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Review of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (2014)

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The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, by Ronen Steinberg (2019)

A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World by Cyrus Schayegh (2017)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (2014)

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

Writing Chinese History

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick (2011)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (1985)

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Book cover of Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steve J. Stern

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steven Stern (2006)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)

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