By Nell Irvin Painter (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides with the release of the updated edition … Continued
Edited by Patricia Cline Cohen (NHC Fellow, 1994–95), James L. Roark, Michael Johnson, Sarah Stage, Alan Lawson, and Susan M. Hartmann
By Benjamin Kahan (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities—what Michel Foucault deemed “minor perverts”—has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the … Continued
By Lydia H. Liu (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar—and their influence on the … Continued
By Donald L. Horowitz (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot—an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, … Continued
By Pete Sigal (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of “sex” or “sexuality” equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on … Continued
By Peter KornickiEdited by Cynthia Brokaw (NHC Fellow, 2012–13) The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area. This volume contains key … Continued
By Hwansoo Ilmee Kim (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) In the first part of the twentieth century, Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own identities—to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation … Continued
By William Ray (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) This book proposes an analysis of the underlying 'logic' of culture, drawing on a wide range of material not previously examined in works of this kind.
Edited by Christopher W. Brooks (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Jonathan Barry This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has … Continued