Edited by Emory Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) The earliest of the American writers, the colonials, were truly voices in the wilderness-authors of a literary heritage largely overlooked until early in the 20th century. It was then that the literary merits of sermons, autobiographies, histories, diaries, poems and elegies from the 1600s and early 1700s were … Continued
By Susan Langdon (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BC. Coming between the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces and the creation of Archaic city-states, these four centuries witnessed fundamental cultural developments and political … Continued
By Stephen D. White (NHC Fellow, 2012–13)
Edited by Florence Eliza Glaze (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Brian K. Nance
By David Gilmartin (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2017–18) The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and … Continued
By Frank Mort (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) A series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life during the 1950s in ways that had major national consequences. High and low society collided in a city of social and sexual extremes. Patrician men-about-town, young independent women, go-ahead entrepreneurs, Westminster politicians, queer men, and West Indian newcomers played a … Continued
By Philip Benedict (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) This sweeping book tells the story of Calvinism’s origins, expansion, and impact across Europe from the upheavals of the early Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. The faith’s fundamental doctrines, diverse ecclesiastical institutions, and significant consequences for lived experience are all explored, revealing the ongoing interplay between … Continued
Edited by Deborah Cohen (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) and Maura O’Connor In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoretical questions, the contributors to this volume assess the gains as well as the obstacles and perils of historical research that traverses national boundaries.
By Paula Sanders (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local … Continued
Edited by Michael A. Lofaro (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Davy Crockett, published in 1934, pioneered in showing the backwoodsman’s transformation into a folk hero. It remains a … Continued