Congratulations to Professor Alfred McCoy on the publication of his new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, out this month from Haymarket Books. From the publisher’s website: “In a tempestuous narrative …
Books
Professor Lucas Richert Publishes New Book on the Global History of Cannabis
Lucas Richert, Associate Professor and George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy and History Department faculty affiliate, has published a new book titled Cannabis: Global Histories (MIT Press, 2021). The book, co-edited by Lucas Richert …
Alumnus David Harrisville Publishes First Book on WWII German Soldiers on the Eastern Front
Congratulations to alumnus David Harrisville (PhD 2017) on the publication of his first book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 (Cornell University Press, 2021). Set to …
Professor Gregg Mitman Publishes New Book
Professor Gregg Mitman‘s new book, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, will be available this November 2021 from The New Press. “In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of …
Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Publishes New Book
Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz has a new book published through The University of Chicago Press. Deconstruction: An American Institution is an intellectual history of the deconstruction movement that transformed the humanities during the 20th century. “Deconstruction begins well before …
Professor Pablo Gómez Publishes New Book
Professor Pablo Gómez has a new book published this week, titled The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). The book was co-edited by Diego Armus, a professor of …
Alumna Geneviève Dorais Publishes New Book
Congratulations to alumna Geneviève Dorais (Ph.D. 2014) on the publication of her new book, Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian …
Alumnus John Gripentrog Publishes New Book
Congratulations to alumnus John Gripentrog (Ph.D. 2006) on the publication of his new book, Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919-1941 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). “Reconsidering the origins of World War …
Professor Mary Lou Roberts Publishes New Book
Professor Mary Lou Roberts has a new book titled, Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII (University of Chicago Press, 2021). According to the publisher’s website, “Sheer Misery trains a humane and unsparing eye on the …
Alumnus Jeffrey Moran Publishes New Book on The Scopes Trial
Alumnus Jeffrey Moran (BA in History and Comm Arts, 1988) has published his fourth book, The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition (New York, Bedford Books, 2021). The subject of the book …