The 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 Ford

Friday, January 30, 2015

Toby Matthiesen's "The Other Saudis"

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Toby Matthiesen is a Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He was previousl...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Tom Chaffin's "Giant's Causeway"

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Tom Chaffin is the author, most recently, of Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Vis...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Julie-Marie Strange's "Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914"

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Julie-Marie Strange is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK and author of Death, Grief and Poverty, 1870-1914 . She appl...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Don H. Doyle's "The Cause of All Nations"

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Don H. Doyle is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. The author of several books, including Faulkner...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Kathryn Gin Lum's "Damned Nation"

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Kathryn Gin Lum is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Ra...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Stuart B. Schwartz's "Sea of Storms"

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Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale U...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Udi Greenberg's "The Weimar Century"

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Udi Greenberg is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, The Weimar Centur...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Judy Wajcman’s "Pressed for Time"

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Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of se...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Raphael Brewster Folsom's "The Yaquis and the Empire"

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Raphael Brewster Folsom is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book,...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Srimati Basu's "The Trouble with Marriage"

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Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of She ...
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