Publications by our current faculty. Enjoy!

Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia (2022) 

Edgardo Pérez Morales
 The Silver Women:
How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal (2023)

Joan Flores-Villalobos
 Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany (2023)

Wolf Gruner
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

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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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