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Ideas/Intellectual History

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

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

Optics of the State

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

Fifth Sun

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

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

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

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

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert Paxton (2004)

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

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

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

Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)

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

Writing Chinese History

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

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

Medieval Islam and its Monuments

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

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

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

Great Books on Modern Economic History

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)

Great Books on Eugenics in World History

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

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

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

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

Book cover of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

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

Stencil of Che Guevara in gray on yellow background

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

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

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 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)

Book cover of Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by João José Reis

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

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

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