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Back to SearchJason Stanley, “How Propaganda Works” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Propaganda names a familiar collection of phenomena, and examples of propaganda are easy to identify, especially when one examines the output of tota…
11 years ago
Andrew Needham, “Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Last month, VICE NEWS released a short documentary about the Navajo Nation called “Cursed by Coal.” The images and stories confirm the title. “Seems …
11 years ago
Michael Gorra, “The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany” (Princeton UP, 2006)
Despite being Germany’s most famous literary lion, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to jump on a mail coach incognito to begin his travels to I…
11 years ago
Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Jewish settlement in Palestine and the revival of Hebrew as a national language have profoundly impacted the…
11 years, 1 month ago
Michelle Nickerson, “Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Recently, historians have shown that the modern conservative movement is older and more complex than has often been assumed by either liberals or his…
11 years, 1 month ago
Bill T. Jones, “Story/Time: The Life of An Idea” (Princeton UP, 2014)
When does a dance become a book? How does choreography lend itself to the page? What discontents exist in theorizing performance that are best explor…
11 years, 1 month ago
Udi Greenberg, “The Weimar Century: German Emigres and the Ideological Foundation of the Cold War” (Princeton UP, 2015)
American policymakers and scholars alike have looked to the rapid transformation of Germany, specifically West Germany, from a defeated Nazi state in…
11 years, 2 months ago
Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)
It is generally accepted that lying is morally prohibited. But theorists divide over the nature of lying’s wrongness, and thus there is disagreement …
11 years, 2 months ago
Kenneth Prewitt, “What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans” (Princeton UP, 2013)
The US Census has been an important American institution for over 220 years. Since 1790, the US population has been counted and compiled, important f…
11 years, 3 months ago
Henry Nau, “Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Reagan, Truman, and Polk” (Princeton UP, 2013)
The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised important questions about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy and how Americans can best …
11 years, 5 months ago