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Rebecca Pool discusses recent developments in "read and publish" (transformative) agreements with academic publishers in the United Kingdom:
Transformational OA agreements: help or hindrance? (Research Information, August/September 2021)
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature Fay A. Yarbrough to talk about her book, Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, published by the University of North Carolina Press in November 2021.
Dartmouth News reports that the publishing consortium run by Dartmouth College and Brandeis University will be shutting down by the end of 2018, with Dartmouth College Press and Brandeis University Press taking control of their own imprints.
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Alexander von Humboldt.
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1: A Critical Edition.
Edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 632 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-65138-5. 
Alexander von Humboldt.
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2: A Critical Edition.
Edited by Vera M.
