Tom Rider's Reviews

Matthew Carr. Blood and Faith; The Purging of Muslim Spain. New Press, 2009.
Between 1609 and 1614 an estimated 350,000 Moriscos were deported from Spain, mostly to North Africa. Moriscos were those Christians whose families had at one time been Moslems. They were mostly humble folk, agricultural workers, shopkeepers, craftsmen, street vendors, gardeners, and fritter sellers. [...]

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Ronald Florence. Emissary of the Doomed; Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust. Viking, 2010.       
In March 1944, the Wehrmacht occupied Hungary. Leagued with Germany when the war began, the Regent, Miklós Horthy had demanded that the Germans return those Hungarian divisions fighting on the Russian front and sent secret feelers to the Allies. Germans were worried [...]

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James MacGregor Burns. Packing the Court; The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court. Penguin USA, Paper. 2010.
In February 1937 Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed enlarging the Supreme Court from nine members to fifteen. The previous November he had been elected to a second term by a landslide. During his first [...]

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Jennifer Keene. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, paper.
Although the Great War was a long and deadly four years for Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, the American Expeditionary Force’s engagement was only eighteen months, from its arrival in the spring of 1917 until the armistice in [...]

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James Bailey & Lyle Vander Broek. Literary Forms in the New Testament; A Handbook.  Westminister/John Knox, paper, 1992.
James Bailey and Lyle Vander Broek teach in two different theological seminaries in Dubuque, Iowa! Designed to be of use to seminarians in their understanding of the Christian testament, their Handbook introduces methodologies borrowed from literary critics, particularly [...]

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