New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Victor Bulmer‑Thomas, “Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present and Future of the United States” (Yale UP, 2018)

   Published: 7/23/2018
2. Jamie Stern-Weiner, “Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions” (OR Books, 2018)

   Published: 7/19/2018
3. Guy Laron, “The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East” (Yale UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/16/2018
4. Sebastian Conrad, “What is Global History?” (Princeton UP, 2016)

   Published: 7/11/2018
5. Matthew Casey, “Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/11/2018
6. Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 7/11/2018
7. Craig Symonds, “World War II at Sea: A Global History” (Oxford UP, 2018)

   Published: 7/6/2018
8. Zoltan Pall, “Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

   Published: 7/6/2018
9. Sarah Snyder, “From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed Foreign Policy”

   Published: 7/3/2018
10. Gordon Mathews, “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

    Published: 7/3/2018
11. Jeff Koelher, “Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup” (Bloomsbury, 2017)

    Published: 7/2/2018
12. Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/29/2018
13. Sumita Mukherjee, “Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/26/2018
14. Ignacio Aguiló, “The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina” (U Wales Press, 2018)

    Published: 6/19/2018
15. Guy Burton, “Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947” (Lexington Books, 2018)

    Published: 6/18/2018
16. Ben Clift, “The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis by Ben Clift” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/15/2018
17. Helen Bones, “The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World” (Otago University Press, 2018)

    Published: 6/14/2018
18. Odd Arne Westad, “The Cold War: A World History” (Basic Books, 2017)

    Published: 6/13/2018
19. Ashoka Mody, “Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts” (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/8/2018
20. A. James McAdams, “Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party” (Princeton UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/4/2018