I find the charge of presentism one of the most annoying things someone can say to a historian. Every historian is deeply affected by the times in which they live. There is no such thing as pure objectivity nor history disconnected from politics or everyday...
book reviews
Joshua Rubenstein provides a nice, quick overview to the life of Leon Trotsky that I would recommend for anyone interested in learning a bit more about this enigmatic figure of.
Nancy Langston's superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American.
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a variety of different specific issues. 2. Interview people working on new technologies that could help...
Conspirata is the second of Robert Harris' trilogy of novels on the career of Marcus Tullius Cicero, as narrated by Cicero's slave and clerk Tiro. Conspirata begins on the eve.
While working on my Statecraft and the State syllabus, I happened upon this Amazon review of Margaret Levi's Of Rule and Revenue:"As specialization and division of labor increase, there is.
I just finished reading Karen Greenberg's excellent The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, a book that is (for obvious reasons) relevant to the hyperventilating spasms currently being mistaken for a "debate" about what to do with the crown jewel of Bush administration lawlessness....
Speaking of conservative histories, I'd be remiss in not mentioning A Patriot's History of the United States, a jaw-droppingly terrible book that would only appeal to readers who aren't literate.
This review of Gusher Of Lies makes me wonder whether the bad arguments are the book's or the reviewer's. For example, Bryce's attacks on ethanol seem very convincing, but in.
Over the break I finished Vincent O'Hara's U.S. Navy Against the Axis. I strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Pacific War, and in surface naval combat in the 20th century in general. O'Hara makes the argument that surface combat in the...