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Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the world
The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Dorothy Sue Cobble is Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies Emerita at Rutgers University. Her many books include The Sex of Class, Feminism Unfinished, and The Other Women's Movement (Princeton). Website www.dorothysuecobble.com
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad
For the Many...
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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex...
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head. American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A.G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar...
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"Co-Winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize" Kiran Klaus Patel is the Jean Monnet Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His books include Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945, and he has edited a number of volumes, including The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century.
The first history of the new deal in global...
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"Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity.
A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as...
7) Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German empire, and the globalization of the new South
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This work recounts an expedition sent by Tuskegee Institute to transform the German colony of Togo, West Africa, into a cotton economy like the American South. This book reveals a transnational politics of labour, sexuality, and race invisible to earlier national, imperial, and comparative historical perspectives.
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Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising...
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"Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)" "Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association" "Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize, American University's Center for Latin...
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"Finalist for the 2012 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary (1900-Present), Western Writers of America" Rachel St. John is associate professor of history at New York University.
The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line...
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"Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the...
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Jeffrey A. Engel is director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Preston is reader in American history at the University of Cambridge.
A one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or...
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"Winner of the 2011 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta" David Ekbladh is assistant professor of history at Tufts University.
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization...
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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association" "Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award" Roberto Saba is assistant professor of American Studies at Wesleyan...
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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Honorable Mention for the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association" Stefan J. Link is associate professor of history at Dartmouth College.
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression...
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"Winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies" Michael Cotey Morgan is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War
The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland...
17) The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
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"Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Adam Ewing is assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program...
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Sara Lorenzini is associate professor of international history in the School of International Studies at the University of Trento in Italy.
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the...
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Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Transnational Nation and Historians in Public.
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association...
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Katy Hull is lecturer in American studies at the University of Amsterdam.
A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period
In the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of democracy. These issues prompted a profound ambivalence toward modernity, leading...
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