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Walter Benesch, 1932-2017

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/19 ... all miss you. Laina Farhat-Holzman Retired UAF Philosophy Professor Tunes Into Chickens Posted: Friday, September 13, 2002 By GEORGE BRYSON Anchorage Daily News FAIRBANKS (AP) -- Sometimes when

Robert Harris, Munich. Knopf Doubleday, 2018. Martin Cruz Smith, December 6. Simon & Schuster 2003

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/18 ... ://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr Recommended Citation - Article 14 Comparative Civilizations Review Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman Two Books Explore “What Ifs” in History The extraordinary closeness of our 2016

Revolutions in History

Farhat-Holzman I saw the Iranian Revolution of 1979 up close and personally-- a revolution against a modernizing authoritarian king. I watched otherwise clever intellectuals deceive themselves that they

J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. HarperCollins, 2016.

Civilizations Review Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman The growing gap in the traditional trajectory from poverty to middle class may have less to do with color than with culture. We can see during this present

Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015.

: Princeton University Press, 2015. Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry Jackson School of

Modernization or Westernization: the Muslim World vs. The Rest

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 10/01/12 ... or Westernization: the Muslim World vs. The Rest Laina Farhat-Holzman The 20th century has been a time of rapid transformation, a continuation of a process begun in the West with the Scientific

Richard Rudgley, Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age.

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/12 ... worth reading—and I will order his other works as well. Laina Farhat-Holzman

George Friedman, Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/16 ... Crisis in Europe Doubleday, 2015 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman I read George Friedman’s intelligence reports almost every day, and reviewed one of his books, The Next Hundred Years, several issues

Dario Fernandez-Morera, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/16 ... Rule in Medieval Spain Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2015 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman It is a widespread belief that the Islamic invasion of Spain in the eighth century ushered in an age of

Mary Elise Sarotte, The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, Basic Books, 2014. Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Yale University Press, 2014.

By Laina FarhatHolzman, Published on 04/25/15 ... , Yale Laina Farhat-Holzman 0 1 0 Part of the Comparative Literature Commons , History Commons, International and Area 1 Thi s Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at

Bernard Lewis, The End of Modern History in the Middle East

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/15 ... , The End of Modern History in the Middle East Hoover Institution Press, 2011 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman Bernard Lewis is one of the best and most respected scholars of the Middle East. During

Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 09/01/15 ... , Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000 Yale University Press, 2008 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman Scholars are once again exploring why Europe, which appears to be just an insignificant

Memories of an Editor

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 10/01/14 ... dedicated few were able to read. Now we are available to what I believe will be a greatly growing audience. Best of luck to my replacements. I will happily keep reading. Laina Farhat-Holzman

Essay: An Observation on the Universal Significance of Western Civilization

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/14 ... Western Civilization Laina Farhat-Holzman During the youth and women’s revolutions of the mid-1980s, we heard attacks on Western Civilization, particularly about the traditional educational focus on the

James DeMeo, Saharasia, The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare, and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 04/01/14 ... the Old World, Revised Second Edition Natural Energy Works, 2011 Reviewed by Laina Farhat-Holzman This book is a brave attempt to do a big-picture study of human history that addresses a question

Paul S. Kinderstedt. Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization

By Laina Farhat-Holzman, Published on 10/01/14 ... Farhat-Holzman What began as a book that would be a resource for new artisan cheese makers turned into a book that tracks the history of western civilization, a history in which cheese plays a larger role