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28 February 2020
The Global City - Book Review
Created page with "Originally published in 1991, Saskia Sassen’s The Global City sparked debates across disciplines and fields. Arguing that the forces of technological/telecommunication innov..."
Favelas and Ghettos - Book Review
Created page with "dos Santos Oliveira, N. “Favelas and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio De Janeiro and New York City.” Latin American Perspectives (1996): 71–89. Ney dos Santos Oliveira’..."
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean - Book Review
Created page with "Tropes about globalization champion its rapid ascent as it “loudly shouts its presence everywhere.” (3) In contrast, diasporas gather slowly, over generations building ide..."
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 - Book Review
Created page with "Publishing in 1987, historian Christine Stansell’s work City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City 1790-1860 illustrates the shifting terrain of women’s history but als..."
Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America - Book Review
Created page with "Published in 1981, Gwendolyn Wright’s Building the Dream emerged before Arnold Hirsch’s classic on Chicago’s post depression housing segregation Making the Second Ghetto..."
Environmental Values in American Culture - Book Review
Created page with "Environmental Values in American Culture is “an Anthropological Study of how Americans view global warming and other environmental changes”. It was written in 1999, at the..."
The Crisis of Growth Politics - Book Review
Created page with "“Growth politics can be defined, simply, as the effort by governments to enhance the economic attractiveness of their locality, to increase the intensity of land use by enti..."
Unequal Under Law - Book Review
Created page with "Provine gives a well-crafted analysis on drug policy in the United States and the fact that those policies are first and foremost racially-framed. The result of these racially..."
Window on Freedom - Book Review
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Window on Freedom - Book Review
Created page with "Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, does a good job of placing the United States's Civil Rights Movement int..."
Cities of Knowledge - Book Review
Created page with "Margaret Pugh O’Mara’s Cities of Knowledge is a welcome addition to the study of the so-called “informational city,” to which scholars such as Manuel Castells and Anna..."
My Blue Heaven - Book Review
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My Blue Heaven - Book Review
Created page with "Identities serve as catalysts in numerous epochs of American history. The twentieth century illustrates this phenomena as much if not more than any other century in United Sta..."
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics - Book Review
Created page with "Every so often a work of scholarship levels the field, reorienting perspectives, realigning identities and their meanings, while providing a new point of departure for future..."
Bohemian Los Angeles - Book Review
Created page with "What does it mean to “be” white, or black, or gay, or rich, or Jewish? What if you were a biracial Ethiopian Jew who grew up poor but now has a big bank account? Which ide..."
Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique” - Book Review
Created page with "Biographical approaches to historical study often exhibit great popularity among the broader public, however, their utility as a lens into history sparks debate among scholars..."
Redeeming the Dial - Book Review
Created page with "In the fast-paced world of early twenty-first century society, instantaneous access to information and popular culture is not a luxury. Rather, it is an assumed fact of life,..."
Magical Urbanism - Book Reivew
Created page with "Mike Davis adds to his prolific output concerning Southern California history especially his attention to Latino immigration and urban life. Less angry then City of Quartz but..."
City of Quartz - Book Review
Created page with "Chapter 1 Davis traces LA history back to the turn of the century exploring some of its socialist roots that were later driven out by real estate/development/booster interests..."
News over the Wires - Book Review
Created page with "Blondheim sees the telegraph as a key moment in the change from an "age of transportation" to an "age of electric communication." He quotes an 1847 poem to highlight the chang..."
27 February 2020
Why was France defeated in 1940
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Why was France defeated in 1940
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
Who is Hera?
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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Why did Hera hate Zeus
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How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
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What Were the Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
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21 February 2020
How did the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) change the Ancient World
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How did the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) change the Ancient World
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How did the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) change the Ancient World
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How did the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) change the Ancient World
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20 February 2020
How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
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How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
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How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
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How Historically Accurate is the Rise of Empires: Ottoman Series
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What was the impact of the defeat of the Sicilian Expedition on Athens
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19 February 2020
What happened to the ark of the covenant
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What has been the influence of the historian Thucydides
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