University of Southern California

Faculty Books

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2011) 
ed. Daniela Bleichmar and Peter Mancall
Harkness Discovery Witches
A Discovery of Witches (2011) 
Deborah Harkness
Ross Hollywood 11
Hollywood Left and Right (2011) 
Steven J. Ross
Banner Monroe
MM-Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe (2011) 
Lois Banner
Becker Piano Glass 10
Piano Glass (2010) 
Marjorie Becker
Gruner Grossdeutsche
Das Grossdeutsche Reich und die Juden (2010)
Wolf Gruner 
Medieval Europe: A Short History (2010)
Judith Bennett
A Companion to Los Angeles (2010)
ed. William Deverell & Greg Hise
A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative (2010) Kyung Moon Hwang
Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France (2010)
ed. Elinor Accampo
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009)
Robin D.G. Kelley
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson (2009)
Peter C. Mancall
Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (2009)
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe (2009)
Lisa M. Bitel
Black, Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (2009)
Robin D.G. Kelley
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (2009)
ed. Amy Koritz & George Sanchez
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 (2008)
ed. Daniela Bleichmar, Paula DeVos, Kristin Huffine & Kevin Sheehan
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (2008)
Maria Elena Martinez

Blackwell Companion to California History (2008) Deverell, W. F. & Igler, D.B
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (2008)
Deborah E. Harkness
Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan Obsession for an English America (2007)
Peter C. Mancall

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 (2007) ed. Peter C. Mancall

 It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (2007)
Vanessa R. Schwartz


Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries (2007)
ed. Elinor Accampo

Gender & Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (2007)
ed. Lisa Bitel & Felice Lifshitz

Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe (2007)
ed. Peter C. Mancall

Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (2006)
Elinor Accampo
 History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2006)
Judith Bennett
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (2006) Deborah E. Harkness
Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944
Wolf Gruner (2006)
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (2006)
Peter C. Mancall
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge 1990-2003 (2006)
Kevin Starr
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (2006) Francille Wilson
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005)
ed. William Deverell & Greg Hise
 The Creation of the British Atlantic World (2005) ed. Carole Shammas
Becker Body Bach
Body Bach (2005)
Marjorie Becker 
Jesus In America: Personal Saviour, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (2005)
Richard Wrightman Fox
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005)
ed. R. Villa & G. Sanchez
 The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (2005) ed. Vanessa Schwartz & Jeannene Przyblyski
California: A History (2005) Kevin Starr
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles & the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004) William Deverell
A Companion to the American West (2004)
ed. William Deverell
Politics and History in the Tenth Century: The Work and World of Richer of Reims (2004)
Jason Glenn
Hwang Beyond Birth
Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (2004)
Kyung Moon Hwang
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (2004)
ed. Robin Kelley & Karl Lewis
 
Radical History Review: Transnational Black Studies (2004)
ed. Robin Kelley, Lisa Brock & Karen Sotiropolous
Hysterical Men: WWII, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 (2003)
Paul Lerner
 Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present (2003)
ed. Gi-Wook Shin & Kyung Moon Hwang
 At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry In British North America (2003)
ed. Eric Hinderaker & Peter C. Mancall
 Three Worlds Meet: Beginnings to 1607 (2003) ed. Peter C. Mancall
Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure & Politics in Industrializing Cincinatti 1788-1890 (2003)
Steven J. Ross
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin (2003) Brett Sheehan
 Women in Early Medieval Europe: 400-1100 (2002) Lisa M. Bitel
 Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002) Robin D. G. Kelley
 Japanese American Celebration and Conflict (2002) Lon Kurashige
 Major Problems in Asian American History (2002) ed. Lon Kurashige & Murray Yang
 Movies and American Society (2002) ed. Steven J. Ross
 A History of Household Government in America (2002) Carole Shammas
 Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (2002) Kevin Starr
 Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001) ed. William Deverell & T. Sitton
 The Public City: The Poltical Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 (2001) Philip J. Ethington
 Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (2001) Ed. Howard Zinn, Dana Frank and Robin Kelley
 Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (2001) ed. Mark Micale & Paul Lerner
 
 American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present (2001) ed. Peter Mancall, F. Hoxie & J. H. Merrell

 Eden By Design:The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles (2000) ed. Greg Hise & William Deverell

 The West: In the History of the Nation (2000) ed. William Deverell & Anne Hyde
 American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850 (2000) ed. Peter C. Mancall & J. H. Merrell
 Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (1999) ed. Judith Bennet & Amy Froide
 Trials of Intimacy: Love & Loss in the Beecher-Tildon Scandal (1999) Richard Fox
 A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law and the Trial of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1999) Cynthia B. Herrup
 American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860 (1999) Peter C. Mancall
 A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock. c. 1297-1334 (1998) Judith Bennett
 Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in Hollywood (1998) Steven J. Ross
 Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (1998) Vanessa R. Schwartz
 In the Face of Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship (1997) ed. Richard W. Fox & Robert B. Westbrook
 Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1870 (1997) Robin D. G. Kelley
 We Changed the World: African Americans 1945-1970 (1997) ed. Vincent Harding, Robin D. G. Kelley & Carl Lewis
 The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (1997) Joan Piggott
 The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1997) Kevin Starr
 Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England (1996) Judith Bennett
 Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (1996) Lisa M. Bitel
 Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image (1996) ed. Peter Mancall & E. Hoagland
 Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1996) Kevin Starr
 Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914 (1995) ed. Elinor Accampo, Rachel Fuchs & mary Lynn Stewart
 
 Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution (1995) Marjorie Becker 
 
 A Companion to American Thought (1995) ed. Richard W. Fox & James Klopenberg
 
 Deadly Mecidine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995) Peter C. Mancall
 
 Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (1995) Peter C. Mancall
 Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1995) ed. Leo Cherney & Vanessa R. Schwartz
 Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (1994) William Deverell
 California Progressivism Revisited (1994) ed. William Deverell & Tom Sitton
 Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (1994) Robin D. G. Kelley
 The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History (1993) ed. Richard W. Fox & T. J. Jackson Lears
 Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993) George Sanchez
 Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991) Peter C. Mancall
 Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (1990) Lisa M. Bitel
 Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990) Robin D. G. Kelley
 The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America (1990) Carole Shammas
 Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (1990) Kevin Starr

 Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations, Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 (1989) Elinor Accampo
 Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (1989) ed. Judith Clark & Elizabeth Clark
 Women in the Medieval English Countryside (1987) Judith Bennett
 The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England (1987) Cynthia B. Herrup
 Inheritance in America: From Colonia Times to the Present (1987) ed. Carole Shammas, M. Salmon & M. Dahlin
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (1985) Richard W. Fox
 American Beauty: A Social History through Two Centuries of American Idea, Ideal and Image of the Beautiful Woman (1984) Lois Banner
 The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 (1983) Richard W. Fox
 Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) Kevin Starr