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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

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)

Master of the Game

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

More Great Books on US Theatre History

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

History of Childhood

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

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

More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

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

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)

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

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

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

Read More About the First World War

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

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)

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 Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

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

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)

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)

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

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)

Great Books on Urban Foodways

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

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

Great Books on Smoking History

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

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

Great Books on William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

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

The Second World War by Antony Beevor (2012)

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

Fordlandia by Greg Grandin (2010)

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson (2000)

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)

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

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)

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)

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1993)

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)*

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

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)

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 Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

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)

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)

Book cover of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamic Turn by Asef Bayat

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)

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)

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

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)

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)

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

Book cover of Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands

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

Book cover of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor

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

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

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)

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