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Review of No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City

Review of Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico by Monica A. Jiménez (2024)

Review of Empire of Poverty. The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire, by Julia McClure (2025). 

Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002), by Inga Saffron.

Review of Bolivia in the Age of Gas (2020) by Bret Gustafson

Review of Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 (2020) by Ron Harris

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

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

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) by Donald Worster

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

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

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

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

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

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)

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

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

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

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

More to Read about Caste and South Asia

Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in The Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973, by Heidi Tinsman

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

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

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

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

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

Great Books on Modern Economic History

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

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

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