Alumni Bookshelf

Sara Brinegar. Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Alberto Ortiz. Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Katie Jarvis. La Politique Sur Les marchés. Travail, Genre Et Citoyenneté Dans La France révolutionnaire. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023.

Tamara Feinstein. The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. University of Notre Dame, 2023.

Anne Giblin Gedacht. Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan. Brill, 2023.

Daniel G. Hummel. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023.

Sinae Hyun. Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand. University of Hawaii Press, 2023.

Thomas McStay Adams. Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500 Reform Without End. Bloomsbury, 2023.

Crystal Moten. Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. Vanderbilt University Press, 2023.

Debbie Sharnak. Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Pedro Cameselle-Pesce (Co-editor), and Debbie Sharnak (Co-editor). Uruguay in Transnational Perspective. Routledge, 2023.

Russell King. Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia. Chicago Review Press, 2022.

Piotr Puchalski. Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. Routledge, 2022.

John Suval. Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Skye Doney. The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832–1937. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Jeffrey Moran. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History With Documents. Bedford Books, 2021.

John Gripentrog. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919–1941. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.

Geneviève Dorais. Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Gregory Jones-Katz. Deconstruction: An American Institution. University of Chicago Press, 2021.

David Harrisville. The Virtuous Wehrmacht. Cornell University Press, 2021.

Christian Daye (Co-editor), and Mark Solovey (Co-editor). Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Kyle P. Steele. Making a Mass Institution: Indianapolis and the American High School. Rutgers University Press, 2020.

Javier Samper Vendrell. The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Paul Grant. Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity. Baylor University Press, 2020.

Mark Solovey. Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” At the National Science Foundation. MIT Press, 2020.

Jennifer Holland. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement. University of California Press, 2020.

Danielle Ross. Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. Indiana University Press, 2020.

Lindsay Starkey. Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Vanessa Walker. Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy. Cornell University Press, 2020.

David P. Fields. Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea. University Press of Kentucky, 2019.

Katie Jarvis. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Brenna Wynn Greer. Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Vaneesa Cook. Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Roberto J. Carmack. Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire. University Press of Kansas, 2019.

Keiko Kiyotaki. Ottoman Land Reform in the Province of Baghdad. Brill Academic Publishers, 2019.

Laura Wangerin. Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire. University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Brian Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. University of Nevada Press, 2019.

Peter Thorsheim. Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800. Ohio University Press, 2018.

Spencer E. Young. Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris: Theologians, Education and Society, 1215-1248. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Gillian Glaes. African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare. Routledge, 2018.

Ethan B. Katz. The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Robert W. Lewis. The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern France. Manchester University Press, 2018.

Elizabeth Schmidt. Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror. Ohio University Press, 2018.

Robert N. Gross. Public Vs Private: The Early History of School Choice in America. Oxford University Press, 2018.

David Bernstein. How the West Was Drawn Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Adam Malka. The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Scott Mobley. Progressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898. U.S. Naval Institute, 2018.

Shannon Withycombe. Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America. Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Anna Zeide. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. University of California Press, 2018.

Sergio Gonzales. Mexicans in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017.

Nancy MacLean. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Penguin Random House, 2017.

Nancy Isenberg. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Penguin Random House, 2017.

Erin Lambert. Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Megan Raby. American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Campbell F. Scribner. The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy. Cornell Universirty Press, 2016.

Nancy P. Appelbaum. Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia. The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Manuel Llamojha Mitma, and Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist. Duke University Press, 2016.

Janet M. Davis. The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Andrew Stuhl. Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Paul Erickson. The World the Game Theorists Made. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Charles L. Hughes. Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Francis R. Bradley. Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud Bin ‘Abd Allah Al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia. University of Hawai’I Press, 2015.

Paul Bjerk. Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964. University of Rochester Press, 2015.

David Lowenthal. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. University of Washington Press, 2015.

Honor Sachs. Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier. Yale University Press, 2015.

Tyina L. Steptoe. Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City. University of California Press, 2015.

Michael Hogue. Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Boarder and Dividing a People. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Holly Grout. The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic. Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

Shane Strate. The Lost Territories: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation. University of Hawai’I Press, 2015.

David Gilbert. The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Tyler Stovall. Transitional France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation. Routledge, 2015.

David Stradling, and Richard Stradling. Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland. Cornell Universirty Press, 2015.

Eric G. E. Zuelow. A History of Modern Tourism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Michael A. Osborne. The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France. University of Chicago Press, 2014.

J. Spencer Fluhman. “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Nicholas M. Wolf. An Irish-Speaking Island: State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770-1870. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Michael Rawson. Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. Harvard University Press, 2014.

Abigail M. Markwyn. Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Stacey L. Smith. Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Sean Patrick Adams. Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the 19th Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Shelby M. Balik. Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England’s Religious Geography. Indiana University Press, 2014.

Roger Kittleson. The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil. University of California Press, 2014.

Lisa Tetrault. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement: 1848-1898. University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865. University Press of Kansas, 2014.

Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch. The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950. University of Rochester Press, 2014.

Bethel Saler. The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America’s Old Northwest. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Patrick Lally Michelson (Co-editor), and Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (Co-editor). Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia: Culture, History, Context. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Roderick Frazier Nash. Wilderness and the American Mind. Yale University Press, 2014.

Paul Erickson (Co-editor), Judy L. Klein (Co-editor), Lorraine Daston (Co-editor), Rebecca Lemov (Co-editor), Thomas Sturm (Co-editor), and Michael D. Gordin (Co-editor). How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Matthew Lavine. The First Atomic Age: Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895-1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Matthew Levin. Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

Mark Solovey. Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America. Rutgers University Press , 2013.

Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917. Indiana University Press, 2012.

Camilo Quintero Toro. Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation. A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations. Universidad de los Andes, 2012.

Hamilton Cravens (Co-editor), and Mark Solovey (Co-editor). Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature. Palgrave Macmillan , 2012.

Adela Cedillo (Co-editor), and Fernando Calderon (Co-editor). Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.

Peter Harrison (Co-editor), and Michael H. Shank (Co-editor). Wrestling With Nature: From Omens to Science. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Edward J. Larson. An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science. Yale University Press, 2011.

Jonathan Seitz. Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Erika Lorraine Milam. Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher. Lessons Amid the Rubble: An Introduction to Post-Disaster Engineering and Ethics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Jeffrey M. Jentzen. Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Daniel Lee Kleinman (Co-editor), Karen A. Cloud-Hansen (Co-editor), Christina Matta (Co-editor), and Jo Handelsman (Co-editor). Controversies in Science and Technology. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2008.

Deniz Balgamis (Editor), and Kemal H. Karpat (Editor). Turkish Migration to the United States : From Ottoman Times to the Present. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

Pamela Gossin. Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post‐Darwinian World. Ashgate, 2007.

Daniel Patrick Thurs. Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Michael F. Robinson. The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Florencia Mallon. Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Fa-ti Fan. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Harvard University Press, 2004.

Edward J. Larson. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. Penguin Random House, 2004.

Jole R. Shackelford. Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602). Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004.

Louise E. Robbins. Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Rennie B. Schoepflin. Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Jane R. Camerini (Editor). The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings From the Field. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford University Press, 2001.

Edward J. Larson. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. Basic Books, 1997.

Judith W. Leavitt. The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Richard C. Sawyer. To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California. Iowa State Press, 1996.

Charlotte G. Borst. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920. Harvard University Press, 1995.

Edward J. Larson. Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

James M. Lattis. Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Michael A. Osborne. Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. Indiana University Press, 1994.

Hugh Richard Slotten. Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Patricia Spain Ward. Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921. University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Science, Medicine, and the State in Germany: The Case of Baden, 1815-1871. Oxford University Press, 1993.

A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Elizabeth B. Keeney. The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America. University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Roy Jose DeCarvalho. The Founders of Humanistic Psychology. Praeger Publishers, 1991.

Joella G. Yoder. Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

John Patrick Swann. Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Rima D. Apple. Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1950. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Edward J. Larson. Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1985.

John M. Eyler. Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William Farr. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.