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The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast by PUTNAM, LARA

“…This essay explores the consequences for historians’ research of the twinned transnational and digitized turns. The accelerating digitization of primary and…”
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The Four Black Deaths by Green, Monica H.

“…Abstract The Black Death, often called the largest pandemic in human history, is conventionally defined as the massive plague outbreak of 1346 to 1353 c.e…”
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Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s by OGLE, VANESSA

“…This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisting of tax…”
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Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World by KRAMER, PAUL A.

“…Kramer argues for the utility of the "imperial" in placing the history of the US in a global context. Combining historiographic review, critique, and…”
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Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism by LIPARTITO, KENNETH

“…Recent writing in economic and business history is reexamining major transformations in world history—industrialization, capitalism, the global economy. This…”
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Slavery, Sovereignty, and “Inheritable Blood”: Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery by BREWER, HOLLY

“…Historians of slavery in America—most notably Edmund Morgan—had their ideas shaped by the struggles of the Cold War, and debates over the connections between…”
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood by Maza, Sarah

“…Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on…”
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American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950 by BECKERT, SVEN

“…During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of…”
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The Waves of Heterotopia: Toward a Vernacular Intellectual History of the Indian Ocean by GREEN, NILE

“…In response to recent discussions of the possibility of writing global intellectual histories, this essay asks what that might involve for world regions beyond…”
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Life-Affirming Endurance by Sameh, Catherine Z.

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Peace and the Environment by Higuchi, Toshihiro

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The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History by Goode, Michael, Smolenski, John

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Forum on Scholarship and Peace Activism by Cortright, David, Gosse, Van, Power, Margaret, Rose, Shelley E, Rubino, Emily, Wittner, Lawrence S

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For Peace or against War? by Hostetter, David L, Howlett, Charles F

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The Colonial Rule of Law and the Legal Regime of Exception: Frontier "Fanaticism" and State Violence in British India by KOLSKY, ELIZABETH

“…Kolsky examines the creation of a legal "state of exception" on the northwest frontier of British India. Colonial expansion to this remote area involved…”
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Looking for the Soul of Environmental Lament: Civil Religion, Political Emotion and the Handling of the Earth in the New Deal Era by Thompson, Michael G, Monagle, Clare

“…In texts, films, paintings and speeches, New Deal policymakers and allied intellectuals deployed biblical language and images to evoke contrition for…”
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Carceral Recycling: Zero Waste and Imperial Extraction in Nazi Germany by Berg, Anne

“…Carceral recycling—a system of camp-based waste labor—was instrumental to the Judeocide. Tracing the connections between resource fetishism and ideas about…”
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We Found Her at the River: German Humanitarian Fantasies and Child Sponsorship in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Melanie Schulze Tanielian

“…This article focuses on the discursive and practical strategies of German humanitarian work on behalf of Ottoman Armenians in the Eastern Mediterranean…”
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Comment by Alice O’Connor by O’Connor, Alice

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Good Question by Barringer, Whitney E, McFarlane, Scot, Kryczka, Nicholas

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