Publications by our current faculty. Enjoy!
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Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia (2022)
Edgardo Pérez Morales |
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Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (2022)
Nayan Shah |
A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History (2021)
Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, eds. |
Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France (2021)
Jay Rubenstein ed. with M. Cecilia Gaposchkin |
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy (2021)
George Sanchez |
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Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 (2021)
Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen, Jacob Soll eds. |
Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust(2021)
Thomas Kaplan, Wolf Gruner eds. |
The Macon Sex School (2020)
Marjorie Becker |
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan (2020)
Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott |
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Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion (2020)
Vanessa Schwartz |
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire (2020)
Richard Antaramian |
South to Freedom (2020)
Alice Baumgartner |
Remains of the Everyday (2020)
Joshua Goldstein |
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Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History (2019)
Jay Rubenstein |
Time’s Convert (2019)
Deborah Harkness |
German Reich, 1933-1937 (The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945) (2019)
Wolf Gruner (Author), Caroline Pearce (Editor) |
Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 (2019)
Benjamin Uchiyama |
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The Trials of Thomas Morton (2019)
Peter Mancall |
Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib (2019)
Ramzi Rouighi |
Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (2019)
Aro Velmet |
Feuchtwanger and Judaism: History, Imagination, Exile (2019)
Paul Lerner and Frank Stern, eds. |
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Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California (2019)
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri |
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses (War and Genocide, 28) (2019)
Wolf Gruner |
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (2019)
Wolf Gruner and Steve Ross |
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition (2019)
Alice Echols |
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No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions (2018)
Edgardo Perez Morales |
Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850 (2018)
William F. Deverell & Anne F. Hyde |
Shaped by the West, Volume 1: A History of North America from 1850 (2018)
William F. Deverell & Anne F. Hyde |
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series (2018)
by Maya Maskarinec |
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The Enduring Vision, Volume II: Since 1865 9th Edition (2017)
Paul S. Boyer, Clifford E. Clark, Karen Halttunen, Joseph F. Kett,, Neal Salisbury, eds. |
Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossing (2017)
ed. Lon Kurashige |
Shortfall (2017)
Alice Echols |
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin (2017)
Daniela Bleichmar |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (2017)
Steve Ross |
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)(2017)
Peter Mancall |
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold Story of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (2016) Lon Kurashige | Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 (2016)
William Deverell and Tim Sutton |
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Die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat Böhmen/Mähren. Lokale Initiativen, zentrale Entscheidungen, jüdische Antworten 1939-1945 (2016)
Wolf Gruner |
Major Problems in Asian American History (Major Problems in American History) 2nd Edition (2016)
Lon Kurashige and Alice Yang |
Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (Art History Special Issues) 1st Edition (2016)
ed. Daniela Bleichmar and Meredith Martin |
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990 (2016)
William Deverell and Greg Hise |
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Birth of a Monarch: Selections from Fuiwara No Munetada’s Journal Chuyuki (2015)
Christina Laffin, Joan R. Piggott, and Yoshida Sanae, eds. |
Woodie Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941 (2015)
Darryl Holter and William Deverell |
Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgramage in the Mojave Desert (2015)
Lisa Bitel |
Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Ritchie Hardcover (2015)
Carole Shammas and Peter Mancall, eds. |
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The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents (2015)
Jay Rubenstein |
The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 (2015)
Paul Lerner |
Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution (2015)
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal |
The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories (2015)
ed. Wolf Gruner and Jorg Osterloh |
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Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News (2015)
Jason Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Parias de la Patria (2015)
Wolf Gruner |
Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision (2015)
Brett Sheehan |
Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (2014)
Laura Isabel Serna |
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The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (2014)
Jacob Soll |
Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions (2104)
by J. Mecham (author), & A. Beach, C. Berman, Lisa Bitel, eds. |
The Persecution of the European Jews of Berlin 1933-1945: A Chronology of Measures by the Authorities in the German Capital (2014)
Wolf Gruner |
The Book of Life: Part Three of the All Souls Trilogy (2014)
Deborah Harkness |
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Visualizing Modern China (2014)
ed. James A. Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew D. Johnson & Sigrid Schmalzer |
The Opened Letter (2014)
Lindsay O’Neill |
Movies and American Society, 2nd Edition (2014)
ed. Steven J. Ross |
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (2013)
Boyer, Clark, Karen Halttunen, Kett, Salisbury, Sitkoff and Woloch |
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Memorial. Rosenstrasse 2-4. Internment and Protest in the Nazi State (2013)
Wolf Gruner |
Women and Islamic Cultures (2013)
Joseph, Booth, Davary, Elsadda, Sarah Gualtieri, Hooker, Jarmakani, Saliba, and Shehabuddin, eds. |
Shadow of Night: Part Two of the All Souls Trilogy (2013)
Deborah Harkness |
Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (2012)
Daniela Bleichmar |
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Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender and History (2012)
ed. Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman & Paul Lerner |
Guibert of Nogent, Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography of a French Monk from the Time of the Crusades (2011)
Jay Rubenstein ed. and trans. with Joseph McAlhany |
The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System (2011)
Jacob Soll |
Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and Law in the North American West (2011)
Nayan Shah |
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Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse (2011)
Jay Rubenstein |
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, 2nd ed. (2011)
Alice Echols |
A Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400 (2011)
Ramzi Rouighi |
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources (2011)
Jason Glenn |
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Beyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California (The Jewish Role in American Life) (2011)
George Sanchez |
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction (2011)
Vanessa Schwartz |
Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2011)
ed. Daniela Bleichmar and Peter Mancall |
A Discovery of Witches (2011)
Deborah Harkness |
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Hollywood Left and Right (2011)
Steven J. Ross |
Piano Glass/Glass Piano (2010)
Marjorie Becker |
Das Grossdeutsche Reich und die Juden (2010)
Wolf Gruner |
A Companion to Los Angeles (2010)
ed. William Deverell & Greg Hise |
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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 |
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (2009)
ed. Amy Koritz & George Sanchez |
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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 (2008)
ed. Daniela Bleichmar, Paula DeVos, Kristin Huffine & Kevin Sheehan |
Blackwell Companion to California History (2008)
William Deverell & D.B. Igler |
Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism (2008)
Jacob Soll |
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (2008)
Deborah E. Harkness |
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Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (2007)
Anne Goldgar |
Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937 (2007)
Joshua Goldstein |
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 |
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It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (2007)
Vanessa R. Schwartz |
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 |
John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (2006)
Deborah E. Harkness |
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Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944 ( 2006)
Wolf Gruner |
Teaching and learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200 (2006)
ed. by Sally N. Vaughan, Jay Rubinstein |
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (2006)
Peter C. Mancall |
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (2006)
Francille Wilson |
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Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005)
ed. William Deverell & Greg Hise |
Body Bach (2005)
Marjorie Becker |
Jesus In America: Personal Saviour, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (2005)
Richard Fox |
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005)
ed. R. Villa & George Sanchez |
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The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (2005)
ed. Vanessa Schwartz & Jeannene Przyblyski |
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 |
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Hysterical Men: WWII, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 (2003)
Paul Lerner |
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry In British North America (2003)
ed. Eric Hinderaker & Peter C. Mancall |
Major Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) (2003)
Roger Daniels (Author), Lon Kurashige, Alice Yang Murray, eds. |
Enclyclopedia of America: Three Worlds Meet, Beginnings to 1607 (2003)
ed. Peter C. Mancall |
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Women in Early Medieval Europe: 400-1100 (2002)
Lisa M. Bitel |
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin (2003)
Brett Sheehan |
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin (2003)
Brett Sheehan |
Guibert of Nogent, Portrait of a Medieval Mind (2002)
Jay Rubenstein |
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Shaky Ground (2002)
Alice Echols |
Movies and American Society (2002) ed.
Steven J. Ross |
Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001) ed.
William Deverell & T. Sitton |
The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 (2001)
Philip J. Ethington |
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Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (2001)
ed. Mark Micale & Paul Lerner |
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)
Nayan Shah |
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 |
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (2000)
Alice Echols |
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 |
Trials of Intimacy: Love & Loss in the Beecher-Tildon Scandal (1999)
Richard Fox |
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American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860 (1999)
Peter C. Mancall |
Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in Hollywood (1998)
Steven J. Ross |
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (1998)
Karen Halttunen |
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (1998)
Vanessa R. Schwartz |
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In the Face of Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship (1997)
ed. Richard W. Fox & Robert B. Westbrook |
The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (1997)
Joan Piggott |
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 |
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Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 (1995)
Anne Goldgar |
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 Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995)
Peter C. Mancall |
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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 |
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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 |
Dying to be Bad (1990)
Alice Echols |
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Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (1990)
Lisa M. Bitel |
Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1986)
Karen Halttunen |
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (1985)
Richard W. Fox |
The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 (1983)
Richard W. Fox |