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Empire

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

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)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

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

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

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

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

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

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

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

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

Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)

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

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain by Martin Nesvig (2018)

When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History, by Matthew Restall (2018)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

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

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia by Liam Matthew Brockey (2014)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico by Alejandro Cañeque (2004)

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

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

The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

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

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, by Sanjay Subrahmanyam (2004)

No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, by Shirley Cushing Flint (2013)

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

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

Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (1975)

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

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by David J. Weber (2005)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2007)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

The Doubtful Strait/El Estrecho Dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal (1995)

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

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)

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)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

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

Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

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)

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