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Review of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, by Brittany Friedman (2025).

Review of Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 by Jason Oliver Chang (2017)

Review of Stalin as Warlord, by Alfred J. Rieber (2022)

Review of We the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-century Spanish New World by Adrian Masters (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

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

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

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997) by Christopher Sellers

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

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

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

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)

Review of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (2017), by Cyrus Schayegh

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

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

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)

Film Review – Ayka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018)

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)

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)

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

The Works of Steven Hahn

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

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

More to Read on Urban Slavery

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

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

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

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil by Thomas D. Rogers (2010)

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

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

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind “Les Misérables” (2012)

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005)

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (2000)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)

Old movie poster for the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Help

Book cover of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Emilio Zamora

“Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II” by Emilio Zamora (2009)

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