Apr 21, 2010

Modern History Notes

by Cliopatria

Randall Stephens,"Economic History: State of the Field," THS Blog, 16 April, offers a foretaste of Historically Speaking's symposium.

John Summers,"The Observer," The Book, 20 April, reviews Henry David Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861, edited by Damion Searls.

Michael Kazin,"Types of Murder," The Book, 19 April, reviews Michael Fellman's In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History.

Joseph Stiglitz,"The Non-Existent Hand," LRB, 22 April, Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master.

Janet Maslin,"A Magazine Master Builder," NYT, 19 April, reviews Alan Brinkley's The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.

Tobir Fischer reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual for the Guardian, 17 April.

Neil MacFarquhar,"Middle East Boyhood," NYT, 16 April, and Adam Kircher,"Jerusalem Daze," The Tablet, 20 April, review Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978.

Finally, farewell to Sharon Sievers, a historian of Japan and women's studies scholar.

More Comments:

David Michael Fahey - 4/22/2010

Social history rules (despite sniping from the "new cultural history"). What economic historians say about their field is also true for diplomatic history and probably political history. I won't even talk about intellectual history. Or military history as a field for academic historians, The main protection for historians not in social history is to claim that they view their diplomatic/political/intellectual/military topics through a social history lens.