Faculty Bookshelf

Brandon Bloch. Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy. Harvard University Press, 2025.

Emily Callaci. Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. Penguin UK/Seal USA, 2025.

Mou Banerjee. The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India. Harvard University Press, 2025.

James Sweet. Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Puerto Rico: A National History. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Judith A. Houck. Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Allison Powers Useche. Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Jessalynn Bird (Co-editor), and Elizabeth Lapina (Co-editor). The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Zach Fredman (Co-editor), and Judd Kinzley (Co-editor). Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Ashley Brown. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Stephen Kantrowitz. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Karl Shoemaker (Editor). A Global History of Crime and Punishment Volume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023.

Viren Murthy. Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution. The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Francine Hirsch. Russian Translation of “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A History of the New International Military Tribunal After World War II.” Translated by Robert Abatullin. NLO, 2023.

Francine Hirsch. Russian Translation of "Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union". Translated by Robert Ibatullin. NLO, 2022.

Kathryn McGarr. City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington. University of Chicago Press , 2022.

Viren Murthy. The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future. Routledge, 2022.

Vanina Kopp (Co-editor), and Elizabeth Lapina (Co-editor). Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Brepols, 2021.

Pablo F. Gómez (Editor), and Diego Armus (Editor). The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. The New Press, 2021.

Alfred W. McCoy. To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change. Haymarket Books, 2021.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. Duke University Press, 2021.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Editor). Páginas Libres: Breve antología Del Pensamiento Anarquista En Puerto Rico. Editora Educación Emergente, 2021.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Kathryn Ciancia. On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Giuliana Chamedes. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe. Harvard University Press, 2019.

Leonora Neville. Byzantine Gender. ARC Humanities Press, 2019.

Elizabeth Hennessy. On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden. Yale University Press, 2019.

Monica Kim. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Simon Balto. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Emma Kuby. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight Against Concentration Camps After 1945. Cornell University Press, 2019.

Charles Kim, Jungwon Kim, Hwasook Nam, and Serk-Bae Suh. Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea. University of Washington Press, 2019.

Gregg Mitman (Co-editor), Marco Armiero (Co-editor), and Robert S. Emmett (Co-editor). Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Nicole C. Nelson. Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Judd Kinzley. Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Leonora Neville. Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Daniel Stolz. The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Elizabeth Lapina (Co-editor), and Nicholas Morton (Co-editor). The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources. Brill, 2017.

Charles Kim. Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea. 2017.

Alfred W. McCoy. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Haymarket Books, 2017.

Claire Taylor. Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Tony Michels (Co-editor), and Mitchell B. Hart (Co-editor). The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Viren Murthy (Co-editor), Fabian Schäfer (Co-editor), and Maz Ward (Co-editor). Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy. Brill, 2017.

Viren Murthy (Co-editor), and Joyce C.H. Liu (Co-editor). East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Daniel Ussishkin. Morale: A Modern British History. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Emily Callaci. Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania. Duke University Press, 2017.

Cindy I-Fen Cheng (Editor). The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies. Routledge, 2016.

Leonora Neville. Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Alfred W. McCoy. Beer of Broadway Fame: The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery. SUNY Press, 2016.

Lee Palmer Wandel. Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion. Brill, 2016.

Gregg Mitman (Co-editor), and Kelley Wilder (Co-editor). Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), Joel Isaac (Co-editor), James T. Kloppenberg (Co-editor), and Michael O’Brien (Co-editor). The Worlds of American Intellectual History. Oxford Universiity 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.

Claire Taylor (Co-editor), and Kostas Vlassopoulos (Co-editor). Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Elizabeth Lapina (Co-editor), April Jehan Morris (Co-editor), Laura J Whatley (Co-editor), and Susanna A. Throop (Co-editor). The Crusades and Visual Culture. Ashgate, 2015.

April Haynes. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Elizabeth Lapina. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade. Penn State University Press, 2015.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), James L. Baughman (Co-editor), and James P. Danky (Co-editor). Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.

Joe Dennis. Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100-1700. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Richard C. Keller. Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Patrick Iber. Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Cindy I-Fen Cheng. Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race During the Cold War. NYU Press, 2014.

Viren Murthy (Co-editor), Andrew Sartori (Co-editor), and Prasenjit Duara (Co-editor). A Companion to Global Historical Thought. Wiley, 2014.

Viren Murthy. The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia. Brill, 2014.

Stephen Kantrowitz. All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry. Cornell University Press, 2013.

William Reese. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Louise Young. Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan. University of California Press, 2013.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Voces Libertarias: Los orígenes Del Anarquismo En Puerto Rico. Secret Sailor Books, 2013; Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2014; Editorial Akelarre, 2015, 2013.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Editor). Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2013.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Finn Enke. Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press, 2012.

Stephen Kantrowitz. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic. Penguin Press, 2012.

Alfred W. McCoy. Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

Alfred W. McCoy. Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

Tony Michels. Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History. NYU Press, 2012.

Leonora Neville. Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Claire Taylor (Co-editor), and J.A. Baird (Co-editor). Ancient Graffiti in Context. London & New York: Routledge, 2012.

Viren Murthy. The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness. Brill, 2011.

Karl Shoemaker. Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject. University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Karl Shoemaker. Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500. Fordham University Press, 2011.

James Sweet. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Lee Palmer Wandel. The Reformation: Towards a New History. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Warwick Anderson (Co-editor), Deborah Jenson (Co-editor), and Richard C. Keller (Co-editor). Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties. Duke University Press, 2011.

Neil Kodesh. Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda. 2010.

James Sweet, and Tejumola Olaniyan (Co-editor). The African Diaspora and the Disciplines. Indiana University Press, 2010.

Richard C. Keller (Editor), Robert Dingwall (Editor), and Carine Vassy (Editor). Enregistrer Les Morts, Identifier Les surmortalités Une Comparaison Angleterre, États-Unis Et France. Presses de l’EHESP, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, 2010.

John W. Hall. Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Alfred W. McCoy. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Alfred W. McCoy (Editor), and Francisco Scarano (Editor). Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Alfred W. McCoy (Editor). An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

Florence C. Hsia. Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Anne Hansen. At the Edge of the Forest : Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler. Cornell University SEAP Press, 2008.

Susan E. Lederer. Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Judith A. Houck. Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Finn Enke. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism. Duke University Press, 2007.

Anne Hansen. How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860–1930. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.

William Reese. Rethinking the History of American Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

William Reese. History, Education, and the Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Gregg Mitman. Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. Yale University Press, 2007.

Richard C. Keller. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Hasok Chang (Co-editor), and Catherine M. Jackson (Co-editor). An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War. British Society for the History of Science, 2007.

Alfred W. McCoy. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.

Lee Palmer Wandel. The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Francine Hirsch. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Cornell University Press, 2005.

Tony Michels. A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York. Harvard University Press, 2005.

William Reese. America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to ‘No Child Left Behind’. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Sarah Thal. Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Lorraine Daston (Editor), and Gregg Mitman (Editor). Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Columbia University Press, 2005.

Leonora Neville. Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950–1100. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Gregg Mitman (Co-editor), Michelle Murphy (Co-editor), and Christopher Sellers (Co-editor). Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Alfred W. McCoy. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003.

Brenda Gayle Plummer (Editor). Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

James Sweet. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Robin W. Winks (Co-editor), and Lee Palmer Wandel (Co-editor). A History of Civilization, Vol. III: Europe in a Wider World: 1350-1650. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Lee Palmer Wandel. History Has Many Voices: In Honor of Robert McCune Kingdon. Truman State University Press, 2003.

Stephen Kantrowitz. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. UNC Press, 2000.

Alfred W. McCoy. Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Gregg Mitman. Reel Nature: America’s Romance With Wildlife on Film. Harvard University Press, 1999.

Laird Boswell. Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939. Cornell University Press, 1998.

William Reese. Hoosier Schools: Past and Present. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Louise Young. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. University of California Press, 1998.

Lee Palmer Wandel. Facing Death. Yale University Press, 1996.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

William Reese. The Origins of the American High School. Yale University Press, 1995.

Lee Palmer Wandel. Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Susan E. Lederer. Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

David McDonald. United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914. Harvard University Press, 1992.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Gregg Mitman. The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Lee Palmer Wandel. Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

William Reese. The Social History of American Education. University of Illinois Press, 1988.

William Reese. Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. Rev. edition, Teachers College Press, 1986.