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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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariés (1982)

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

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

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)

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

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