| Doomed Romance: A Story of Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth Century America | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Doomed Romance Book Cover.jpg | | 115 | Doomed Romance: A Story of Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth Century America | Heyrman, Christine | | Penguin-Random House | | 2021 | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599405/doomed-romance-by-christine-leigh-heyrman/ | <p></p><div><div><strong>From the winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in History, a lost episode rediscovered after almost two hundred years; a thwarted love triangle of heartbreak–two men and a woman of equal ambition–that exploded in scandal and investigation, set between America’s Revolution and its Civil War, revealing an age in subtle and powerful transformation, caught between the fight for women’s rights and the campaign waged by evangelical Protestants to dominate the nation’s culture and politics.</strong></div><div><br>At its center–and the center of a love triangle–Martha Parker, a gifted young New England woman, smart, pretty, ambitious, determined to make the most of her opportunities, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Late in 1825, Martha accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor, a clergyman headed for the mission field, Elnathan Gridley. Tenney’s male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence of women in academies, benevolent and reform associations, and the mission field, decided to retaliate on Tenney’s behalf by sending an anonymous letter to the head of the foreign missions board impugning Martha’s character. Tenney further threatened Martha with revealing even more about their relationship, thereby ruining her future prospects as a missionary. The head of the board began an inquiry into the truth of the claims about Martha, and in so doing, collected letters, diaries, depositions, and firsthand witness accounts of Martha’s character.</div><div><br></div><div>The ruin of Martha Parker’s hopes provoked a resistance within evangelical ranks over womanhood, manhood, and, surprisingly, homosexuality, ultimately threatening to destroy the foreign missions enterprise.<br></div> | | |
| Heterosexual Histories | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/rldavis2021.jpg | | 80 | Heterosexual Histories | Davis, Rebecca | Michele Mitchell | New York University Press | | 2021 | https://nyupress.org/9781479802289/heterosexual-histories/ | <p><strong>The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries<br></strong></p><p><strong></strong>Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what<em> is</em>
heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By
challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, <em>Heterosexual Histories</em>
constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality,
examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but
race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the
fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality
from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that
recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity.</p><p>Editors Rebecca
L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a collection that spans four
centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and
subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range
across disciplines with experts from various fields examining
heterosexuality from unique perspectives: a historian shows how defining
heterosexuality, sex, and desire were integral to the formation of
British America and the process of colonization; a legal scholar
examines the connections between race, sexual citizenship, and
nonmarital motherhood; a gender studies expert analyzes the
Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, and explores the intersections of
heterosexuality with shame and second-wave feminism. Together, these
essays explain how differently earlier Americans understood the
varieties of gender and different-sex sexuality, how heterosexuality
emerged as a dominant way of describing gender, and how openly many
people acknowledged and addressed heterosexuality’s fragility.</p><p>By contesting presumptions of heterosexuality’s stability or consistency, <em>Heterosexual Histories</em>
opens the historical record to interrogations of the raced, classed,
and gendered varieties of heterosexuality and considers the implications
of heterosexuality’s multiplicities and changes. Providing both a
sweeping historical survey and concentrated case studies, <em>Heterosexual Histories</em> is a crucial addition to the field of sexuality studies.</p> | | |
| Public Confessions: The Religous Conversions That Changed American Politics | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Public Confessions - Book Cover.png | | 116 | Public Confessions: The Religous Conversions That Changed American Politics | Davis, Rebecca | | The University of North Carolina Press | | 2021 | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664873/public-confessions/ | Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the
mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became
lightning rods for public outrage and debate. <p><em>Public Confessions</em>
reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern
America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures
including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the
American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of
declaring an “authentic” identity amid escalating Cold War fears of
brainwashing and coercion. Facing pressure to celebrate a specific
vision of Americanism, these converts variously attracted and repelled
members of the American public. Whether the act
of changing religions was viewed as selfish, reckless, or even
unpatriotic, it provoked controversies that ultimately transformed
American politics.</p><p><em>Public Confessions</em> takes intimate
history to its widest relevance, and in so doing, makes you see yourself
in both the private and public stories it tells.<br></p> | | |
| The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/blood of the colony.jpg | | 11 | The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria | White, Owen | | Harvard University Press | | 2021 | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248441 | <p><strong>The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire.</strong></p><p>“We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling
of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the
early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans
had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and
planted grape vines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a
region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol.</p><p>Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into
salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine
resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional
view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the
metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for
independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an
especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians
had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the
colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine
industry. <strong>Owen White</strong> examines Algeria’s experiment with
nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that
resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting
of most of the country’s vines.</p><p>With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, <em>The Blood of the Colony</em>
shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria
and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a
long-term mark on the development of the nation.</p> | | |
| The Safavid World | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/The Safavid World - Book Cover.jpg | | 114 | The Safavid World | Matthee, Rudi | | Routledge | | 2021 | https://www.routledge.com/The-Safavid-World/Matthee/p/book/9781138944060 | <p><em>The Safavid World</em> brings together thirty chapters on many
aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501–1722. With the latest
insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at
hand, and others present new interpretations of old
questions based on newly found sources.</p><p>In addition to political history and religious life, the chapters in
this volume cover economic conditions, commercial links and activities,
social relations, and artistic expressions. They do so in ways that
stretch both the temporal and geographical perimeters
of the subject, and contributors also examine Safavid Iran with an eye
to both its Mongol and Timurid antecedents and its long afterlife
following the fall of the dynasty. Unlike traditional scholarship which
tended to view the country as unique, <em>sui generis</em>,
and barely affected by the outside world, <em>The Safavid World</em> situates Iran in a wider, regional or global context.<br></p> | | |
| Zhong Mei Xiangyu: Daguo waijiao yu Wanqing xingshuai, 1784–1911 中美相遇：大国外交与晚清兴衰, 1784–1911 (The meeting of China and the United States: Power diplomacy and the rise and fall of Late Qing, 1784–1911) | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/WC Wang.jpg | | 107 | Zhong Mei Xiangyu: Daguo waijiao yu Wanqing xingshuai, 1784–1911 中美相遇：大国外交与晚清兴衰, 1784–1911 (The meeting of China and the United States: Power diplomacy and the rise and fall of Late Qing, 1784–1911) | Wang, Yuanchong | | Shanghai: Wenhui chubanshe | | 2021 | https://item.jd.com/12788827.html | <p>The book reviews the changes of Sino-American relations
between 1784, when the first American ship <em>Empress of China</em> arrived in
Canton, and 1911, when the Qing Dynasty of China collapsed, with the aim of
examining the great transformation of the foreign relations and the
modernization of modern China and East Asia in the long nineteenth century. It
discusses many historical cases that exerted lasting impacts on the Sino-American
relationship in the era dominated by global capitalism, colonialism, and
imperialism. It also reveals some stories about the Chinese immigrants in the
United States that have been long neglected by the historiography as well as
collective memory in both nations. The last chapter further explores the robust
communications between the Chinese court ladies and the Western ministers'
wives living in Peking in the 1900s.</p> | | |
| Disability and the Victorians Attitudes, interventions, legacies | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Virdi_Disability_Victorians.jpg | | 98 | Disability and the Victorians Attitudes, interventions, legacies | Virdi, Jaipreet | Iain Hutchison and Martin Atherton | Manchester University Press | | 2020 | https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526145710/ | <p>Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range
of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that
present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and
interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The
collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen
to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the
present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language
delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of
disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate
how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and
administrators responded to those under their care. Often character,
morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness
overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider
societal views of impairment and inability.</p> | | |
| Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Virdi_Hearing_Happiness.jpg | | 99 | Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History | Virdi, Jaipreet | | University of Chicago Press | | 2020 | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo48885494.html | <p>At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of
meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by
everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled
to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments,
and technologies led to
dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite
hearing enough for the “normal” majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo
for years. It wasn’t until her thirties, exasperated by problems with
new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness
and reexamine society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person
in America. </p><p>Through lyrical history and personal memoir, <em>Hearing Happiness </em>raises
pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless
quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi
combs archives and museums in order to understand the long history of
curious cures: ear trumpets, violet ray apparatuses, vibrating
massagers, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull
hammering, and many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have
promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver a universal cure—a
harmful legacy that is still present in contemporary biomedicine. <br></p><p>Weaving Virdi’s own experiences together with her exploration into the fascinating history of deafness cures, <em>Hearing Happiness </em>is a powerful story that America needs to hear.</p> | | |
| Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/parker-2020-book.jpg | | 76 | Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell | Parker, Alison | | The University of North Carolina Press | | 2020 | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469659381/unceasing-militant/ | <p>Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a
career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement
of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of
Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP, Terrell collaborated
closely with the likes of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B.
Du Bois.<em> Unceasing Militant</em> is the first full-length biography
of Terrell, bringing her vibrant voice and personality to life. Though
most accounts of Terrell focus almost exclusively on her public
activism, Alison M. Parker also looks at the often turbulent, unexplored
moments in her life to provide a more complete account of a woman
dedicated to changing the culture and institutions that perpetuated
inequality throughout the United States.</p>Drawing on newly
discovered letters and diaries, Parker weaves together the joys and
struggles of Terrell's personal, private life with the challenges and
achievements of her public, political career, producing a stunning
portrait of an often-under recognized political leader.<p>Reviews:<br></p><p>"<em>Unceasing Militant</em> is an admiring yet fair tribute to activist Mary Church Terrell, whose sustained, determined belief is inspiring."--<em>Foreword Reviews</em></p><p>"Kudos to
Alison Parker for her vivid portrait of the unparalleled Mary Church
Terrell. In a life lived between 1863 and the end of slavery and 1954
and the birth of modern civil rights, Terrell used 'dignified agitation'
to wage a freedom struggle against lynching and racism and in support
of women’s votes, equal education, antiwar efforts, and civil rights.
Parker does a deep dive into the archives to fashion a compelling
life-and-times portrait that places Terrell and black women’s politics
where they should be: at the heart of nearly every important social
movement of the twentieth century. In this ambitious and timely
biography, Parker finally gives Terrell the sustained scholarly
attention she deserves."--Martha S. Jones, author of <em>Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All</em></p><p>"I so
appreciate Alison Parker's ability to tell the story of Mary Church
Terrell's brave and courageous life with a sense of critical
compassion."--Ula Taylor, author of <em>The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam</em></p><p>"Mary
Church Terrell is one of the most important hidden figures of the
twentieth century, and Alison Parker's keen yet warm historical eye
allows Terrell's life story to blossom. A proudly African American woman
born into slavery and raised in freedom, Terrell bore witness to the
rise and fall of Jim Crow over a life that spanned almost a century.
There is something in Terrell's story for every reader interested in
twentieth-century social movements--civil rights, women's rights, prison
reform, women's health advocacy, Pan-Africanism, human rights between
the two World Wars, and U.S. presidential politics."--Nikki Brown,
author of <em>Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal</em></p><p>"This is a wonderful biography of a foundational figure in the history of U.S. civil rights."--Anastasia Curwood, author of <em>Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars</em></p> | | |
| Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930–1950 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/robles book.jpg | | 83 | Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930–1950 | Robles, Sonia | | The University of Arizona Press | | 2019 | | <p>Mexican Waves is the fascinating history of how borderlands radio
stations shaped the identity of an entire region as they addressed the
needs of the local population and fluidly reached across borders to the
United States. In so doing, radio stations created a new market of
borderlands consumers and worked both within and outside the constraints
of Mexican and U.S. laws. </p><p>Historian Sonia Robles examines the
transnational business practices of Mexican radio entrepreneurs between
the Golden Age of radio and the early years of television history.
Intersecting Mexican history and diaspora studies with communications
studies, this book explains how Mexican radio entrepreneurs targeted the
Mexican population in the United States decades before U.S. advertising
agencies realized the value of the Spanish-language market.
</p><p>Robles’s robust transnational research weaves together histories of
technology, performance, entrepreneurship, and business into a single
story. Examining the programming of northern Mexican commercial radio
stations, the book shows how radio stations from Tijuana to Matamoros
courted Spanish-language listeners in the U.S. Southwest and local
Mexican audiences between 1930 and 1950. Robles deftly demonstrates
Mexico’s role in creating the borderlands, adding texture and depth to
the story. <br></p><p>Scholars and students of radio, Spanish-language
media in the United States, communication studies, Mexican history, and
border studies will see how Mexican radio shaped the region’s
development and how transnational listening communities used broadcast
media’s unique programming to carve out a place for themselves as
consumers and citizens of Mexico and the United States.</p> | | |
| The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/ses2019.jpg | | 85 | The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015 | Sidebotham, Steven | Jennifer E. Gates-Foster and Jean-Louis G. Rivard | American Schools of Oriental Research | | 2019 | https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=97285 | <p>The publication of the Eastern Desert Roads Surveys brings together the research of two survey projects, the Michigan-Assiut Koptos-Eastern Desert Project and the University of Delaware-Leiden University Eastern Desert Surveys. From 1987 to 2001 and intermittently thereafter until 2015, these two survey teams worked independently to explore and document the archaeological remains along the routes connecting the Nile Valley cities of Koptos (modern Qift) and Apollinopolis Magna (modern Edfu) to the Red Sea port city of Berenike in Egypt. The result of these surveys was the documentation of seventy discrete archaeological sites ranging in date from the late Dynastic to the Late Roman periods, with many sites demonstrating long-term, multi-period occupation. The survey also recorded road sections, route marking cairns and graves/cemeteries.</p><p>This monograph brings together and integrates the discoveries of both teams, presenting a coherent analysis of the extensive surveys and the materials documented by each. Emphasis is placed on the physical setting of each site, its material remains--including preserved architecture, pottery and other surface finds--and relevant textual evidence, such as inscriptions, ostraka and related historical texts. A single chapter in gazetteer form is devoted to the sites themselves (excluding mines and quarries, which form a separate chapter), while other chapters present the geology of the region and ancient mines and quarries, which made use of the road network, the pottery evidence by phase, and specialist studies. An Introductory chapter offers historical and disciplinary context for the surveys and their subjects, tying the Berenike-Nile roads surveys into the corpus of archaeological surveys in Egypt and the wider Mediterranean world.</p> | | |
| Kenyatta and Britain An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/maloba02.jpg | | 52 | Kenyatta and Britain An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963 | Maloba, Wunyabari | | Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 | | 2018 | https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319508948 | <p>This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta,
Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores
Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain,
the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services
and Kenyatta’s career and the political compromise he forged between
Kenya and Britain. This book draws on primary sources to analyze this
compromise, which marked his transformation from "leader to darkness and
death" to the most beloved post-colonial African leader in the West.</p> | | |
| Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/wang.jpg | | 100 | Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 | Wang, Yuanchong | | Cornell University Press | | 2018 | https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501730504/remaking-the-chinese-empire/#bookTabs=1 | <p><em>A 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title</em></p><p><em>Remaking the Chinese Empire</em> examines China’s development from
an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political
relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the
historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the
Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish,
legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of the
world, as a cosmopolitan empire, and as a modern sovereign state.</p><p>For
the Manchu regime and for the Chosŏn Dynasty, the relationship was one
of mutual dependence, central to building and maintaining political
legitimacy. Yuanchong Wang illuminates how this relationship served as
the very model for China’s foreign relations. Ultimately, this
precipitated contests, conflicts, and compromises among empires and
states in East Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia – in particular, in
the nineteenth century when international law reached the Chinese world.
By adopting a long-term and cross-border perspective on high politics
at the empire’s core and periphery, Wang revises our understanding of
the rise and transformation of the last imperial dynasty of China. His
work reveals new insights on the clashes between China’s foreign
relations system and its Western counterpart, imperialism and
colonialism in the Chinese world, and the formation of modern sovereign
states in East Asia. Most significantly, <em>Remaking the Chinese Empire</em>
breaks free of the established, national history-oriented paradigm,
establishing a new paradigm through which to observe and analyze the
Korean impact on the Qing Dynasty.</p> | | |
| Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/matthee01.jpg | | 59 | Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond | Matthee, Rudi | Elena Andreeva | I.B. Tauris | | 2018 | https://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Society--social-sciences/Politics--government/International-relations/Diplomacy/Russians-in-Iran-Diplomacy-and-the-Politics-of-Power-in-the-Qajar-Era | <p>Russians in Iran seeks to challenge the traditional narrative regarding
Russian involvement Iran and to show that whilst Russia's historical
involvement in Iran is longstanding it is nonetheless much
misunderstood. Russia's influence in Iran between 1800 and the middle of
the twentieth century is not simply a story of inexorable intrusion and
domination: rather, it is a complex and interactive process of mostly
indirect control and constructive engagement. Drawing on fresh archival
material, the contributors provide a window into the power and
influence wielded in Iran not just by the Russian government through it
traditional representatives but by Russian nationals operating in Iran
in a variety of capacities, including individuals, bankers, and
entrepreneurs. Russians in Iran reveals the multifaceted role that
Russians have played in Iranian history and provides an original and
important contribution to the history and international relations of
Iran, Russia and the Middle East.</p> | | |
| Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/buckley-book.png | | 18 | Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil | Buckley, Eve | | The University of North Carolina Press | North Carolina | 2017 | https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469634302/technocrats-and-the-politics-of-drought-and-development-in-twentieth-century-brazil/ | <p>2018 Humanities Book Award, Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association</p><p>Honorable Mention, Warren Dean prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2018<br></p><p>Eve
E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s
hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the
use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and
economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic
optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the
drought-ridden Northeast<em> sertão</em>, plagued by chronic poverty,
recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the
physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working
for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to
seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and
obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing
injustices. </p><p>Scientists planned and oversaw huge projects
including dam construction, irrigation for small farmers, and public
health initiatives. They were, Buckley shows, sincerely determined to
solve the drought crisis and improve the lot of poor people in the <em>sertão</em>.
Over time, however, they came to the frustrating realization that,
despite technology’s tantalizing promise of an apolitical means to end
poverty, political collisions among competing stakeholders were
inevitable. Buckley’s revelations about technocratic hubris, the
unexpected consequences of environmental engineering, and constraints on
scientists as agents of social change resonate with today’s hopes that
science and technology can solve society’s most pressing dilemmas,
including climate change.</p> | | |
| The Anatomy of Neo-Colonialism in Kenya British Imperialism and Kenyatta, 1963–1978 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/maloba01.jpg | | 51 | The Anatomy of Neo-Colonialism in Kenya British Imperialism and Kenyatta, 1963–1978 | Maloba, Wunyabari | | Palgrave Macmillan | | 2017 | https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319509648#otherversion=9783319509655 | <p>The successor to <em>Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963</em>,
this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo
Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime
in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It
analyzes the nature and extent of the collaboration between Kenyatta,
Britain and Western intelligence services to install and protect his
government in Kenya—a collaboration which is linked to some of Kenya's
most intractable political, social and economic problems. Drawing
heavily on primary sources, it examines the legacy of Kenyatta's regime,
and how this legacy is felt in Kenya today.</p> | | |
| The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945 Vol. 1 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/wasson05.jpg | | 105 | The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945 Vol. 1 | Wasson, Ellis | | De Gruyter (Open Access brought to you by University of Delaware) | | 2017 | https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/489921?rskey=FyZrQ0&result=1 | <p>The book provides a comprehensive reference source for the governing class of Great Britain and Ireland from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, and offers a deep pool of data to support analysis of social, political, economic, and cultural history in the British Isles over the course of more than four centuries.</p> | | |
| The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/van-horn-book.png | | 97 | The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America | Van Horn, Jennifer | | University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture | | 2017 | https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469629568/the-power-of-objects-in-eighteenth-century-british-america/ | <p>
</p><h4>Awards & distinctions</h4><p>
</p><p>Finalist, 2018 George Washington Prize</p><p>
</p><p>Honorable Mention, 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies</p><p>
</p><p>
</p><p>Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods.<em> The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America</em> investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to
gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how
elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society
on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary
transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of
Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship.
Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture,
clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of
goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
and Charleston.</p><p>Moving beyond emulation and the desire for
social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows
that Anglo-Americans’ material choices were intimately bound up with
their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African
Americans. She also traces women’s contested place in forging provincial
culture. As encountered through a woman’s application of makeup at her
dressing table or an amputee’s donning of a wooden leg after the
Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of
rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.</p> | | |
| They Will Have Their Game Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/cohen book.jpg | | 20 | They Will Have Their Game Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic | Cohen, Kenneth | | Cornell University Press | | 2017 | https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501752001/they-will-have-their-game/ | <p>In <em>They Will Have Their Game</em>,
Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater
produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and
class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored
financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished
correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how
investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from
all sorts of backgrounds saw these "sporting" activities as stages for
securing economic and political advantage over others.</p><p><em>They Will Have Their Game</em>
tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing
how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually
developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure
activities to the consideration of elections as "races" and business as a
"game." The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of
commercial popular culture to question the influence of ideas such as
"gentility" and "respectability," and to put men like P. T. Barnum at
the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on
the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century
in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of
economic and political history.</p> | | |
| 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/zavadivker.jpg | | 111 | 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front | Zavadivker, Polly | | Indiana University Press | | 2016 | http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807907 | <p>S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a
longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection
of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took
on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians
trapped under Russian military occupation in Galicia. As he made his way
through the shtetls there, close to the Austrian frontlines, he kept a
diary of his encounters and impressions, written in Russian. His diary
entries present a detailed reflection of his daily experiences. He
describes conversations with wounded soldiers in hospitals, fellow
Russian and Jewish aid workers, Russian military and civilian
authorities, and Jewish civilians in Galicia and parts of the Pale.
Although most of his diaries were lost, two fragments survived and are
preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Translated
and annotated here by Polly Zavadivker, these fragments convey An-sky's
vivid firsthand descriptions of civilian and military life in wartime.
He recorded the brutality and violence against the civilian population,
the complexities of interethnic relations, the practices and limitations
of philanthropy and medical care, Russification policies, and
antisemitism. In the late 1910s, An-sky used his diaries as raw material
for a lengthy memoir in Yiddish published under the title The
Destruction of Galicia.</p> | | |
| Dalit Studies | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Rawat01.jpg | | 79 | Dalit Studies | Rawat, Ramnarayan | K. Satyanarayana | Duke University Press | | 2016 | https://www.dukeupress.edu/dalit-studies?viewby=author&lastname=Rawat&firstname=Ramnarayan%20S.&middlename=&sort=newest | <p>The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography
trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well
as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory
politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism
binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the
benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and
spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays
discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to
gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others
highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. The
contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class
Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among
Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant
constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing
the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. In recovering the long
history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and
discrimination, <em>Dalit Studies</em> outlines a new agenda for the study
of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian
academy's core assumptions.</p> | | |
| Jerusalem and the Cross in the Life and Writings of Ademar of Chabannes | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/callahanbook.jpg | | 19 | Jerusalem and the Cross in the Life and Writings of Ademar of Chabannes | Callahan, Daniel | | Brille | | 2016 | https://brill.com/abstract/title/31931 | <p>The tenth and eleventh centuries are pivotal for the history of the West. The writings of Ademar of Chabannes, many of which are still unpublished, offer numerous insights into why these changes were occurring. Because his promotion of the cult of St. Martial of Limoges contains much that is exaggerated or even untrue, his writings have been viewed with suspicion. What this book seeks to do is make clear that such distrust is justified, but that there is much material in those manuscripts throwing light on the origins of the crusades, the rise of heresy, the great feudal warfare and the reality of apocalyptic fear.</p> | | |
| Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/roger.jpg | | 84 | Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food | Horowitz, Roger | | Columbia University Press | | 2016 | http://cup.columbia.edu/sampler/9780231158329/google-preview | | | |
| Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Vol 1 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/brophy6th.jpg | | 15 | Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Vol 1 | Brophy, James | Joshua Cole, John Robertson, Thomas Max Safley, and Carol Symes | W.W. Norton | | 2016 | http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=4294991833 | | | |
| Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Vol 2 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/bropy-perspectives.jpg | | 17 | Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Vol 2 | Brophy, James | Joshua Cole, John Robertson, Thomas Max Safley, and Carol Symes | W.W. Norton | | 2016 | http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=4294991834 | <p><em>Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations</em>
features a diverse range of primary sources for analysis, offering a
total of 225 classic and contemporary documents of varying length.</p> | | |
| Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/514CBzLKaxL_Zara_cover.jpg | | 7 | Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World | Anishanslin, Zara | | Yale University Press | New Haven | 2016 | https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300197051/portrait-woman-silk | <p>Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.<br></p> | | |
| The Spanish Monarchy and Safavid Persia in the Early Modern Period. Politics, War and Religion | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/matthee02.jpg | | 60 | The Spanish Monarchy and Safavid Persia in the Early Modern Period. Politics, War and Religion | Matthee, Rudi | E. García and J. Cutillas | Albatros, Valencia | | 2016 | https://web.ua.es/en/iranian-studies-seminar/news/the-spanish-monarchy-and-safavid-persia-in-the-early-modern-period-politics-war-and-religion.html | <p>Relations between Spain and Persia in the Early Modern Period are often
presented as the story of two bookends-one formed by the mission of Ruy
González de Clavijo to the court of Tamerlane at the turn of the
fifteenth century; the other represented by the embassy Don García de
Silva y Figueroa undertook to the court of the Safavid Shah 'Abbas I on
behalf of King Philip III between 1614 and 1624. The Iberian involvement
with Persia in the two centuries between these two events is mostly
told as a Portuguese, maritime-oriented one. This book is the first to
break out of that mould. It addresses the various ways in which the
Spanish crown sought and maintained contact with Persia, either
independently or, after the creation of the Iberian Union in 1580, in
consort with the Portuguese, in the sixteenth and the seventeenth
centuries. We learn about the motley crew of men who sailed the
Mediterranean or rounded the Cape on their way to the Safavid state, the
diplomats who sought to lure the shah into a joint anti-Ottoman front,
the missionaries who hoped to convert him and his subjects to the 'True
Faith', the adventurers and spies who dreamed of strategic advantage and
commercial control. The essays assembled here also examine the various
initiatives launched by Persia's rulers towards the Spanish court, their
proposals for military cooperation or the sale of silk. Originating as a
conference held in 2013 at the Instituto de Historia del Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid, this volume thus
sheds light on many little known aspects of the complex and multifaceted
relationship between these two empires in the Early Modern Period.</p> | | |
| American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/heyrman_American-Apostles.jpg | | 37 | American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam | Heyrman, Christine | | Hill and Wang | | 2015 | https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809023981 | <p><strong>The surprising tale of the first American Protestant missionaries to proselytize in the Muslim world</strong></p><p>In <em>American Apostles</em>,
the Bancroft Prize-winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman
brilliantly chronicles the first fateful collision between American
missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny
Fisk, Levi Parsons, Jonas King: though virtually unknown today, these
three young New Englanders commanded attention across the United States
two hundred years ago. Poor boys steeped in the biblical prophecies of
evangelical Protestantism, they became the founding members of the
Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria,
where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to
restore these bastions of Islam to true Christianity. Not only among the
first Americans to travel throughout the Middle East, the Palestine
missionaries also played a crucial role in shaping their compatriots'
understanding of the Muslim world.As Heyrman shows, the missionaries
thrilled their American readers with tales of crossing the Sinai on
camel, sailing a canal boat up the Nile, and exploring the ancient city
of Jerusalem. But their private journals and letters often tell a story
far removed from the tales they spun for home consumption, revealing
that their missions did not go according to plan. Instead of converting
the Middle East, the members of the Palestine mission themselves
experienced unforeseen spiritual challenges as they debated with
Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Christians and pursued an elusive Bostonian
convert to Islam. As events confounded their expectations, some of the
missionaries developed a cosmopolitan curiosity about-even an
appreciation of-Islam. But others devised images of Muslims for their
American audiences that would both fuel the first wave of Islamophobia
in the United States and forge the future character of evangelical
Protestantism itself.</p><p><em>American Apostles </em>brings to life
evangelicals' first encounters with the Middle East and uncovers their
complicated legacy. The Palestine mission held the promise of
acquainting Americans with a fuller and more accurate understanding of
Islam, but ultimately it bolstered a more militant Christianity, one
that became the unofficial creed of the United States over the course of
the nineteenth century. The political and religious consequences of
that outcome endure to this day.</p> | | |
| Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953 | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/shearer2.jpg | | 89 | Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953 | Shearer, David | Vladimir Khaustov | Yale University Press | | 2015 | http://yale.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.12987/yale/9780300171891.001.0001/upso-9780300171891 | <p>This documentary history explores Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and
manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the
changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police
and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953,
and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to
achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative,
it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet
archives.</p> | | |
| The First U.S. History Textbooks: Constructing and Disseminating the American Tale in the Nineteenth Century | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/BarryJoyce-textbooks.jpg | | 3 | The First U.S. History Textbooks: Constructing and Disseminating the American Tale in the Nineteenth Century | Joyce, Barry | | Rowman and Littlefield Press | | 2015 | https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498502153/The-First-U.S.-History-Textbooks-Constructing-and-Disseminating-the-American-Tale-in-the-Nineteenth-Century | <p>This book analyzes the common narrative residing in American History textbooks published in the first half of the 19th
century. That story, what the author identifies as the American
“creation” or “origins” narrative, is simultaneously examined as both
historic and “mythic” in composition. It offers a fresh,
multidisciplinary perspective on an enduring aspect of these works. The
book begins with a provocative thesis that proposes the importance of
the relationship between myth and history in the creation of America’s
textbook narrative. It ends with a passionate call for a truly inclusive
story of who Americans are and what Americans aspire to become.
The book is organized into three related sections. The first section
provides the context for the emergence of American History textbooks. It
analyzes the structure and utility of these school histories within the
context of antebellum American society and educational practices. The
second section is the heart of the book. It recounts and scrutinizes the
textbook narrative as it tells the story of America’s emergence from
“prehistory” through the American Revolution—the origins story of
America. This section identifies the recurring themes and images that
together constitute what early educators conceived as a unified cultural
narrative. Section three examines the sectional bifurcation and
eventual re-unification of the American History textbook narrative from
the 1850s into the early 20th
century. The book concludes by revisiting the relationship between
textbooks, the American story, and mythic narratives in light of current
debates and controversies over textbooks, American history curriculum
and a common American narrative.</p> | | |
| Women's Rights in the United States A History in Documents | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Boylan-women.jpg | | 14 | Women's Rights in the United States A History in Documents | Boylan, Anne | | Oxford University Press | | 2015 | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/womens-rights-in-the-united-states-9780195338294?cc=us&lang=en& | <p><em>Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents</em>
uses a diverse collection of documents--including manifestoes, letters,
diaries, cartoons, broadsides, legal and court records, poems, satires,
advertisements, petitions, photographs, leaflets, maps, posters,
autobiographies, and newspapers--to examine major themes in the history
of women's rights and women's rights movements in the U.S. The documents
encompass the experiences of women from a wide range of racial, ethnic,
class, economic, sexual, marital, and social groups. The book covers
such topics as organized social movements; changing definitions of
rights and different women's access to rights; divisions among women
within women's rights movements; global contexts for women's rights
activism; and the question of what it means for women and men to be
"equal." Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and each document
has a headnote or long caption. A picture essay illuminates how both
suffragists and anti-suffragists employed cartooning to articulate their
political positions.</p> | | |
| El surgimiento de la cultura burguesa en la España del siglo XIX | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/cruz01.jpg | | 21 | El surgimiento de la cultura burguesa en la España del siglo XIX | Cruz, Jesus | | Siglio XXI | | 2014 | https://www.sigloxxieditores.com/libro/el-surgimiento-de-la-cultura-burguesa_17901/ | | | |
| How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/turner.jpg | | 96 | How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century | Leonard Turner, Katherine | | | University of California Press | 2014 | https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520277588 | <p>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class
Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs,
families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their
kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a
deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that
delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the
changing food landscape in American working-class families from
industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across
a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies,
women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in
historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and
cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an
engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude
of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.</p> | | |
| Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/sidebotham01.jpg | | 90 | Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason | Sidebotham, Steven | John Hurt | University of Delaware Press | | 2014 | https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611495270/Odyssey-of-a-Bombardier-The-POW-Log-of-Richard-M.-Mason | <p>Odyssey of a Bombardier
is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences
of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17
“Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the
final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the day his plane
crashed until his liberation in April, 1945, and his return home to the
United States. Included are such topics as medical treatment and
rehabilitation for wounded prisoners of the Germans, life in Stalag Luft
III, a difficult long march in an arctic winter to another camp, the
travails of prisoners in the overcrowded, filthy camp at Moosburg,
critical food shortages, and the arrival of General George Patton with
the liberating forces. Mason was an amateur artist and illustrated his
journal with moving depictions of prison life and comradeship. This book
shows U.S. airmen demonstrating grace and courage under pressure and
meeting every challenge that their imprisonment presented. </p> | | |
| Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/sidebothamhurt01.jpg | | 93 | Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason | Hurt, John | Steven E. Sidebotham | University of Delaware Press | | 2014 | | | | |
| Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/duggan01.jpg | | 26 | Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity | Duggan, Lawrence | | Boydell & Brewer | | 2013 | https://boydellandbrewer.com/armsbearing-and-the-clergy-in-the-history-and-canon-law-of-western-christianity.html | <p>The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law.
In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its
clergy from bearing arms. </p><p>In the mid-eleventh century the ban was
reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the
battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do
public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of
the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to
authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the
Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual
clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study
examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and
taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the
reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored.</p> | | |
| Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/may01.jpg | | 64 | Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy | May, Gary | | Basic Books | | 2013 | https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/gary-may/bending-toward-justice/9780465018468/ | <p>When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right
to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand.
Before long, however, white segregationists across the South
counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a
combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex
literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would
remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until
the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the
ballot.In <em>Bending Toward Justice</em>, celebrated historian
Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to
secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American
citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting
Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the
courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights
leaders—as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern
segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy
for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful
demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an
unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its
achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of
President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have
seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's
hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may
soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections
unconstitutional.A vivid, fast-paced history of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, <em>Bending Toward Justice</em>
offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won
African Americans the ballot—although, as May shows, the fight for
voting rights is by no means over.</p> | | |
| In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/white01.jpg | | 108 | In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World | White, Owen | J.P. Daughton | Oxford University Press | | 2013 | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-gods-empire-9780195396447?cc=us&lang=en& | <p>A collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field, <em>In God's Empire</em>
examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French
men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and
global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution.
More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an
essential feature of French contact and interaction with local
populations. In many parts of the world, missionaries were the first
French men and women to work and live among indigenous societies. For
all the celebration of France's secular "civilizing mission," it was
more often than not religious workers who actually fulfilled the daily
tasks of running schools, hospitals, and orphanages. While their work
was often tied to small villages, missionaries' interactions had
geopolitical implications. Focusing on many regions - from the Ottoman
Empire and North America to Indochina and the Pacific Ocean - this book
explores how France used missionaries' long connections with local
communities as a means of political influence and justification for
colonial expansion. <em>In God's Empire</em> offers readers both
an overview of the major historical dimensions of the French
evangelical enterprise, as well as an introduction to the theoretical
and methodological challenges of placing French missionary work within
the context of European, imperial, religious history, and world history.</p> | | |
| Public Law, Private Practice Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/flaherty.jpg | | 28 | Public Law, Private Practice Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan | Flaherty, Darryl | | Harvard University Press | | 2013 | http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066779 | <p>Long ignored by historians and
repudiated in their time, practitioners of private law opened the way
toward Japan’s legal modernity. From the seventeenth to the turn of the
twentieth century, lawyers and their predecessors changed society in
ways that first samurai and then the state could not. During the Edo
period (1600–1868), they worked from the shadows to bend the shogun’s
law to suit the market needs of merchants and the justice concerns of
peasants. Over the course of the nineteenth century, legal practitioners
changed law from a tool for rule into a new epistemology and laid the
foundation for parliamentary politics during the Meiji era (1868–1912).</p><p>This social and political history argues that legal modernity
sprouted from indigenous roots and helped delineate a budding nation’s
public and private spheres. Tracing the transition of law regimes from
Edo to Meiji, <strong>Darryl E. Flaherty</strong> shows how the legal profession
emerged as a force for change in modern Japan and highlights its lasting
contributions in founding private universities, political parties, and a
national association of lawyers that contributed to legal reform during
the twentieth century.</p> | | |
| Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/mohun01.jpg | | 71 | Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society | Mohun, Arwen | | Johns Hopkins University Press | | 2013 | https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/risk | <p>Winner, 2014 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History </p><p>Conference"Risk"
is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from
physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically
everything we do carries some level of risk—threats to our bodies,
property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In
considering this question, Arwen P. Mohun offers a thought-provoking
study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and
industrial America up until today. </p><p>Mohun outlines a vernacular
risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and
common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to
shocking accidents, which, she explains, risk-management experts and the
"gospel of safety" sought to counter. Finally, she examines the
simultaneous blossoming of risk-taking as fun and the aggressive
regulations that follow from the consumer-products-safety movement. </p><p>Risk
and society, a rapidly growing area of historical research, interests
sociologists, psychologists, and other social scientists. Americans have
learned to tame risk in both the workplace and the home. Yet many of us
still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they
dare us to take risks.</p> | | |
| The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/matthee04.jpg | | 61 | The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars | Matthee, Rudi | Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson | I.B. Tauris | | 2013 | https://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Economics%20finance%20business%20%20management/Economics/Financial%20crises%20%20disasters/The%20Monetary%20History%20of%20Iran%20From%20the%20Safavids%20to%20the%20Qajars.aspx | <p>The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its
economic development, as well as its political and social history. This
book is the first detailed study of Iran's monetary history from the
advent of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the end of Qajar rule in 1925.
Using an array of previously unpublished sources in ten languages, the
authors consider the specific monetary conditions in Iran's modern
history, covering the use of ready money and its circulation, the
changing conditions of the country's mints and the role of the state in
managing money. Throughout the book, the authors also consider the
larger regional and global economic context within which the Iranian
economy operated. As the first study of Iran's monetary history, this
book will be essential reading for researchers of Iranian and economic
history.</p> | | |
| The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organisation | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/white03.jpg | | 110 | The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organisation | White, Owen | | Ashgate | | 2013 | https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Modern-Empires-Volume-I-Social-Organization/White/p/book/9781409433972 | <p>This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the
diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since
1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in
multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and
religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate:
colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation
with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers
often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European
nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are
less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight
into a crucial aspect of modern world history.</p> | | |
| Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/matthee06.jpg | | 62 | Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan | Matthee, Rudi | | I.B. Tauris | | 2012 | https://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Humanities/History/Regional%20%20national%20history/Asian%20history/Middle%20Eastern%20history/Persia%20in%20Crisis%20Safavid%20Decline%20and%20the%20Fall%20of%20Isfahan.aspx | <p>The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally
seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and
moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. "Persia in
Crisis" challenges this view. In this ground-breaking new book, Rudi
Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a
fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan
in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of
turbulence in Iranian history. Inherently vulnerable because of the
country's physical environment, its tribal makeup and a small economic
base, the Safavid state was fatally weakened over the course of the
seventeenth century. Matthee views Safavid Iran as a network of
precarious alliances subject to perpetual negotiation and the society
they ruled as an uneasy balance between conflicting forces. In the later
seventeenth century this delicate balance shifted from cohesion to
fragmentation.</p><p>An increasingly detached, palace-bound shah; a
weakening link between the capital and the outlying provinces; the
regime's neglect of the military and its shortsighted monetary policies
combined to exacerbate rather than redress existing problems, leaving
the country with a ruler too feeble to hold factionalism and corruption
in check and a military unable to defend its borders against outside
attack by Ottomans and Afghans. The scene was set for the Crisis of
1722. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of
Iranian history and the period that led to two hundred years of decline
and eclipse for Iran.</p> | | |
| Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/ott.jpg | | 75 | Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon | Ott, Cindy | | University of Washington Press | | 2012 | http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/OTTPUM.html | <p>Why do so many Americans drive for miles each
autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most
people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans
reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the
harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with
pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with
elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals
featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any
historic ties to the crop.In this fascinating cultural and
natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning
with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have
used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to
nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms
and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while
the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin
itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued,
and used it. <em>Pumpkin</em> is a smart and lively study of the deep
meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound
changes in the world around us.</p> | | |
| Reconsidering Untouchability Chamars and Dalit History in North India | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Rawat03.jpg | | 81 | Reconsidering Untouchability Chamars and Dalit History in North India | Rawat, Ramnarayan | | Permanent Black and Indiana University Press | | 2012 | http://permanent-black.blogspot.com/2012/05/major-contribution-to-dalit-history.html | <p>
Often
identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, the Chamars
of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this pathbreaking
study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have
always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure
occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu,
colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. </p><p>
</p><p>
Rawat
undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and
politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature,
local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighborhoods, he reveals
a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India
from the earliest decades of the twentieth century and which has recently
achieved major political successes. </p> | | |
| Sources and Debates in Modern British History 1714 to the Present | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/wasson01.jpg | | 101 | Sources and Debates in Modern British History 1714 to the Present | Wasson, Ellis | | Wiley | | 2012 | https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sources+and+Debates+in+Modern+British+History%3A+1714+to+the+Present-p-9781444333718 | <p>Designed to complement the author's<em> A History of Modern Britain</em>, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study
of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic
history as well as class and cultural issues </p><ul><li>Features a
broad range of documents, in a well-structured and easy-to-use format,
including important, well-known documents and lesser-known excerpts
from memoirs and private correspondence</li><li>Provides up-to-date, balanced coverage of political, imperial, social, economic, and cultural history with over 180 documents</li><li>Offers
a thorough rendering of social class and national identity, including
coverage of changes in British society over the last 20 years</li><li>Includes
discussion questions for each document, as well as lists of historical
debates and extensive bibliographies of both on-line and traditional
sources for students' further research</li></ul> | | |
| The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/frassetto02.jpg | | 32 | The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne | Frassetto, Michael | | Gale | | 2012 | https://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=197%204294904997%204294912463&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=151052886468432771476917548426536679&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial | <p>This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall
of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the
early Middle Ages.</p> | | |
| Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/sidebotham02.jpg | | 91 | Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route | Sidebotham, Steven | | University of California Press | | 2011 | https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244306 | <p>The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for
ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s
heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red
Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located
approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant
port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the
archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played
in the regional, local, and “global” economies during the eight
centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts,
botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team
found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the
people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the
classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
</p> | | |
| Campy - The Two Lives of Roy Campanella | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/lanctot02.jpg | | 49 | Campy - The Two Lives of Roy Campanella | Lanctot, Neil | | Simon & Schuster | | 2011 | http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Campy/Neil-Lanctot/9781416547051 | <p><strong>ROY CAMPANELLA </strong>was the backbone of the great Brooklyn Dodgers
teams of the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside such other Hall of Famers
as Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider. An outstanding defensive catcher and
a powerful slugger, Campy won the National League MVP Award three
times. But everything changed on a rainy January night in 1958 when
Campy’s car skidded off the road and he was left paralyzed below the
neck. For the second time in his life, Roy Campanella would become a
pioneer, this time off the field. Neil Lanctot’s <em>Campy </em>is the magnificent, authoritative biography of this exuberant, gifted athlete.</p> | | |
| Reconsidering Untouchability Chamars and Dalit History in North India | https://www.history.udel.edu/BookShelf/Rawat02.jpg | | 82 | Reconsidering Untouchability Chamars and Dalit History in North India | Rawat, Ramnarayan | | Permanent Black and Indiana University Press | | 2011 | http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=481808 | <p>Winner of the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the
Indian Social Sciences, American Institute of Indian StudiesHonorable
Mention, Association for Asian Studies, Bernard S. Cohn Prize</p><p>Often
identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste,
Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In
this pathbreaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the
majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their
association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has
largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial
representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive
reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important
Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival
sources, and interviews in Dalit neighborhoods, he reveals a previously
unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the
earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved
major political successes.</p> | | |
