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Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History...
by Henry Wiencek Who actually lived in The Adirondacks, Yosemite, and The Grand Canyon before they became national parks? This is the simple, but compelling, question Karl Jacoby asks in Crimes against...
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Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice, by David Scott (2014)
by Lauren Hammond On October 19, 1983, members of Grenada’s People’s Revolutionary Army assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada and seven of his associates, triggering the sequence of...
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)
By Natalie Cincotta A German novelist and screenwriter, Norman Ohler first happened upon the topic of drug use in the Third Reich through a Berlin-based DJ, who told him that drugs were widespread at...
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The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory...
On March 24, 1976, a junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla overthrew the president of Argentina in order to install a military dictatorship that they believed would counter the threat of communism . In the...
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A Poverty of Rights, Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de...
Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil from 1930-1945, is often credited as the champion of the Brazilian working class during the twentieth century. His policies led to the progressive industrialization...
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The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)
By Jonathan Parker This excellent work by historian Pieter Judson shows how the Hapsburg empire was a modernizing force that sustained a complex but often mutually beneficial relationship with the...
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)
Freedom’s Mirror (2014) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Cuba was profoundly shaped by its proximity to and multi-layered relationship with Haiti, or Saint-Domingue as it was...
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Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)
by Amina Marzouk Chouchene | First Published by The Imperial and Global Forum The British Empire has been firmly tied to myth, adventure, and victory. For many Britons, “the empire was the mythic...
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin...
In Eric Remarque’s 1921 novel, The Road Back, a group of veterans (now enrolled as students at a local university in Germany) quietly seethe at the back of a classroom while their professor eulogizes...
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Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe...
From the editors: One of the joys of working on Not Even Past is our huge library of amazing content. Below we’ve updated and republished Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s brilliant and moving review of...
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