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

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Roger Crowley's "Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire"

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Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge University and taught English in Istanbul. He has traveled extensively throughout the Mediterrane...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn's "The Cotton Kings"

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Bruce E. Baker is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle, and Barbara Hahn is Associate Professor of History at Texas...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Theresa Kaminski's "Angels of the Underground"

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Theresa Kaminski is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She is the author of Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Mario Erasmo's "Strolling Through Rome"

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Mario Erasmo is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia specializing in the Legacy of Classical Antiquity. He is the author of ...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

David A. Bell's "Napoleon: A Concise Biography"

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David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton. Born in New York and educated at Harvar...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Michael A. McDonnell's "Masters of Empire"

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Michael A. McDonnell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indi...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Christopher R. Oldstone-Moore's "Of Beards and Men"

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Christopher R. Oldstone-Moore is a senior lecturer in history at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ”...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Miguel de Baca's "Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture"

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Miguel de Baca is Associate Professor of Art History at Lake Forest College. He specializes in modern and contemporary American art history...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Graeme Gill's "Building an Authoritarian Polity"

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Graeme Gill is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His books includ...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell's "The Murder of King James I"

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Alastair Bellany is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern En...
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