The following is an excerpt from Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830 by Jaime E. Rodriguez O. (February 2018). Introduction “The people of . . . [Spanish] America are the most ignorant, the most bigoted, the most superstitious of all Roman … Continue reading Excerpt: Political Culture in Spanish America
The following is an excerpt from Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation (January 2018), edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S. H. Brown. This is the newest book in the New Visions in … Continue reading Excerpt: Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River
The following has been excerpted from Producing Early modern London: A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598-1616 by Kelly J. Stage (January 2018). Introduction On a chilly winter night in London, I tucked myself into a tiny spot on a hard wooden … Continue reading Excerpt: Producing Early Modern London
The following is an excerpt from Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War (January 2018) by Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Ailes is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of Military Migration and State Formation: The British … Continue reading Excerpt: Courage and Grief
The following excerpt is from Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean by Christopher M. Church (December 2017). Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration At five-thirty in the morning on 3 May 1902, the young schoolteacher Roger Portel awoke to … Continue reading Excerpt: Paradise Destroyed
The following is an excerpt from Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds by B. J. Hollars (Nebraska, 2017). Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. From Chapter 8: The Christmas Count On … Continue reading Excerpt: The Christmas Count
The following is an excerpt from Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar (December 2017) by Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas with Jim Robison. From Chapter 4: Young, Black, Female, and . . . from the White House Foreign Service officers serve at … Continue reading Excerpt: Diversifying Diplomacy
The following has been excerpted from Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West by Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum (November 2017). Morta Las Vegas is the latest book in the Postwestern Horizons series. From Chapter 1: The Problem … Continue reading Excerpt: Morta Las Vegas
The following has been excerpted from Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (Nebraska, 2011), a collection of essays edited by Jeremy Strong. This particular essay has been excerpted in honor of the picky eater at your Thanksgiving table. From “Feeding Finn” … Continue reading Excerpt: Educated Tastes
The following is an excerpt from How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland (November 2017) by Douglas Grindle. Prologue In the faded photo a woman stands in bright sunlight in the middle of a poor … Continue reading Excerpt: How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
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