations for great books on the man, his life and his many talents and abilities.
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Any scholar who cares about Jewish history will forgive Simon Schama the odd error or omission, for this is a book that transcends the normal conventions
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What makes this nuanced ‘new history’ stand out is its use of unpublished interviews with eyewitnesses
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Paradigm shifts in historiography seem to come all at once rather than being spaced evenly along the disciplinary trajectory. The last such shift in writing about slavery and race (including civil rights) in the United States came between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s. It looks now as though we are in the midst of another re-casting of the framework of assumptions and vocabulary of concepts that US historians bring to the study of these critical topics. Add to that the fact that Colson Whitehead’s novel, Underground Railroad (2016), won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, while several recent Oscar nominees for 2017 were films – Moonlight, Fences, Hidden Figures, and Loving – that explored various dimensions of the African-American experience over the last half-century. In fact, the book under review here, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning, won the 2016 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
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Professor Kendi's response to the review can be found below the online review itself
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Even abolitionists don’t emerge unscathed from a fearless, brilliant history of racist thinking spanning 500 years
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Michel Foucault took a break from writing to work on an edition of the intriguing set of letters he had come upon while researching in the Bastille archives
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The bestselling Irish novelist and author of Damage selects five books to help us understand the narrative of Irish history. She argues that "the permanent narrative of victimhood is not quite accurate"
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The historian’s vivid, terrifying account of the Führer’s demise, based on his postwar work for British intelligence, remains unsurpassed
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