Edited by Kenneth Mills (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and William B. Taylor Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people—people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on … Continued
By Dale Kent (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city’s most important patron of art and literature. This remarkable book is the first comprehensive examination of the whole body of works of art and architecture … Continued
By Deborah Lyons (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.
Edited by Angelika Bammer (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Cultural displacement—physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture—is one of the most formative experiences of our century. These essays examine the impact of this experience on contemporary notions of cultural identity from the perspectives of anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and psychology.
By Gregg Mitman (NHC Fellow, 2004–05; 2020–21) In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the … Continued
Edited by Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) A resource for students in any field who are working with paper documents, this book offers exemplary studies by leading scholars on a variety of topics, ranging from medieval music manuscripts to Beethoven, and from Shakespeare forgeries to the most recent bibliographical applications of nuclear physics.
By Dyan Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2012–13) Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses—particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls. Drawing on a variety of canonical and … Continued
Edited by Matthew Morse Booker (Vice President for Scholarly Programs; NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Charles C. Ludington What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today’s America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques … Continued
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 Ben Kiernan (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist … Continued