Cross Currents: Building a Bridge Across American and Nigerian Studies
Edited by Judith A. Byfield (NHC Fellow, 2007–08)
History
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces … Continued
Economic Texts from Sumer
By Daniel C. Snell (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) This book presents 125 previously unpublished Neo-Sumerian archival texts from the period around 2030 B.C.E. found in three different sites in southern Iraq. The cuneiform documents, hand-copied by the late Carl H. Lager, are accompanied by detailed indices and explanatory notes by Daniel Snell that guide the reader … Continued
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
By Pamela O. Long (NHC Fellow, 2012–13) Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the … Continued
Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) This volume comprehensively examines the ways metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had … Continued
Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars
By Nancy F. Cott (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows four who pursued global news — from contested Palestine to revolutionary China, from Stalin’s Moscow … Continued
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture
By John N. King (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English … Continued
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar (NHC Fellow, 2007–08), Vasant Kaiwar, and Thierry Labica This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. … Continued
Glory of Martyrs
By Gregory of ToursTranslated by Raymond Van Dam (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) The first translation into English of one of Gregory’s eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of martyrs.
Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture
By John Higham (NHC Fellow, 1987–88; 1988–89) This book presents three decades of writings by one of America’s most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an … Continued