Montaigne’s Travel Journal
By Michel de MontaigneTranslated by Donald M. Frame (NHC Fellow, 1982–83)
History
New South, New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South
By Harold D. Woodman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Examines the legal and economic strategies adopted by southern landowners to cultivate and profit from their land when the abolition of chattel slavery deprived them of their primary form of wealth and credit. Woodman (history, Purdue U.) explores the evolution of these strategies and how they affected the … Continued
Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981
By Donald Reid (NHC Fellow, 1987–88; 2012–13) In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied their factory to demand that no one lose their job. They seized watches and watch parts, assembled and sold watches, and paid their own salaries. Their actions recaptured the ideals of … Continued
Persistent Callings: Seasons of Work and Identity on the Oregon Coast
By Joseph E. Taylor, III (NHC Fellow, 2002–03; 2018–19) The Nestucca Valley is a small watershed, tucked away in one corner of a county in far western Oregon. There are no incorporated towns, and cows outnumber humans. It has long been a place without a written history, yet its past offers many surprising twists on … Continued
Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
By Leon Fink (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) How to lead the people and be one of them? What’s a democratic intellectual to do? This longstanding dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink’s penetrating book, the first social history … Continued
Rebels and Rulers, 1500–1660. Vol. 2, Provincial Rebellion: Revolutionary Civil Wars, 1560-1660
By Perez Zagorin (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among … Continued
Repatriates and Refugees in a Colonial Society: The Case of Kenya
By Joseph E. Harris (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
By Karen Tranberg Hansen (NHC Fellow, 1997–98)
Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood
By Cynthia Eagle Russett (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented in Cynthia Russett’s splendid book of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men—thereby providing, along with “savages” and “idiots,” an evolutionary buffer between men and animals—is by turns appalling, amusing, and … Continued
Société et mentalités collectives en Russie sous l’Ancien Régime
By Michael Confino (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)