Atlantic rule
In a new book titled Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World (Yale University Press, 2014), Boston College Professor of History James Cronin charts the political relationship between the US and Britain and a new world order they created after the Cold War that continues today. According to Kirkus Reviews, Global Rules is “a well-researched, tightly presented study of government policies on both sides of the Atlantic.” A review in The Independent (UK) concurs, stating that Cronin “writes considered and balanced prose that respects the complexity of postwar history but which tries to make sense of the longer trends and important moments in the story.” According to the publisher, Cronin’s penetrating analysis details the challenges the economic transition of the 1970s and 1980s engendered as the United States and Great Britain together actively pursued their shared ideal of an international assemblage of market-based democratic states. He also addresses the crises that would sorely test the system in subsequent decades, from human rights violations and genocide in the Balkans and Africa to 9/11 and militant Islamism in the Middle East to the “Great Recession” of 2008. Cronin also is the author of The World the Cold War Made, New Labour’s Pasts and Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain, among other titles. Cronin talks about his book in this video interview with BC Libraries’ Elliot Brandow.
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Tagged America, foreign policy, History Department, politics, United Kingdom
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Dennis Lehane
The Lowell Humanities Series and Gerson Family Lecture Fund present an evening with Boston native and award-winning author Dennis Lehane on March 11 beginning at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Lehane is the author of several international best sellers, three of which (Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River and Shutter Island) have been made into major motion pictures. His other books include A Drink Before the War, The Given Day and his newest publication, World Gone By (Harper Collins, 2015). Lehane was a staff writer for HBO’s “The Wire,” and a writer/producer for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” He recently was interviewed by the Boston Globe.
Praying our stories
Alumna Elizabeth Eiland Figueroa, a clinical social worker, has written a post for dotMagis, the blog of IgnatianSpirituality.com. In her post, “Praying Our Stories,” she recalls a course she took her senior at BC which explored God’s presence in the everyday experiences of life and required her to write a spiritual autobiography. After graduation, Figueroa served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest at a community mental health agency. Read all her posts for the dotMagis blog.
Malone’s trip
Alumnus Ian Thomas Malone is the author of a new book, A Trip Down Reality Lane (Limitless Publishing, 2015). It is about three college friends in Boston who step outside of reality and discover what matters most to them — including that life is not so much about answers as it is about the exploration of the questions. Malone also is the author of Five College Dialogues.
James Najarian honored
Associate Professor of English James Najarian has been honored by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers with its Stephen J. Meringoff Writing Award in Poetry. A specialist in Romantic and Victorian poetry, Najarian won the award for his poems “Kleptomania,” “From the Armenian Quarter,” and “The Frat Boys.” He will have his poems published in either the association’s journal Literary Imagination or its Literary Matters newsletter. Najarian directs the English Department’s PhD program and edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. Read more in the Boston College Chronicle.
Wikipedia made better
Thanks to Boston College senior Marie Pellissier, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an informative, well-researched entry on a pioneering woman of the American West, Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915). For an assignment in Professor of History Marilynn Johnson’s course History of the American West, Pellissier introduced “Wiki” to Picotte, widely considered to be the first Native American woman to become a physician. Pellissier hopes readers of the article “come away with a sense of just how extraordinary this woman was. I think one of the most interesting things about Picotte is the way she was able to have an impact on, and earn the respect of, both the Omaha nation and the community of whites living around their reservation in Walthill, Nebraska.” Added Johnson: “I’m delighted that Marie’s research has resulted in such a tangible and accessible contribution to historical knowledge on the web. Wikipedia is here to stay, so why not improve it? There are tons of entries on male explorers and military figures in the American West, but not nearly as many on women and Native Americans. Marie’s article gives us both.” Read more at Wiki Education Foundation.
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Tagged American history, History Department, Native American, women
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