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New Books

Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games, Kevin B. Witherspoon

First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives, Lisa M. Burns

Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration, Scott Kaufman

Making Headlines: The American Revolution as Seen through the British Press, Troy Bickham

Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972, J. L. Anderson

Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire, John Phillip Reid

Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture, Elizabeth Astrid Papazian

Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-century Britain, Alex Mold

 

New in Paperback

Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, Beth A. Salerno

Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863–1914, Theodore R. Weeks

Old Believers in Modern Russia, Roy R. Robson

Outcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906–1911, Rodney D. Anderson

Bartolomé de las Casas in History: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work, Edited by Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen

 

Recent and Notable

Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, Kevin P. Spicer

American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith, Robert J. Lacey

Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800–1860, Scott C. Martin

Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households, Global Coffee, and Fair Trade, Deborah Sick

The Early American Table: Food and Society in the New World, Trudy Eden

Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System, Kurt Hohenstein

Troubled Relations: The United States and Cambodia since 1870, Kenton Clymer

Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris, Craig Abbott

Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars, Alison K. Smith

Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia, Gary Marker

His Kingdom Come: Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia, Jennifer Hedda

Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia, Laurie Manchester


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