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Of Fear and Strangers

A History of Xenophobia

Makari, George
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a ‘New Xenophobia’ seems to have ...

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Dark persuasion

a history of brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

Dimsdale, Joel F.
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in ...

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To kidnap a Pope

Napoleon and Pius VII

Caiani, Ambrogio A.
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them ...

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Oblivion or glory

1921 and the making of Winston Churchill

Stafford, David
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill’s political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of ...

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Belarus

the last european dictatorship

Wilson, Andrew
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

Protests continue in Belarus in the aftermath of 2020's fraught presidential election. In this updated edition of his exploration of Belarus's complicated road to nationhood since it gained independence in 1991, Andrew Wilson has added two new chapters that reveal the extent of ...

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Hot protestants

a history of puritanism in England and America

Winship, Michael P
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England’s church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural ...

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Henry III

the rise to power and personal rule, 1207-1258

Carpenter, David
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to England ...

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Richard III

the self-made king

Hicks, Michael
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much attention ...

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The Polymath

a cultural history from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

Burke, Peter
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopedic interests. All too often these individuals are ...

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Northern Ireland

the fragile peace

Cochrane, Feargal
Yale University Press. New Haven, 2021

After two decades of relative peace following the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the Brexit referendum in 2016 reopened the Northern Ireland question. In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane considers the region’s troubled history from the struggle for Irish independence in the ...

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Prophets and Ghosts

The Story of Salvage Anthropology

Redman, Samuel J.
Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2021

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of "vanishing" Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other chroniclers began amassing Indigenous cultural objects-crafts, clothing ...

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The Making of the Bible

From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture

Schmid, Konrad
Schröter, Jens
Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2021

The authoritative new account of the Bible's origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the ...

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Pan

The Great God's Modern Return

Robichaud, Paul
Reaktion Books Ltd.. London, 2021

From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous-and culturally immortal-god Pan. Pan-he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film, and music, the god Pan ...

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Christine De Pizan

Life, Work, Legacy

Cooper-Davis, Charlotte
Reaktion Books Ltd.. London, 2021

The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade ...

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

The Spirit of a Scholar

Barker, William
Reaktion Books Ltd.. London, 2021

The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years. Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early ...

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The Sea

Nature and Culture

Hamblyn, Richard
Reaktion Books Ltd.. London, 2021

Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard ...

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Freud's Patients

A Book of Lives

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel
Reaktion Books Ltd.. London, 2021

Portraits of the thirty-eight known patients Sigmund Freud treated clinically-some well-known, many obscure-reveal a darker, more complex picture of the famed psychoanalyst. Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: "Dora," the "Rat Man," the "Wolf Man." But what do we know ...

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The Global History of Portugal

rom Pre-History to the Modern World

Editor/a . Fiolhais, Carlos
Editor/a . Franco, José Eduardo
Editor/a . Paiva, José Pedro
Sussex Academic Press. Brighton, 2021

For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance ...

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Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship

(16Th Century to the Present)

Monroe, James T.
Ilex Foundation. Cambridge (MSS), 2021

Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe's survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of ...

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Measured Words

Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

Saiber, Arielle
University of Toronto Press. Toronto, 2021

Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the ...

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