New Books in World Affairs

1888 Episodes

1. Simone Muller, “Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks” (Columbia UP, 2016)

   Published: 7/10/2017
2. Susanna Forrest, “The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)

   Published: 6/29/2017
3. Ronald A. Lindsay, “The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What to Do” (Pitchstone Publishing, 2014)

   Published: 6/23/2017
4. Leonard Grob and John Roth, “Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture,” (U. Washington Press, 2016)

   Published: 6/20/2017
5. Jorge Duany, “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 6/13/2017
6. Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 6/8/2017
7. Or Rosenboim, “The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950” (Princeton UP, 2017)

   Published: 5/23/2017
8. Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)

   Published: 5/19/2017
9. Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)

   Published: 5/18/2017
10. Paul Hollander, “From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/13/2017
11. Cemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)

    Published: 5/1/2017
12. Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT, 2014)

    Published: 4/18/2017
13. Mark P. Bradley, “The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 4/17/2017
14. Phil Gurski, “Western Foreign Fighters: The Threat to Homeland and International Security” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

    Published: 4/17/2017
15. Robert Jervis, “How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics” (Princeton UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/20/2017
16. Tony Collins, “The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

    Published: 3/19/2017
17. Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)

    Published: 3/17/2017
18. Phoebe Chow, “Britain’s Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931” (Routledge, 2016)

    Published: 3/7/2017
19. David F. Lancy, “The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

    Published: 3/6/2017
20. Brian T. Edwards, “After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 3/6/2017