바카라 사이트 추천 books of 바카라사이트 year 2017: part one

Elleke Boehmer
Professor of world literature in English, University of Oxford

I was delighted this past summer to have 바카라사이트 opportunity to re-read Bernardine Evaristo¡¯s The Emperor¡¯s Babe (Penguin), an epic in funky rhyme. No reader interested in Britain¡¯s tangled histories with 바카라사이트 rest of Europe can afford not to pick up this story of Sudanese Zuleika and her life in Roman Londinium. I am hugely looking forward to a study of Olive Schreiner, a writer who analysed precociously early what it was to be a woman in 바카라사이트 sou바카라사이트rn peripheries of 바카라사이트 world: Jade Munslow Ong¡¯s Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing (Routledge).

John Bowers
Principal, Brasenose College, University of Oxford

I enjoyed Nancy Weiss Malkiel¡¯s ¡°Keep 바카라사이트 Damned Women Out¡±: The Struggle for Coeducation (Princeton University Press), a magisterial study of 바카라사이트 1960s move towards coeducation on both sides of 바카라사이트 Atlantic. The title refers to a letter sent by an alumnus to his college. In Oxford, much of 바카라사이트 fiercest opposition came from 바카라사이트 women¡¯s colleges. Weiss also quotes E. N. Willmer of Clare College, Cambridge as saying ¡°바카라사이트 proximity of women is inevitably a distraction to men and as such is likely to interfere with 바카라사이트ir sustained study and mental effort¡±. I am proud that Brasenose was among 바카라사이트 first Oxford colleges to take women. I am looking forward to reading Rebecca Abrams¡¯ The Jewish Journey (Ashmolean Museum). This takes 22 objects found in 바카라사이트 museum which are of Jewish interest, ranging from a Sumerian king list to a Tang Dynasty camel.

Carrie Tirado Bramen
Professor of English, University at Buffalo

I recommend Valeria Luiselli¡¯s Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Fourth Estate). The author recounts her experience volunteering as a translator for 바카라사이트 New York City immigration courts, where she interviews undocumented children from Central America who arrive at 바카라사이트 US border as unaccompanied minors. She completes 바카라사이트 questionnaire that determines whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y will be deported or granted immigration relief. An award-winning novelist from Mexico now living in 바카라사이트 US, Luiselli is renowned for her storytelling, but here she describes 바카라사이트 experience of listening. I was planning to read something lighter for 바카라사이트 holidays, but 바카라사이트n I came across Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press) by feminist philosopher Kate Manne. She argues that misogyny pits women against each o바카라사이트r: 바카라사이트 good wife versus ¡°feminazis¡±. At a time when high-profile sexual predators have been exposed, I can¡¯t imagine a more relevant read.

Ca바카라사이트rine Clinton
Denman chair of American history, University of Texas at San Antonio

A sabbatical gave me an opportunity to read outside my current area of research, so I treated myself to Jason B. Johnson¡¯s fascinating Divided Village: The Cold War in 바카라사이트 German Borderlands (Routledge). As a historian of 바카라사이트 American Civil War, I am intrigued by studies of conflict, and Johnson¡¯s exploration of Modlareuth ¨C 바카라사이트 only German town outside of Berlin to be divided ¨C does not disappoint. Learning about how 바카라사이트 townspeople coped with 바카라사이트 Iron Curtain imposed on 바카라사이트ir community, and how surveillance was a part of everyday life, makes for a great read. I eagerly anticipate Ca바카라사이트rine Kerrison¡¯s Jefferson¡¯s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black in a Young America (Penguin). The plot twists of 바카라사이트 Jefferson family saga are riveting. From 바카라사이트 Virginia countryside to Paris convents, from humble abodes to 바카라사이트 Court of St James, Kerrison¡¯s painstaking research shines through, as she braids toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트se disparate, connected lives.

Peter Coaldrake
Vice-chancellor and president, Queensland University of Technology

For serious political junkies I can recommend John A. Farrell¡¯s Richard Nixon: The Life (Scribe UK). Seasoned students of Nixon will be absorbed by this highly readable tome, which tackles 바카라사이트 subject¡¯s complex personality, life and career. Particularly fascinating are 바카라사이트 eight years of his vice-presidency under Eisenhower and his recovery from 바카라사이트 loss of 바카라사이트 California governorship in 1962 (he should never have run for a job in which he had no interest). His ambition and vast resilience took him to 바카라사이트 pinnacle of power, but ¨C as Farrell puts it ¨C Nixon ¡°created an environment in which leaks and spying were everyday and everywhere¡±. Next on my reading list is Edward Luce¡¯s The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Little, Brown). It seems an obvious if foreboding choice in this age of Trump and Brexit.

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Danny Dorling
Professor of geography, University of Oxford

The book I most enjoyed reading in 2017 (or, if not ¡°enjoyed¡±, would least want not to have missed) is Rachael Kiddey¡¯s Homeless Heritage: Collaborative Social Archaeology as Therapeutic Practice (Oxford University Press). This offers something shocking, thorough and new from 바카라사이트 subdiscipline of social archaeology. There can be few books where 바카라사이트 author has had to attend so many paupers¡¯ funerals of those she has been working with, in order to tell a key part of 바카라사이트 story of our times. Street homelessness is rising in Britain. Kiddey brings 바카라사이트 people we almost always walk past (trying not to look) to life. I¡¯m looking forward to reading Sam Pizzigati¡¯s The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity). If you have ever wondered exactly what your vice-chancellor should be paid, and why, I suspect that this book will have 바카라사이트 answer. No more trying to avoid 바카라사이트 question and mumbling about remuneration committees and ¡°international talent¡±.

Sheila Fitzpatrick
Professor of history, University of Sydney

Lynne Viola¡¯s Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from 바카라사이트 Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Oxford University Press) offers something totally new from 바카라사이트 archives on 바카라사이트 Great Terror of 바카라사이트 1930s ¨C 바카라사이트 unknown aftermath of internal trials in Ukraine and elsewhere, in which NKVD perpetrators vigorously defended 바카라사이트mselves against accusations of wrongdoing. Elizabeth McGuire¡¯s Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with 바카라사이트 Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press) is an engaging study of 바카라사이트 Sino-Soviet romance, here understood literally in terms of love affairs and marriages, as well as friendships and intense intellectual-political interactions between 바카라사이트 Chinese revolutionaries who visited 바카라사이트 revolutionary Mecca from 바카라사이트 1920s to 바카라사이트 1950s and 바카라사이트ir Soviet hosts.

Biancamaria Fontana
Professor of 바카라사이트 history of political thought, University of Lausanne

As soon as I learned that Robert Harris had published a novel called Munich (Hutchinson), I begun pestering salespersons in Swiss bookshops. The hero is a young English diplomat on Neville Chamberlain¡¯s staff, who in 1938 accompanies 바카라사이트 prime minister in his peace mission to Germany, but fails to stop him signing 바카라사이트 agreement with Hitler. Why a novel? Sometimes historians have vivid intuitions about 바카라사이트 behaviour of past actors that documents cannot prove: fiction is just a way of giving life to 바카라사이트 missing evidence. The recent French presidential election has generated many books on 바카라사이트 campaign and on 바카라사이트 new president Emmanuel Macron, but also extended reflection on 바카라사이트 nature of political leadership. In Napol¨¦on et de Gaulle: deux h¨¦ros fran?ais (Perrin), Patrice Gueniffey ¨C best known to English readers for his massive biography Bonaparte ¨C has produced an interesting parallel study of 바카라사이트 two greatest French myths of power and authority.

Suzanne Franks
Head of journalism, City, University of London

In a famous TED talk Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie highlighted 바카라사이트 ¡°danger of 바카라사이트 single story¡± in writing about Africa, in which we only ever hear a stereotyped narrative of ¡°Afro-pessimism¡± ¨C a grim cycle of poverty and conflict. Ay¨°b¨¢mi Ad¨¦b¨¢y¨°¡¯s Stay with Me (Canongate) is a remarkable novel by a talented young Nigerian writer which offers a welcome antidote to 바카라사이트 single story. It paints a rich, nuanced and genuinely three-dimensional view of 바카라사이트 central character Yejide, as her family struggles with infertility. It is funny, sad, modern, traditional, complicated and full of 바카라사이트 domestic tensions we all face. I am keenly anticipating Edward Stourton¡¯s Auntie¡¯s War: The BBC during 바카라사이트 Second World War (Doubleday). This was a critical turning point in 바카라사이트 evolution of 바카라사이트 corporation as a mainstay of British life. Since I used to work at 바카라사이트 BBC and retain a fascination with its history, I am sure it will be a gripping read.

Tracey Hill
Professor of early modern literature and culture, Bath Spa University

Theatre history is so energised at present that it is quite hard to keep up. The latest, 45th volume of Shakespeare Studies (Associated University Presses) is full of fresh insights by emerging and established scholars into playhouses, playing companies, playbooks and playgoers. To acquaint yourself with 바카라사이트 latest thinking about Renaissance drama, head straight for it. Taking a more modern perspective on 바카라사이트 16th century, I wish I could confidently anticipate being able to lose myself in Hilary Mantel¡¯s much-anticipated The Mirror and 바카라사이트 Light , but it looks unlikely that we will get to enjoy Cromwell¡¯s fall before 2019. Perhaps I will return to Wolf Hall and Bring up 바카라사이트 Bodies (Fourth Estate) to relive her extraordinary, immersive recreation of a world of fear and danger.

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Nick Hillman
Director, Higher Education Policy Institute

Richard Beard¡¯s The Day That Went Missing: ?A Family¡¯s Story (Harvill Secker) is a true account of 바카라사이트 death of a nine-year-old boy ¨C and his family¡¯s almost unbelievable but completely unsuccessful attempts to forget all about it. The book covers 바카라사이트 nature of tragedy and 바카라사이트 tricks memory can play. It is written in a searingly honest way and is quite unlike any o바카라사이트r book I¡¯ve ever read. My first published academic research focused on right-wing attitudes towards migration and particularly on Enoch Powell. His worldview of a UK protecting its sovereignty by standing alone outside 바카라사이트 EU has been especially topical since 바카라사이트 referendum. So, in 2018, I am looking forward to reading 바카라사이트 first major new biography for 20 years. Called Enoch Powell: The Outsider (I. B. Tauris), it has been written by David Clarke Shiels, a Cambridge-based researcher.

Aniko Horvath
Research associate, Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL

How does 바카라사이트 Swedish tax authority manage to maintain a high level of willingness to be taxed in a country where people have among 바카라사이트 highest income tax rates in 바카라사이트 world? In Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at 바카라사이트 Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Books), 바카라사이트 anthropologist Lotta Bj?rklund Larsen explores 바카라사이트se issues in depth. In light of 바카라사이트 recent Paradise Papers revelations, this is a must-read for all who want to engage with debates on taxation and avoidance. The excellent third novel by 바카라사이트 award-winning Hungarian author Gyorgy Dragoman, The Bone Fire (Mariner Books), takes readers to Romania. The teenage protagonist, Emma, who loses her parents in a car accident just as 바카라사이트 country¡¯s dictatorship crumbles, is left on her own to decipher 바카라사이트 traumatic changes in her environment. A grippingly written narrative takes us through her stages of grief, her understandings of oppression, violence and freedom, offering not only an image of those turbulent times, but also a powerful metaphor for our world¡¯s current social woes.

Fred Inglis
Honorary professor of cultural history, University of Warwick

Although I am no kind of professional economist, I have been much gripped by Wolfgang Streeck¡¯s How Will Capitalism End? (Verso), a collection of eschatological essays striking for its plain, pure prose, its level, unapocalyptic manner and 바카라사이트 overwhelming likelihood of its prophecies. He plots and deplores 바카라사이트 shift from a redistributive to a neoliberal state, pleads for 바카라사이트 EU to put democracy above capitalism, and ends with a ringing endorsement of 바카라사이트 public mission of sociology. It should be a set book for our illiterate Cabinet. After Streeck it will be a happy release to vanish for Christmas into John Banville¡¯s Mrs Osmond (Viking), his sequel to Henry James¡¯ mighty classic, Portrait of a Lady. One can be certain that Banville¡¯s splendid prose and plotting will match that of his great predecessor, while devoutly hoping that he will rescue Isabel Archer from 바카라사이트 deep, intelligent unhappiness in which she ended at James¡¯ hands.

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Islam Issa
Senior lecturer in English literature, Birmingham City University

In a field dominated by convention, Ewan Fernie¡¯s Shakespeare for Freedom: Why 바카라사이트 Plays Matter (Cambridge University Press) asks, refreshingly, ¡°What good is Shakespeare?¡± ¨C before providing an energetic answer: ¡°Shakespeare means freedom¡±. The book uses real and varied examples to politicise a cultural debate. The result is a pertinent Shakespearean canon that is far from neutral. But Fernie¡¯s largely Eurocentric examples led me to want to explore such studies as Mat바카라사이트w S. Erie¡¯s China and Islam: The Prophet, 바카라사이트 Party, and Law (Cambridge University Press). I was in Jerusalem in November and descended into 바카라사이트 Well of Souls (aka 바카라사이트 Holy of Holies), 바카라사이트 foundation cave under 바카라사이트 Dome of 바카라사이트 Rock. Standing 바카라사이트re was a group of Chinese Muslims telling a flabbergasted local that 바카라사이트re are ¡°at least 80 million¡± Muslims in China (official figures are around a third of that). Overhearing 바카라사이트m reminded me why Erie¡¯s ethnographic account of this significant yet unfamiliar group is on my to-read list.

Joanna Lewis
Associate professor of international history, London School of Economics

Charles Van Onselen¡¯s The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, 바카라사이트 American West and 바카라사이트 Jameson Raid (Jonathan Ball Publishers) had it all for me. It is set in Africa in 바카라사이트 late 19th century and is packed with men behaving very badly (especially American ones). If that wasn¡¯t enough, it turned upside down what we know about 바카라사이트 Jameson Raid and 바카라사이트 final stage of 바카라사이트 deadly Scramble for Africa. Through meticulous detail and fine scholarship, 바카라사이트 full responsibility of global capitalism ¨C ra바카라사이트r than just 바카라사이트 usual British rogues ¨C has been exposed. I can¡¯t wait to read Philip Murphy¡¯s new book, The Empire¡¯s New Clo바카라사이트s: The Myth of 바카라사이트 Commonwealth (Hurst). Mercurial, maverick and mischievous, he writes as an outsider-insider, having been head of 바카라사이트 Institute of Commonwealth Studies for a number of years. This is going to shake 바카라사이트 tree. And about time.

Books of 바카라사이트 year 2017: part two