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Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

Review of Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration (2022) by Laura J. Martin

Book cover of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014)

Review of Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career (2022)

Review of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020), by Tanya Harmer

Review of Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (2022)

Master of the Game

Review of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (2021)

Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism (2021)

Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism (2021)

The Approaching Storm

Review of The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their Clash over America’s Future (2021)

Review of Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (2018)

Review of Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (2018)

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War – a debate between suffering and medical knowledge for the greater good

Optics of the State

Review of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007)

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997)

Review of From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 by Susie S. Porter (2018)

Memory's Turn

Review of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (2014)

Book cover of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Paulina L. Alberto

Review of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (2011)

Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World by Cyrus Schayegh (2017)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)

Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016)

A Brief History of Feminism by Patu (illustrations) and Antje Schrupp and translated by Sophie Lewis (2017)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2015)

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (2014)

Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (2010)

Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903-1945 by John Paul Newman (2015)

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

The Cold War’s World History and Imperial Histories of the US and the World

Book cover of Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael David-Fox

Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael David-Fox (2015)

King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff (2009)

Book cover of Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

Book cover of De tolk van Java by Alfred Birney

Remembering Dutch Decolonization through Historical Fiction

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)

Humanity: A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin (2016)

The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura (2013)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The Works of Steven Hahn

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade, By Linda B. Hall (2013)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon (2015)

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (2012)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

More Great Books on US Theatre History

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (1976)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy, by David Milne (2015)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert Paxton (2004)

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

Killing a King, by Dan Ephron (2015)

Great Books on Women’s History: Europe

My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem (2015)

The Rise of Liberal Religion, by Matthew Hedstrom (2013)

My Cocaine Museum, by Michael Taussig (2004)

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

Must Read Books on the Vietnam War

Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self, by Jessica Grogan (2012)

The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. (2014)

Asian American Immigration: Read More

A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico jointly created the Mexican Drug War, by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace (2015)

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, by Hajimu Masuda (2015)

Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings, by Annabel Jane Wharton (2015)

The Environment on History & History in the Environment

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy (2010)

Faith Misplaced, by Ussama Makdisi (2010)

Writing Chinese History

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, by Michael McGerr (2003)

Everyday Stalinism, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000)

Past and Present in Modern China

Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750-1816, by Karen Racine (2002)

International History and the Global United States: More to Read

Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in The Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973, by Heidi Tinsman

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice, by David Scott (2014)

The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, by Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1965)

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (2008) by Yasheng Huang

Read More About the First World War

Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984, by Gail E. S. Yoshitani (2012)

The Israeli Republic, by Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2014)

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil by Thomas D. Rogers (2010)

Stalin’s Genocides by Norman Naimark (2011)

George Orwell: A Life in Letters (2013)

Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 by Barbara Weinstein (1996)

Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine (2013)

Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by James Mann (2010)

Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations, 1945-1965, by Ilya Gaiduk (2013)

Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life by Amy Chazkel (2011)

Great Books on Siberian Voices

Book cover of War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León

War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Tejano Communities edited by Arnoldo De León (2012)

A Ferro e Fuoco: La Guerra Civile Europea, 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso (2008)

Co-Winner of April Essay Contest: They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic (2005)

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves (1929)

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas by Amilcar Shabazz

Book cover of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman (2013)

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood (2004)

The Republic of Nature by Mark Fiege (2012)

Winner of Spring 2013 Essay Contest: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (1956)

Great Books on Eugenics in World History

Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint by R. Andrew Chesnut (2011)

L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides (2003)

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Ostuka (2003) & The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Ostuka (2012)

Great Books on Smoking History

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson (1972)

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte (1944)

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, by Gauri Viswanathan (1989)

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman (2007)

The Cuban Connection by Eduardo Saénz Rovner (2008)

Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (1989)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

Book cover of A History of the World in 100 Objects: From the Handaxe to the Credit Card by Neil MacGregor

A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor (2011)

Book cover of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements by Lynne Viola

The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynne Viola (2007)

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany (2006)

Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis by Rubén Gallo (2010)

The Second World War by Antony Beevor (2012)

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II by Gabrielle Hecht (1998)

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick (2011)

Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History by Richard Lee Turits (2004)

Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (1975)

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2012)

Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (1997)

Navajo Arts and the History of the U.S. West

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher (1982)

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography (Volume I: 1889-1947) by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976)

Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (2010)

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

Book cover of Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes

Great Books on Science & Technology – Light & Power

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor (2009)

Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon (1976)

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (2000)

Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex and Society Since Gorbachev ed. Adele Marie Barker (1999)

Book cover of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith

Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I

From Baseball to Politics

Book cover of A History of Islam in America by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (2010)

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson (2006)

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)

Great Books on Early Twentieth-Century Popular Music

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: Beirut City Center Recovery: The Foch-Allenby and Etoile Conservation Area by Robert Saliba (2004)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Great Books on La Violencia in Guatemala

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Book cover of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico by Elaine Carey

Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico by Elaine Carey (2005)

Book cover of The Doubtful Strait/El estrecho dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal and translated by John Lyons

The Doubtful Strait/El Estrecho Dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal (1995)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Book cover of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War Updated Edition by Greg Grandin

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin (2004)

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (1999)

Book cover of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

The Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper (2006)

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (2007)

Sarah’s Key (2011)

Book cover of Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)

Great Books on Worlds War II

Book cover of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Great Books on Capital Punishment in Modern America

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward L. Larson (2006)

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Abridged Edition by Raymond Arsenault (2011)

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

Book cover of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)

Book cover of Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

Book cover of The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi (2010)

The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War by Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko (2008)

Stencil of Che Guevara in gray on yellow background

Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image by Michael Casey (2009)

Book cover of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil by Bryan McCann

Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil by Bryan McCann (2004)

Book cover of Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan by Krishna Kumar

Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan by Krishna Kumar (2001)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (2008)

Book cover of Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steve J. Stern

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 by Steven Stern (2006)

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler (2008)

The Wilsonian Moment by Erez Manela (2007)

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (2009)

Book cover of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines

African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption & Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (2005)

Book cover of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Great Books on Women in US History

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

Book cover of Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer

A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janiero by Brodwyn Fischer (2010)

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Book cover of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan (2008)

Book cover of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (2006)

Book cover of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism Second Edition by Zachary Lockman

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman (2004)

Book cover of The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Ariès

The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariés (1982)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)

Book cover of The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia (2000)

Book cover of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses (2002)

The Age of Reagan: A History, by Sean Wilentz (2008)

Book cover of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Emilio Zamora

“Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II” by Emilio Zamora (2009)

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