Ranked #1
Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Christopher Harrison's book Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War (Lexington ... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #2
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, whi... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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45mins
Ranked #3
Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2023) is a historical ethnogr... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #4
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
In Smollett's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2022), acclaimed British historian Jeremy Black examines the layers of cra... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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22mins
Ranked #5
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset is charged with poisoning two young children: her ow... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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53mins
Ranked #6
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but ... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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52mins
Ranked #7
Julia Wertz, "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017)
Julia Wertz, "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017)
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017) ... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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37mins
Ranked #8
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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53mins
Ranked #9
Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
"That Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically so radically since 1991 is partially due to their position vis-à-vis ... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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45mins
Ranked #10
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Simon Mills' book A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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52mins