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North America/US Comp Reading Lists

Broader/Synthetic Works:

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America:  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.

Canaday, Margot, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self, eds. Intimate States: Gender,
Sexuality and Governance in Modern US History

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900.   

D鈥橢milio, John and Estelle Freeman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

Feige, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. 

Gabaccia, Donna R.  Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective

Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States.

Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge.

Stryker, Susan. Transgender History.

Takaki, Ronald.  Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans.

 

Historiographical Articles:

Barr, Juliana. 鈥淭here鈥檚 No Such Thing as 鈥楶rehistory鈥�: What the Longue Dur茅e of Caddo and Pueblo History Tells Us 糖心Vlog Colonial America,鈥� WMQ 74, no. 2 (2017): 203-40.

Boydston, Jeanne.  鈥淕ender as a Question of Historical Analysis,鈥� Gender & History 20, no. 3 (November 2008): 558-583.

Freedman, Estelle. 鈥溾�橳he Historical Construction of Homosexuality in the U.S.,鈥� Socialist Review, 25, 1 (1995), 31-46. OR *Estelle Freedman, 鈥淭he Burning of Letters Continues鈥�: Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality,鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 History, 9, 4 (Winter 1998), 181-200.

Gutman, Herbert.  "Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919." The American Historical Review 78, no. 3 (1973): 531-88

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. 鈥淭he Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,鈥� JAH, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Marc., 2005), 1233-1263.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 鈥淏eyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Analysis?鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 History 18, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 11-21.

Saunt, Claudio. 鈥淢apping Early American Historiography,鈥�  The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Oct., 2008), pp. 745-778.

Scott, Joan.  鈥淕ender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,鈥� American

Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 5 (December 1986): 1053-1075.

Thompson, E. P. 鈥漈he Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century鈥�

Past & Present No. 50 (Feb., 1971), pp. 76-136 

Wulf, Karin.  鈥淰ast Early America: Three Simple Words for a Complex Reality,鈥� Uncommon Sense, 6 February 2019.

 

Twentieth Century:

Adams, Mikaela. Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South.

Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America鈥檚 Deadliest Labor War. 

Bacevich, Andrew. The Age of Illusions/The Limits of Power

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917.

Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Canaday, Margot. The Straight State:  Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America.

Dan Carter,  The Politics of Rage:  George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics.

Connolly, Nathan D.B., A World More Concrete:  Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.

Cobb, Daniel M. Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty.

Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics.

Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin鈥� Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.

Elmore, Bart. Seed Money: Monsanto鈥檚 Past and Our Food Future.   

Farber, David. Taken Hostage:  The Iran Hostage Crisis and America鈥檚 First Encounter with Radical Islam

Gerstle, Gary.  American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century 

Gerstle, Gary, et al.  Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession.

Gilmore, Glenda.  Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, et al.  Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.

Herring, George. America鈥檚 Longest War

Hinton, Elizabeth. America on Fire: The Untold History of Political Violence and Black Rebellion Since 1960.

Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. 

Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation.

Kahrl,  Andrew W. The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South 

Korstad, Robert. Civil Rights Unionism:  Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South.

Lassiter, Matthew D. The Suburban Crisis:  White America and the War on Drugs.

Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority:  Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.

Levenstein, Lisa. They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

 McGirr,Lisa.  Suburban Warriors:  The Origins of the New American Right.

McGuire, Danielle.  At the Dark End of the Street:  Black Women, Rape and Resistance-A New History of the Civil Rights Movement鈥�

Martin, Rachel Louise. A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation 

Milov, Sarah.  The Cigarette: A Political History 

Molina, Natalie. How Race is Made in America:  Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts.

Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects:  Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.

Nickerson, Michelle.  Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right.

Payne, Charles. I鈥檝e Got the Light of Freedom:  The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement:  A Radical Democratic Vision.

Rothstein, Richard.  The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.

Roberts, Mary Louise. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France 

Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

Self, Robert. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s.

Shull, Kristina. Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance

Simon, Bryant. The Hamlet Fire:  A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives.

Simon, Bryant. The Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.

Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief

Sparrow, James. The Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government.

Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

Turner, James Morton and Andrew C. Isenberg, The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump. 

Vider, Stephen. The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after WWII.

Wiese, Julie.  Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910.

Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan:  A History, 1974-2008.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of the Great Migration.

Wilkerson, Jessie. To Live Here You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice.

Wheeler, Leigh Ann. How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

Worster, Donald. The Dust Bowl

 

19^th Century U.S.

Ayers, Edward. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. 

Camp, Stephanie H. M. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

Cronon, William. Nature鈥檚 Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.  

Glymph,Thavolia. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.

Hamalainen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire.

Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood

Hunter, Tera W. To 鈥楯oy My Freedom: Southern Black Women鈥檚 Lives and Labors after the Civil War.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad. 

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.

Jones, Martha S. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.

McGirr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement.

McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning:  Power and Politics in the Civil War South.

McCurry, Stephanie, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeomen Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country.

Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. 

Miles, Tiya. The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919.

Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore.

Rogers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age.

Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.

Rugemer, Edward Bartlett. The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War.

Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. New York: Norton, 2020.

Christina Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson

White, Richard. The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

 

Early America

Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.

Blackhawk, Ned. Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Block, Sharon. Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip鈥檚 War

Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Cevasco, Carla. Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.

DuVal, Kathleen. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.

DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

Ellis, Elizabeth N. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South

Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolutions in Early America

Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

Good, Cassandra. Founding Friendships

Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and their World (rev. and exp. ed. 2022)

Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

Linebaugh, Peter,  and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Morgan, Jennifer. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

Smallwood, Stephanie. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies

Taylor, Alan.  American Revolutions: A Continental History

Townsend, Camilla. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Snyder, Christina. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America.

Waldstreicher, David. Slavery鈥檚 Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650鈥�1815.

Witgen, Michael. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America

Zagarri, Rosemarie. Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic.

 

Public History

Bruggeman, Seth, ed. Born in the USA: Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory.

Burton, Antoinette and Helena Pohlandt-McCormack. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History.

Casper, Scott E. Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine.

Colwell, Chip. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture.

Conard, Rebecca. Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History.

Eichstedt, Jennifer L. and Stephen Small. Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums.

Henderson, Amy. Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian.

Kelland, Lara. Clio鈥檚 Foot Soldiers: U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory.

Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek.

Lonetree, Amy and Amanda J. Cobb, eds. The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations.

Lonetree, Amy. Decolonizing Museums: Presenting Native America in National and Tribal Museums.

Martinko, Whitney. Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States.

Miles, Tiya. Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era).

Nash, Gary. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory.

Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Romano, Renee C. and Leigh Raiford, eds. The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory.

Savage, Kirk. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape.

Seefeldt, Douglass and William G. Thomas, 鈥溾�� Perspectives on History, May 2009.

Sharpley, Richard and Philip Stone. The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism.

Sturkin, Marita. Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero.

Thomas, Lynnell L. Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory.

Ancient/Medieval

 

Students seeking a general overview of any period from ancient or medieval history should consult a good current textbook or see Dr. Szabo for more specific texts on particular chronological periods. Primary sources are not included in this list but critical.  See Dr. Szabo.

 

Amandaa Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East, 2022.

Josiah Ober, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, 2015.

Josiah Osgood, Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE 鈥� 20 CE, 2018.

Mary Beard. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, 2015.

David Mattingly, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire, 2010.

Edward Watts. The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, 2021.

Peter R.L. Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750, 1989.

Claudia Rapp, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, 2013.

2017. Harper, The Fate of Rome, 2017.

Patrick Geary, Narrators of Barbarian History, 2005.

Anthony Kaldellis, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, 2023.

Julia M. H. Smith, Europe after Rome: a New Cultural History 500-1000, 2005.

Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop, The Crusades: A History, 2023.

Thomas N. Bisson, The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government, 2008.

Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350, 1993.

Richard Hoffman, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe, 2014.

R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250, 1987.

Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, 2020.

Patrick Geary, The Myth of Nations, The Medieval Origins of Europe, 2003.

 

Early Modern Global History Comprehensive Exam Reading List

Bevilacqua, Alexander. The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. 2018.

Brege, Brian. Tuscany in the Age of Empire. 2021.

Casale, Giancarlo L. The Ottoman Age of Exploration: Spices, Maps and Conquest in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean. 2010.

Celenza, Christopher S. The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800. 2021.

Coller, Ian. Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution, 2020.

Davies, Surekha. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters 2017.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, 2006.

Earle, T. F., and Kate Lowe, eds. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, 2005.

Eire, Carlos M. N. Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, 2016.

Fromont, C茅cile. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, 2014.

Isabella, Maurizio. Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, 2023.

Jones, Nicholas R. Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755, vol. 3, 2019.

Kelly, Samantha. Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome, 2024.

Lowe, K. J. P. Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy, 2024.

Markey, Lia. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence, 2016.

Michelson, Emily. Catholic Spectacle and Rome鈥檚 Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance, 2022.

Ndiaye, No茅mie, and Lia Markey, eds. Seeing Race before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World, 2023.

Palmer, Ada. Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, 2025.

Parker, Charles H. Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Phillips, Kim M. Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510, 2014.

Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe., 2015.

Rothman, E. Natalie. The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism, 2021.

Rowe, Erin Kathleen. Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism,2019.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Europe鈥檚 India: Words, People, Empires, 1500-1800, 2017.

Zarinebaf, F. Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata, 2018.

 

Twentieth Century European

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities:  Reflection on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, 1983.

Barton, Nimisha. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France  2020.

Bergholz, Max. Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan

Community, 2016.

Bessel, Richard.  Postwar Europe:  A Very Short Introduction, 2025.

Bivar, Venus. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France, 2018.

Carby, Hazel. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, 2021.

Dunstan, Sarah C. Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War, 2021.

Goldhagen, David. Hitler鈥檚 Willing Executioners (1996) [With replies by Istvan Deak, 鈥淭he

Goldhagen Controversy in Retrospect,鈥� Essays on Hitler鈥檚 Europe (2001), page 100-113 and Goldhagen, Christopher Browning, and Leon Wieseltier, 鈥淭he Willing Executioners/Ordinary Men Debate, U.S. Holocaust Museum (1996; 2001).

Greble, Emily. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, 2021.

Hirsch, Francine. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II, 2020.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes:  A History of the World, 1914-1991, 1996.

Kochanski, Halik.  for  , 2023.

Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front,  2010.

Kuby, Emma. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945, 2019.

Lerner, Paul. The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940, 2015.

Link, Stefan. Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order, 2020.  

Loeffler, James. Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, 2018.

Marker, Emily. Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era, 2022.

Mazower, Markk.  No Enchanted Place.  The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, 2009.

Ogle, Vanessa. The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950, 2015.

Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism, 2004.

Reagin, Nancy. Sweeping the German Nation Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945, 2007.

Ross, Corey. Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World , 2017.

Rothman, Natalie E. Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul, 2011.

Saunders, Robert. Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, 2018.

Schlogel, Karl. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World, 2024.

Slobodian, Quinn E.  Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism , 2018.

Sloin, Andrew. The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power, 2017.Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands :  Europe between Hitler and Stalin, 2010.

Winter, Jay. The Great War and the Twentieth Century, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� eds. Jay Winter, et al., 2014.

 

Latin American History

Reading List

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Foundational Texts

Halperin Donghi, Tulio. The Contemporary History of Latin America. Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, 1993.

Romero, Jos茅 Luis. Latin America: Its Cities and Its Ideas. Translated by In茅s Azar. Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1999. available: https://jlromero.com.ar/textos/latin-america-its-cities-and-ideas-1999/

 

Age of Revolution

Adelman, Jeremy. Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic, 2006.

Echeverri, Marcela. Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780鈥�182, 2016.

Scott, Julius S. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, 2018.

Walker, Charles F. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, 2016.

 

Post-independence period and liberal period

Gobat, Michel. Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America, 2018.

Guy, Donna. Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina, 1995.

Kour铆, Emilio. A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico,

 2004.

Sabato, Hilda. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, 2018.

 

The Mexican Revolution

Knight, Alan. The Mexican Revolution. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. (both volumes)

 

Crisis of liberalism, Cold War, and beyond

de la Fuente, Alejandro. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba, 2001.

Grandin, Greg. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, 2011.

Milanesio, Natalia. Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina, 2019.

Stern, Steve. Remembering Pinochet鈥檚 Chile: On the Eve of London 1998, 2004.

Vaughn, Mary Kay. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930鈥�1940, 1997.

 

GLOBAL/AFRICAN URBAN HISTORY

Charles Tilly, 鈥淲hat Good is Urban History?鈥� Journal of Urban History 22. 6 (1996): 702鈥�729

David Clark, Urban World/Global City (Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003), 17-46.

Preeti Chopra, A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay, 2011.

Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart, Early Modern Atlantic Cities, 2024.

Josef Konvitz, 鈥淭he Crises of Atlantic Port Cities, 1880-1920,鈥� Comparative Studies in Society and History, 36.2(1994):293-318

Cindy Ermus, Urban Disasters of Elements in Global Urban History, 2023.

Jeremy Prestholdt, Domesticating the World African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization, 2008.

Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities, 2012.

Peter A. Mark, Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, 2002.

Ambe Njoh, Africa in Urban History, 2024.

Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi, 2017.

Ato Quayson, Oxford Street Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, 2014.

Bill Freund, The African City: A History, 2007.

Gwendolyn Wright, The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism, 1991.

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

AbdouMaliq Simone, For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life In Four Cities, 2004.

Roderick McIntosh, 鈥淒ifferent cities: Jenne-Jeno and African urbanism,鈥� The Cambridge World History 3 (2015): 364-380.

Randy J. Sparks, Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade, 2014.

 

AFRICAN HISTORY

Michael Crowder, 鈥淚ndirect Rule: French and British Style,鈥� Africa 34: (1986) 197-205.

Frederick Cooper, Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present, 2002. 

Emily Osborn, Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule, 2011. 

Paul Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 2011.

James Sweet, Domingos 脕lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, 2011.

Ebere Nwaubani, The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960, 2001.

Elizabeth Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa: From Cold War to the War on Terror, 2013.

Penny M., Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, 1997.

James McCann, Maize and Grace: Africa鈥檚 Encounter with a New World Crop, 2005.

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 2018.

Benjamin Lawrence, Emily Lynn Osborne and Richard Roberts, eds., Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa, 2006.

David Birmingham, The Decolonization of Africa, 1995.

Kevin Gaines, African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, 2006.

James Ferguson, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, 2006.