Europeans and Islanders in the Western Pacific, 1520-1840: An Essay in the History of Encounter and Ideology
By Ákos Östör (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
History
Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
By Luise White (NHC Fellow, 1993–94; 2016–17) In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after … Continued
Fortress Attica: Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, 404-322 B.C.
By Josiah Ober (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual chapters … Continued
From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200
By Rachel Fulton (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? … Continued
Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism
By John Shelton Reed (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Reed identifies Anglo-Catholicism as a countercultural movement, in some ways not unlike the counterculture of the 1960s, one that championed practices that were symbolic affronts to some of the central values of the dominant middle-class culture of its time. He identifies certain members of the clergy (including John … Continued
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
By David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous … Continued
Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
By Cleanth Brooks (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81) This series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came.
Ideologies of the Raj
By Thomas R. Metcalf (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India. He demonstrates that the principles the British devised incorporated contradictory visions of India, yet together they made the authority of the Raj lawful. Students of modern India and the British Empire will … Continued
Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
By Martha Vicinus (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) Intimate Friends offers a fascinating look at the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over a 150-year period, culminating in the 1928 publication of The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall’s scandalous novel of lesbian love. Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, husband-wife couples, liaisons between younger and older women, female … Continued
Kant’s “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim”: A Critical Guide
Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) and James Schmidt In recent years there has been a major revival of interest in the political philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Thinkers have looked to Kant's theories about knowledge, history, the moral self and autonomy, and nature and aesthetics to seek the foundations of their own political … Continued