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Recent Faculty Books

Paul Buhle and Denis Kitchen

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics

Abrams and Company Publisher, 2009

Deborah Cohen

Household Gods: The British and their Possessions 1830-1945

Yale University Press, pbk 2009

Abbott Gleason

A Companion to Russian History

Wiley-Blackwell Publisher, 2009

Elliott Gorn

Dillinger’s Wild Ride: the Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One

Oxford University Press, 2009

Stephen Graubard

The Presidents: The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack OBama

Penguin Press, rev. 2009

Ethan Pollock

Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars

Princeton University Press, pbk. 2009

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Hans van Wees

A Companion to Archaic Greece

Wiley-Blackwell Publisher, 2009

Thomas E. Skidmore

Brazil: Five Centuries of Change

Oxford University Press, pbk 2009

Gordon Wood

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Oxford University Press,  2009

Gordon Wood

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

Penguin Press, pbk 2009

Omer Bartov

The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust

Hebrew translation, 2008

John Bodel, Saul M. Olyan

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

Wiley-Blackwell Publisher, 2008

Paul Buhle

Jews and American Comics       An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

The New Press, 2008

Howard Chudacoff

Children at Play: An American History

New York University Press, pbk 2008

Mary Gluck

Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Harvard University Press, pbk 2008

Elliott Gorn

Sports in Chicago

University of Illinois Press, pbk 2008

Tim Harris

Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

Penguin Press, pbk 2008

Karl Jacoby

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Penguin Press, 2008

Carl Kaestle

A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940

University of North Carolina Press, 2008

R. Burr Litchfield

Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790

Humanities E-Book, pbk 2008

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace

Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece

University of California Press, pbk 2008

Seth Rockman

Scraping By
Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Ken Sacks

Emerson: Political Writings

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Mark Swislocki

Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai

Stanford University Press, 2008

Gordon Wood

Representation in the American Revolution

University of Virginia Press, pbk 2008