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The African AIDS epidemic: a history / John Iliffe
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Review Date: 15 December 2016
Ten years after its publication, A History remains relevant. The epidemic continues to rage. The context of its historical and relational trajectories continues to shape both its evolution and the responses to it. Iliffe was the first to describe those contexts, and to put into perspective the epidemiological, social, economic and political histories that propelled the HIV epidemic in Africa. His insights are insightful today, too.
The Making of a Tropical Disease A Short History of Malaria / Randall Packard
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Review Date: 08 December 2016
Randall Packard’s The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria, published in 2007, was a timely overview of the history of one of the most complex and ancient of all diseases. Indeed, Packard’s sub-title: ‘a short history of malaria’ is a modest one considering the depth and breadth of the range of topics relating to the history of malaria that Packard covers.
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence / eds. Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. Blain
Review Date: 01 December 2016
Just after eight o’clock in the evening on 17 June 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, carrying a semiautomatic handgun. He sat with 12 parishioners and their pastor, South Carolina state senator Rev. Clementa Pinkney, for about an hour, as they prayed and read from the Bible.
The Revolution: A Manifesto / Ron Paul
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Review Date: 11 November 2016
Ron Paul’s The Revolution is adamant on one point: to solve the problems in modern America, Americans need to return to Constitutional values. ‘In times like these, we need a return to fundamentals’ (p. 168). The specific fundamentals to which Paul refers are as often the values of Austrian School economists as they are the Founding Fathers.
British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century / Jonathan Hogg
INTERVIEW: Daniel Snowman talks to Peter Hennessy / Robert Shepherd, Peter Hennessy
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Review Date: 15 September 2016
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Daniel Snowman talks to Peter Hennessy about his background, career, influences and forthcoming book.Peter Hennessy was Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He spent 20 years in journalism and as a presenter of the BBC Radio 4’s Analysis. He sits as an independent crossbench peer in the House of Lords.