Edited by Jodi Bilinkoff (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) and Allan Greer From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of … Continued
By Martin V. Melosi (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) The use of energy has been central to the development of industrial America. Possessing abundant energy sources throughout its history, America always has had the luxury of choice in energy matters, and only in the last decade found it necessary to attempt to create an energy policy. While … Continued
By Melinda J. Gough (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies … Continued
By Bruce Redford (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study … Continued
By Karen Barkey (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire’s social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and … Continued
By Marixa Lasso (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to … Continued
By Anthony W. Marx (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) In a startling departure from the unquestioning liberal consensus that has governed discussions of nationalism for the past quarter century, Marx exposes the hidden underside of Western nationalism. Arguing that the true history of the nation began two hundred years earlier, in the early modern era, he shows … Continued
Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1981–82; 1982–83) and Laura F. Banfield
By Rebecca J. Scott (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of … Continued
Edited by Judith A. Byfield (NHC Fellow, 2007–08), LaRay Denzer, and Anthea Morrison This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine … Continued