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Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
	Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History	From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear … More Information

A New Deal for the Tropics: Puerto Rico During the Depression Era, 1932-1935
	Rodriguez, Manuel Subject: Latin America, U.S. History, Caribbean	In the 1930s, Puerto Rico was economically and culturally a nineteenth-century agrarian state dominated by sugar and coffee plantations. Then came the New Deal, and the island changed forever. Puerto Rico entered the twentieth century in every respect, including its … More Information

The New Face of Lebanon: History’s Revenge
	Harris, William Subject: Middle East	Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, CHOICE Magazine Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon in the late 1980s was considered a failed state: strife prevailed among Maronite Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, and Palestinians. Now, … More Information

New Intersections: Essays on Culture and Literature in the Post-Modern and Post-Colonial Condition
	de Toro, Fernando Subject: Latin America	These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late nineteenth-century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of twentieth-century Modernist and Post-Modernist literary production. New Intersections is a hard-hitting, argumentative collection of essays which … More Information

Old New Land
	Herzl, Theodor (edited by Jacques Kornberg) Subject: Middle East, World History, World Literature, Jewish Studies	The first publication of Old New Land in 1902 forever altered the world’s perception of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and zionist ideas … More Information

Olympia: Cult, Sport, and Ancient Festival
	Sinn, Ulrich (translated by Thomas Thornton) Subject: World History	In antiquity, Olympia stood for sports. A victory at the Olympic games led to lifelong honors and often to a political career and wealth. Alexander the Great and other kings and emperors as well as wealthy and powerful men and … More Information

Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim
	Goldish, Josette Capriles Subject: Caribbean, Religion,Jeiwsh Studies	Honorable Mention, Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Award Committee The phrase “I am Catholic, but I am Jewish” may seem contradictory to some, but in the Caribbean islands and the countries of the Caribbean periphery, there … More Information

One Frenchman, Four Revolutions: General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	This book is about the world in which the French general Marie-Louis Ferrand thrived and in which he ultimately lost his life. He can be seen as an overarching link between the four revolutions from 1775 to 1825 through which … More Information

The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–1830
	Anscombe, Frederick F. Subject: Europe, Middle East	“The decades after 1750 saw the Ottoman Empire undergo tremendous stresses that culminated in the first stirrings of nationalism among Christian subjects and an irrevocable commitment to reform by the Muslim state. By 1830, Serbs and Greeks had fought successfully … More Information

The Ottoman Empire: A Short History
	Faroqhi, Suraiya (translated by Shelley Frisch) Subject: Middle East	In a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the most powerful empires of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. At its height, the Ottoman Empire spread over three continents and … More Information