New This Week: August 19th
Another Tuesday, another selection of new books for you. New this week is a new book in our Civil War America series that examines the complex history of US debates about compensating enslavers and a book that offers a trailblazing analysis of Brazil’s influence on the 1973 Chilean coup d’état. Learn more about these two new titles below and visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new this month.
Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War by Amanda Laury Kleintop
“Amanda Kleintop’s compelling and well-argued book tells us an important but largely forgotten story about the decision to forbid compensation for emancipation in the aftermath of the Civil War. Kleintop’s work reveals truths long buried about how contested and contingent uncompensated emancipation really was.”—Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia
“Kleintop gives her readers a rich, deeply researched account of how slavery really came to an end in the United States. A compelling story that explains how Americans constructed a postwar world that owed the enslaved nothing.”—Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London
Dictatorship across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War by Mila Burns
“A most impressive work of empirical scholarship, Dictatorship across Borders reveals Cold War Brazil as a kind of imperial viceroy for the United States. Drawing on new oral histories and freshly declassified Latin American archives, the book’s analytic breadth ranges from a Gramscian analysis of the agency of Brazil’s bourgeoisie to a Global South history framework to describe socialist Brazilian exiles forming counterhegemonic solidarities across borders.”—Thomas C. Field Jr., author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
“An empathetic and humanist history of the challenges and dangers faced by Brazilians who sought refuge abroad as their country descended into authoritarianism, Brazilian involvement in Chile, and what happened to Brazilians in Chile upon the coup that toppled Allende.” — Patrick Barr-Melej, author of Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship