Tag Archives: book review
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Book Review: Maya Jasanoff’s Liberty’s Exiles
Leave a commentJanuary 24, 2014 by magpiemenina
Maya Jasanoff. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Vintage, 2011. Summary: After a brief introduction on …
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Book Review: Charles Freeman’s Holy Bones, Holy Dust
4December 15, 2013 by magpiemenina
Another book review. Nonfiction. Charles Freeman. Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe. New Haven, …
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Book Review: Molly Caldwell Crosby’s The American Plague
3November 13, 2013 by magpiemenina
Greetings all! Jaybird has been contemplating his first post deeply. It is coming, but not quite yet. It’s been too …
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A Whimsical Review of James Agee and Walker Evans’ Book, Cotton Tenants.
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2013 by magpiemenina
A posthumous publication, written by a reader’s favorite author and never imagined to exist, or imagined to be lost, can …
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Book Review: Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy’s Rabid
5March 1, 2013 by magpiemenina
Dear readers, it has been quite a while since I’ve blogged a book review. I assure you, it is not …
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Book Review: Richard L. Bushman’s From Puritan to Yankee
Leave a commentSeptember 30, 2012 by magpiemenina
I recently finished reading, after suffering through pages of boredom, Richard L. Bushman’s From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social …
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Book Review: Kathleen M. Brown’s Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Leave a commentSeptember 7, 2012 by magpiemenina
I finished reading Kathleen M. Brown’s Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Institute …
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Book Review: Hodder’s The Leopard’s Tale
Leave a commentAugust 8, 2012 by magpiemenina
I recently finished a leisurely reading of Ian Hodder’s The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (London: Thames & …
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