MIND MAPS

A Blog by Christopher J. Soelistyo

Reading "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi

This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to F-cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...

Reading "Not One Inch" by Mary E. Sarotte

This book is incredibly timely. Published just three months before Russia invaded Ukraine this February, "Not One Inch: America, Russia...

Reading "Shutdown" by Adam Tooze

The Covid pandemic is the global crisis par excellence. Rarely, if ever, before had a singular event impacted so many people across the...

Reading "London Calling" by Alban Webb

Written by Broadcasting historian Alban Webb, London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War is an eye-opening portrayal...

Reading "Imperial Brain Trust" by Laurence Shoup and William Minter

Who controls American foreign policy? The answer, according to Shoup and Minter, is a concentrated subsection of American society,...

Reading "The Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze

How was it possible that for the second time in a generation, Germany should have embarked on a campaign of conquest and destruction,...

Reading "The Idea of the Brain" by Matthew Cobb

Zoology professor Matthew Cobb has delivered an exciting and accessible history of humanity's enduring journey to understand its own...

Reading "The How and the Why" by David Park

"The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory" is an impressive monograph by Professor David Park on...

Reading "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins

I began reading this expecting it to be a book about Washington's involvement in the enormous mass murder of Indonesians in 1965/66, but...

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