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HISTORY DEPARTMENT VIRTUAL BOOKSHELF
Grant, Lincoln & the Freedmen
Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Eaton
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
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson
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…
Connecting the Greater West Series
By Sheila McManus
Connecting the Greater West, a series of scholarly books, explores a wide range of topics on the American West, understood as not only the United States, but also northern Mexico, western Canada, and the borderlands areas between the regions…
The Mexican Revolution
A Documentary History
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…
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Department of History
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