Have you ever wondered about feminism in Egypt? The power of dreams in Transatlantic Quaker culture? Global espionage in America and abroad?
The diverse faculty in the School of History and Sociology have you covered.
From the cultural history of Chinese beggars to the struggle to protect Lake Baikal to the surprising friendship between Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X, these 40+ books from our faculty have something for everyone.
Faculty Books
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
By Hanchao Lu
University of California Press, 1999/2004
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Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
By Hanchao Lu
Stanford University Press, 2005
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The Birth of A Republic: Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond
By Hanchao Lu
University of Washington, 2010
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Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State
By Daniel Amsterdam
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
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Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser's Egypt
By Laura Bier
Stanford University Press, 2011
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Saving the Sacred Sea: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization
By Kate Pride-Brown
Oxford University Press, 2018
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Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984
By Douglas Flamming
University of North Carolina Press, 1992
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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
By Douglas Flamming
University of California Press, 2005
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Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture
By Carla Gerona
University of Virginia Press, 2004
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Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany
By Kristie Macrakis
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
By Kristie Macrakis
Yale University Press, 2015
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Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation
Co-edited by Mary McDonald
Northeastern University Press, 2000
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production
Co-edited by Mary McDonald
Palgrave, 2020
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Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions
Co-edited by Mary McDonald
Routledge, 2020
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Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980
By Todd Michney
University of North Carolina Press, 2017
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Imperial Technoscience: Entangled Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India
By Amit Prasad
MIT Press, 2014
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Florynce “Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
By Sherie Randolph
UNC Press, 2015
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Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914-1945
By Eric Schatzberg
Princeton University Press, 1999
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Technology: Critical History of a Concept
By Eric Schatzberg
University of Chicago Press, 2018
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Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
By Jennifer Singh
University of Minnesota Press, 2016
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War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
By Johnny Smith (with Randy Roberts)
Basic Books, 2020
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A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle
By Johnny Smith (with Randy Roberts)
Basic Books, 2018
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
By Johnny Smith (with Randy Roberts)
Basic Books, 2016
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The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball
By Johnny Smith
University of Illinois Press, 2013
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Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain
By John Tone
UNC Press, 1995
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Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
By Steven Usselman
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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The Challenge of Remaining Innovative: Lessons from Twentieth Century American Business
By Steven Usselman (with Sally Clarke and Naomi Lamoreaux)
Stanford University Press, 2009
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Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950
By Germán Vergara
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
By Bill Winders
Yale University Press, 2012
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Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
Co-edited by Bill Winders
MIT Press 2019
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Blacks, Science, and American Education
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Rutgers University press, 1989
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Beyond Small Numbers: Voices of African American PhD Chemists
By Willie Pearson, Jr.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004
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Black American Males in Higher Education: Diminishing Proportions
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009
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Changing the Face of Engineering: The African American Experience
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
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Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Springer, 2015
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Who Will Do Science? Educating the Next Generation
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
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Black American Males in Higher Education: Research, Programs and Academe
Co-edited by Willie Pearson, Jr.
Emerald Publishing Limited, 2009
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Science Under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective
By Kristie Macrakis (with Dieter Hoffmann)
Harvard University Press, 1999
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East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy
Co-edited by Kristie Macrakis
Routledge, 2013
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Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World
By Kristie Macrakis
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818-2018
Co-edited by Matthew Hild
University fo Georgia Press, 2022
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