Category: Recent Publications

Short announcements for recently published books/articles/projects by IRH fellows. Includes a large image of the book cover, a link out to the fellow’s profile, and a link to the publisher’s site for purchasing the book.

Children’s Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle

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Anne Stiles

The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory

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Dan Kapust

On Civilization’s Edge A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World

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Kathryn Ciancia

Frontier Narratives Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean

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Steven Hutchinson

Occupied Territory Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

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Simon Balto

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

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Steven Nadler

Grimoire

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Cherene Sherrard

Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism: Scribal Composition and Transmission

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Molly Zahn

Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995

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Robert Wolensky

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

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Elizabeth Hennessy