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New book from CU Boulder professor explores the impact of literature about privilege and victimhood on our era

Award-winning book explores parallel lives of two soldiers, martyr Nathan Hale and traitor Moses Dunbar.

A new book set chronicles the lives and contributions of Latinos in Boulder County. It also explores darker chapters in the county’s past, including the presence of the Ku Klux Klan and businesses posting “White Trade Only” signs that were ripped down by veterans returning from World War II and the Korean War.

Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe By Scott G. Bruce, associate professor of history Cornell University Press In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed...

Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England By Katherine Eggert, professor of English University of Pennsylvania Press “Disknowledge”: knowing something isn’t true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England , Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning...

By Paul M. Levitt, professor emeritus of English Taylor Trade Publishing Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt’s latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a German...

Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South By Paul Sutter, associate professor of history University of Georgia Press Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a...

By Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden Sage Publications Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science , by Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden, examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency,...

By Janice Ho, assistant professor of English Cambridge University Press Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding the constitution of the nation-state in terms of the concept of citizenship. Through...

By Raza Ali Hasan, instructor of English Sheep Meadow Publishing “Once at home in Pakistan, now nested in Colorado, Ali Hasan writes in newsreel cuneiform. His poetry tastes of fast foods and ancient feasts, his language is spiced with moral and political ginger. Or you might say his proven experimental...