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"Timely and empowering, A Black Woman for President makes a significant addition to the literature and adds a new dimension to the study of Black female politicians." - Mia Moody-Ramirez, professor and chair, Department of Journalism, Public Relations & New Media, Baylor University
"While the achievements of cultural diplomacy are difficult to assess, Smith reminds us that it is another means of engaging Americans and convincing them that Canada is an autonomous nation with its own culture beyond beavers, health care, and poutine. Artists can help share our story in ways that supersede the almighty dollar — as truth tellers who reveal the complexity of what it means to be Canadian." - Tim Cook, Literary Review of Canada
"The title of Whitney Martinko’s book, Historic Real Estate, is deceptively modest...Martinko’s gaze encompasses nothing less than the shaping of American institutions of civil society and political economy...This is a cultural history, not a legal, political, or economic one; it makes a case for the salience of culture and capitalism in shaping one another."—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"Giuseppe Paparella has produced a stimulating and significant book. Ambitious in scope and based on an impressive amount of research, this book examines a series of key moments spanning seventy-five years to cogently show how four very different presidents' national beliefs shaped their policy toward the Asia Pacific region. A must-read for both historians and theorists." —Steven Casey, London School of Economics
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
“Berebitksy provides essential historical context, revealing how female sexual subordination was baked into office culture from the 1860s, and her keen analysis of gendered power dynamics illuminates a path forward.” —Kimberly Hamlin, author of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
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