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    David Krugler1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back

    Cambridge University Press, 2014

    by Mireille Djenno on February 13, 2015

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    [Cross-posted from New Books in African American Studies] In 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2014), David Krugler chronicles the origins and development of ten major race riots that took place in the United States during that year. Although sustained, anti-black violence both predates and succeeds the year under examination,  1919 distinguishes itself by the sheer number of major racial conflicts occurring between late 1918 and late 1919. Krugler argues that these riots can be seen as a direct result of the societal upheavals engendered by the Great War and less directly, as a continuation of Reconstruction violence. Krugler uses the term “race riot” as shorthand for “anti-black collective violence”, which took several forms including mob attacks and lynchings and describes the similarly systematic resistance to this campaign of terror as a three-front war fought by African Americans.

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    Gavin WrightSharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South

    February 13, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in History]  Americans rightly think of the civil rights legislation of 1964 and ’65 as a social and legal revolution. In Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2013), Gavin Wright argues that it was an economic one, too. In clear and tightly organized prose, the eminent [...]

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    Lisa TetraultThe Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

    February 12, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in Gender Studies] Lisa Tetrault received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. Tetrault’s book The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) uncovers the politics behind the creation of an origins myth for women’s [...]

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    Erskine ClarkeBy the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey

    February 9, 2015

    Jane Bayard Wilson and John Leighton Wilson were unlikely African missionaries, coming as they did from privileged slaveholding families in Georgia and South Carolina, respectively. Yet in 1834 they embarked on a nearly twenty-year adventure as Christian missionaries to two peoples in western Africa — the Grebo in Liberia, and the Mpongwe in present-day Gabon. [...]

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    Sam Gindin and Leo PanitchThe Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire

    February 9, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in World Affairs] Two Canadian socialist thinkers have published a new book on the successes and failures, the crises, contradictions and conflicts in present-day capitalism. In The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2013) , Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin trace the evolution of the international capitalist system over the last century. (Panitch is [...]

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    Daniel DiSalvoGovernment against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences

    February 9, 2015

    Daniel DiSalvo is the author of Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2015). DiSalvo is associate professor of political science at the City College of New York, CUNY, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. It is rare that an academic book attracts attention and stokes real controversy, but look to [...]

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    Stephanie CoontzA Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

    February 6, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in Gender Studies] Stephanie Coontz is an award-winning social historian, the director of Research and Public Education at the Council for Contemporary Families and teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. In A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Basic Books, 2014), Coontz [...]

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    Emma AndersonThe Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs

    February 2, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] Martyrdom, writes Emma Anderson, is anything but random. In beautiful prose and spectacular historical detail, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs (Harvard University Press, 2013), takes readers on a journey of more than 300 years, exploring how a group of eight Frenchmen were selected from the amongst the thousands of [...]

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    Elena ConisVaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization

    February 2, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in Medicine] The 1960s marked a “new era of vaccination,” when Americans eagerly exposed their arms and hind ends for shots that would prevent a range of everyday illnesses—not only prevent the lurking killers, like polio. Medical historian Elena Conis shows that Americans’ gradual acceptance of vaccination was far from a medical fait accompli: it [...]

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    Thomas F. SchallerThe Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House

    January 29, 2015

    [Cross-posted from New Books in Political Science] Thomas F. Schaller is the author of The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House (Yale University Press, 2015). Schaller is professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. With a new Congress up and running, Republican control of Capitol Hill is back. But has the Republican [...]

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