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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

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)

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

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

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

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)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

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)

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

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

Great Books on Modern Economic History

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

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

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)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

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