The Winter 2009 ACLS Newsletter announced the addition of 500 titles in history, the humanities, and the social sciences. They now comprise roughly 23% of the database. Here are some titles to illustrate the range of new offerings:
- The settlement of the Americas: a new prehistory. Dillehay, Tom D.
- The Soviet century. Lewin, Moshe.
- Power in the Isthmus: a political history of modern Central America. Dunkerley, James.
- Gender and anthropology: critical reviews for research and teaching. American Anthropological Association.
- The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class. Roediger, David R.
- Molding Japanese minds: the state in everyday life. Garon, Sheldon M.
- Medieval trade in the Mediterranean world: illustrative documents. translated with introductions and notes by Robert S. Lopez and Irving W. Raymond.
- Palestinian women of Gaza and the West Bank. Sabbagh, Suha.
- Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Benedict Richard O'Gorman
- Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. Chrétien de Troyes ; translated by Deborah Webster Rogers.
- Computer: a history of the information machine. Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
- Making salmon: an environmental history of the Northwest fisheries crisis. Taylor, Joseph E.
To see the rest of their 2200 titles, browse or search the ACLS database. Another noteworthy change detailed in the newsletter is the addition of a page text view (useful for locating search terms or cutting and pasting block quotes) and a pdf view (useful for printing).
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