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Review of Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (2023) by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Converting “Latinos” during Salem’s Witch Trials: A Review of Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (2022) by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Review of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (2018) by Megan Black

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Reimagining Reconstruction: Where Do We Go from Here?

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

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

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

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

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 Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Review of The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire (2013)

Review of The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire (2013)

The Dawn of Everything

A False Dawn? A Review of The Dawn of Everything

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

Fifth Sun

Review of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend (2019)

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 Greedy Bastards: One City's Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis by Sheryl Sculley

Greedy Bastards – One City’s Texas-Size Struggle to Avoid a Financial Crisis, by Sheryl Sculley (2020)

Review of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 by Nükhet Varlık (2017)

The Frigid Golden Age

Review of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720, by Dagomar Degroot (2018)

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)

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden by Elizabeth Hennessy (2019)

Afterlives of Terror Cover

The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, by Ronen Steinberg (2019)

A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

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)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

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)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

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

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

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)

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

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

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

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

Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (2018)

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

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain by Martin Nesvig (2018)

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

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History, by Matthew Restall (2018)

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)

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (2017)

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown (2003)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia by Liam Matthew Brockey (2014)

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

The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico by Alejandro Cañeque (2004)

A Poverty of Rights, Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer (2008)

Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort, By Paul J. Vanderwood (2009)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (2016)

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)

Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes edited by Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis (2014)

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)

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)

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

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears (2015)

The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (2018)

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)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

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 Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

Book cover of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

Book cover of Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by Matthew Qvortrup

Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader (2016) by Matthew Qvortrup

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)

Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment, By Kelly Donahue-Wallace (2017)

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

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)

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

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)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

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)

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

Kissinger’s Shadow, by Greg Grandin (2015)

More Great Books on US Theatre History

Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain, By Nancy van Deusen (2015)

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)

History of Childhood

Philip of Spain, King of England, by Harry Kelsey (2012)

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

My Cocaine Museum, by Michael Taussig (2004)

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey (2003)

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)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

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

Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)

The Environment on History & History in the Environment

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

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

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

Genghis Khan and the Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford (2004)

Faith Misplaced, by Ussama Makdisi (2010)

Age of Fracture, by Daniel T. Rodgers (2011)

Writing Chinese History

From Virile Woman to Woman Christ: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, by Barbara Newman (1995)

Personal Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant (2003)

The Disappearing Mestizo, by Joanne Rappaport (2014)

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil’s Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney (2014)

More to Read about Caste and South Asia

Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis: Bilingual edition (2014)

Religion and the Decline of Magic, by Keith Thomas (1971)

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

Read more about sculpture and Mesoamerica

Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires, by Kris Lane (2010)

Everyday Stalinism, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000)

Past and Present in Modern China

Catholic Borderlands: Further Reading

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit, by Kristen Block (2012)

Outlaws of the Atlantic, by Marcus Rediker (2014)

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

Among the Powers of the Earth: the American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga Gould (2012)

Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, by Sanjay Subrahmanyam (2004)

The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature, by Barbara Fuchs (2013)

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

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

More to Read on Urban Slavery

The Isles: A History, by Norman Davies (1999)

Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Medieval Islam and its Monuments

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

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

Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Karl Jacoby (2003)

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

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allen (2009)

Read More About the First World War

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England 1660-1770, by Adrian Wilson (1995)

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

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination, by Joyce Appleby (2013)

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013)

No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, by Shirley Cushing Flint (2013)

The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, by Rich Cohen (2012)

A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610, by R. Po-chia Hsia (2010)

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

On Women and Nation in India

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)

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)

Co-Winner of April Essay Contest: Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism by Daniel Castro (2007)

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

Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia by João José Reis (1993)

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)

Honorable Mention of 2013 Essay Contest: Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg by Rod Gragg (2000)

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

State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State by Ulrike Strasser (2004)

The Founders and Finance by Thomas K. McGraw (2012)

Great Books on Eugenics in World History

Book cover of The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe by Elaine A. Peña (2011)

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

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

Honorable Mention of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: Musui’s Story, The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi (1991)

Winner of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt (2010)

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

Great Books on Urban Foodways

Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain by Erin Kathleen Rowe (2011)

2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse by Matthew Restall and Amara Solari (2011)

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)

How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade (2008)

Great Books on Smoking History

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

Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees by Peter Sahlins (1989)

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 Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

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)

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005)

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)

Book cover of Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy

Ordinary Egyptians: Creating The Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy (2011)

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)

Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico 1702-1710 by Christoph Rosenmüller (2008)

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

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2012)

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

Fordlandia by Greg Grandin (2010)

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

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

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson (2000)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (1985)

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)

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa by Allen Wells (2009)

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by David J. Weber (2005)

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 People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

People Are Not the Same by Eric Silla (1998)

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

The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo by Lauren Derby (2009)

Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America edited by Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara (2009)

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

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky (1999)

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)

Book cover of The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2007)

Great Books on La Violencia in Guatemala

“Lightly Fictionalized” Books about the Italian Renaissance

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (2003)

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1993)

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

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

Book cover of True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)*

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

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession by Haggai Ram (2009)

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

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)

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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)

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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)

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Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)

Great Books on Worlds War II

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

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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude (2009)

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold (2010)

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The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Great Books on Capital Punishment in Modern America

Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in the Renaissance by Ulinka Rublack (2010)

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

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)

Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore (2011)

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

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

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

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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1980)

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

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (2008)

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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)

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

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

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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)

Great Books on Atlantic Empires

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)

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

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Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn by Asef Bayat (2007)

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)

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in the Americas, 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott (2007)

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

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

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

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Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

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

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Great Books on Women in US History

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

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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)

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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)

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The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariés (1982)

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann (2004)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

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Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

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Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)

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The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy (2001)

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction by Michele Mitchell (2004)

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The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor (2010)

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Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France by James Farr (2005)

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Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis (2007)

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

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis by James G. Blight & Philip Brenner (2002)

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Book Talk: Civil War Classics

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

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

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

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

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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