Patrick Iber Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Historian, writer. I wrote a book about Cold War propaganda & review books on politics & foreign relations. Persistent social democrat. Mind like a teal strap
Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
Eugen WeberPatrick IberEverybody is very happy to admit that Spanish Reconquista set the template, legally and institutionally, for its overseas colonialism. Eugen Weber's argument in Peasants into Frenchmen is that it's a form of "internal colonialism" within the Hexagon
Paperback, 1976
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From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Thomas C. FieldPatrick IberI compare the book to Gobat's Confronting the American Dream, but another reviewer compares it to Thomas Field's From Development to Dictatorship, which is apt. Lots here for scholars of Alliance for Progress, global development, & disaster (via post-earthquake reconstruction)
Paperback, 2018
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Pedro Páramo
Juan RulfoPatrick IberIn the book published on the 50th anniv. of the Rockefeller Foundation, they mention their support for the Centro Mexicano de Escritores and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, calling it a novel "dealing with farm life in Mexico", which is like calling Poe's "Raven" a poem about a bird
Paperback, 2023
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The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto
W. W. RostowPatrick IberWould be interested in hearing any thoughts about Walt Whitman Rostow's work from economists. To my eyes, The Stages of Economic Growth doesn't seem all that different from what you would see in the economic history section of an intro textbook. Am I missing something?
Hardcover, 1991
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Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture Since 1945
Jason StahlPatrick Iber@DexterFergie @gbrew24 Jason Stahl's Right Moves covers AEI, Cato, Heritage but isn't about foreign policy specifically; there's a lot of room for more work in this area
Paperback, 2018
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The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile
Jadwiga Pieper MooneyPatrick IberReading Jadwiga Pieper Mooney today on the politics of motherhood in Chile and she mentions this bracing photo from Salvador Allende's book La realidad médico-social chilena, written when he was the health minister https://t.co/Z9nAYZXPtX
Paperback, 2009
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Farah StockmanPatrick IberThese tweets brought to you by Farah Stockman’s American Made (seems good so far), and the degree to which it reminds me of Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in their Own Land
Hardcover, 2021
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Mexico: Volume 1, from the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest
Alan KnightPatrick Iber@davidrkadler @nkulw Gil Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau's Once and Future Revolution is a good short survey; Friedrich Katz's The Secret War in Mexico is still the best on the international intrigue of various powers; Alan Knight's two volumes is probably the standard single work on the revolution
Hardcover, 2002
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell HochschildPatrick IberThese tweets brought to you by Farah Stockman’s American Made (seems good so far), and the degree to which it reminds me of Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in their Own Land
Hardcover, 2016
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Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945 Volume 6
Melani McAlisterPatrick IberMy only contribution to the sudden eruption of King Tut discourse is to recommend that people read Melani McAlister's "Epic Encounters," which has a chapter on this moment. The exhibit at the Met was huge, funded by NEH and Exxon https://t.co/L9QDoLqAzR
Paperback, 2005
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