History 298:  Junior Colloquium, Faculty Recommended Books

Recommended by multiple professors:
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994)
E.H. Carr, What Is History? (1961)
Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience and Myth (1997)
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (1984)
Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in 16^th c. France (1987)
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1995)
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller (1992)
Laura Hein and Mark Seldon, Censoring History (2000)
Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt (1988)
Steve J. Stern, Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London, 1998 (2004)
Dorothy Thompson, ed. The Essential E.P. Thompson (2001)
E..P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class ((1966)
Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard (1990)
Carl Weiner, The Annales School
Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (2000)

African history - Jamie Monson
Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992)
Iris Berger, Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980 (1992)
Gracia Clark, Onions are my Husband : Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women (1994)
Frederick Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996)
Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (1980)
Johannes Fabian, Remembering the Present : Painting and Popular History in Zaire, (1997)
Barbara Fields, Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa, (1985)
Jonathan Glassman, Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 (1995)
Likaka, Osumaka, Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire. (1997)
Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996)
Kristan Mann, Marrying Well: Marriage, Status, and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos (1985)
Shula Marks, Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women (1987)
Joseph Miller, Way of Death : Merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 (1988)
Randall L. Powells, Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 (1987)
Abdul Sheriff, Slaves, Spices, and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770-1873 (1987)
Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rain Forest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (1990)
Landeg White, Magomero: Portrait of an African Village (1987)
Ivor Wilks, Asante in the Nineteenth Century (1975)

African history - Nancy Jacobs
Isabel Hofmeyr (this is correct spelling), We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom (1994)
Robert C.-H. Shell, Children of Bondage: A Social History of Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope (1994)
Elias Mandala, Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi 1859-1960 (1990)

African-American history - Harry Williams
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
Stephen L. Carter, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby (1991)
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (1977)
C. Eric Lincoln, Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma (1984)
William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 (1978)
Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984)
William D. Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in 18th-century New England (1988)
Deborah G. Plant, Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy & Politics of Zora Neale Hurston (1995)
George Schuyler, Black No More (1931)
Clifton L. Taulbert, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored (1989)
Clarence E. Walker, Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals (1991)
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
Jeremiah Moses Wilson, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 (1978)
Shirley J. Yee, Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1826-1860 (1992)

American history - Clifford Clark
Bill Brown, The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane and the Economics of Play (1996)
Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Curb War to the Progressive Era (1997)
Andrew Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison (2000)
Louis Manard, The Metaphysical Club (2001)
David McCullough, John Adams (2001)
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar (2000)
Leigh E. Schmidt, Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays (1995)
Philip Scranton, Endless Novelty (1998)
Elliot West, The Contested Plains (1998)

American history - Kirk Jeffrey
James R. Beniger, The Control Revolution (1986)
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983)
Carl Degler, Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in the United States and Brazil (1971)
Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (1996)
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)
David E. Nye, Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (1998)
Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People and War: The Continental Army and the American Character, 1775-1783 (1979)
Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982)
Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993)
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984)

American Women's and Gender History - Annette Igra
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (1980)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988)
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1986)
Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
Linda Gordon, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence: Boston, 1880-1960 (1988)
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (1987)
Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1979)
George Chauncey, Gay New York (1994)

Early Modern Europe - Susannah Ottaway
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (1984)
Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in 16^th c. France (1987)
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller (1992)
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992)
Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero, Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe (Baltimore, 1991)
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Mountaillou: The Promised Land of Error (1974)
Garrett Mattingly, The Armada (1959)
Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory (1984)
E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common (1992)
Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight (1992)

East Asian history, Seungjoo Yoon and Chang-tai Hung
Paul Cohen, Discovering History in China (1984)
John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1995)
Carol Gluck, Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (1985)
Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997)
John W. Hall, Government and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700 (1966)
Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China (1962)
David Johnson, et al, ed. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (1985)
Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth Tradition (1982)
Philip Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (1990)
Tetsuo Najita and J. Victor Koschmann, Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition
Daniel L. Overmyer, Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China (1976)
Peter Perdue, China Marches West: the Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005)
Benjamin I. Schwartz, In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West (1964)
Steve Stern, Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London, 1988 (2004)
Dorothy Thompson, ed. The Essential E.P. Thompson (2001)
Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard (1990)
Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (2000)

European history - Carl Weiner
Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (1984)
Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions (1837-43)
Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (1987)
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller (1980)
Eric Hobsbaum, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (1984)
Gareth Stedman Jones, The Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (1983)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (1987)
Bonnie G. Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight (1992)
Francoise Zonabend, The Enduring Memory: Time and History in a French Village (1985)

European history - Diethelm Prowe
Peter C. Caldwell, Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Michael H. Kater, Hitler Youth (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)
Timothy Garton Ash, The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990)
Daniel Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
Konrad Jarausch, The Rush to Germany Unity (1994)
David Landes, Revolution in Time (1983) Charles S. Maier, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997)
Garrett Mattingly, The Armada (1959)
Paul Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 (1994)

European history; the American West - Robert Bonner
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
John Keegan, The Face of Battle (1977)
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Mountaillou: The Promised Land of Error (1974)
Garrett Mattingly, The Armada (1959)
Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987)
Richard White, The Middle Ground (1991)
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire (1985)

Indian and South Asian history - Parna Sengupta
Shahid Amin, Event, Metaphor and Memory (1995)
Dipesh Chakravarty, Provincializing Europe (2001)
Val Daniel, Charred Lullabies (1996)
Nicholas Dirks, Castes of Mind (2002)
R. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier (1993)
Ramachandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods (1990)
Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak, ed., Selected Subaltern Studies (1988)
Selig Harrison, India: The Most Dangerous Decades (1960)
David Lelyveld, Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (1977)
T. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj (1994)
Kumkum Sangri and Sudesh Vaid, Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History (1990)
Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Nation, Hindu Wife (2001)

Latin American History - Andrew Fisher and Jeane DeLaney
Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in the Yucatan, 1517-1570 (1987)
Ada Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation & Revolution, 1868-1898 (1999)
Florencia E. Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (1995)
Elinor G.K. Melville, A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico (1994)
Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821 1988)
Stanley J. Stein, Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900 (1957)
Steve J. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest (1982)
Steve J. Stern, Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London, 1998 (2004)
James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: culture, Kinship and Religion in theAfrican-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (2003)
Paul J. Vanderwood, The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the 19th Century (1993)
John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (1969)

Medieval Europe - Philip Niles
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society (1964)
George Duby, The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France (1983)
Frederick W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England (1921)

Medieval Europe (Late Antiquity/Middle Ages/Renaissance), Victoria Morse and Bill North
Duccio Balestracci, The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant (1999)
The Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (1731)
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society (1964) Robert Brentano, Two Churches. England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century (1968; new ed. 1988)
Peter R. L. Brown, Augustine of Hippo. A Biography (1967; new ed. 2000)
Otto Brunner, Land and Lordship. Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria (1965; Engl. trans. 1992)
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast, Holy Fast. The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1987)
Georges Duby, The Three Orders. Feudal Society Imagined (1980)
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury (1896)
Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2000)
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924; new trans. 1996)
C. Stephen Jaeger, The Origins of Courtliness. Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210 (1985)
Geoffrey Koziol, Begging Pardon and Favor. Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France (1993)
Carol Lansing, Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy (1998)
Jean Leclercq, Love of Learning and Desire for God. A Study of Monastic Culture (1961)
Karl Leyser, Rule and Conflict in an Early Medieval Society: Ottonian Saxony (1979)
Robert Markus, The End of Ancient Christianity (1990) Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy (1979)
Sir Richard Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages (1953)
Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy. Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (1983)
Carole Straw, Gregory the Great. Perfection in Imperfection (1988)
Gerd Tellenbach, Church, State and Christian Society at the Time of the Investiture Contest (1948; repr. 1991)

Russian history & Islamic history - Adeeb Khalid
Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (1992)
Steven Hoch, Serfdom and Social Control in Russia (1986)
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987)
Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (1995)
Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt (1988)
Roy P. Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1985)
Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)
Yuri Slezkine, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (1994)
Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (1989)

Suggestions for the stout-hearted
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World (2 vols., 1972)
Marshall G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization (3 vols., 1974)