{"id":21125,"date":"2023-09-26T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?p=21125"},"modified":"2023-10-30T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:49:46","slug":"new-books-from-faculty-coming-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/2023\/09\/26\/new-books-from-faculty-coming-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books From Faculty Coming This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, the Center is pleased to announce the publication of three new books that received subventions from the Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/americans-in-a-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21126\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In late August, Oxford University Press published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/profile\/brooke-l-blower\/\">Brooke L. Blower<\/a>&#8216;s (HI) <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/americans-in-a-world-at-war-9780199322008?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am&#8217;s Yankee Clipper<\/a>. <\/em>In her latest book, Blower uses a single flight to convey the scope and range of American engagement with the world and focus on the stories of noncombatants during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-429x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"267\" class=\"wp-image-21129 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-429x636.jpg 429w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-1036x1536.jpg 1036w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-1381x2048.jpg 1381w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-405x600.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Cover_9781009419659ppc_bcp621-scaled.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This month, MIT Press published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/cathie-jo-martin\/\">Cathie Jo Martin<\/a>&#8216;s (PO) <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpressbookstore.mit.edu\/book\/9781009419659\"><em>Education for All?: Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark.\u00a0<\/em><\/a> Cathie Jo Martin explores the role that fiction writers and their literary narratives had in influencing public education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. The book may also be available Open Access.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/messiaen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21128\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next month, look out for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/andrew-shenton\/\">Andrew Shento<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/andrew-shenton\/\">n<\/a>&#8216;s (STH, CFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/elements\/abs\/olivier-messiaens-turangalilasymphonie\/D3B8D83C11CA985919219018BBE23A29\"><em>Olivier Messiaen&#8217;s Turangal\u00eela-symphonie<\/em><\/a>, published by Cambridge University Press. Using previously untranslated information from Messiaen&#8217;s own description of the work, Shenton seeks to demystify some of the complex innovations Messiaen made to his musical language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, the Center is pleased to announce the publication of three new books that received subventions from the Center. In late August, Oxford University Press published Brooke L. Blower&#8217;s (HI) Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am&#8217;s Yankee Clipper. In her latest book, Blower uses a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[396],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21138,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21125\/revisions\/21138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}