Contributing Writers

• Prospero’s America

  October 24, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6916574-prospero-s-america Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 by Walter…

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• Matter, Life, and Generation

  October 24, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3169113-matter-life-and-generation Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate by Shirley A. Roe In the…

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• The Face of Decline

  October 23, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347485.The_Face_of_Decline The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht…

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• Confederate Reckoning

  October 23, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7463538-confederate-reckoning Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry The story of…

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• Fighting the Greater Jihad

  October 23, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2162278.Fighting_the_Greater_Jihad Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal,…

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• New Jews

  October 23, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164734.New_Jews New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora by Caryn Aviv, David Shneer For many contemporary Jews,…

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• India in the Shadows of Empire

  October 23, 2012

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9053187-india-in-the-shadows-of-empire India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774-1950 by Mithi Mukherjee This…

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• Pox Americana

  October 23, 2012

  http://us.macmillan.com/poxamericana/ElizabethFenn POX AMERICANA: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Elizabeth Anne Fenn and Hill and Wang A horrifying…

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• American Taxation, American Slavery

  October 23, 2012

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/American-Taxation-American-Slavery/Robin-L-Einhorn/ American Taxation, American Slavery by Robin Einhorn   In American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn shows…

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  Practicing Democracy

  October 23, 2012

    Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany by Margaret Lavinia Anderson What happens when…

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