By Steven F. Lawson (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) This book is a history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, ranging from A. Philip Randolph’s threatened march on Washington on the eve of American entry into World War II to Jesse Jackson’s stirring presidential bids in the 1980s. The author describes the major … Continued
Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Carolyn F. Sargent Small Wars gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of … Continued
By E. Roy Weintraub (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of … Continued
By Paul K. Saint-Amour (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) We know that trauma can leave syndromes in its wake. But can the anticipation of violence be a form of violence as well? Tense Future argues that it can-that twentieth-century war technologies and practices, particularly the aerial bombing of population centers, introduced non-combatants to a coercive and traumatizing … Continued
Edited by John D. French (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Daniel James The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the integration of traditional labor history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, … Continued
By John G. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The Political Economy of World Energy is an authoritative and wide-ranging study of the role of energy in the twentieth-century world economy. Expanding on his previous work on U.S. energy policy, John Clark reviews and analyzes political, institutional, social, and economic factors affecting world energy supplies and use … Continued
By Michael A. Bernstein (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the “wealth of nations.” It grew into a profession of immense public prestige — and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, … Continued
By William E. Leuchtenburg (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81) The essence of this book is suggested by its title. The "troubled" aspects may well be the more familiar—the frightful assassinations of public men, the malignant effects of two Asian wars, the endemic violence, the persistence of social ills. Acknowledgment of the reality of the … Continued
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
By Bernard Wasserstein (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent – from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the … Continued