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Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850

By James A. Epstein (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Radical Expression explores a set of related themes dealing with popular radical language, ideology and communication in England and reexamines the rhetoric of popular constitutionalism and the associated repertoire of constitutionalist mobilization. Despite the impulses of the French revolution, popular constitutionalism remained the dominant idiom within which radicals … Continued

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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

By Nancy Tomes (NHC Fellow, 1999–00; 2022–23) In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular–and largely unexamined–idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly … Continued

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Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition

By Sandra E. Greene (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2014–15) In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why … Continued

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Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

By Ann Douglas (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation – based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann … Continued

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The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

By Susannah Heschel (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence … Continued

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The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India

By Anupama Rao (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial … Continued

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The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651

By Henry S. Turner (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political … Continued