MU Libraries New Books: World History

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6/12/2013

5/22/2013

The return of a king : the battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 / William Dalrymple. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Outside the Wire gives voice to soldiers who so often go mute and who so often retreat into isolation and despair, unable or unwilling to attach language to personal experience. The narratives and anecdotes collected in this wonderful volume are as varied and as unpredictable and as idiosyncratic as humanity itself. In this collection the reader will encounter anger, grief, laughter, loneliness, joy, terror, bitterness, redemption, hope, and cynicism. I was spellbound.

(Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato )

Outside the Wire gives me hope. Our young men and women in the U.S. military experience the terror and horror of war. Through Christine Leche's extraordinary new collection of their eyewitness stories, we can see how the process of writing offers them a way to live."—

(Maxine Hong Kingston, editor of Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace )

Outside the Wire is testimony of the most important kind. If there are any truths to be learned from our long wars they may well be found in these pages. A powerful, and powerfully necessary, collection.

(Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds )

5/8/2013

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Call #: DA908 .F74 2012

Europe's long century : society, politics, and culture, 1900-present / Spencer M. Di Scala. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: D424 .D57 2013

From the pillars of Hercules to the footsteps of the Argonauts / edited by Antoine Hermary and Gocha R. Tsetskhladze. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: DE59 .F86 2012

Il mosaico di Castel Porziano / Maria Nicoletta Pagliardi, Marina Magnani Cianetti. (5/8/2013)

Being American in Europe, 1750-1860 / Daniel Kilbride. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Northern Ireland's lost opportunity : the frustrated promise of political loyalism / Tony Novosel. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

The last blank spaces : exploring Africa and Australia / Dane Kennedy. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Kennedy sorts through a far more complicated and messy history of 19th-century British exploration than the record has assumed, taking into account much failure as well as a deep reliance on indigenous help. The author asserts that the first British explorers of Australia and Africa looked to the vast continents much as the seafaring explorers had regarded the sea before them, as great unknown oceans, blank spaces to be 'measured, mapped, quantified, classified, catalogued, and compared.' ...Kennedy teases out a fascinating comparative study of Australian versus African exploration that takes into account the early British settlers' colonies in the former and the richly entrenched indigenous societies and forbidding disease environment in the latter...A wealth of research for the armchair traveler and historian. (Kirkus Reviews 20130115)

Triumphalist narratives of European trailblazers leave out complexity and conflict, along with the contributions of indigenous peoples, according to this probing social history of 19th-century imperialist British exploration...Kennedy shrewdly dissects the ideology of exploration as the adventurous standard-bearer of progress and sets it against the record of British explorers confronting sophisticated, canny, contentious locals with their own agendas and formidable resources. These locals helped, thwarted, and sometimes even took command of European expeditions. Kennedy's erudite yet highly readable study restores much of the nuance and drama that has been airbrushed out of standard accounts of Western exploration. (Publishers Weekly 20130114)

Call #: DT3 .K36 2013

The SAGE handbook of historical theory / edited by Nancy Partner and Sarah Foot. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Hayden White
University Professor, Emeritus, of the History of Consciousness, in the University of California and Sometime Consultant Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies, Stanford University

The editors have assembled a large and outstanding group of historians and other theorists who examine and represent theories of historical knowledge from every angle. The collection is comprehensive, scholarly, and full of new insights.
David Carr
Professor Emeritus, Emory University

The challenges of the use of theory in history is analysed and interrogated in significant and exciting ways in this work. In drawing on the insights of leading scholars, this indispensible volume broadens the parameters of our investigation of the past and deepens our interpretation and understanding of historical knowledge.
Joy Damousi
Professor of History, University of Melbourne

Nancy Partner and Sarah Foot have brought together a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays on historical theory. The special feature is that more than half the contributions are written by working historians with their feet on the ground. The book will be invaluable both to students of historiography and seasoned practitioners.

John Tosh
Professor of History, University of Roehampton

4/17/2013

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Call #: DT73.S3 S36 2012

Third world colonialism and strategies of liberation : Eritrea and East Timor compared / Awet Tewelde Weldemichael. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DT397 .W45 2013

Transforming the world : global political history since World War II / Keith Robbins. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: D443 .R572 2013