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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.

"The era of reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a massive, multipronged energy transition. Oil, gas, and electricity were woven into a culture that had to heal sectional differences after the Civil War, absorb an enormous influx of immigrants, shift from a rural to an urban society, and adopt a scientific understanding of nature.
"Every job, business, house, and street underwent a transformation so rapid and radical that Americans simply could not grasp the larger pattern. The concepts of “technology” and an “energy transition” had yet to emerge, and observers struggled to understand their experiences using inadequate terms such as “kaleidoscopic change,” “applied science,” and “the machine age.” In The Great Energy Transition, David Nye documents this transformation—and explains our failure to see it for what it was.
"In this disorienting transformation, Nye locates the roots of today’s cultural polarization. The great energy transition accelerated demographic and economic trends, including higher wages, increasing longevity, the commodification of experience, engineering nature, corporatism, urbanization, resistance to science, and racial segregation. At the same time, the book points to the innovations and institutions that held the country together, from national parks and monuments to mass consumption and newly invented media events."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Too long, and self-indulgently written.  (I know, I know.)  But over-all sound, and cumulatively devastating.]]></description>
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"Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs": these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this eye-opening book, digital advertising was well underway before the widespread use of the Internet. Explaining how marketers have brandished the tools of automation and management science to exploit new profit opportunities, Selling the American People traces data-driven surveillance all the way back to the 1950s, when the computerization of the advertising business began to blend science, technology, and calculative cultures in an ideology of optimization. With that ideology came adtech, a major infrastructure of digital capitalism.
"To help make sense of today's attention merchants and choice architects, McGuigan explores a few key questions: How did technical experts working at the intersection of data processing and management sciences come to command the center of gravity in the advertising and media industries? How did their ambition to remake marketing through mathematical optimization shape and reflect developments in digital technology? In short, where did adtech come from, and how did data-driven marketing come to mediate the daily encounters of people, products, and public spheres? His answers show how the advertising industry's efforts to bend information technologies toward its dream of efficiency and rational management helped to make "surveillance capitalism" one of the defining experiences of public life."]]></description>
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"For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of this irreplaceable engineering tool that has helped cities accommodate continuous rise in traffic from the 1950s on. Beginning with UTDM's origins as a method to help plan new infrastructure, Konstantinos Chatzis follows its trajectory through new generations of models that helped make optimal use of existing capacity and examines related policy instruments, including the recent use of intelligent transportation systems.
"Chatzis investigates these models as evolving entities involving humans and nonhumans that were shaped through a specific production process. In surveying the various generations of UTDM, he delves into various means of production (from tabulating machines to software packages) and travel survey methods (from personal interviews to GPS tracking devices and smartphones) used to obtain critical information. He also looks at the individuals who have collectively built a distinct UTDM social world by displaying specialized knowledge, developing specific skills, and performing various tasks and functions, and by communicating, interacting, and even competing with one another.
"Original and refreshingly accessible, Forecasting Travel in Urban America offers the first detailed history behind the thinkers and processes that impact the lives of millions of city dwellers every day."]]></description>
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    <title>The Crisis of Soviet Power in Central Asia: The 'Uzbek cotton affair' (1975-1991) - E-Theses</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-18T14:27:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The crisis of Soviet power in Central Asia: The 'Uzbek cotton affair', 1975-1991 aims at reconstructing and interpreting the final phases of Soviet political history and its effects in Uzbekistan. To this end, the reconstruction of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ – a judicial and political case linking the falsification of cotton production data and corruption that involved thousands of party and state officials in the republic – is something of a case study in evaluating Moscow’s grip on the ‘periphery’ of its empire. This case tracks the life story of Uzbekistan from its consolidation as a Soviet republic, through crisis and ultimately its transition into an independent state. Thus, we can identify ‘the Uzbek cotton affair’ as a critical reason for the transformations within republican political society. At the same time, it can be read as a symptom of a greater incurable disease within the whole Soviet Union itself, a system that collapsed when this kind of top-down hierarchical order – led by ideology, elite politics, social forces and interest groups and even administrators and bureaucrats – cracked down. This dissertation is divided in three parts with a total of seven chapters. The first part is introductory and aims to contextualize the Uzbek ‘periphery’ within the Soviet state, at both the political and at socio-economic level. In the first chapter, I introduce the political features that determined the consolidation of Soviet power in the UzSSR. After the formation of Uzbekistan, the Stalinist terror and the destalinization transition, the Soviet leadership transitioned to a peaceful, decentralized and tolerant pattern of control over the farthest regions of the USSR. During the 70s, the Moscow leadership and the republican party cadres built a patrimonial system that relied on local figures who could ensure loyalty to the central state. This led to the creation of autonomous client networks inside the republic and the mediation of the FS CPUz between Moscow and the national elites. This approach was particularly evident during the long ‘reign’ of the FS CPUz Sharaf Rashidov (1959-1983), a controversial figure at the center of the Cold War who – as we will see in the second chapter – turned Uzbekistan into a ‘cotton republic.’ In fact, the UzSSR became the main supplier of ‘white gold’ and from the ‘60s it essentially doubled down on cotton monoculture as a strategic task for ‘building communism’: for the tenth FYP (1976-1981), Soviet planners demanded an annual production of six million tons of raw cotton from Tashkent and reaching this target at any cost became a matter of political stability and legitimacy for the Uzbek ruling elite. The second part is argumentative and focuses on the three phases of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair.’ Hence, the third chapter analyzes the context of the second economy in the USSR and the features related to corruption and falsification of cotton production data in Uzbekistan. The rise of Andropov and his ‘moralization campaign’ would see an attempt to legalize, cleanse and – ultimately – revitalize a system in which stagnation and fraud had reached unprecedented levels. In 1983, the so called ‘Bukhara affair’ exposed the level of ‘official corruption’ and overwhelmed the higher echelons of the party and state of the UzSSR. Nevertheless, this ‘silent phase’ – characterized by preliminary inquiries, the preservation of power structures in Uzbekistan and general institutional silence – culminated in the death of Rashidov, the subsequent struggle among local elites and a nominal transformation of the patrimonial system. Thus, in the fourth chapter we analyze the ‘systemic phase’ of the Uzbek affair (1984-1985), when Moscow’s moralizing campaign was extended during the XVI plenum CPUz (1984) to map on to discord within the national party elites, the donos (complaints) wars and the internal struggles within the bureaucracy in post-Rashidovian Uzbekistan. The fifth chapter analyzes Moscow’s subsequent ‘trusteeship’ over the republic, reflected in the ‘krasnyi desant’ campaign endorsed by the CC CPSU, the derashidovization crusade, and the zenith of internal struggles in the wake of the ouster of the FS CPUz Usmankhodzhaev and his replacement with the Moscow loyalist Nishanov who attempted and failed to destroy local patrimonial networks. Third and final part is aimed at evaluating the results of the Uzbek cotton affair in the center and in the periphery, and see if this story became a factor determining the collapse of the Soviet system as in Moscow as in Tashkent. The sixth chapter focuses on the investigators Gdlyan and Ivanov who became a symbol of the prosecution of the ‘big fish’ and alleged prominent members of the CC CPSU – and even Gorbachev – of being in collusion with the ‘Uzbek mafiya.’ The case, the related media circus and the political campaign of the two radical mavericks threatened the credibility of Gorbachev and the legitimacy of the CPSU, the state and its survival in a time of serious changes and great internal challenges. Democrats and the inner opposition to the Gensek in the CPSU exploited the ‘Gdlyan-Ivanov affair’, and the whole case became a symptom of the collapsing system. The seventh chapter deals with the myth-building of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ in early Karimov’s Uzbekistan, where the story was narrated using critical discourse – such as ‘colonial,’ ‘purge,’ ‘terror,’ ‘new 1937,’ and even ‘genocide’ – in a Republic that had once been considered one of the most loyal within the Soviet system. Thus, the ‘Uzbek affair’ became a crucial event of Karimov’s ‘ideological shift’ from communism to Mustaqillik – the ideology based on the values of the Uzbek independence – and a sensitive identity issue of revenge/resistance against the former rulers, investing in a post-colonial trauma that contributed to legitimize the president’s regime and his relations with local power networks. Thus, dealing with recent Soviet times still represents a great challenge for contemporary historiography. The last decades of USSR history are still debated, defining a period that needs more work still to understand the characteristics, the limits and the contradictions that led to the end of the Soviet system. In that sense my primary goal in reconstructing these crucial and still obscure events here has been historiographical and it is intended at using primary unpublished sources, literature and oral history to uncover opaque aspects of the past. Relatedly, this research aims at offering a non-centrally oriented historiographical reconstruction of the final decades of the Soviet system, analyzing the evolutions of patrimonialism in USSR and the impact of perestroika, the dynamics of the purges and the symptoms of the collapse in the periphery of the empire in order to fill a historiographical gap of research on perestroika in Central Asia that is practically nonexistent. Furthermore, this research aims to recompose the framework of the ‘Uzbek cotton affair’ beyond its existence as a ‘simplistic label’ created by the media and too often related to the ‘Gdlyan-Ivanov affair’ only. Nevertheless, the case proceeded at different levels involving the party, prokuratura, MVD, KGB and soviets at the local and even at the central level, while only a part of the corruption and the other ‘negative phenomena’ revealed in the republic were related to cotton and a great part of the involved officials were not Uzbeks. Finally, this research aims at interpreting the last decades of Soviet history through a new interpretative key to understand how collapse-symptoms that had been exploited in Moscow and in Tashkent in order to avow the split from the USSR. The research is based on extensive unpublished archival material, literature and interviews and is aimed at expanding the horizon of current historiography."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-01-23T04:30:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>water inequality india 20th_century_history caste have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Free-Market Socialists- European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T05:13:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57552</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen—an architect and urban planner—made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe to the United States, beginning with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and moving through the heady years of newly independent social-democratic republics before the descent into fascism. It follows their experience of exile and adaptation in a new country, and culminates with a surprising outcome of socialist thinking: the opening of the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned suburban shopping center in the United States. Although the American culture they encountered ostensibly celebrated entrepreneurial individualism and capitalistic “free enterprise,” Moholy-Nagy, Lazarsfeld, and Gruen arrived at a time of the progressive economic reforms of the New Deal and an extraordinary open-mindedness about social democracy. This period of unprecedented economic experimentation nurtured a business climate that, for the most part, did not stifle the émigrés’ socialist idealism but rather channeled it as the source of creative solutions to the practical problems of industrial design, urban planning, and consumer behavior. Based on a vast array of original sources, Malherek interweaves the biographies of these three remarkable personalities and those of their wives, colleagues, and friends with whom they collaborated on innovative projects that would shape the material environment and consumer culture of their adopted home. The result is a narrative of immigration and adaptation that challenges the crude binary of capitalism and socialism with a story of creative economic hybridization."
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    <title>Environmental Malthusianism and demography - Emily Klancher Merchant, 2022</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T15:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221104929</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As anthropogenic climate change threatens human existence on Earth, historians have begun to explore the scientific antecedents of environmental Malthusianism, the idea that human population growth is a major driver of ecosystem degradation and that environmental protection requires a reduction in human numbers. These accounts, however, neglect the antagonistic relationship between environmental Malthusianism and demography, thereby creating an illusion of scientific consensus. This article details the entwined histories of environmental Malthusianism and demography, revealing points of disagreement – initially over methods of analyzing and predicting population growth and later over the role of population growth in ecosystem degradation – and moments of strategic collaboration that benefited both groups of scientists. It contends that the image of scientific consensus in existing histories has lent support to ongoing calls for population control, detracting attention from more proximate causes of environmental devastation, such as polluting modes of production, extractive business practices and government subsidies for fossil fuel development."]]></description>
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    <title>Building the Population Bomb - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T15:36:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Building the Population Bomb examines how human population came to be understood as a problem in the twentieth century, how it became an object of intervention for governments, scientists, and nongovernmental organizations, and how some forms of intervention got coded as legitimate while others were recognized as coercive. It traces the emergence and growth of two scientific perspectives on population from the 1920s to the present. The first, rooted in the natural sciences, considered the world’s population as a whole in relation to natural resources. The second, rooted in the social sciences, considered national population growth rates in relation to economic growth. These two perspectives converged briefly after World War II, convincing world leaders that population growth posed a barrier to economic development and a threat to worldwide peace and environmental integrity. The book documents how this overpopulation consensus attracted vast sums of money to demography and population control, and teases out the differences between population control, birth control, and family planning. It concludes with the fracturing of this consensus at the end of the 1960s, constituting the factions that structure today’s debates over whether the world’s population is growing too quickly or not quickly enough, and over what should be done about it. The book documents how population growth came to take the blame for the world’s most complex and pressing problems, and how efforts to solve “the population problem” have diverted attention and resources from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice."


--- AEO recommends!]]></description>
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    <title>Rise and Demise of World Communism - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T14:31:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the twentieth century. Only five of them remain in power today. This book explores the nature of communist regimes—what they share in common, how they differ from each other, and how they differentially evolved over time. The book finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that came to value “revolutionary violence” as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx’s vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin’s conception of party organization. All these regimes went on to “build socialism” according to a Stalinist template, and were initially dedicated to “anti-imperialist struggle” as members of a “world communist movement.” But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement. They eventually led to the collapse of European communism. The remains of communism in China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba were made possible by the first three transforming their economic systems, opening to the capitalist international order, and abandoning “anti-imperialist struggle.” North Korea and Cuba have hung on due to the elites avoiding splits visible to the public. Analytically, the book explores, throughout, the interaction among the internal features of communist regimes (ideology and organization), the interactions among them within the world communist movement, and the interaction of communist states with the broader international order of capitalist powers."]]></description>
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    <title>Occult Imperium: Arturo Reghini, Roman Traditionalism, and the Anti-Modern Reaction in Fascist Italy - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-24T21:02:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This book examines the life and works of Italian mathematician and occultist Arturo Reghini (1878–1946): through a careful analysis of his writings, a theory arguing the existence of a conservative, anti-modern form of occultism is put forth. Such a theory represents an attempt to counterbalance the many ideas of occultism as exclusively progressive in nature put forth by previous scholars, namely Alex Owen, Marco Pasi, and Corinna Treitel. The work analyzes the intersection between modernity, occultism, and Traditionalism in a key period of Italian history, which includes World War I, the twenty years of Fascist rule, and World War II. Occultism and Traditionalism are also analyzed through the lens of their interaction with reactionary, extreme right-wing politics, with the avant-garde movements of the day, such as Futurism, and through a careful scrutiny of Reghini’s correspondence, some hitherto unpublished, with other giants of occultism of the day, such as René Guénon (1886–1951) and Amedeo Armentano (1886–1966)."

--- I'm rather blown away that anyone thinks that the existence of reactionary occultism in the 20th century needs to be _argued for_.  (But the "mathematician" bit makes me wonder if hearing about this mightn't have constituted a source for Susanna Clarke's _Piranesi_.)]]></description>
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    <title>Dreaming of a “New Planning”: Development and the Internationalization of Economic Thought in Late Soviet Reformist Politics – Humanity Journal</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper argues that the trajectory of late-Soviet economic thought must be understood in the context of a larger global discourse on the proper role of state planning in the context of development. This debate was born out of a disappointment with the development planning that had dominated prescriptions of economists and policy entrepreneurs on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Faced with the failures of economic development in the “Third World” and a socio-economic crisis in “industrial societies” these intellectuals attempted to invent a “new planning” that derived sources of growth from a “human factor” rather than industrial development. To further this agenda, these figures established international organizations such as the Club of Rome and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Proponents of new planning saw it as a way reorganize the global economy during the turbulent 1970s. As well, these same ideas informed the development of Perestroika."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents’ antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth century, to its postwar reconstruction in the 1950s, to its explosive reinvention by the 1960s counterculture.
"Terence Renaud demonstrates why the left in Europe underwent a series of internal revolts against the organizational forms of established parties and unions. He describes how small groups of militant youth such as New Beginning in Germany tried to sustain grassroots movements without reproducing the bureaucratic, hierarchical, and supposedly obsolete structures of Social Democracy and Communism. Neoleftist militants experimented with alternative modes of organization such as councils, assemblies, and action committees. However, Renaud reveals that these same militants, decades later, often came to defend the very institutions they had opposed in their youth.
"Providing vital historical perspective on the challenges confronting leftists today, this book tells the story of generations of antifascists, left socialists, and anti-authoritarians who tried to build radical democratic alternatives to capitalism and kindle hope in reactionary times."]]></description>
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    <title>Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State - Oxford Scholarship</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a “national epidemic” of child abductions perpetrated by strangers. Some observers insisted that fifty thousand or more children fell victim to stranger kidnappings in any given year. (The actual figure was and remains about one hundred.) Stranger Danger demonstrates how racialized and sexualized fears of stranger abduction—stoked by the news media, politicians from across the partisan divide, bereaved parents, and the business sector—helped to underwrite broader transformations in US political culture and political economy. Specifically, the child kidnapping scare further legitimated a bipartisan investment in “family values” and “law and order,” thereby enabling the development and expansion of sex offender registries, AMBER Alerts, and other mechanisms designed to safeguard young Americans and their families from “stranger danger”—and to punish the strangers who supposedly threatened them."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987913">
    <title>Science under Fire — Andrew Jewett | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-04T21:49:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987913</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture.
"Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that “tenured radicals” have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science’s celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions—and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers.
"Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation’s bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s.
"Looking at today’s battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists’ claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths."]]></description>
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    <title>Inward conquest: political origins of modern public services | Comparative politics | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-30T06:18:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/9781316647769</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period. Ansell and Lindvall show how struggles among political parties and religious groups shaped the structure of diverse yet crucially important public services, including policing, schooling, and public health. Liberals, Catholics, conservatives, socialists, and fascists all fought bitterly over both the provision and political control of public services, with profound consequences for contemporary political developments. Integrating data on the historical development of public order, education, and public health with novel measures on the ideological orientation of governments, the authors provide a wealth of new evidence on a missing link in the history of the modern state."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180151/global-development">
    <title>Global Development | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-14T17:44:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180151/global-development</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the Cold War, “development” was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the globe, from Europe and Africa to Asia and Latin America. In this sweeping and incisive book, Sara Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.
"Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Lorenzini shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. She shines new light on the international organizations behind these projects—examining their strategies and priorities and assessing the actual results on the ground—and she also gives voice to the recipients of development aid. Lorenzini shows how the Cold War shaped the global ambitions of development on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and how international organizations promoted an unrealistically harmonious vision of development that did not reflect local and international differences."]]></description>
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    <title>Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-25T06:02:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sn72</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which we live up to our ideals because otherwise we handed ammunition to the Communists.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1h1hx88">
    <title>Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-25T05:14:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1h1hx88</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB downloaded books:noted lives_of_the_tyrants biography turkey history_of_ideas 20th_century_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/russian-and-east-european-history/private-world-soviet-scientists-stalin-gorbachev?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781316647264">
    <title>Private world of Soviet scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev | Russian and east European history | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-09T17:55:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/russian-and-east-european-history/private-world-soviet-scientists-stalin-gorbachev?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781316647264</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnksf">
    <title>Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-24T18:50:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnksf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>downloaded history ussr 20th_century_history in_NB books:noted</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25002">
    <title>No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War | Michael R. Fenzel</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-30T23:53:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25002</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior leadership had become aware that their strategy was unraveling, their operational and tactical methods were not working, and the sacrifices they were demanding from the Soviet people and military were unlikely to produce the forecasted results. Despite this state of affairs, operations in Afghanistan persisted and four more years passed before the Soviets finally withdrew their military forces.
"In No Miracles, Michael Fenzel explains why and how that happened, as viewed from the center of the Soviet state. From that perspective, three sources of failure stand out: poor civil-military relations, repeated and rapid turnover of Soviet leadership, and the perception that Soviet global prestige and influence were inexorably tied to the success of the Afghan mission. Fenzel enumerates the series of misperceptions and misjudgments that led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, tracing the hazards of their military intervention and occupation. Ultimately, he offers a cautionary tale to nation states and policymakers considering military intervention and the use of force."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo18692187">
    <title>Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century, Rader, Cain</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T00:42:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo18692187</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education.
"Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades.
"A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/randall-kennedy-protesting-too-much-black-power-revisionism">
    <title>Protesting Too Much | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-16T20:42:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/randall-kennedy-protesting-too-much-black-power-revisionism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_american_dilemma us_history us_politics 20th_century_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28575569">
    <title>Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left, Newsinger</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-05T18:26:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28575569</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Few figures on the left are as widely heralded as George Orwell. Yet his actual politics are poorly understood. Hope Lies in the Proles corrects that, offering a sympathetic yet critical account of Orwell’s often muddied political thinking and its continued relevance today. John Newsinger takes up various aspects of Orwell’s personal politics, exploring his attempts to change working-class consciousness, considering it alternately romantic, realistic, and patronizing—and at times all three at once. He examines Orwell’s antifascism, and how it fits in with his criticism of the Soviet Union; looks into his relationship with the Labour Party and feminism; and delves into Orwell’s shifting views on the United States. The result is the clearest understanding we’ve ever had of Orwell’s politics and their legacy."]]></description>
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    <title>The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs, Gross</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-05T14:50:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo27760703</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produce an image, these researchers demonstrated how liquid crystals could electronically control the passage of light. One day, they predicted, liquid crystal displays would find a home in clocks, calculators—and maybe even a television that could hang on the wall.
"Half a century later, RCA’s dreams have become a reality, and liquid crystals are the basis of a multibillion-dollar global industry. Yet the company responsible for producing the first LCDs was unable to capitalize upon its invention. In The TVs of Tomorrow, Benjamin Gross explains this contradiction by examining the history of flat-panel display research at RCA from the perspective of the chemists, physicists, electrical engineers, and technicians at the company’s central laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
"Drawing upon laboratory notebooks, internal reports, and interviews with key participants, Gross reconstructs the development of the LCD and situates it alongside other efforts to create a thin, lightweight replacement for the television picture tube. He shows how RCA researchers mobilized their technical expertise to secure support for their projects. He also highlights the challenges associated with the commercialization of liquid crystals at RCA and Optel—the RCA spin-off that ultimately manufactured the first LCD wristwatch. The TVs of Tomorrow is a detailed portrait of American innovation during the Cold War, which confirms that success in the electronics industry hinges upon input from both the laboratory and the boardroom."]]></description>
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    <title>Rethinking 1950s how anticommunism and cold war made america liberal | Twentieth century American history | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-19T19:59:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/9781107620575</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Historians generally portray the 1950s as a conservative era when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted domestic reform, crushed political dissent, and ended liberal dreams of social democracy. These years, historians tell us, represented a turn to the right, a negation of New Deal liberalism, an end to reform. Jennifer A. Delton argues that, far from subverting the New Deal state, anticommunism and the Cold War enabled, fulfilled, and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Anticommunism solidified liberal political power and the Cold War justified liberal goals such as jobs creation, corporate regulation, economic redevelopment, and civil rights. She shows how despite President Eisenhower's professed conservativism, he maintained the highest tax rates in U.S. history, expanded New Deal programs, and supported major civil rights reforms."

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    <title>Doostdar, A.: The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Hardcover, Paperback and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-26T02:09:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11335.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rationalizing processes have multiplied the possibilities for metaphysical experimentation.
"The Iranian Metaphysicals examines these experiments and their transformations over the past century. Drawing on years of ethnographic and archival research, Alireza Doostdar shows that metaphysical experimentation lies at the center of some of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in modern Iran. These forms of exploration have not only produced a plurality of rational orientations toward metaphysical phenomena but have also fundamentally shaped what is understood as orthodox Shi‘i Islam, including the forms of Islamic rationality at the heart of projects for building and sustaining an Islamic Republic.
"Delving into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, The Iranian Metaphysicals challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11258.html">
    <title>Finley, C.: Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Hardcover) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-26T01:46:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11258.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance
"One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was--shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity, and remembrance.
"Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film—and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors.
"Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10371.html">
    <title>Geismer, L.: Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Hardcover, Paperback and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-10T20:53:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10371.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that—far from being an exception to national trends—the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century."

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.31.4.205">
    <title>Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-01T17:47:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.31.4.205</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rapid population growth in developing countries in the middle of the 20th century led to fears of a population explosion and motivated the inception of what effectively became a global population- control program. The initiative, propelled in its beginnings by intellectual elites in the United States, Sweden, and some developing countries, mobilized resources to enact policies aimed at reducing fertility by widening contraception provision and changing family-size norms. In the following five decades, fertility rates fell dramatically, with a majority of countries converging to a fertility rate just above two children per woman, despite large cross-country differences in economic variables such as GDP per capita, education levels, urbanization, and female labor force participation. The fast decline in fertility rates in developing economies stands in sharp contrast with the gradual decline experienced earlier by more mature economies. In this paper, we argue that population-control policies likely played a central role in the global decline in fertility rates in recent decades and can explain some patterns of that fertility decline that are not well accounted for by other socioeconomic factors."]]></description>
<dc:subject>demography demogrqphic_transition public_policy 20th_century_history in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html">
    <title>Balkinization: Corrupting the National Book Award?</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-26T19:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://balkin.blogspot.com/2017/10/corrupting-national-book-award.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vast_right-wing_conspiracy running_dogs_of_reaction history_of_ideas 20th_century_history us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11095.html">
    <title>McAdams, A.J.: Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-14T15:11:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11095.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings.
"Taking readers from the drafting of The Communist Manifesto in the 1840s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, McAdams describes the decisive role played by individual rulers in the success of their respective parties—men like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro. He demonstrates how these personalities drew on vying conceptions of the party’s functions to mesmerize their followers, mobilize their populations, and transform their societies. He also shows how many of these figures abused these ideas to justify incomprehensible acts of inhumanity. McAdams explains why communist parties lasted as long as they did, and why they either disappeared or ceased to be meaningful institutions by the close of the twentieth century."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship">
    <title>When Politics Drives Scholarship | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-31T18:59:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>farrell.henry vast_right-wing_conspiracy book_reviews 20th_century_history us_politics economics political_economy kith_and_kin have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300189452/hitlers-monsters">
    <title>Hitler's Monsters | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-08T16:45:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300189452/hitlers-monsters</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power
"The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted fascism psychoceramics 20th_century_history in_library in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11056.html">
    <title>Slezkine, Y.: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-27T16:02:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11056.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union.
"Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths.
"Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared."

Review by Sheila Fitzpatrick: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n15/sheila-fitzpatrick/good-communist-homes]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10554.html">
    <title>Fitzpatrick, S.: On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-07T19:51:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10554.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu—one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence."]]></description>
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    <title>Jansen, J.C. and Osterhammel, J.; Riemer, J., et al., trans.: Decolonization: A Short History. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T22:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10963.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history.
"Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike."]]></description>
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    <title>Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan | Global History | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-22T14:27:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/humanitarian-invasion-global-development-cold-war-afghanistan?format=HB&amp;isbn=9781107112070</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history."]]></description>
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    <title>Of Limits and Growth | Global History | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-22T14:23:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/limits-and-growth-rise-global-sustainable-development-twentieth-century?format=PB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Of Limits and Growth connects three of the most important aspects of the twentieth century: decolonization, the rise of environmentalism, and the United States' support for economic development and modernization in the Third World. It links these trends by revealing how environmental NGOs challenged and reformed development approaches of the U.S. government, World Bank, and United Nations from the 1960s through the 1990s. The book shows how NGOs promoted the use of “appropriate” technologies, environmental reviews in the lending process, development plans based on ecological principles, and international cooperation on global issues such as climate change. It also reveals that the “sustainable development” concept emerged from transnational negotiations in which environmentalists accommodated the developmental aspirations of Third World intellectuals and leaders. In sum, Of Limits and Growth offers a new history of sustainability by elucidating the global origins of environmental activism, the ways in which environmental activists challenged development approaches worldwide, and how environmental non-state actors reshaped the United States' and World Bank's development policies."]]></description>
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    <title>Mendelson, S.E.: Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover) [1998]</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-05T16:17:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where "misfit" ideas--ones that severely challenged the status quo--were turned into policies. She draws on firsthand interviews with those who ran Soviet foreign policy and the war in Afghanistan and on recently declassified material from Soviet archives to show that both ideas and political strategies were needed to make reform happen.
"Focusing on the Soviet decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, Mendelson details the strategies used by the Gorbachev coalition to shift the internal balance of power in favor of constituencies pushing new ideas--mutual security, for example--while undermining the power of old constituencies resistant to change. The interactive dynamic between ideas and politics that she identifies in the case of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is fundamental to understanding other shifts in Soviet foreign policy and the end of the Cold War. Her exclusive interviews with the foreign policy elite also offer a unique glimpse of the inner workings of the former Soviet power structure."]]></description>
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    <title>Dupree, L.: Afghanistan (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover).</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-22T18:23:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/2616.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The ancient land and the modern nation of Afghanistan are the subject of Louis Dupree's book. Both in the text and in over a hundred illustrations, he identifies the major patterns of Afghan history, society, and culture as they have developed from the Stone Age to the present.
"Originally published in 1973."

--- A classic, but now only historical.]]></description>
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    <title>Bobbio, N.; Cochrane, L.G.,: Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover).</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-22T16:46:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5749.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anyone interested in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy a masterful, thought-provoking guide. Home to the largest communist party in a democratic society, Italy has been a unique place politically, one where Christian democrats, liberals, fascists, socialists, communists, and others have co-existed in sizable numbers. In this book, Bobbio, who himself played an outstanding role in the development of Italian civic culture, follows each of the major ideologies, explaining how they developed, describing the key actors, and considering the legacies they left to political culture. He wrote Ideological Profile in 1968 to explain from a personal perspective the history behind that decade's tumultuous politics. Bobbio's defense of democracy and critique of capitalism are among the themes that will particularly interest American readers of this updated edition, the first to appear in English.
"Beginning in the late nineteenth century with positivism and Marxism, Bobbio next presents the ideological currents that developed before the outbreak of the First World War: Catholic, socialist, irrational and anti-democratic thought, the reaction against positivism, and the thinking of Benedetto Croce. After discussing the impact of the war, the author turns to the revolutionary-reactionary polarization of the postwar period and the ideology of fascism. The final chapters consider Croce's opposition to fascism and the ideals of the resistance and conclude with the post-Second World War "Years of Involvement.""]]></description>
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    <title>Watkins, S.C.: From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-22T16:28:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4667.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this shift to greater national demographic homogeneity and places it in the context of a parallel decline in linguistic diversity, as well as in the context of increases in national market integration, the expansion of state activities, and nation-building.
"The book interprets the shift as evidence of the influence of communities on demographic behavior, and as an indication of the growing predominance of national over local communities. The author uses demographic data, too often the property of specialists, to examine themes of interest to historians, sociologists, economists, and political scientists interested in the integration of modern societies."]]></description>
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    <title>Schickler, E.: Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-03T20:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10750.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades.
"Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand."]]></description>
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    <title>Wuthnow, R.: Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-15T14:55:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10327.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Tracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas’s story is also America’s. In particular, Robert Wuthnow shows how distinctions between “us” and “them” are perpetuated and why they are so often shaped by religion and politics.
"Early settlers called Texas a rough country. Surviving there necessitated defining evil, fighting it, and building institutions in the hope of advancing civilization. Religion played a decisive role. Today, more evangelical Protestants live in Texas than in any other state. They have influenced every presidential election for fifty years, mobilized powerful efforts against abortion and same-sex marriage, and been a driving force in the Tea Party movement. And religion has always been complicated by race and ethnicity.
"Drawing from memoirs, newspapers, oral history, voting records, and surveys, Rough Country tells the stories of ordinary men and women who struggled with the conditions they faced, conformed to the customs they knew, and on occasion emerged as powerful national leaders. We see the lasting imprint of slavery, public executions, Jim Crow segregation, and resentment against the federal government. We also observe courageous efforts to care for the sick, combat lynching, provide for the poor, welcome new immigrants, and uphold liberty of conscience.
"A monumental and magisterial history, Rough Country is as much about the rest of America as it is about Texas."]]></description>
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    <title>The life of American workers in 1915 : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-29T19:00:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/the-life-of-american-workers-in-1915.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economic_history american_history 20th_century_history the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed the_singularity_has_happened via:? have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Needham, A.: Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-29T19:13:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10369.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and other cities. Exploring the postwar developments of these two very different landscapes, Power Lines tells the story of the far-reaching environmental and social inequalities of metropolitan growth, and the roots of the contemporary coal-fueled climate change crisis.
"Andrew Needham explains how inexpensive electricity became a requirement for modern life in Phoenix—driving assembly lines and cooling the oppressive heat. Navajo officials initially hoped energy development would improve their lands too, but as ash piles marked their landscape, air pollution filled the skies, and almost half of Navajo households remained without electricity, many Navajos came to view power lines as a sign of their subordination in the Southwest. Drawing together urban, environmental, and American Indian history, Needham demonstrates how power lines created unequal connections between distant landscapes and how environmental changes associated with suburbanization reached far beyond the metropolitan frontier. Needham also offers a new account of postwar inequality, arguing that residents of the metropolitan periphery suffered similar patterns of marginalization as those faced in America’s inner cities.
"Telling how coal from Indian lands became the fuel of modernity in the Southwest, Power Lines explores the dramatic effects that this energy system has had on the people and environment of the region."]]></description>
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    <title>Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity, Arnold</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-04T00:31:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo14193086</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. "]]></description>
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    <title>Open Standards and the Digital Age History, Ideology, and Networks | Twentieth century American history | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-06T02:58:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military’s Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of “openness” to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other “open” systems still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control."]]></description>
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    <title>America's Assembly Line | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-20T00:20:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin’s little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America’s Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century.
"The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford’s pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing."]]></description>
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    <title>A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-30T11:59:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/chosen-calling</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an evolved genetic predisposition to scientific success. Wiener suggested that the breeding habits of Jews sustained hereditary qualities conducive for learning. Economist and eugenicist Weyl attributed Jewish intellectual eminence to "seventeen centuries of breeding for scholars."
"Rejecting the idea that Jews have done well in science because of uniquely Jewish traits, Jewish brains, and Jewish habits of mind, historian of science Noah J. Efron approaches the Jewish affinity for science through the geographic and cultural circumstances of Jews who were compelled to settle in new worlds in the early twentieth century.
"Seeking relief from religious persecution, millions of Jews resettled in the United States, Palestine, and the Soviet Union, with large concentrations of settlers in New York, Tel Aviv, and Moscow. Science played a large role in the lives and livelihoods of these immigrants: it was a universal force that transcended the arbitrary Old World orders that had long ensured the exclusion of all but a few Jews from the seats of power, wealth, and public esteem. Although the three destinations were far apart geographically, the links among the communities were enduring and spirited. This shared experience—of facing the future in new worlds, both physical and conceptual—provided a generation of Jews with opportunities unlike any their parents and grandparents had known.
"The tumultuous recent century of Jewish history, which saw both a methodical campaign to blot out Europe's Jews and the inexorable absorption of Western Jews into the societies in which they now live, is illuminated by the place of honor science held in Jewish imaginations. Science was central to their dreams of creating new worlds—welcoming worlds—for a persecuted people."]]></description>
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    <title>Sugrue, T.J.: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. (eBook and Paperback)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-10T17:08:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10233.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today's urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II.
"This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/devastation-9780199683031">
    <title>Devastation and Annihilation - Mark Levene - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-13T20:50:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://global.oup.com/academic/product/devastation-9780199683031</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history.
"Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states.
"Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.
"Volume II: Annihilation covers the period from 1939 to 1953, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and its lasting impact, and the latter part of the Stalinist regime. Levene demonstrates that while the attempted Nazi mass murder of the entirety of European Jewry represents the most thoroughgoing and extreme consequence of efforts aimed at political and social reformulation of the Rimlands' arena in particular, the accumulation and concentration of genocidal violence against many 'minority' groups would suggest that anti-Semitism or racism alone is insufficient to provide a comprehensive explanation for genocide."

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    <title>Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics, Fogel, Fogel, Guglielmo</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-01T00:40:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo15233037</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy.
"With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies."]]></description>
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    <title>Sayer, D.: Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-30T23:04:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9930.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.
"Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris.
"Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are."]]></description>
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    <title>Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-20T18:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev's thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. 
"Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers. Communism on Tomorrow Street also demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the "housing question" that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR."]]></description>
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    <title>Hanioglu, M.S.: Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-07T17:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9408.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and ideas."
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    <title>Barfield, T.: Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-28T18:43:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9144.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This looks extremely promising, not least because Barfield was studying Afghanistan _before_ 2001: "introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite [their[ regional, cultural, and political differences.... [G]overning these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite ... delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed...."
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    <title>Sigrid Schmalzer: The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature.  The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human."
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    <title>Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall: Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience</title>
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    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=295077</link>
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    <title>Powell's Books - The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara &amp; Lenin Play Chess (Public Square) by Andrei Codrescu</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-29T01:32:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780691137780</link>
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    <title>A New Message From Watts: Hope But Verify | Rick Perlstein in Newsweek</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-18T20:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/167630/output/print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>the_american_dilemma watts 20th_century_history american_history california los_angeles perlstein.rick via:aaronsw us_politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>“There never was such a fog” « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-28T05:50:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/there-never-was-such-a-fog/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>pollution steel_industry 20th_century_history the_good_old_days donora_pennsylvania</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/i-am-all-right-and-you-cannot-escape-listening-to-my-speech-either/">
    <title>“I am all right, and you cannot escape listening to my speech either.” « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-14T20:23:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/i-am-all-right-and-you-cannot-escape-listening-to-my-speech-either/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics 20th_century_history american_history assassination political_violence rauchway.eric roosevelt.theodore</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rauchway.eric"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KURDEM.html">
    <title>Democracy Denied: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy, 1905--1915, by Charles Kurzman</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-13T17:15:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KURDEM.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the decade before World War I, a wave of democratic revolutions swept the globe, consuming more than a quarter of the world’s population. Revolution transformed Russia, Iran, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Mexico, and China. In each case, a pro- democracy movement unseated a long-standing autocracy with startling speed. The nascent democratic regime held elections, convened parliament, and allowed freedom of the press and freedom of association. But the new governments failed in many instances to uphold the rights and freedoms that they proclaimed. Coups d’état soon undermined the democratic experiments."
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<dc:subject>books:noted democracy 20th_century_history intellectuals_in_politics via:idlethink kurzman.charles</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/IGOAME.html">
    <title>Sarah Igo, _The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public_</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-27T20:18:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/IGOAME.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speaking here on 11 Sept.
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<item rdf:about="http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2008/06/if-it-aint-got-that-swing.html">
    <title>Gary Farber: If It Ain't Got That Swing</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T21:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2008/06/if-it-aint-got-that-swing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>jazz 20th_century_history something_about_america cold_war farber.gary</dc:subject>
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    <title>jeweled platypus · text · How UCSB got to be an ARPAnet node</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>internet 20th_century_history green.larry</dc:subject>
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