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EXILE & THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION
IN THE AMERICAS
Edited by Luis Roniger, James N. Green,
and Pablo Yankelevich

This collection of essays brings together leading experts in the study of exile and expatriation, whose historical and comparative perspectives enable readers to understand the phenomenon of forced displacement in the Americas. Following recent developments that highlight the centrality of diasporas and transnational studies, of transience and relocation, this book proposes that the study of exile should become a topic of central concern, closely related to basic theoretical problems and controversies on the structure of power, national representation, and transnational displacement. The contributors approach these issues through a nuanced reading of context and history. The work discusses the formative impact of exile in many of these societies at different times, while analyzing how it evolved and changed its character throughout the centuries. The systematic studies brought together in this volume will likely generate new readings of history and the societies in the Americas and the diasporas, moving away from the traditional understanding of national histories toward more regional, transnational, and even continental dimensions.

9781845196349
SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS                      
 
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

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THE NEW DEAL & MODERN AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
A Defining Rivalry
Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport

Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern U.S. conservatism and how three pillars - liberty, limited government, and constitutionalism - formed his case against the New Deal and, in turn, became the underlying philosophy of conservatism today. Illustrating how the debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were conducted much like the campaign rhetoric of liberals and conservatives in 2012, Lloyd and Davenport assert that conservatives must, to be a viable part of the national conversation, "go back to come back" - because our history contains signposts for the way forward.

9780817916855
HOOVER INSTITUTION PRESS
 
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GLORY AND HONOUR
The Renaissance in Scotland
Andrea Thomas

Taking on the preeminent cultural and intellectual movement of 15th- and 16th-century European Renaissance, this work discusses the Scottish version of renaissance culture as a hybrid, with multiple antecedents, adapted to suit the needs of Scottish patrons. Arguing that the Stewart monarchs and Scottish aristocracy sought to fully participate in the European mainstream and saw their cultural patronage as a powerful way to facilitate that aim, this history examines the buildings, books, and artifacts of the period to tell the story of a vibrant and cosmopolitan society that was innovative and confident as well as assimilative and inspirational.

9781841588728
BIRLINN

CITY INDIANS IN SPAIN'S AMERICAN EMPIRE
Edited by Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz, & Margarita R. Ochoa

Presenting the pioneering histories of urban Indians in early Latin America-a group that composed a majority of the population in Spanish America's most important cities-this survey focuses on an important but understudied segment of colonial society. The volume spans a large swath of the Americas, from Northern Mexico to Peru, over the course of three centuries. A wide variety of topics are addressed in the chapters, from indigenous governance and interethnic interactions to migration and identity. Among the individuals examined in the study are native nobles, chroniclers, textile workers, migrants, widows, orphans, and muleteers. This anthology, the first of its kind in English, demonstrates the importance of urban Indian contributions to Spanish American society in the colonial period and beyond.

9781845196219
SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS

EUGENE V. DEBS READER
Socialism and
the Class Struggle
Edited by William A. Pelz

Eugene Debs, one of the most radical labor leaders of the early 20th-century United States, was also an important figure in the American political landscape, running as the presidential candidate for the Socialist Party five times and obtaining nearly a million votes in 1912 and 1920. This collection gathers some of Debs's most representative writings and speeches, pieces in which he rails against the injustices of capitalism while arguing for a socialist system based on political and industrial democracy. As revealing as they are about Debs's political and social thought, these writings also paint a broader canvas of his life, demonstrating his conversion to socialism.

9780850366136
MERLIN PRESS

A National Geographic Article Questions Viking History
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID COVENTRY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID COVENTRY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Writer Christopher Shea looks for a wider perspective on the reputation of the Vikings of Norse history in his recent article for National Geographic, 'Did the Vikings Get a Bum Rap?'

Shea discusses the research by Yale historian Anders Winroth, a MacArthur Fellow, who suggests that Vikings be considered in context and in comparison with other groups of that period - a perspective that humanizes them.



Read More About the Norse
Nordic Academic Press has published a fascinating new study on Old Norse religion

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TRACING OLD NORSE COSMOLOGY
The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun
in Archeaological Perspectives

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse cosmology and argues that the fundamental ideas of an ordered universe, time, and space in Old Norse religion can be studied in a dialogue between archaeology and the Icelandic narrative tradition. Ideas about the world tree, middle earth, and the sun can be traced in images and material culture from Scandinavian prehistory. By combining the prehistoric representations with the later written record the author presents a fresh and nuanced study of the fascinating Old Norse world.

9789185509386
NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS
  
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