By Laurent Dubois (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17), and Richard Lee Turits (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) "To tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world," write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been … Continued
By Karen Ordahl Kupperman (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Providence Island was founded in 1630 at the same time as Massachusetts Bay by English puritans who thought an island off the coast of Nicaragua was far more promising than the cold, rocky shores of New England. Although they expected theirs to become a model godly society, the … Continued
By Robert S. DuPlessis (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged … Continued
By Gaurav Desai (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2009–10) Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and nonfictional, political and private, he broadens the scope … Continued
By John W. Cell (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969) was by common consent the most distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service in the twentieth century, and one of the few raised to the peerage (1936). Going out to India in 1894, he served as the first chief commissioner of Delhi (1912-18), as … Continued
By Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American … Continued
Edited by Franklin W. Knight (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Colin A. Palmer (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1989–90) This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark … Continued
By Margery Wolf (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Via time travel, Charlotte Makee, a 21st century anthropologist, meets an elderly Coast Miwok curer named Sekiak in the hills near Olompali in Marin County, California. Charlotte wishes to learn about Coast Miwok life before their society was disrupted and then destroyed by Catholic priests, Spanish soldiers, settlers, and … Continued
By David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous … Continued
By Joseph E. Harris (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)