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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Brad Tyer - Opportunity, Montana

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Early on in Brad Tyer's book about the town of Opportunity he makes a telling point about the brochures that advertise the tourist mecca...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

James Donovan - A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn

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James Donovan's A Terrible Glory is widely described as the definitive account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It certainly is a re...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Peter Blickle - Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth Century Germany

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What was the Reformation? A simple explanation would be that it was the movement of reform inititated within the Catholic Church by Martin L...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Jim Harrison - Legends of the Fall

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Best known today from the Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt film, Legends of the Fall was Jim Harrison's breakthrough collection of three no...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell (eds) - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region

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About twenty years ago me, and a large number of other activists, attended an environmental conference in London. One of the workshops at th...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Michael Punke - Fire and Brimstone

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In early June 1917, one of the most horrific mining disasters in history took place near Butte, Montana in the United States. The Granite/Sp...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Stephen Baxter - Raft

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Stephen Baxter's Raft was first published in 1991 but it bears the imprint of an earlier generation of science fiction which made scien...
Monday, April 08, 2024

Ivan Doig - This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

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Ivan Doig's book is, superficially, what might be described as a memoir or autobiography. It covers, for instance, Doig's life in pa...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Tom Scott - Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country relations in the age of Reformation and Peasants' War

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Tom Scott was one of the great historians of German history in, as the subtitle to Freiburg and the Breisgau says, the age of Reformation a...
Monday, April 01, 2024

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World is Forest

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When yumens arrive on Athshe they find themselves in the midst of plenty. Earth is short of crucial resources, but Athshe is covered in one ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Naomi Klein - Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world

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Naomi Klein came to prominence as a journalist and author during the anti-capitalist movement of the early 2000s. Her book  No Logo  almost ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Pekka Hämäläinen - Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

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In the introduction to this outstanding new history of the Lakota Native American people, Pekka Hämäläinen makes the point that the Lakota a...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Seishi Yokomizo - Death on Gokumon Island

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Seishi Yokomizo's Death on Gokumon Island is the second outing for his famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi (though oddly in the English t...

Donny Gluckstein & Janey Stone - The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance fighters & firebrands

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The introduction to Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone's important new book locates the work exactly in contemporary debates. They make t...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Clark C. Spence - Montana: A History

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The States and the Nation series was a collection of books commissioned to mark the bicentennial of the United States. There were 51 in tota...
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