New Books

ALAN ALLPORT, professor of history, penned Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 (Knopf Doubleday, 2020), the first of two volumes documenting Great Britain history during the early years of WWII. Allport traces Great Britain’s entrance into the war and its tumultuous path to victory.

GEORGE KALLANDER, associate professor of history, authored an introduction and was the first to translate The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea (Columbia University Press, 2020), a 360-page diary, originally recorded by Korean scholar Na Man’gap (1592-1642). Kallander’s introduction sheds light on early Korean society, military and politics.

MADONNA HARRINGTON MEYER, University Professor of Sociology, and alumna Ynesse Abdul-Malak ’13 M.A. (Soc)/’17 Ph.D. (Soc) of Colgate University, co-authored Grandparenting Children with Disabilities (Springer, 2020), which examines issues facing grandparents who care for children with disabilities, including risks to their physical and financial well-being. The book uses cumulative inequality theory to assess the link between the number of social programs in the U.S. and the growing need for grandparents to care for children with disabilities.

ELISABETH LASCH­QUINN, professor of history, authored Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living (Notre Dame Press, 2020), which challenges consumer culture as a means to happiness and well-being with ancient, alternative Greco-Roman philosophies including Cynicism, Platonism, Gnosticism, Stoicism and Epicureanism. The book uses a variety of films, popular culture, manuals and scholarly works to juxtapose America’s consumerism to ancient, philosophical ways of living.

LAMIS ABDELAATY, assistant professor of political science, penned Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2020), examining the complex dimensions of refugee policy in relation to state sovereignty and human rights in refugee receiving countries. The book demonstrates that refugee affairs are frequently re-directed to the United Nations when refugees are not the ethnic kin of rival states.

JUNKO TAKEDA, professor of history and Daicoff Faculty Scholar, authored Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700-1808: The Other Persian Letters (Oxford University Press, 2020). It explores how early 18th-century trans-imperial trade between France and Persia worsened tensions between India, Russia, Turkey and Persia, and the effects of climate change and resource security in these regions. The book uses a macro lens to detail underexplored relations between 18th-century Asian politics and France.

CHRISTOPHER FARICY, associate professor of political science, and Bucknell University Professor Christopher Ellis penned The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures (Russell Sage Foundation, 2020), comparing U.S. economic expansion in 2019 to the Gilded Age where record low unemployment was accompanied by a higher wage gap. The book illustrates that Americans prefer indirect government assistance, such as tax subsidies because direct government intervention, such as Medicare for All, is perceived as “big government” overreach.