tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65560413982258301872020-07-01T00:05:11.459-05:00The Page 99 Test"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox FordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-41298691318211174712020-07-01T00:05:00.000-05:002020-07-01T00:05:11.366-05:00Andrew S. Baer's "Beyond the Usual Beating"Andrew S. Baer is assistant professor of history with a secondary appointment in African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Beyond the Usual Beating: The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago, and reported the following:Beyond the Usual Beating appears to pass the test, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-90096771629337009112020-06-30T00:05:00.001-05:002020-06-30T14:20:15.464-05:00David M. Carballo's "Collision of Worlds"David M. Carballo is Associate Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies at Boston University. His books include Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico. Carballo applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain, and reported the following: On page 99 of Collision of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-37285255580444766222020-06-28T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-28T07:05:00.247-05:00Kevin Duong's "The Virtues of Violence"Kevin Duong is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France, and reported the following:A reader of The Virtues of Violence finds me pivoting on page 99. It has a section break, and like many such breaks, it doesn’t make for artful reading. However, at the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-87854401597282165092020-06-27T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-27T07:05:03.064-05:00 Susan M. Reverby's "Co-conspirator for Justice"Susan M. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. Reverby applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman, and reported the following:InUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-13434901345136550162020-06-26T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-26T07:05:00.500-05:00Aya Gruber's "The Feminist War on Crime"Aya Gruber is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. A former public defender, she is a frequent commentator on criminal justice issues. She has appeared on ABC, NBC, and PBS, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Denver Post, and Associated Press. Gruber applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-26502214611524766562020-06-25T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-25T07:05:00.271-05:00Sarah Glosson's "Performing Jane"Sarah Glosson is director of the Arts & Sciences Graduate Center at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom, and reported the following:Page 99 of Performing Jane provides a glimpse into the scholarly habits of one particular Jane Austen fan, George Holbert Tucker (1909-2005). A beloved Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-27372443778373511782020-06-24T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-24T07:05:03.138-05:00Peter J. Thuesen's "Tornado God"Peter J. Thuesen is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His books include Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine, and In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible.Thuesen applied the “Page 99 Test”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-24305085227688875442020-06-23T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-23T07:05:00.481-05:00Geoffrey Plank's "Atlantic Wars"Geoffrey Plank is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire; Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire; and An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia.Plank applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Atlantic Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-18079473577818076932020-06-22T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-22T07:05:04.999-05:00Uzma Quraishi's "Redefining the Immigrant South"Uzma Quraishi is assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University. She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War, and reported the following:Page 99 of Redefining the Immigrant South lands the reader in the middle of Chapter Two which broadly examines the second phase of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-57761423408964960452020-06-21T07:05:00.003-05:002020-06-21T19:18:19.020-05:00Montse Feu's "Fighting Fascist Spain"Montse Feu is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University. She recovers the literary history of the Spanish Civil War exile in the United States, US Hispanic periodicals, and migration and exile literature at large. Feu is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Press and Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado: Jesús Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59400315040318569672020-06-20T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-20T07:05:08.209-05:00C. Patterson Giersch's "Corporate Conquests"C. Patterson Giersch is Professor of History at Wellesley College. He is the author of Asian Borderlands (2006). Giersch applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China, and reported the following:From page 99:To examine the commercial changes of the 1870s through 1940s, the chapter follows the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-14067893720175673972020-06-19T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-19T09:17:29.574-05:00Sunny Stalter-Pace's "Imitation Artist"Sunny Stalter-Pace is the Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature at Auburn University. She is the author of Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York Subway. Stalter-Pace applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance, and reported the following: What’s on page 99 of Imitation Artist? A news story about Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-7586531353058872212020-06-18T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-18T07:05:00.993-05:00Claas Kirchhelle's "Pyrrhic Progress" Claas Kirchhelle is an historian at the University of Oxford. His award-winning research explores the history of antibiotics and the development of modern risk perceptions, microbial surveillance, and international drug regulation. He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production, and reported the following:From page Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-74773482892297878022020-06-17T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-17T13:55:58.865-05:00James P. Woodard's "Brazil's Revolution in Commerce"James P. Woodard, professor of history at Montclair State University, is the author of A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt. He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century, and reported the following:Flipping through the early chapters of my book with someUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-79092921336125809622020-06-16T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-16T07:05:01.800-05:00Leah Cardamore Stokes's "Short Circuiting Policy"Leah C. Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-57319710363684620092020-06-15T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-15T07:05:03.959-05:00Nolan Bennett's "The Claims of Experience"Nolan Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is a scholar of American political thought, and his research considers why and to what effect historical actors and movements ground their claims for democratic justice in personal experience. He recovers genres like autobiography, slave narrative, and prison writing as appeals Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-28149078264817084202020-06-14T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-14T07:05:01.362-05:00Zena Hitz's "Lost in Thought"Zena Hitz is is a Tutor in the great books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she also lives. She has a PhD in ancient philosophy from Princeton University and studies and teaches across the liberal arts. Hitz applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, and reported the following:On page 99 of my book, I Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-64665962287496306942020-06-13T07:05:00.003-05:002020-06-13T07:05:04.772-05:00Allison K. Lange's "Picturing Political Power"Allison K. Lange is an associate professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. Her new book, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, traces the ways that women’s rights reformers and their opponents used images to define gender and power in the United States. Lange applied the “Page 99 Test” to Picturing Political Power and reported the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-81247550069433144462020-06-12T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-12T07:05:11.976-05:00Wendy Moore's "No Man's Land"Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author of five non-fiction books on medical and social history. Her first book, The Knife Man, is a biography of the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter. Her second, Wedlock, tells the story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a rich heiress tricked into marriage by a fortune-hunter. It was a Channel 4 TV Book Club choice and no 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-7238808450024441452020-06-11T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-11T07:05:00.426-05:00Amber Roessner's "Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign"Amber Roessner is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America.Roessner applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign, and reported the following:On page 99 in [Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-86503435746161960402020-06-10T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-10T07:05:01.294-05:00Howard Lune's "Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish"Howard Lune is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the author of Urban Action Networks: HIV/AIDS and Community Organizing in New York City. He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish, and reported the following:I love the page 99 test and have used it many times. In this case, however, it’s half Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-18270958850311807462020-06-09T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-09T07:05:16.688-05:00Theresa Kaminski's "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War"Theresa Kaminski earned her Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in American women’s history, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has spent more than twenty-five years researching and writing about American women. Kaminski regularly reviews nonfiction titles for Publishers Weekly and has been published with the Wall Street Journal. She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-37739013637110756952020-06-08T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-08T07:05:11.889-05:00David R. Swartz's "Facing West"David R. Swartz is an associate professor of history at Asbury University. Areas of teaching and research interest include American religious history, twentieth-century American culture, global religion, Civil War memory, and issues of war and peace. Swartz blogs at Patheos. His just-released book, Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity (Oxford University Press 2020),Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-25883523852745677732020-06-07T07:05:00.000-05:002020-06-07T07:05:10.861-05:00Robert E. Weems Jr.'s "The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago"Robert E. Weems Jr. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. His books include Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century and Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.Weems applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Merchant Prince of Black Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-67835454245038934762020-06-06T07:05:00.001-05:002020-06-06T07:05:00.262-05:00Jonathan Quong's "The Morality of Defensive Force"Jonathan Quong is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Southern California. He taught previously at the University of Manchester. He is an associate editor for Philosophy & Public Affairs, an associate editor for Ethics, and an area editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.Quong applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Morality of Defensive Force, and reported the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com
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