Faculty Bookshelf

Grant, Lincoln & the Freedmen

Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Eaton

Edited by John David Smith (with Micheal J. Larson)

John Eaton’s post-Civil War reminiscences are one of most vivid and important windows we have ever had into the story of emancipation and the experience of formerly enslaved refugees….

Fields of Revolution

Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964

By Carmen Soliz

Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952….

Dissenting Daughters

Reformed Women in the Dutch Republic, 1572-1725

By Amanda Pipkin

This book reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of​ the ​Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck…..

Power and Control in the Imperial Valley

Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940

By Benny J. Andrés, Jr.

Examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors….

Detention Empire

Reagan’s War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance

By Kristina Shull

The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers…

The Military and the Market

Edited by Mark R. Wilson (with Jennifer Mittelstadt)

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development…

No Common Ground

Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

By Karen L. Cox

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands…

Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

By Jill Massino

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices…

Our Friends the Enemies

The Occupation of France after Napoleon

By Christine Haynes

The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe…

Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

By Maren A. Ehlers

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these individuals are now…

The Mexican Revolution

A Documentary History

Edited and translated by Jürgen Buchenau and Timothy Henderson

A selection of ninety-two documents on the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), mostly of Mexican origin but also including some U.S. and European sources. Along with classics such as Emiliano Zapata’s Plan of Ayala and the Zimmermann telegram…

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey

A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

By Sonya Y. Ramsey

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices…

Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism

By Christopher Cameron

Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present. Freethought encompasses…

Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948

By Karen Flint

Between 1820 and 1948 traditional healers in Natal, South Africa, transformed themselves from politically powerful men and women who challenged colonial rule and law into successful entrepreneurs who competed for turf and patients with white biomedical…

Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire

By Ella Fratantuono

How do terms used to describe migration change over time? How do those changes reflect possibilities of inclusion and exclusion? Ella Fratantuono places the governance of migrants at the centre of Ottoman state-building across a 60-year…