This Week's Acquisitions
- David Leavitt, The Two Hotel Francforts (Bloomsbury, 2013). Two couples find things going increasingly awry with their married lives as they try to get out of Portugal ca. 1940. (Barnes & Noble)
- Jan Kjaerstad, The Conqueror, trans. Barbara Haveland (Rochester, 2009). Part of a trilogy of novels about Jonas Wergeland, a Norwegian celebrity who kills his wife (and continues being a celebrity). (Greenwood Books)
- John Cumming, Daniel French, and Charles Maybury Archer, The Hammersmith Protestant Discussion... (Arthur Hall, 1851). Massive (almost seven hundred double-columned pages!) debate between John Cumming (Protestant) and Daniel French (Catholic) about the merits of Protestant vs. Catholic theology, as transcribed by Archer. Most Victorianists now remember Cumming for getting clobbered by George Eliot. (eBay)
- Peter van der Veer, ed., Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity (Routledge, 1996). Examines the conversion process from the early modern period to the present, in Europe, Indonesia, Africa, etc. (Greenwood Books)
- Angus McLaren, The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 (Chicago, 1997). Changing definitions of what constituted "proper" masculinity. (Greenwood Books)
- Bruce Mazlish, The Uncertain Sciences (Yale, 1998). An overview of the history of "human sciences" (e.g., sociology, psychology, etc.). (Greenwood Books)
- Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History (Minnesota, 2010). New edition of Carter's 1987 "spatial history" of how travel narratives & other early European writings about Australia shaped imperial endeavors in that area. (Greenwood Books)